Singer welcomed George Birge, confessed to having kissed Morgan Wallen and released three songs
When you are Lana Del Reyyou can do whatever you want. You can postpone your country album, rename it and then admit it is not really a country album. You can make a worthy presentation of the main stage at Stagecoach, bring little known country singers to duets of their songs and yours, and can reveal in the middle of the performance that kissed the most famous and controversial country artist.
At Stagecoach, on Friday night, the ethereal singer didn’t just play a “special” country set of country music, as Stagecoach announced. Instead, she touched a quintessential set of Lana Del Rey With beautiful new songs, bold confessions, some country classics and a hologram. Because she can.
In the midst of screams of “We want Lana”, Del Rey emerged from a small bluish hut (reminiscent of Miss Honey’s residence in Matilda) and turned the desert stage into a fairy tale bayou. With a 1960s dairy dress, the singer made the crowd scream by opening her performance with a moving song, “Husband of Mine”dedicated to Jeremy Dufunewith whom he married last year. Music is a beautiful ballad of love, which pray that the world “gives grace” to its story of great love.
“I apologize in advance for what they will say about the wrinkles on your face/They are a script for your lovely life”she sang, adding later to the chorus: “What is yours is mine/what is mine is between you, me and Jesus.” On stage she looked like a Disney princess proclaiming her romance to her lover, aerobarco captain.
Del Rey continued with “Henry, eat on”the single she released earlier this month to lead The Right Person Will Stayyour next and tenth album. The fans in the crowd sang along while Del Rey She sat in the middle of the stage to play the track with touches of country music. “Ah, my God,” he said Del Rey on stage. “Never fail to surprise me the volume of the crowd. I swear to God. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being with us.”
Del Rey continued with his now iconic cover of “Stand By Your Man”which she touched on several stops of her last tour, while her dancers in the background was walking to the sound of the classic Tammy Wynette. Things got really country when Del Rey welcomed George Birge To present your country track “Cowboy Songs” with her.
After playing the classic country music accompanied by its band, Del Rey asked for Birge May the two play the chorus of music acoustically to highlight their voices. “Hey, my heart is beating hard on the chest”he said Birge to the crowd before the pair sing along again. “I’m just torturing people here! ”, Del Rey joked. (Throughout the set, she asked the public if they could hear her, as she seemed to have trouble hearing her own voice on the return. You could blame the crowd for it!)
Del Reythen, he took fans on a journey for his classic discography, sitting on his characteristic balance to present abbreviated versions of some of his greatest hits, as “Ride” and “Video Games”. So she made the transition to “Norman Fucking Rockwell”mixing verses and jumping the sentence: “He fucked me so well that I almost said ‘I love you'”that the crowd sang in its place. It may have been a subtle sign that it has changed to something deeper and more rewarding in love.
Del Rey So it welcomed the duo Secret Sistersborn in Alabama, to provide backing vocals country for “Let the Light In”a track from [álbum] Did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean blvdthat she had never touched live before. It looked like a fairy tale narrative Del Rey.
Right away, Del Rey premiered an impetuous track with an American trend titled “Quiet in the South”singing on a dining table in a cottage, directing her words to a love that didn’t treat her well. “Do you come home tonight?”she asks. “Should I turn off the light or set on your home?” His dancer incorporated the lyrics, spilling gas from gasoline around Bayou’s house and burning it, courtesy of the scary shine of a projector on stage.
After the house “burned”, a Del Rey holographic appeared on stage in a stunning red dress, playing gently with a blue bird during an interlude “Bluebird”. The hologram served as a perfect continuation for “Summertime Sadness”which starts with the letter “I’m Got My Red Dress on Tonight”. When the true Del Rey It appeared in a Carmesim dress and hair on perfect curls, the phones fired in the air to the climax of the presentation. It was a powerful reminder for the crowd dressed in a cowboy hat of the power of the stars and the singer’s presence before them.
And why not end the show with a little drama? When debating “57.5”written about her monthly listeners on Spotify (who seem to have increased since she wrote the song… and, moreover, what an exaggerated theme to sing!), In which she stealthily mentioned an experience of meeting with the country’s country hero villain. “I kissed Morgan Wallen/I think kissing me kind of climbed to his head”, Del Rey He sang after sharing that it would be the “last time” she would say that letter out loud. “If you want my secret to success, I suggest not quadricycles with it when you are in the west.”
For your big closing, Del Rey welcomed your guests on stage for a version of “Take me home, country roads”from John Denveraccompanied by a Steel pedal and your complete band. Until Zach Bryanwhich was the main attraction of Stagecoach on Friday, knew that the set of Del Rey It was magical. “Never in my life I thought I would be on stage while Lana Del Rey”he said while fans huddled in the T-Mobile Mane Stage area to see him after Del Rey. “She is absolutely the best.”
Friday’s presentation was Del Rey at your best, delivering everything the fans could expect from the queen cult Favorite: New songs, beloved classics, romance and the right touch of drama. Of course she’s at the best time of her life – and her career – and things are just getting better from here.
Perfomance precedes the release of its 10th studio album, The Right Person Will Stayscheduled for later this year. The singer had originally announced an album called Lasso Last year, but eventually discarded the LP.
Last summer, she joined Quavo For Rap Country “Touch” (She jumped the song on Friday.) A few weeks before her Stagecoach show, the singer released two singles, “Henry, eat on” and “Bluebird”that she said they were inspired by real -life experiences. The songs kept the airy sound of Del Reybut with light country influences. “All my albums are somewhat rooted in American culture… So I don’t think it will be a heavy change”she said to Vogue last year. “In fact, it will only be a little lighter and more striking in a classic, American or southern Gothic production – which again, many of my songs are already.”
Article published on April 26, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.
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