Lana Del Rey declined to be featured in SNL music documentary

[lmdr 11,098]

14 minutes ago, Lanaparadiserey said:

The way you said this is taking me out😭😭😭

i mean..... 

[longtimeman 9,127]

The problem is that there's nothing sexy or interesting about what happened. It's not like she was out the night before doing coke with Madonna, and blew it. She was nervous, and didn't have the experience to know how to sell herself on screen. And the social media world acted as though the performance proved she was worthless as a performer, and should just go away. The only redemption she needed was having the record she released that month being rarely out of the Billboard chart in well over a decade since, and getting a lot of the critical acclaim that nobody shitting on her over that performance ever dreamed she'd get. And she even got to befriend and then ghost that piece of trash Juliette Lewis, so I guess the slate is clean now

[slang 1,537]

14 hours ago, lmdr said:

Would've been cool to see her but it is not relevant anymore really... her most recent mention about it was in 2019 and she stands firm that it was great

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-lana-del-rey-musicians-on-musicians-cover-902354/

from the Elton/Lana discussion:
"Looking back, there was a more eccentric performative approach to it. I was thinking about Maria Callas, or someone darker coming through." Elton John also says it wasn't bad above that quote, and I would think his opinion trumps (bad word these days) music critics or anti-fans. FWIW, I actually decided to buy BTD after that performance (and on the basis of that performance, as in, ok, this person I need to know better), so I couldn't have thought it was bad. She made a mistake in the beginning of starting too low, but then did an "accelerando" in pitch, carrying on with a kind of Kabuki x hip hop vibe, and then she slayed the bridge. Not bad at all, especially if you don't like your pop divas all sounding alike.

[FredRed 4,890]

I just watched the show. It was very good but I have watched SNL since the beginning. They did mention the Ashlee Simpson screw up. She was not interviewed about it. They did show 1 shot of Lana near the end as part of a large montage of many artists.

Curious this is the anniversary of the release of  Born to Die. Cosmic forces at work while we sleep.

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