+Nocturnal Flare, it seems to be a mix of Lana's early alcoholism "Her liquors top shelf" and prostitution "Streetwalker at night" "The boys the girls they all love carmen"
I totally agree! I say the same thing every time I listen to it!! I know she said in an interview something like she doesn't like to talk about the lyrics of this song because they are so personal to her!!
lol dont see it? she just changes her pitch in the way it sounds beautiful. im a big fan of her but personally i think people assume her songs are deeper than they actually are, guess becuz of how it sounds like it conveys deep meanings
Does anyone else notice the sadness in her eyes at 1:45? She just looks so emotional, and it really adds to the performance. That's why I love her, her songs are meaningful and sung with such strong emotion... so much better than most of the trash on the radio these days. I fucking love Lana.
Carl H. You think wrong, this is not based on Lolita but on CARMEN, don't you know the famous NOVEL AND OPERA ? it's based on that. If you haven't seen the opera or read the book then you should, it's pretty nice and popular. She did a song about Lolita tho
Pan Da I think it based on a short song, Humbert and Lolita sing in "Lolita". Lana loves this book, so she interpreted this song. Probably Nabokovs inspiration was Merimee. And no, Lolita definitly not existed. Nabokov wasn't pedophile.
Or in Cruel World, she says "Got my little red party dress on." It's just her thing to repeat lyrics that are special to her that contain beautiful imagery.
She seems a lot more at ease in this venue than many other live performances I've seen, and it reflects in her vocals…she sounds better in this one than quite a few others!
Wow she's so incredibly talented, it's unreal. She can just so casually do these magnificent, beautiful things with her voice and you can clearly read the emotion in her face as she does so. She's just so amazing, I love this performance too
Ponytails and top buns feel like boulders attached to your scalp, it takes half a bottle of product to smooth out your ends, and it has a pulling-down effect on your face (if you're not flawless like lana)
If only this was her performance on SNL everyone could see that she really can perform well, this was just completely, 100% perfect, I felt everything she sang. It was absolutely beautiful, just like her, all my love darling, keep shining like lightning
That was beautiful. I was very skeptical of her at first but really she is just getting better with time. Her voice is haunting and her control here is flawless.
People who say she cant sing should really watch performances like this. She's better vocally when singing to a smaller crowd, she just gets nervous - shes human. Love U Lana x
Am I the only person who can't decide between this and the recorded song? Oh my, Lana can definitly sing and she can't be compared to anyone. You are amazing
When I heard the studio version of this song, I felt like it didn't showcase her song as well as it could. Now I've heard it live. Her voice is like silk!
Her voice is one of the best I've ever heard. She has something like nostalgic and melodic at the same time, it's like listening to a lullaby. Love this woman so much ^_^
She is so amazing. Looking back at this still gives me goosebumps. Lana Del Rey never fails to impress others with her voice and performance. There is always so much emotion and thought in all of her songs, and that just captures you by how raw it truly is. I seriously adore Lana and her music, and I know that she will continue to blow her fans away with her stunning personality. Go Lana!!
She's beautiful. Her album has a pretty solid concept. She crafts amazing melodies. Her voice is pretty distinctive. Her videos are stunning. I totally love this woman, and I'd do anything to marry her.
i really love this song cause it's about her life, she saw so many different situations in her life that we can't offence her. this song is so sincere and she really wanna share with her fans. she has changed my life and i will never thank her enought. love u Lana 💙
This goes to all the American Horror Story fans, Does she remind anyone of Billy (from Murder House), or Lana Winters (from Asylum)? Sorry, haven't watched third season yet.
seriously unique voice one of a kind . people can try to sing her song and might sound good, but no one can sing her songs like she can . the original and beautiful Lana . 😍😘
Carmen is my favorite Lana's song.
I love this song too, it has such a deep meaning (nice profile pic)
coveredinthecolors I love this song too. What exactly is it about/what is its background, though?
+Nocturnal Flare, it seems to be a mix of Lana's early alcoholism "Her liquors top shelf" and prostitution "Streetwalker at night" "The boys the girls they all love carmen"
Anthony Lynch Thanks!
+Nocturnal flare, no problem :)
She sings about personal things and realistic things, she's amazing at writing songs, poetry etc. I think this song is about Lana when she was 17.
I love her and play her for ballet classes all the time but she actually write this song, its brilliant and she is too, but two other ppl wrote this
Marktheho she writes the lyrics, the other person wrote the music and another guy produced it. :)
I totally agree! I say the same thing every time I listen to it!! I know she said in an interview something like she doesn't like to talk about the lyrics of this song because they are so personal to her!!
Abba919 She does melodies, too.
