Lana Del Rey sound check in Quebec City 2023

July 15: Recorded at about 11 in the morning of July 15, 2023, at the Plains d’Abraham in Quebec City. Lana is going to be performing tonight at the Festival D’été. This sound check is a mashup of Arcadia, Norman Fucking Rockwell, Black Beauty, and for K, pt2. July 17, back home: Who does something as poetic and casual and brilliant and transcendent as this? While simply practicing. The show later that night was unforgettable and I want to do it all again. But in at least one way the sound check was better. Two ways. It was free and unscripted. So, like art. Like nature. There’s that. And it was subtle and quiet and personal and confessional and organic. It seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere at once. Like wind. I experienced it like a thought. Like it was coming from inside me as much as outside. It was as though she was singing just to me. She was. Singing. Just to me. And now you.