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The most reasonable response to this event I have read so far. THANK YOU! People have been so awful in their comments to Lana, Live Nation, and the venue. I stopped reading all of the comments since it was pointless to read further. And aside from tornadoes, lightening was another threat that evening. I was one of the people who waited in line since 5am that day for that show. I know there were people there who camped out the night before and I feel for them. I myself was in line and at the event for 16+ hours so I know the pain we went through. Still, there is no one to blame - it happens. The good news is that the show is not canceled - it's postponed and Ticketmaster has the "TBA" listing for the new show already. 

I don't know why people want Lana to be Taylor Swift, when Taylor Swift herself would love to be Lana (as would Lorde, as would Sam Smith or anyone who copies her, and
becomes more for the day bigger than her, but where will Sam Smith be 5 years from now? Probably forgotten along with Lorde and all the copies.
Taylor Swift wants to be the most commercial of artists, but that means little artistically.
 
People hear nothing from the legends in between albums/shows- and by legends not talking 2015, talking throughout history
 
Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Paul Simon- no gossip, no press releases, they release something, or do a show and people see that, nothing more or less.
One never hears much about Bruce Springsteen in between long, long spans.
How much did one ever hear from Roy Orbison?
 
Comparing Lana to a female artist? Why? Compare her to the biggest artists which is more what she is going for than Rihanna or Taylor or Iggy or Miley or Lindsay Lohan people looking for 24/7/365 media
 
I myself would rather be able to walk alone on a street, or go into a café or restaurant without being chased all over town.
 
Sort of an anti-star, instead of the flavor of the minute.
 
The sort of thing that gets remembered 25 years from now.
 
As for tv in USA? After the shit she went through, why bother? Thankfully NBC Brian Williams got his ass handed to him, karma came back and kicked his rear end but good. After what he did to Lana, glad it happened.
And Lana did great on SNL, in fact, so great that Sam Smith copied the entire style on SNL, yet he was beloved. Why?
 
As for Life is Beautiful- obviously the Adeline people wanted the trailer, perhaps due to Honeymoon being released, the record company doesn't want competing sales.
So they nixed soundtrack.
 
As for the supposed missed publicity in Europe? Perhaps that was never definite, or they forgot to pay Lana for the plane ticket over. Perhaps it was just rumors.
As for Ultraviolence, one of the greatest full lps in history, one song better than the next, listened to fully as an album (not meant for singles, much like Elton John's Capt. Fantastic
or Goodbye Yellowbrick Road.). Which is a throwback to the 60-70s also, to listen to a full album.

David Bowie who is comparatable  to Lana was a person of many phases and stages.
Bowie was always played on WNEW-FM when they were free choice anything goes, almost no singles played, just album artists
 
I liken Lana to the WNEW core artists that were somewhat like the toys on the island of Misfit toys
Top 40 didn't play much of them, but they had status and acclaim and are still the basis of the format today
 
artists like
The stones
The Doors
The Who
Zeppelin and the groups that followed imitating them (though zep was imitating others themselves)
Lou Reed
Leonard Cohen (the 1960s Suzanne and others)
Tom Waits
Buddy Holly
The Animals (Eric Burdon, lead singer, who had the 2nd hit with "Don't let me be misunderstood" that supposedly Lana is putting on Honeymoon.
John Lennon- but not necessarily the singles, same with the Beatles (remember, Sgt. Peppers never had a single released)
Elton John from day one(1969, before the hits, during the hits, after the hits, but not necessarily playing the commercial hits)
REM
Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones
Blondie before they were commercial
Pete Seeger
Harry Chapin (who like Lana was unique, and who had one surprise #1, but was never considered a singles artist as his songs were way too long for Top 40)
Judy Collins
Richie Havens, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Cream(Clapton)
(anyone who played Woodstock or the other 60's,70's fests, where Lana would have fit right in)
 
So I put Lana in that category  

The lyrics to Honeymoon suggest a foreboding Roy Orbison/David Lynch menace in the future.
And totally in line with the lyrics/stories of the rest of her songs.
 
Somewhat like a later Roy Orbison "Love so beautiful"
 
Why would people think Honeymoon is suppose to mean happiness when she herself used the phrase film noir to represent what she was going for?
There never was a happy ending in any film noir classic that I can think of, was there?
 