I think that too
There's two people in this song- low pitch and high pitch. Low pitch tells us what Carmen does and high pitch explains why Carmen does it.
+Arzo Ahmadi holyshit :O
deep.
+Arzo Ahmadi oh fuck u r right
lol dont see it? she just changes her pitch in the way it sounds beautiful. im a big fan of her but personally i think people assume her songs are deeper than they actually are, guess becuz of how it sounds like it conveys deep meanings
+Luna Salazar She does it all the time. Off to the Races is a good example.
Everything about Lana is magical. Shes one of a kind. Her voice is miraculous, noone can top her singin her songs.
Yeah
Yup
PPplubploy +++++++
Does anyone else notice the sadness in her eyes at 1:45? She just looks so emotional, and it really adds to the performance. That's why I love her, her songs are meaningful and sung with such strong emotion... so much better than most of the trash on the radio these days. I fucking love Lana.
I think she's singing about herself here. She's carmen
Her voice live is exactly like her voice on the studio, maybe even better. She's seriously flawless.
so nobody is going to talk about the perfect quality of this video?
I wish I was Carmen, so someone can sing so beautifully about me
I think Carmen never had exist. It based on a song in the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
Carl H. Oh no I know, I just love how she makes something so dark and ugly look and sound so beautiful.
Carl H. You think wrong, this is not based on Lolita but on CARMEN, don't you know the famous NOVEL AND OPERA ? it's based on that. If you haven't seen the opera or read the book then you should, it's pretty nice and popular. She did a song about Lolita tho
Carl H. Btw Lolita existed, there are a lot of references ..
Pan Da I think it based on a short song, Humbert and Lolita sing in "Lolita". Lana loves this book, so she interpreted this song. Probably Nabokovs inspiration was Merimee. And no, Lolita definitly not existed. Nabokov wasn't pedophile.
Even better than the recorded version
In this song she says "put ur red dress on" and in summertime sadness she says "I've got my red dress on tonight"...
Or in Cruel World, she says "Got my little red party dress on."
It's just her thing to repeat lyrics that are special to her that contain beautiful imagery.
Perhaps "Carmen" represents herself.
+Paige Sommer nope. Carmen is about character Lolita
she also mentions her red party dress in Hundred Dollar Bill 🙂
+Tin Cole It's her favourite book, I think.
She seems a lot more at ease in this venue than many other live performances I've seen, and it reflects in her vocals…she sounds better in this one than quite a few others!
This is always the performance I point ppl to when they say she can't sing.
imagine seeing this perfection live
This is the best I've ever heard her sing live. Perfection
1:42
! What an emotional moment
+ABDULRAHMAN AL-SAAD seriously! my favourite part of the song and me being 17 im so happy she connects to it as well
Wow she's so incredibly talented, it's unreal. She can just so casually do these magnificent, beautiful things with her voice and you can clearly read the emotion in her face as she does so. She's just so amazing, I love this performance too
3 years later and I still want that shirt.
Same lol
6 years later do you still want that shirt?
@@trashparty5959 lmao
7 years later?
7 years later..... still want that damn shirt.
This was soo beautiful i almost cried.
her voice... is so sultry and deep and versatile. I adore her for she evokes the message of her songs so effortlessly!!
Love the studio version, but there is a sadness and seriousness in this that is just so, so beautiful and moving.
She really is good. I'm actually really surprised people bash her at all. I think she's really good and down to earth.
this is one of my favorites performances of lana
i want her hair so bad
Luna Salazar I want her so bad
I had that hair once, and gurl no you don't.
Ponytails and top buns feel like boulders attached to your scalp, it takes half a bottle of product to smooth out your ends, and it has a pulling-down effect on your face (if you're not flawless like lana)
She's so beautiful and a wonderful singer
I love this. You can actually hear her.
Tell me again how Lana can't sing live.
Ikr !!!!???!!!!
+Maria Lane Singing comes from the fellings in that moment, it affects the voice so Lana is phylosophic art in our time
Her voice sounds exactly like in the album
She just can't sing Saturday Night Live...
shut the fuck up maria
If only this was her performance on SNL everyone could see that she really can perform well, this was just completely, 100% perfect, I felt everything she sang. It was absolutely beautiful, just like her, all my love darling, keep shining like lightning
That was beautiful. I was very skeptical of her at first but really she is just getting better with time. Her voice is haunting and her control here is flawless.
Angel on earth
wow she is great in live
Loooooove her music. It's easy to get caught with her emotion.
shes fucking perfect
People who say she cant sing should really watch performances like this.
She's better vocally when singing to a smaller crowd, she just gets nervous - shes human.
Love U Lana x
perfection defined. simply.
she's growing so much, getting better every second. you gotta love her, she is beyond amazing .
I just keep coming back and I cant get enough , her voice , emotions every small detail is perfection
Am I the only person who can't decide between this and the recorded song? Oh my, Lana can definitly sing and she can't be compared to anyone. You are amazing
Lana my queen ❤
YES !!!
When I heard the studio version of this song, I felt like it didn't showcase her song as well as it could. Now I've heard it live. Her voice is like silk!
I love how she drags the syllables at the beginning of the song in this performance. This interpretation is flawless, she's very professional.
She's so amazing I love her live performances shes so flawless 😍😍
She's so beautiful
Thatt Magic in her Eyes! 💕💕👀
She's one of the best voices I've ever heard, beautiful performance
She's above amazing. Her voice sounds even better live and she's absolutely gorgeous & truely inspiring
Her voice is one of the best I've ever heard. She has something like nostalgic and melodic at the same time, it's like listening to a lullaby. Love this woman so much ^_^
Me: Don't you want autotune??
LanaDR: I am autotune.
I love when her eyes shine while she's singing
She is so amazing. Looking back at this still gives me goosebumps. Lana Del Rey never fails to impress others with her voice and performance. There is always so much emotion and thought in all of her songs, and that just captures you by how raw it truly is. I seriously adore Lana and her music, and I know that she will continue to blow her fans away with her stunning personality. Go Lana!!
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This song is AMAZING. so beautifully written and sang very very well. Lana Del Rey is a genius. I love her work :)
Brilliant vocal inflections, amazing lyrical creativity and she's beautiful.
She's beautiful. Her album has a pretty solid concept. She crafts amazing melodies. Her voice is pretty distinctive. Her videos are stunning. I totally love this woman, and I'd do anything to marry her.
omg, this version is amazing!
gorgeous
I've never been jealous of a microphone, but here I am.
First time for everything.
i really love this song cause it's about her life, she saw so many different situations in her life that we can't offence her. this song is so sincere and she really wanna share with her fans. she has changed my life and i will never thank her enought. love u Lana 💙
This was my jam at 15!!! Still hear 5 years later
This goes to all the American Horror Story fans,
Does she remind anyone of Billy (from Murder House), or Lana Winters (from Asylum)?
Sorry, haven't watched third season yet.
nope lol.
yes!
Yes! I've always thought so. Especially Lana Winters because of the 60s styling.
YEP!
So glad to know I'm not the only one!
@Misha Adams That quivering of her voice is a distinctive style of singing that was quite popular in the 50's
love this. probably my fave song from btd
Is she human? :) so charming!
She's so perfect
She is absolutely gorgeous and talented. Wonderful performance! Thanks for shooting it.
this is magical
Amazing performance and concert THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES LANA
Thank god there are still artist out there who can actually sing.
She's amazing
I love her soo much!! She is so awesome live!! Its real and unique and I can't stop listening to her, so addicting!
Lana’s so in touch with her emotions.. her mind’s so beautiful ❤️❤️
seriously unique voice one of a kind . people can try to sing her song and might sound good, but no one can sing her songs like she can . the original and beautiful Lana . 😍😘
I love this sm a lot of months later I'm listening to her old songs LOL
LOVE YOU LANA !!
damn she's so beautiful and her voice is WOW
1:44 yall see how she forgot that part "the streets so mean"
I know, It's one of my favorites, i love the feeling she gives to the song!
Her Vocal Range is Amazing I love it!!
I was there. She sang this one really well. Great song.
who's still listening it today?😀😀
samar malla I'm actually listening TO it. But nice try.
she's so cool and it's like effortless
I love this performance !! I love Carmen ! And I love her
She deserves to have more bigger audience during that time. It's 10years ago.
I love her voice!!!
She's amazing. I love her so much!
1:44
She is crying! She once said It was the most intimate song of hers♥
this is the best performance i've seen in my life omg
That was amazing
She's incredible live.
the control she has over her voice😭
Her vibrato gives me chills!
that was just excellent!
her voice is tooooo amazingggg
Yeah this is probably the best version of this song or any other song she sang live! At least on youtube. Some powerful and beyond this world stuff!
i love her! her voice, hair is beautiful!
more than 4 years later, and it's still iconic - i fuckin love her so much
My God. This is divine.
just beautiful.
2019 and still crying over her beautiful voice frfr
These are the fancams that made me fall head over heels for her😭💕
"The boys the girls" part is magical.
I find it a lot better live then recorded, it gives me goosebumps.
This is so relevant. I think you just described her entire persona in one short TH-cam comment.
i love how she is a singer who doesnt use autotune in any of her songs
Best performance I've seen from her so far. I also really liked Without You at Amoeba, Hollywood. Looks likes she's more comfortable on stage now (: