I was pretty excited about seeing Lana because I've seen YouTube videos of her singing live and let's just say it wasn't pretty.. So of course I wanted to know the score, was this girl was all marketing or what?!
When Lana came on stage, she seemed casual, shy, and a bit nervous to be honest. Her hair was long, loose, and seemingly unstyled. She was wearing jeans and a baggy sweatshirt.. not really what you'd expect given her recent advertising campaign for H&M
Unfortunately, Bekah's face says it all.. When Lana began to sing, there was something missing. There's no denying she has a smouldering velvety voice, but it's like she was trying to switch between keys and the gears were getting stuck. She sounded a bit off pitch, and the the song seemed as if it just wasn't patching together very well... eeeeek! How long were we going to endure this?
Luckily though, a couple of songs into it Lana seemed to get her swag back, and her singing became rather impressive. Maybe she just needed to warm up.
One thing's for sure though, the crowd LOVED her. Everybody seemed to be well into it, and shouting her name and just generally really fan-like. There were a coupld of chicks near us who were skyping their mate during the concert so she could see Lana... and when that failed, they called her and held the phone up (I'm presuming it was the same girl.. I did think to myself, if your friend was THAT much of a fan... wouldn't you take her?) Anyway.. yes, she was much adored.
I'm sure I was annoying the people behind me with my penchant for getting a good shot (this new Samsung S3 phone has a great camera on it!) but I managed to get a couple of goodies to share, so lucky you!
One of the things I liked about Lana's concert was the stage set & lights.. lots and lots of colourful lights. Paired with palm trees and a Florida feel and string musicians, very pretty!
Now we'd heard that a friend of a friend had been to a Lana Del Rey gig before, and apparently Lana only did a half hour set.. so after Rebecca Ferguson's impressing hour and a half the previous week we were interested to see how much airtime Lana would give.
The answer? Roughly 45 minutes.. probably slightly less as she was on a little bit late. I don't know about you, but I rate that as kind of poor.. she's a global star and only has 45 minutes on stage? Oh well, whatever, I was tired and looking forward to bed anyway, so fine by me!
I actually took some video at the concert, and wanted to upload for you so you could feel like you were there experiencing the concert first hand! But apparently I can't email it from my phone to here to upload... so I'm going to need to do some technical learning to figure that one out.. stay tuned!
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