(and her very stylized and I happen to like the artistry of the last video for Ultraviolence with the bride, is very telling too...
 
it is a journey of life
a road trip through life one where there may or may not be redemption (David Lynch always had redemption at the end of one of his films even if it was hard to see sometimes, but when one took the whole movie, there was always an OMG I get it moment, especially in Wild at heart and Mulholland Drive
(One of the greatest films of all time, as is the classic Sunset Blvd, Mulholland was like the other side of Sunset)

When Lana said something about Lucy in the Sky, I do hope it would be the Elton John psychedelic version/vision of Lucy she was talking about, maybe mixed in
with the Beatles All you need is love mixed in with Elton's Ego or Believe (speeded up just a little bit) mixed in with Shades of Cool and West Coast.
 
What really was more psychedelic than West Coast anyhow? That is why her statement about that was confusing. (unless you put in more piano/organ/percussion and take out the Dan A. guitar
parts? I always like piano/keyboards over guitars
 
They should get Ray Cooper to augment the percussion. Nobody does it better than Ray.

Disappointing as it is, when there are tornadoes in the area, they have to have a 3 or 4 hour lead time to cancel an event, clear the people out of the open air place, get the cars out of the lot,
and more important- have time for the people to get home and to safety.  No one wants to be outside when a tornado hits.
So even though there was no immediate danger, one doesn't know, and its the call listening to the experts.
 
It's like swimming in the summer and there is thunder miles away, they kick you out of the water, even though no one is in immediate danger, nor does it mean that the storm will be
right where the water is.
 
Had there been a tornado and the show went on, I doubt anybody here would have wanted people killed.or hurt. The reason for a weather alert system is to get word out early to evacuate
(even if 9 out of 10 times it might not directly go overhead).

Disappointing as it is, when there are tornadoes in the area, they have to have a 3 or 4 hour lead time to cancel an event, clear the people out of the open air place, get the cars out of the lot,
and more important- have time for the people to get home and to safety.  No one wants to be outside when a tornado hits.
So even though there was no immediate danger, one doesn't know, and its the call listening to the experts.
 
It's like swimming in the summer and there is thunder miles away, they kick you out of the water, even though no one is in immediate danger, nor does it mean that the storm will be
right where the water is.
 
Had there been a tornado and the show went on, I doubt anybody here would have wanted people killed.or hurt. The reason for a weather alert system is to get word out early to evacuate
(even if 9 out of 10 times it might not directly go overhead).

The lyrics to Honeymoon suggest a foreboding Roy Orbison/David Lynch menace in the future.
And totally in line with the lyrics/stories of the rest of her songs.
 
Somewhat like a later Roy Orbison "Love so beautiful"
 
Why would people think Honeymoon is suppose to mean happiness when she herself used the phrase film noir to represent what she was going for?
There never was a happy ending in any film noir classic that I can think of, was there?
 
(and her very stylized and I happen to like the artistry of the last video for Ultraviolence with the bride, is very telling too...
 
it is a journey of life
a road trip through life one where there may or may not be redemption (David Lynch always had redemption at the end of one of his films even if it was hard to see sometimes, but when one took the whole movie, there was always an OMG I get it moment, especially in Wild at heart and Mulholland Drive
(One of the greatest films of all time, as is the classic Sunset Blvd, Mulholland was like the other side of Sunset)

and the negativity contines
One would think on a board proporting to be with Lana fans (maybe that is the biggest misconception I have here, we also never know if a newbee is not just another one of those who jump on any single mention and attempt to be the first with a negative remark
One would think if one doesn't like an artist, they should go to somewhere where the is  an artist they like.
 
One day there will be boxed sets (hopefully as great as the Bear Family ones used to be) with every single song and every single variation of every single song (including every single live version there is) (would probably take 10 boxed sets, prefably vinyl btw as she sounds best
on vinyl the ultra-best would be with 1960s era WABC type re-verb too. 
 
Encores are a waste of time by the way. They are always planned by artists and are mainly used so an artist can feed their ego hearing applause, or take a bathroom break, or a boring costume break (I pay to hear a singer sing, though Elton in the 1970s had some outrageous costumes that even he got bored of by the time he released "reg strikes back" and auctions offed most of his wardrobe.
 
1960s style concerts, with audience sing-a-long like Harry Chapin and Pete Seeger did, where an artists stands basically still (or sits) and sings to the fans from the heart.
I can't imagine Pete Seeger making 20 costume changes.
 
