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Review: Lana Del Rey at Lollapalooza: Or let’s just call it LanaPalooza. Who else can do a concert like this?

Lana Del Rey performs on the Bud Light stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago’ s Grant Park on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023.

CHICAGO — I am not the right person to write this report about Lana Del Rey and her performance at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Sunday night. I am Gen X, and male, and until somewhat recently, Lana Del Rey was a passing acquaintance in my diet. For a while, I dreaded having to attend Lollapalooza to do this assignment. I’m old and Lolla is young and I have aged out. Plus, when Lana sings in “Brooklyn Baby” about the condescension she feels from older hipsters who think, born in 1985, she couldn’t understand “the freedom land of the seventies,” I’m moved by the vulnerability and shamed by the spot-on cultural profiling.

I might

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