Fenomeno nato su You Tube, ma che in breve ha scalato tutte le classifiche, anche grazie alla sua avvenenza (secondo i maligni, soprattutto grazie alla sua avvenenza), Lana Del Rey ci delizia oggi con l’uscita del suo nuovo video.
Si tratta in realtà di una cover di Leonard Cohen: la celeberrima Chelsea Hotel No. 2, che Lana interpreta in maniera intimista e a dire il vero non del tutto convincente. Ma d’altronde cimentarsi con Cohen è dura, in particolar modo se non si ha una grande storia artistica alle spalle.
Ci si domanda anche se la nostra Lana abbia riflettuto bene sul testo, perché il verso…
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
…appare leggermente fuori luogo se cantato da una donna, ma tant’è. Ecco comunque il testo completo del bellissimo brano del cantastorie americano per eccellenza (non ce ne voglia Bob Dylan), seguito da una fotogallery della cantante, attualmente impegnata anche nel film “Il Grande Gatsby”.
Testo Chelsea Hotel No 2 | Lana Del Rey
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away, didn’t you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd,
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don’t need you,
I need you, I don’t need you
and all of that jiving around.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, “Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music.”
And then you got away, didn’t you babe…
I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can’t keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often
Fotogallery Lana Del Rey (clicca sulle foto per ingrandirle)