By the way, when an artist says they will be singing all night long, they are lying. They have a contractual time they are singing, with little variation in length, and union rules mean shut-down times so the big corporations that own the areans/theatres  don't have to pay the arena/concert hall people one penny more
 
Now to find more videos on youtube to enjoy and maybe write POSITIVE comments on all of them.

and the negativity contines
One would think on a board proporting to be with Lana fans (maybe that is the biggest misconception I have here, we also never know if a newbee is not just another one of those who jump on any single mention and attempt to be the first with a negative remark
One would think if one doesn't like an artist, they should go to somewhere where the is  an artist they like.
 
One day there will be boxed sets (hopefully as great as the Bear Family ones used to be) with every single song and every single variation of every single song (including every single live version there is) (would probably take 10 boxed sets, prefably vinyl btw as she sounds best
on vinyl the ultra-best would be with 1960s era WABC type re-verb too. 
 
Encores are a waste of time by the way. They are always planned by artists and are mainly used so an artist can feed their ego hearing applause, or take a bathroom break, or a boring costume break (I pay to hear a singer sing, though Elton in the 1970s had some outrageous costumes that even he got bored of by the time he released "reg strikes back" and auctions offed most of his wardrobe.
 
1960s style concerts, with audience sing-a-long like Harry Chapin and Pete Seeger did, where an artists stands basically still (or sits) and sings to the fans from the heart.
I can't imagine Pete Seeger making 20 costume changes.
 
By the way, when an artist says they will be singing all night long, they are lying. They have a contractual time they are singing, with little variation in length, and union rules mean shut-down times so the big corporations that own the areans/theatres  don't have to pay the arena/concert hall people one penny more
 
Now to find more videos on youtube to enjoy and maybe write POSITIVE comments on all of them.

Great set list, great choice of songs, great set, great voice, greatness.
 
Love Chelsea Hotel. Now if only there can be a duet with Leonard Cohen (maybe a Christmas Holiday song
 
And Brooklyn Baby, West Coast, Shades of Cool, Serial Killer, all of them old and new
 
Just wish she would one day due American (my favorite song of hers) here in America (that song reminds me of my President)
 
About one month to go for the first of three shows I am seeing .
 
And today is exactly one year since CT 5/8/2014, which IMHO was the best (and loudest fans in the place) concert I have seen since Elton at MSG in 1976 and Queen a couple of years later

and the negativity contines
One would think on a board proporting to be with Lana fans (maybe that is the biggest misconception I have here, we also never know if a newbee is not just another one of those who jump on any single mention and attempt to be the first with a negative remark
One would think if one doesn't like an artist, they should go to somewhere where the is  an artist they like.
 
One day there will be boxed sets (hopefully as great as the Bear Family ones used to be) with every single song and every single variation of every single song (including every single live version there is) (would probably take 10 boxed sets, prefably vinyl btw as she sounds best
on vinyl the ultra-best would be with 1960s era WABC type re-verb too. 
 
Encores are a waste of time by the way. They are always planned by artists and are mainly used so an artist can feed their ego hearing applause, or take a bathroom break, or a boring costume break (I pay to hear a singer sing, though Elton in the 1970s had some outrageous costumes that even he got bored of by the time he released "reg strikes back" and auctions offed most of his wardrobe.
 
1960s style concerts, with audience sing-a-long like Harry Chapin and Pete Seeger did, where an artists stands basically still (or sits) and sings to the fans from the heart.
I can't imagine Pete Seeger making 20 costume changes.
 
By the way, when an artist says they will be singing all night long, they are lying. They have a contractual time they are singing, with little variation in length, and union rules mean shut-down times so the big corporations that own the areans/theatres  don't have to pay the arena/concert hall people one penny more
 
Now to find more videos on youtube to enjoy and maybe write POSITIVE comments on all of them.

Great set list, great choice of songs, great set, great voice, greatness.
 
Love Chelsea Hotel. Now if only there can be a duet with Leonard Cohen (maybe a Christmas Holiday song
 
And Brooklyn Baby, West Coast, Shades of Cool, Serial Killer, all of them old and new
 
Just wish she would one day due American (my favorite song of hers) here in America (that song reminds me of my President)
 
About one month to go for the first of three shows I am seeing .
 
And today is exactly one year since CT 5/8/2014, which IMHO was the best (and loudest fans in the place) concert I have seen since Elton at MSG in 1976 and Queen a couple of years later

Great set list, great choice of songs, great set, great voice, greatness.
 
