We saw the first four festival-goers this morning at 8:30 a.m. on the siteMatthieu Ducos, director of the event, told AFP on Tuesday, as the festival’s doors opened on Wednesday at 4 p.m. (2 p.m. MT) and closed on Sunday.
This is Lana Del Rey’s only visit to France this summer. Sales were made very quickly, a first for us, relates Matthieu Ducos. We knew that there was a lot of anticipation for this artist, an ideal synthesis between our usual audience, who saw her 10 years ago and the young generation who seized her on the occasion of the last album.
Despite its long title, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvdreleased in spring 2023, this album left its mark, carried by the song A&Wwhich also breaks the codes, more than 7 minutes long and which splits between crystalline melody and dull hip-hop rhythm.
Things have changed a lot since his appearance ten years ago at Rock en Seine. Particularly on stage, where after a more or less happy start, the artist has found his place and imposes his universe between today’s pop and 1950-60 Hollywood glamour.
Lana Del Rey, 39, manages perfectly today, by his presence and his aura, to embody his character on stage and to extend his visuals and clips which have been very worked on since the beginningdepicts the head of Rock en Seine.
– Garden of Eden –
American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey performs at a concert in Las Vegas on February 16, 2018.
The singer’s concerts, followed by 18.5 million people on Instagram, are now the event. Spiced up this time by the prospect of a new album, Lassoexpected at the start of the school year.
In July 2023, for his visit to the Olympia in Paris, more than 42,000 tickets had been requested for the 2,800 seats available in the famous hall with the red letters.
Her ultra-fans had slept in sleeping bags on the sidewalk the day before the show to ensure they had the front row. Lana Del Rey showed up escorted by thirteen people, including musicians, backing singers and dancers. The diva paced the stage between the piano, the swing and a scripted break for a hair-do.
At Rock en Seine, we can expect a singer who is still very well-surrounded, in a setting of a fantasized Garden of Eden.
His appearance at the Olympia had triggered fainting spells. The Rock en Seine rescuers are experienced. In 2023, the festival had already opened with an evening around another American megastar, Billie Eilish, causing its share of evacuations under the influence of emotion and a heat then more pronounced than that expected on Wednesday.
– 100% feminine evening –
French artist Zaho de Sagazan sings during the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics on August 11, 2024.
Billie Eilish was then the highlight of an all-female lineup on the opening night, a program repeated this year by Rock en Seine with Rori, Nell Mescal, Towa Bird, Rachel Chinouriri, Pomme and Yoa announced on stage before Lana Del Rey.
It wasn’t premeditated, but we rebuilt a first evening in the same way, our wish is in any case to get as close as possible to parity on the entire program, this year we are 45% female artistsestablishes Matthieu Ducos. We notably remember PJ Harvey, The Last Dinner Party or even Zaho de Sagazan, French revelation known abroad since her performances at the opening of the Cannes festival and the closing of the Paris Olympic Games.
Wednesday night is the only sold-out event at Rock en Seine so far. The Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, near the capital, is hosting other big clients until Sunday, such as LCD Soundsystem, Fred Again, Pixies and The Offspring, with a new album in the pipeline for these last two groups.
Rock en Seine attracted 144,000 festival-goers in 2023, over a shorter period.
