video: Lana Del Rey at the Corinthia Hotel London

Those lips!!

She is so lovely

C’mon dude. I’m no hater, I love the Video Games song. But seriously I don’t think this is a live recording at all. Notice how she moves away from the microphone several times while she sings and the voice remains at the same level throughout. I think her management puts out these fabricated “live” videos (the same with those other “premises” videos) the moment she has a really bad live performance. Like the one over the weekend.

SNL is a *live* show.

I wish she could really deliver it in person. I wish she was like the character in the video games video. Feisty and alive. Why she always sounds sort of bad and looks zombie-like and on xanax/valium live is a mystery to me. Only time will tell.

Plastic stereotypes are not cool. Amazing song though.

I wish Lana could break free. The buzz on the video alone made her. But it’s the constant fabrication that gets me down on this. Even if she were like “guys, sorry that wasn’t my best performance but I”m working on it”. It’s like they’re pretending nothing is happening. Here’s a woman who is not a natural performer and this becomes more and more clear the further they push her…instead of helping her sort it out and give her time, they keep pushing her on the public eye…no matter how many fake “live” videos they put out, it’s not going to change. Give the woman some time. I feel like she should get new management and take time off. She looks out of depth in the live arena.

Sultry.

The levels staying the same when she moves closer and further from the mic is called compression guys. It’s perfectly plausible that this is live. It does look like she struggles to perform live, but somehow, that’s part of the whole image, the whole sultry act she puts on.