Love Chelsea Hotel. Now if only there can be a duet with Leonard Cohen (maybe a Christmas Holiday song
 
And Brooklyn Baby, West Coast, Shades of Cool, Serial Killer, all of them old and new
 
Just wish she would one day due American (my favorite song of hers) here in America (that song reminds me of my President)
 
About one month to go for the first of three shows I am seeing .
 
And today is exactly one year since CT 5/8/2014, which IMHO was the best (and loudest fans in the place) concert I have seen since Elton at MSG in 1976 and Queen a couple of years later

Great set list, great choice of songs, great set, great voice, greatness.
 
Love Chelsea Hotel. Now if only there can be a duet with Leonard Cohen (maybe a Christmas Holiday song
 
And Brooklyn Baby, West Coast, Shades of Cool, Serial Killer, all of them old and new
 
Just wish she would one day due American (my favorite song of hers) here in America (that song reminds me of my President)
 
About one month to go for the first of three shows I am seeing .
 
And today is exactly one year since CT 5/8/2014, which IMHO was the best (and loudest fans in the place) concert I have seen since Elton at MSG in 1976 and Queen a couple of years later

You guys, I found a person who was front row and is uploading videos! On their youtube page they also have OTTR, Do Right, Serial Killer, Chelsea Hotel...I guess they will upload more later
 

 
If you want to rip the audio I recommed using this, it's really good quality

eventually all the unreleased tracks will find a way onto a few huge box sets of rarities like Dylan, Springsteen and a few others have done.
 
I figure there will be a song or two that will be in rotation but not played every night and a new song or two as the tour evolves.
 
If she doesn't play her biggest songs someone will complain she didn't do so and so. Most great artists keep the same set list wth some minor variations for their entire career and / or have a few varied set lists for different parts of tours.

@@leaked_version & @@letsescapelizzy
Then how do you explain Leonard Cohen? Over 80 years old and hotter than ever. With NO hit singles, and in his entire life, one top 10 album.
He sells out Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and only does it with his lyrics, which is poetry.
 
The vast majority of hit tours now are by artists who were from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s who have kept their entire fan base (those still living of course) and do so with zero new product, or when a new record comes
out, it does not sell well, except for the fan base.
What about Garth Brooks? He retired for 15 years, came back, radio won't touch his new stuff, but he is setting records in concerts left and right (and not only that, he is now free to be the liberal he always was, but had to hide
when he was in the mainstream country market going for #1s on the country chart. Garth actually is a good example- he forced people to find him, to listen to him only on country stations and refused to release singles to the Top40
stations, and people did.
 
Maybe a good example is Matraca Berg. Mainstream country, pop or rock did not play her songs. Yet she now is in the songwriters hall of fame and others have sung hundreds of her songs.
And Matraca also had the problem of being taken seriously because of her really good looks.
 
Yes, art exists. Not everyone is in it for the money, and Lana don't need a penny, so no need for money.
 
Lana found and got fame, on her own terms, not on the old boys network way of doing things. That alone is why the old boys network hates her. Because they can't mold her or shape her, and they can't control her.
(see:Prince for another artist they couldn't control)  For too long record companies have ripped artists off.
Lana is doing it her way, not anyone elses way.
Whatever she does or doesn't do is 100% great by me, because it's her life and she is doing as she pleases.
(Perhaps some here while debating minutia are actually forgetting it's her life and she is doing it on her own terms, and in her private life, she seems happier than ever. Maybe thinking otherwise is just thinking wrong.
 
The 27 narrative right before UV after all was the media picking up on a wrong fact. She was never 27 at the time, she was 28. But the media writes what they want, and ran with it.
Lana outsmarted them, and Lana outsmarted Sam Smith. Lana got the #1. Sam still hasn't gone higher than #2. I doubt anyone will remember Sam ten years from now, there will be 100 newer more relevant people than him.
 
But Lana will still be singing (perhaps as Elizabeth by then, perhaps still as Lana).
The one shame is, she didn't get the chance with Lou Reed. That would have been major.
 
and Lana is always one second away from releasing one of her many unreleased (and future unreleased) pure pop instantly catch and trendy songs that would instantly go to the top
but she doesn't. Because that doesn't fit with what she wants. But we all know them because we are lucky enough that Queen of Disaster and Pale Moonlight and the others were put out there so we can hear them.
Which is more important in the world? Writing a song or making a buck? The power is in writing and creating. The creations are there already.
A true artist creates, not sells.  (like most actual paint artists, they are not famous until decades later).
It is two different areas of being. 
 
