LANA DEL REY — Video Games (Live on David Letterman)

This is exactly what she needed to do on SNL! It might be too late for most people, but this was a near flawless performance.

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LANA DEL REY — Video Games (Live on Jonathan Ross Show, 2012)

I don’t understand why she insists on singing with that strange accent when she performs live, and also why she insists on adding seemingly random vocal runs to almost every line of the song. Or why she insists on squeezing in a ‘now’ or ‘lately’ at the end of ‘This is all I think of…’

So far I think her best live performance of ‘Video Games’ was the appearance she did on Jools Holland.

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LANA DEL REY — Video Games (Live on Later With Jools Holland)

The ever-divisive Lana Del Rey made her TV debut tonight on Later With Jools Holland in the UK. She sang her lead single, ‘Video Games.’ The performance is stunning, providing yet another reason to silence all of her detractors.

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LANA DEL REY — Blue Jeans (2011)

I’ve been listening to ‘Video Games’ practically on repeat this past week, so I’m super excited to get another Lana Del Rey song. ‘Blue Jeans’ has a sort of old-Hollywood sadness vibe, featuring similar sampling as ‘Video Games.’ Lana Del Rey intrigues me because I feel like mainstream success wouldn’t be impossible with her, but it doesn’t seem like her goal. I’m interested to see where she takes her career.

Buy the ‘Video Games’ / ‘Blue Jeans’ single from Stranger Records on October 10.

mp3: Blue Jeans

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