Lana Del Rey thrills the living and maybe the dead
Set listCruel World / Cola / Body Electric / Blue Jeans / West Coast / Born to Die / Ultraviolence / Old Money / Summertime Sadness / Million Dollar Man / Video patagonia better sweater for womenGames / Ride / Nationalpatagonia better sweater navy Anthem
Ipatagonia better sweater stonewasht patagonia better sweater walnuts hard to imagine a better pairing of artist and stage than singer Lana Del Rey and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She s the poster girl for a kind of cinematic lushness, patagonia pro purchase usaa faded glamour, the vibe she casually embodies in song or in videos. And Hollywood Forever, where she played the first of two sold out nights on Friday, witpatagonia better sweater discounth its eternal homes of the famous and the forgotten is nothing if not full of the ghosts of faded stars and lost loves who d feel at home in Del Rey s tunes. She quickly took that last bit back, though, and why wouldn t she enjoy hanging out above ground a while longer? Her 2014 album Ultraviolence and her just finished tour have been big hits this year, and her dedicated fans live somewhere on the border between adoring and worshipful.
All of that came together for an electric night on the sprawling lawn that lies roughly between Rudolph Valentino s crypt and Douglas Fairbanks tomb, a show that with 13 songs over 70 minutes seemed almost unfairly short. the the lights dimmed and then rose again on the candelabra and palm tree adorned stage, and the crowd screamed and surged forward, struggling to get as close as possible to Del Rey, who arrived on stage in a tropical print mid thigh dress, her long hair poofed up into a 60s style bouffant, kicpatagonia better sweater full zip hoodieking off the night witpatagonia better sweater peacoat past seasonh Cruel World.
Cause you re young, you re wild, you re free, she sang, smiling slightly as she walked into the pit at the front of the stage to greet fans and accept their flowers and gifts. Oh you re crazy for me. And quickly random lines from other songs also jumped out from the songs that followed, underlining the emotion and the atmosphere of the enraptured crowd and the moody surroundings.
We don t need nobody cause we got each other/Or at least I pretend, Del Rey sang in Body Electric, the audience singing along loudly as they did on nearly every song. Then, in Blue Jeans, a film noir in song, lyrics apt for the graveyard setting: I will love you til the end of time/I would wait a million years.
Del Rey s band guitar, bass, drums and keyboards never got an introduction from her but they played tightly behind her strong vocals all night, adding a meaty guitar riff to West Coast, a lovely piano intro to Old Money, a jazzy acoustic bass bit to Million Dollar Man.
And while the songs often portray a kind of beautiful decay in their stories and settings on stage Del Rey didn t play up those darker moods, instead smiling coyly at the shouts of love and marriage proposals, waving back at fans occasionally, and striking a mid century bad gipatagonia everlong review snap2rl lounge singer pose from timepatagonia everlong review snap0 to time as she smoked a cigarette or two on stage, holding it between the fingers of her mic hand while singing.
The newer songs, such as West Coast and Ultraviolence, are strong numbers but the highlights of the show focused patagonia everlong review snapon tunes from a few years back including a terrific take on Summertime Sadness and a version of Video Games, her first big hit, that she bumped up a spot or two from its usual place in her encore.
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Oh. My. God, mouthed one wide eyed young woman who could be seen on the video screen as Del Rey stopped in front of her. Then the singer disappeared, and the fans started wandering back up the rpatagonia everlong review snap1oad to Santa Monica Boulevard except for a few hundred who stuck around chanting, Lana! Lana! Lana! Loud enough to wake the dead, but alas, not enough to bring her back to the stage.