Lana in her sleep could snore a song ten times better than the new Britney/Iggy song Pretty girls, is that really what anyone here would want Lana to become just to have a number 1 song?

@@leaked_version & @@letsescapelizzy
Then how do you explain Leonard Cohen? Over 80 years old and hotter than ever. With NO hit singles, and in his entire life, one top 10 album.
He sells out Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and only does it with his lyrics, which is poetry.
 
The vast majority of hit tours now are by artists who were from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s who have kept their entire fan base (those still living of course) and do so with zero new product, or when a new record comes
out, it does not sell well, except for the fan base.
What about Garth Brooks? He retired for 15 years, came back, radio won't touch his new stuff, but he is setting records in concerts left and right (and not only that, he is now free to be the liberal he always was, but had to hide
when he was in the mainstream country market going for #1s on the country chart. Garth actually is a good example- he forced people to find him, to listen to him only on country stations and refused to release singles to the Top40
stations, and people did.
 
Maybe a good example is Matraca Berg. Mainstream country, pop or rock did not play her songs. Yet she now is in the songwriters hall of fame and others have sung hundreds of her songs.
And Matraca also had the problem of being taken seriously because of her really good looks.
 
Yes, art exists. Not everyone is in it for the money, and Lana don't need a penny, so no need for money.
 
Lana found and got fame, on her own terms, not on the old boys network way of doing things. That alone is why the old boys network hates her. Because they can't mold her or shape her, and they can't control her.
(see:Prince for another artist they couldn't control)  For too long record companies have ripped artists off.
Lana is doing it her way, not anyone elses way.
Whatever she does or doesn't do is 100% great by me, because it's her life and she is doing as she pleases.
(Perhaps some here while debating minutia are actually forgetting it's her life and she is doing it on her own terms, and in her private life, she seems happier than ever. Maybe thinking otherwise is just thinking wrong.
 
The 27 narrative right before UV after all was the media picking up on a wrong fact. She was never 27 at the time, she was 28. But the media writes what they want, and ran with it.
Lana outsmarted them, and Lana outsmarted Sam Smith. Lana got the #1. Sam still hasn't gone higher than #2. I doubt anyone will remember Sam ten years from now, there will be 100 newer more relevant people than him.
 
But Lana will still be singing (perhaps as Elizabeth by then, perhaps still as Lana).
The one shame is, she didn't get the chance with Lou Reed. That would have been major.
 
and Lana is always one second away from releasing one of her many unreleased (and future unreleased) pure pop instantly catch and trendy songs that would instantly go to the top
but she doesn't. Because that doesn't fit with what she wants. But we all know them because we are lucky enough that Queen of Disaster and Pale Moonlight and the others were put out there so we can hear them.
Which is more important in the world? Writing a song or making a buck? The power is in writing and creating. The creations are there already.
A true artist creates, not sells.  (like most actual paint artists, they are not famous until decades later).
It is two different areas of being. 
 
Lana in her sleep could snore a song ten times better than the new Britney/Iggy song Pretty girls, is that really what anyone here would want Lana to become just to have a number 1 song?

@@leaked_version & @@letsescapelizzy
Then how do you explain Leonard Cohen? Over 80 years old and hotter than ever. With NO hit singles, and in his entire life, one top 10 album.
He sells out Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and only does it with his lyrics, which is poetry.
 
The vast majority of hit tours now are by artists who were from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s who have kept their entire fan base (those still living of course) and do so with zero new product, or when a new record comes
out, it does not sell well, except for the fan base.
What about Garth Brooks? He retired for 15 years, came back, radio won't touch his new stuff, but he is setting records in concerts left and right (and not only that, he is now free to be the liberal he always was, but had to hide
when he was in the mainstream country market going for #1s on the country chart. Garth actually is a good example- he forced people to find him, to listen to him only on country stations and refused to release singles to the Top40
stations, and people did.
 
Maybe a good example is Matraca Berg. Mainstream country, pop or rock did not play her songs. Yet she now is in the songwriters hall of fame and others have sung hundreds of her songs.
And Matraca also had the problem of being taken seriously because of her really good looks.
 
