Album Rating: 2.5

More album titles should tell us fun facts.

Album Rating: 4.0

Wild, awesome record

Album Rating: 4.0

@Egarran lol, that's just a strong comment

Album Rating: 2.5

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/13/lana-del-rey-at-coachella-review-a-disappointingly-lifeless-start-to-the-festival



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Isn't her bored all the time persona part of her appeal? And I am asking earnestly here.

I am a mega fan of Lana, but she just is not the kind of act designed to headline a festival. A lot of her best material is slow and somber. Crowds these days are an absolute menace with Main Character Syndrome and busting out phones. Lana obviously could've performed much better and the technical issues didn't do her any favors, but Coachella was dumb to have her headline in the first place. In the most sincere and earnest way possible, her music is meant for smaller clubs

Yeah, that makes sense. I also just feel like she's built a career off of the lightly seasoned depression that is actually just boredom, but that might be an over-simplified take. Just like... Coachella should have known what they were getting when they booked her.

Sadly, festivals keep making this mistake as I think she also headlined Lolla last year lol

I think Lana's commentary on depression, boredom, glamor, and femininity are extremely compelling but it's just also the kinda thing that I feel is not meant for large crowds, and doubly so when you add in the flair required for a festival set.

Album Rating: 2.5

Most compelling thing about Lana by far (outside of the small handful of great pop songs she very occasionally churns out) is the ambiguity over where the caricature stops and her personality begins - and her zillion layers of mope and disaffect do a lot to cultivate that. It's obvs facile to reduce her work to an I-spy game of where the 'real' Lana begins, but she's buried herself in so many layers of murky self-fashioning that the most robust outline of her profile for me is in the blooper reel she's inadvertently carved out for herself in the process (eg the piss-thin uberprivileged political commentary on NFR and her blunders over identity politics in the run-up to Chemtrails). Credit where it's due, for someone who's made her name dressing up at times offensively tedious material as profound commentary, I've never been bored wondering what she'll do next (and whether that's a mark of elusive genius, or just a rare blend of brashness and incompent at self-styling is still impossible to come down 100% either way on, even if the latter side tends to win out)

Absolutely not a festival artist though, agreed - but she's too big to stick to the hazy barrooms her sound belongs too

Even as someone who loves her stuff and her as a figure, I absolutely agree with your points. I might just be a little more charitable and positive those points lol Lana the person and Lana the figure have a ton of overlap, but it's super fascinating to compare the cracks we are meant to see with those that aren't as manufactured.

Album Rating: 3.5

I agree, despite the inherent artifice, there's a weird intimacy that feels like it's not served by these massive gigs

Album Rating: 3.8

What tracks on NFR are “political” I’m curious

yeah im not really sure i can blame it all on her, like this performance is exactly what lana is, im sure the people hemorrage point made in the guardian post was a lot of the people that was there for Peso Pluma, which i safely say has very little overlap with lana; I will say production value for the livestream was very hit or miss, even with deftones on a much smaller stage.

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah coachella streams always suck i don't even bother



also... i would argue lana is absolutely a festival artist... she just does not gear her setlists towards a festival audience.



particularly... there's so many born to die songs not played that would've gone over so much better. it's by far her liveliest and most universally popular material to people outside her immediate fanbase. feel like that's such a no brainer??? no venice bitch?? maybe play your weeknd feature with a billion streams??



like i don't know how she expects to play a run like bartender / chemtrails / the grants / ocean blvd / nfr / arcadia / candy necklace and not completely lose all the casuals in the audience. all those tracks are at the very least good and probably go over well at her own shows but nobody besides her stans are gonna be up to hear those consecutively at the end of an all day festival