Glad Lana performs with the album-like instrumentals again

[lanaaddict]

I don't know whether this really bothered anyone else, but throughout Lana's career so far, she *mainly* would perform her live sets with a more acoustic feel or a general arrangement that was nothing like the album(s) production (think iTunes festival 2012).

However lately, in the live performances and fan videos etc, she is doing the tracks as I personally like them performed...like the studio/album style. For example High By The Beach, West Coast, Cherry, Lust For Life etc.

 

It really bugs me when artists try and strip down or completely change the flow of the songs you expect to hear. It's extremely jarring!

[UltraviolentJack]

I miss the 2014-15 live version of Blue Jeans and West Coast. It seems they were rock-tinged and grittier. Also 2013-14 MDM was amazing. Body Electric and Cola had much different compositions live and I thought they were amazing.

[99centlips]

OTTR live sounds like the demo snippet floating around

I think when she “changes” the song live, it’s how she envisioned it before it got over produced

[kitschesque]

I personally love the band versions and the Lolita performance from the 2016 festival tour is my favorite version of the song so that's quite telling

[lanaaddict]

I really loved the intro to Honeymoon that she performed at the BBC Maida Vale in 2015 (It was an electric guitar, compared to the violin of the album version).

[UltraHeroin]

I LOVE the more rock version of body electric with that solo at the end 

And Honeymoon with the band 

[strange weather]

i totally disagree. we already have an album version, and for some songs we have 10,000 performances of them. i love when lana switches it up and imo, her voice is made to go with some sexy, wailing guitars. my biggest problem is that i wish she'd ditch the backing tracks (or at least have them lower or actually sung by her backup dancers). her voice is so light and airy that a stripped back performance would really allow it to shine. 

[WildMustang]

I'm not sure about this..I mean yeah i love the studio versions with the rich instrumentals but i think some of her songs don't work good live like 13 beaches for example..it could sound better stripped

[Wynwood]

i really liked the live band sounds better! if i wanted to hear the album version then i might as well stay home and just listen to the albums! I go to her concerts to get a different feel

[softcore babyface]

She peaked when the live shows had small orchestras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (tbh I wish she would stop using pre recorded back up vocals and instead get real back up singers)

[Crimson and Clover]

I agree mostly, but:

Video Games Live with electric guitar >>> studio version

Million Dollar Live [acoustic] [wailing] >>> studio version

 

also the rock version of Carmen she sang at Olympia     

[TRENCH]

We see her to perform and spice up the music live, not do karaoke