Yes, art exists. Not everyone is in it for the money, and Lana don't need a penny, so no need for money.
 
Lana found and got fame, on her own terms, not on the old boys network way of doing things. That alone is why the old boys network hates her. Because they can't mold her or shape her, and they can't control her.
(see:Prince for another artist they couldn't control)  For too long record companies have ripped artists off.
Lana is doing it her way, not anyone elses way.
Whatever she does or doesn't do is 100% great by me, because it's her life and she is doing as she pleases.
(Perhaps some here while debating minutia are actually forgetting it's her life and she is doing it on her own terms, and in her private life, she seems happier than ever. Maybe thinking otherwise is just thinking wrong.
 
The 27 narrative right before UV after all was the media picking up on a wrong fact. She was never 27 at the time, she was 28. But the media writes what they want, and ran with it.
Lana outsmarted them, and Lana outsmarted Sam Smith. Lana got the #1. Sam still hasn't gone higher than #2. I doubt anyone will remember Sam ten years from now, there will be 100 newer more relevant people than him.
 
But Lana will still be singing (perhaps as Elizabeth by then, perhaps still as Lana).
The one shame is, she didn't get the chance with Lou Reed. That would have been major.
 
and Lana is always one second away from releasing one of her many unreleased (and future unreleased) pure pop instantly catch and trendy songs that would instantly go to the top
but she doesn't. Because that doesn't fit with what she wants. But we all know them because we are lucky enough that Queen of Disaster and Pale Moonlight and the others were put out there so we can hear them.
Which is more important in the world? Writing a song or making a buck? The power is in writing and creating. The creations are there already.
A true artist creates, not sells.  (like most actual paint artists, they are not famous until decades later).
It is two different areas of being. 
 
Lana in her sleep could snore a song ten times better than the new Britney/Iggy song Pretty girls, is that really what anyone here would want Lana to become just to have a number 1 song?

@@leaked_version & @@letsescapelizzy
Then how do you explain Leonard Cohen? Over 80 years old and hotter than ever. With NO hit singles, and in his entire life, one top 10 album.
He sells out Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and only does it with his lyrics, which is poetry.
 
The vast majority of hit tours now are by artists who were from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s who have kept their entire fan base (those still living of course) and do so with zero new product, or when a new record comes
out, it does not sell well, except for the fan base.
What about Garth Brooks? He retired for 15 years, came back, radio won't touch his new stuff, but he is setting records in concerts left and right (and not only that, he is now free to be the liberal he always was, but had to hide
when he was in the mainstream country market going for #1s on the country chart. Garth actually is a good example- he forced people to find him, to listen to him only on country stations and refused to release singles to the Top40
stations, and people did.
 
Maybe a good example is Matraca Berg. Mainstream country, pop or rock did not play her songs. Yet she now is in the songwriters hall of fame and others have sung hundreds of her songs.
And Matraca also had the problem of being taken seriously because of her really good looks.
 
Yes, art exists. Not everyone is in it for the money, and Lana don't need a penny, so no need for money.
 
Lana found and got fame, on her own terms, not on the old boys network way of doing things. That alone is why the old boys network hates her. Because they can't mold her or shape her, and they can't control her.
(see:Prince for another artist they couldn't control)  For too long record companies have ripped artists off.
Lana is doing it her way, not anyone elses way.
Whatever she does or doesn't do is 100% great by me, because it's her life and she is doing as she pleases.
(Perhaps some here while debating minutia are actually forgetting it's her life and she is doing it on her own terms, and in her private life, she seems happier than ever. Maybe thinking otherwise is just thinking wrong.
 
The 27 narrative right before UV after all was the media picking up on a wrong fact. She was never 27 at the time, she was 28. But the media writes what they want, and ran with it.
Lana outsmarted them, and Lana outsmarted Sam Smith. Lana got the #1. Sam still hasn't gone higher than #2. I doubt anyone will remember Sam ten years from now, there will be 100 newer more relevant people than him.
 
But Lana will still be singing (perhaps as Elizabeth by then, perhaps still as Lana).
The one shame is, she didn't get the chance with Lou Reed. That would have been major.
 
and Lana is always one second away from releasing one of her many unreleased (and future unreleased) pure pop instantly catch and trendy songs that would instantly go to the top
but she doesn't. Because that doesn't fit with what she wants. But we all know them because we are lucky enough that Queen of Disaster and Pale Moonlight and the others were put out there so we can hear them.
Which is more important in the world? Writing a song or making a buck? The power is in writing and creating. The creations are there already.
A true artist creates, not sells.  (like most actual paint artists, they are not famous until decades later).
It is two different areas of being. 
 
