+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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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!!
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.
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 💙
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 . 😍😘
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 ^_^
Coconize isn't a word. She gives them butterflies - as in she makes the men nervous and unsettled in an attraction way. Bats her cartoon eyes - is a reference to her big, animated eyes and how she flutters them and winks. Being flirtatious.
this song is a rockstars dream i mean the greatest musicions on earth would kill to have written a song like that its..i have no words its just THE song....its classic ...the whole album is just so good..i i were to recommend to someone just one song to i woudlnt know which one to pick
+Jesús López Verdú why would you say that you're an idiot the song isn't necessarily about prostitution to me it's about a girl whose an addict & uses people to get what she needs you can sell yourself to others without having to use sex you use your charm, & your wit without having to use your body but it still feels the same & you feel empty even though everyone likes you & everyone tells you all these things & still you don't feel shit & your just using them to get what you want whatever your "doc" is so you can actually feel something, anything again...that's what the song is for me!! It means something different to everybody but I don't really think it's about selling your body or sex it's about selling yourself to get something you want & losing yourself in return for it
+Johnny Avilez The song is any interpretation someone wants to have only the person who wrote it would truly know it means something different to me but someone always has some negative to say to try to get a reaction out of people to entertain themselves & I'm not going to feed it into it like I said you can sell yourself to others without sex there's many different forms of prostitution but any who you have a nice life
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
so nobody is going to talk about the perfect quality of this video?
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.
Even better than the recorded version
Her voice live is exactly like her voice on the studio, maybe even better. She's seriously flawless.
She just like her Mother, Marilyn Monroe
How beautiful
She IS marilyn monroe
Fuck Marilyn Monroe, she has nothing on lana
And her father Elvis.
And her best friend diamonds
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.
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
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
imagine seeing this perfection live
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.
Love the studio version, but there is a sadness and seriousness in this that is just so, so beautiful and moving.
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
This was soo beautiful i almost cried.
This is the best I've ever heard her sing live. Perfection
her voice... is so sultry and deep and versatile. I adore her for she evokes the message of her songs so effortlessly!!
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)
Angel on earth
this is one of my favorites performances of lana
She really is good. I'm actually really surprised people bash her at all. I think she's really good and down to earth.
She's so beautiful and a wonderful singer
shes fucking perfect
Me: Don't you want autotune??
LanaDR: I am autotune.
I love this. You can actually hear her.
wow she is great in live
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
Lana my queen ❤
YES !!!
Loooooove her music. It's easy to get caught with her emotion.
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
She's so beautiful
perfection defined. simply.
Thatt Magic in her Eyes! 💕💕👀
Is she human? :) so charming!
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 just keep coming back and I cant get enough , her voice , emotions every small detail is perfection
gorgeous
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
no one has a voice like lana she is a fucking queen
She is a fucking God
She's so amazing I love her live performances shes so flawless 😍😍
I love when her eyes shine while she's singing
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.
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 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!
I love how she drags the syllables at the beginning of the song in this performance. This interpretation is flawless, she's very professional.
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 💙
she's growing so much, getting better every second. you gotta love her, she is beyond amazing .
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 . 😍😘
This was my jam at 15!!! Still hear 5 years later
She deserves to have more bigger audience during that time. It's 10years ago.
@Misha Adams That quivering of her voice is a distinctive style of singing that was quite popular in the 50's
who's still listening it today?😀😀
samar malla I'm actually listening TO it. But nice try.
This song is AMAZING. so beautifully written and sang very very well. Lana Del Rey is a genius. I love her work :)
She's above amazing. Her voice sounds even better live and she's absolutely gorgeous & truely inspiring
She's one of the best voices I've ever heard, beautiful performance
1:44
She is crying! She once said It was the most intimate song of hers♥
omg, this version is amazing!
1:44 yall see how she forgot that part "the streets so mean"
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 ^_^
Brilliant vocal inflections, amazing lyrical creativity and she's beautiful.
She's so perfect
I love this sm a lot of months later I'm listening to her old songs LOL
the control she has over her voice😭
She's amazing
Amazing voice!! The best!
LOVE YOU LANA !!
damn she's so beautiful and her voice is WOW
i love how she is a singer who doesnt use autotune in any of her songs
I remember watching this on my 16th birthday - DAMN it's been that LONG??
Thnx Lana for writing a song about.....me!! 😉😆😊
Ikr....I'm amazed
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sure..
Her Vocal Range is Amazing I love it!!
I was there. She sang this one really well. Great song.
She's one of the artist,where while they're singing you don't clap or anything.Because you want to listen to her beautiful voice.
I've never been jealous of a microphone, but here I am.
First time for everything.
more than 4 years later, and it's still iconic - i fuckin love her so much
Lana’s so in touch with her emotions.. her mind’s so beautiful ❤️❤️
love this. probably my fave song from btd
These are the fancams that made me fall head over heels for her😭💕
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!
Coconize isn't a word.
She gives them butterflies - as in she makes the men nervous and unsettled in an attraction way.
Bats her cartoon eyes - is a reference to her big, animated eyes and how she flutters them and winks. Being flirtatious.
One of her best live performances!
I know, It's one of my favorites, i love the feeling she gives to the song!
This is so relevant. I think you just described her entire persona in one short UA-cam comment.
this song is a rockstars dream i mean the greatest musicions on earth would kill to have written a song like that its..i have no words its just THE song....its classic ...the whole album is just so good..i i were to recommend to someone just one song to i woudlnt know which one to pick
I find it a lot better live then recorded, it gives me goosebumps.
Thank god there are still artist out there who can actually sing.
is like she was telling an story, idk i love her
this is magical
Amazing performance and concert THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES LANA
Her vibrato gives me chills!
OMG she is awesome second best artist nowadays
she's so cool and it's like effortless
I love her soo much!! She is so awesome live!! Its real and unique and I can't stop listening to her, so addicting!
she really can sing live better than studio ^^ you're the best lana
This song describes my life exactly this is why I love her because I relate to her lyrics so much
^
+Jesús López Verdú loooool XD
+Jesús López Verdú why would you say that you're an idiot the song isn't necessarily about prostitution to me it's about a girl whose an addict & uses people to get what she needs you can sell yourself to others without having to use sex you use your charm, & your wit without having to use your body but it still feels the same & you feel empty even though everyone likes you & everyone tells you all these things & still you don't feel shit & your just using them to get what you want whatever your "doc" is so you can actually feel something, anything again...that's what the song is for me!! It means something different to everybody but I don't really think it's about selling your body or sex it's about selling yourself to get something you want & losing yourself in return for it
+Kara Wigley lol he's not an idiot the song is about prostitution
+Johnny Avilez The song is any interpretation someone wants to have only the person who wrote it would truly know it means something different to me but someone always has some negative to say to try to get a reaction out of people to entertain themselves & I'm not going to feed it into it like I said you can sell yourself to others without sex there's many different forms of prostitution but any who you have a nice life
"The boys the girls" part is magical.