Coachella 2014: Lana Del Rey, selfie queen, dominates 'West Coast'

Written By kolimtiga on Senin, 21 April 2014 | 23.51

Lana Del Rey was in no way afraid of the selfie.

At three different points in the alt-torch singer's 45-minute Outdoor Stage set Sunday night, Del Rey descended into the audience to vamp and pose with fans, allowing – encouraging, even – the rampant repurposing of her image across social media. She even prolongued one cinematically sexy smooch with a male fan who couldn't seem to get his phone-camera game together quickly enough to simply point and shoot.  

Given Del Rey's nostalgia-tinged sex appeal, who could have blamed him?

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The Manhattan-reared trip-hop diva had a more elaborate game plan than any iPhone interaction with ecstatic fans could ever indicate. In her second, back-to-back weekend performance in a prime-time slot at North America's preeminent summer musical event, Del Rey quietly achieved a measure of redemption – a sort of payback for her critically maligned 2012 "Saturday Night Live" set that unfairly defined her as  One Who Refused to Dance before a national audience.

Del Rey (nee Elizabeth Grant) is a massively popular stadium-rocking act in Europe thanks to the chart-topping success of her oontz-laced remix of "Summertime Sadness"  by Cedric Gervais. But stateside, the chanteuse is still licking the wounds she endured for failing to project a Katy Perry or Rihanna level of on-stage energy on "SNL" – never mind that Del Rey, 27, has always been closer in scope to Mazzy Star than Miley Cyrus, despite the millennial comparisons.

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On Sunday, Del Rey – in a pastel-hued mini-dress -- delivered a vampy, downbeat set that managed to delight the Coachella masses absent the kind of highly revved 140 beats-per-minute cavalcades that define so many EDM acts at the festival these days.  In place of the kind of move-yourself-to-dance abandon so commonly associated with the festival, the singer-songwriter offered a more cerebral, retro-leaning suite of tunes that showcased her slow-burn bangers such as "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans."

One of the highlights: Del Rey's reprisal of the new single – that the performer appropriately enough premiered the week before -- "West Coast," with its lyrics:

Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin'

If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'

 But you've got the music

You've got the music in you, don't you?

chris.lee@latimes.com

Twitter: @__chrislee


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