Lana in her sleep could snore a song ten times better than the new Britney/Iggy song Pretty girls, is that really what anyone here would want Lana to become just to have a number 1 song?

@@leaked_version & @@letsescapelizzy
Then how do you explain Leonard Cohen? Over 80 years old and hotter than ever. With NO hit singles, and in his entire life, one top 10 album.
He sells out Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and only does it with his lyrics, which is poetry.
 
The vast majority of hit tours now are by artists who were from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s who have kept their entire fan base (those still living of course) and do so with zero new product, or when a new record comes
out, it does not sell well, except for the fan base.
What about Garth Brooks? He retired for 15 years, came back, radio won't touch his new stuff, but he is setting records in concerts left and right (and not only that, he is now free to be the liberal he always was, but had to hide
when he was in the mainstream country market going for #1s on the country chart. Garth actually is a good example- he forced people to find him, to listen to him only on country stations and refused to release singles to the Top40
stations, and people did.
 
Maybe a good example is Matraca Berg. Mainstream country, pop or rock did not play her songs. Yet she now is in the songwriters hall of fame and others have sung hundreds of her songs.
And Matraca also had the problem of being taken seriously because of her really good looks.
 
Yes, art exists. Not everyone is in it for the money, and Lana don't need a penny, so no need for money.
 
Lana found and got fame, on her own terms, not on the old boys network way of doing things. That alone is why the old boys network hates her. Because they can't mold her or shape her, and they can't control her.
(see:Prince for another artist they couldn't control)  For too long record companies have ripped artists off.
Lana is doing it her way, not anyone elses way.
Whatever she does or doesn't do is 100% great by me, because it's her life and she is doing as she pleases.
(Perhaps some here while debating minutia are actually forgetting it's her life and she is doing it on her own terms, and in her private life, she seems happier than ever. Maybe thinking otherwise is just thinking wrong.
 
The 27 narrative right before UV after all was the media picking up on a wrong fact. She was never 27 at the time, she was 28. But the media writes what they want, and ran with it.
Lana outsmarted them, and Lana outsmarted Sam Smith. Lana got the #1. Sam still hasn't gone higher than #2. I doubt anyone will remember Sam ten years from now, there will be 100 newer more relevant people than him.
 
But Lana will still be singing (perhaps as Elizabeth by then, perhaps still as Lana).
The one shame is, she didn't get the chance with Lou Reed. That would have been major.
 
and Lana is always one second away from releasing one of her many unreleased (and future unreleased) pure pop instantly catch and trendy songs that would instantly go to the top
but she doesn't. Because that doesn't fit with what she wants. But we all know them because we are lucky enough that Queen of Disaster and Pale Moonlight and the others were put out there so we can hear them.
Which is more important in the world? Writing a song or making a buck? The power is in writing and creating. The creations are there already.
A true artist creates, not sells.  (like most actual paint artists, they are not famous until decades later).
It is two different areas of being. 
 
Lana in her sleep could snore a song ten times better than the new Britney/Iggy song Pretty girls, is that really what anyone here would want Lana to become just to have a number 1 song?

Glad to see Brooklyn Baby, Shades and West Coast are in it
Would have loved to see American and Ride included
So if this in fact is the list (guess tonight we shall know) it would appear the concert is about 30 to 40 minutes longer making it about 2 hours in length (or somewhere between one hour 45 minutes, and 2 hours 15 minutes depending on
how long solos are, and the time spent at the end, if that is still going to be the same.

https://instagram.com/p/2XbugfQkv4

And more

First of all how dare they

Edit:
videos so far

Shades of Cool
https://instagram.com/p/2XVoauQknq/?taken-by=danewilliams

Off To The Races
https://twitter.com/c__beard/status/596151622356508672

You Can Be The Boss
https://twitter.com/LDReyGlobal/status/596169308494958593

Us Against The World
https://twitter.com/QualityLana/status/596388867424391170

second serial killer snippet
http://trailerparkcola.tumblr.com/post/118393632954/lana-del-rey-practicing-singing-serial-killer-at

https://mobile.twitter.com/jvngv/status/596431521126318080/video/1
 
Apparent set list: