3 things I realized about Lana Del Rey going to her Olympia concert

Most of us grew up with Lana Del Rey. I confirmed it at Olympia, among the 2,824 spectators who had obtained a place, thanks to a stroke fortune miraculous (in the queue at the ticket office where we are random420,000 people had logged in on July 3rd at 10am) or using hundreds or even thousands of euros.

In the middle of the pit, the young woman next to me tells me about her journey to find a seat, after having skipped the fateful test of the queue, despite her connection from five devices when the ticket office opens:

“I made a transfer of €500 to a guy who was selling a spot on Twitter. Ten minutes after the transfer, I asked him if he had sent the post. He replied: “I’ll answer you later, I’m at the Printemps. ” I asked him : “Will you buy yourself a bag with my bank transfer? »

Let’s face it: we’ve been waiting for the Lana Del Rey concert more than anything else, with the firm intention of doing everything possible to attend. Suffice it to say that thewe expected it to be good. Actually, it was so much more than that.

In 2023, twelve years later which was revealed to the world, after nine albums extraordinary beauty and originality, Lana Del Rey surprised me deeply.

Lana Del Rey has a truly amazing voice

Changing, unstable, sometimes very serious, sometimes very sharp, sometimes powerful, sometimes broken… the voice of Lana Del Rey unlike any other and remains, for years, almost impossible to locate.

Discovering this sound that is so familiar to us live, we cannot do without it to be surprised. It’s like we feel it for the first time. How is it possible to have such a soft, unique and evanescent voice?

L’strangeness that we sometimes experience when listening to his music that was not made in the studio, with software or auto-tune. I understood it when I discovered her on stage: moreover this vintage, romantic and melancholic aesthetic of which she is the queen, beyond the density and the incredible richness of his musicrenewed almost every year with a new album better than the previous one, Lana Del Rey is above all a voice of extraordinary purity.

Lana Del Rey is a great artist because she’s incredibly sincere

And that’s why he “only” did Olympia…

During the announcement of her concert, many voices were raised asking why Lana Del Rey chose Olympia, when he had enough to fill the Stade de France six times. Was it some sort of “diva whim”? The desire to experience an intimate concert, like a sort of homecoming, even if her fans number in the millions?

At the concert I realized that these answers were just nonsense. In fact, Lana Del Rey holds so much more the singer of the choir that a maniac of the stagedelivering superhuman performances like Beyoncé did a few weeks ago at the Stade de France (no wonder, moreover, that Lana Del Rey sang backing vocals at the the church all his youth).

Wool Del Rey he often sings with his eyes closed, a little smile, as if enjoying every moment of this collective moment. His thin voice when he talks between two pieces almost evoking a little girlher loose gown reminiscent of the Victorian era and her the very long hair that falls around her makes you wonder if she’s really touching the ground, it seems so unreal, evanescent, between two eras and two eras.

To Lana Del Rey, the great it does not lie in the spectacular effectsbut rather inside an extreme artistic sensitivity and an overwhelming impression of sincerity.

During the concert, no pause between songs, no downtime : only extraordinary generosity and genuineness. When the screen behind her broadcasts images of oceans or stars and above all she resurrects 12 years of images of Lana Del Rey taken from her music videos, not crying becomes a conquest.

Lana Del Rey is very attentive to her audience

If you don’t feel well, he will stop everything until you take care of yourself.

Moreover his sublime voice OR his presence so strange, magnetic and overwhelmingthe third surprise of this concert was Lana Del Rey’s relationship with her audience. As a diva, reigning together with a few others (Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande…) in the world of pop (even if she is impossible to tie it to a specific musical style), one might have expected Lana Del Rey to be content with being courteous but somewhat distant with her audience.

It was nothing. This detail will certainly have played into the need to choose a theater on a human scale: Lana Del Rey is extremely observant of her audience and what is happening in the room. Twice she started a song and then she stopped after a few seconds, noticing what a person was doing a weakness among the spectators. She only resumed singing when she was shielded from the crowd by security.

Another time she seemed very moved and smiled looking at a specific point in the crowd: following this look we understood that she was looking a tiny little girl in her father’s arms, dressed in a pretty white dress, resembling her own. ” You are a princess “he whispered into the microphone before continuing to sing.

We would like to answer that you she is a queen.

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