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NME PRAISES Lana's Glastonbury Set
Lana Del Rey Just Played The Most Dramatic, On-Edge Glastonbury Set Of The Weekend
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Del Rey deals in terror and tragedy and even though she's one of the biggest pop stars in the world, her projected fragility - which I think we can now safely say is completely genuine - creates an emotional connection with her fans. And it's powerful.
At her Glastonbury show they are utterly swept up in it. Del Rey entered the stage as if she was entering her local corner store, sauntering nonchalantly, until she saw the enormous crowd before her, perhaps the biggest of her career. A gulp and a flicker in her eyes suggested so. From the off she was a mixture of completely contained and confident while oozing the pain, beauty, rage, fears and romance of her set.
If there was any doubt that she could own the biggest stage at the festival, these dissolved straight away. If there was any doubt that she can't sing live, this dissolved even faster. Her voice throughout the set was pitch perfect, strong, rich and vibrating with emotion. Such is Del Rey's vocal skills that she can communicate a diverse spectrum of human experience by the way she sings simple, four-letter words like 'pain', 'dreams', 'breathe', 'bad', 'mean'... She changed her expression rarely, occasionally smiling at the audience, but her Warhol-ready face communicated the numbness of heightened feelings even more powerfully than if she'd been screaming or grimacing. One flicker of her heavily-made up false-lashed eyes here, a flick of her tattooed hands, topped with rouge talons, there... this was how she brought the nuance to the Pyramid Stage.
"It's amazing to be with everybody today, it's so exciting," she said, though at times she seemed close to tears, particularly at the end, though it seemed like she was more overwhelmed than uncomfortable. Did she enjoy it? It was really hard to say. But the power of her often expressionless blank canvas, is that it lets fans project their lives and stories on to it.
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