3/2/2024 0 Comments Wild at heart - lana del rey![]() Later, two of her ensemble waft back and on swings during Ride – a bonus cut from her debut LP Born To Die, which has grown into an anthem even as it circles such grim subjects as alcoholism and intergenerational trauma.ĭel Rey comes to Ireland a fortnight after her late arrival at the Glastonbury festival led to the organisers pulling the plug with one song left. They fan around her as she swoons on Pretty When You Cry, from arguably her best album, Ultraviolence. Their task is to bring melodrama to music which is already gloriously baroque. To that end, she is flanked by a swirl of vocalists and backing dancers. But with much of the evening proceeding in a stately shuffle, she feels there is a requirement to liven up the set – to put on both a visual and musical spectacle. It’s a brooding highlight from her latest album, Do You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? Produced by Taylor Swift regular Jack Antonoff, the tune grapples with themes that recur throughout her repertoire: wild, unhinged obsession and physical passion used to fill in the blanks where true love should be.ĭel Rey specialises in stately ballads, which somehow never tip into hairdryer belters – she is, in the very best sense, the anti-Adele. With the volume in the room already cranked up to “ear-splitting shriek”, she opens with A&W. ![]()
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