“Andrew Lloyd Webber has been one of my primary inspirations in music, so to do a cover of one of his songs is a dream,” Del Rey said at the time. She again uploaded it to her official YouTube channel, and the shaky, vintage camera work fits in the same universe as many of Del Rey’s other videos.ĭel Rey put her haunting spin on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita composition “You Must Love Me” - performed by Madonna for the musical’s 1996 film adaptation - in 2018. Made famous by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Del Rey and Barrie-James O’Neill of Kassidy covered “Summer Wine” in 2013 (Del Rey dated O’Neill from 2011-14). It’s dreamy, and most importantly just as sinister as the movie, basically screaming “Disney villain.” Originally penned for the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty, Del Rey reimagined it for the much darker Maleficent in 2014. Naturally, Courtney Love had something to say about it. Del Rey recreated the performance for the black-and-white beginning of her iconic “National Anthem” video, and even wore a similar dress.ĭel Rey first covered Nirvana’s 1993 alt-rock fixture “Heart-Shaped Box” in 2012 while on tour in Sydney, Australia. Kennedy in 1962, and damn it if Del Rey doesn’t do Ms. Summertime, without the sadness: Del Rey’s Sublime cover is just that, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it appears to be getting slightly more attention than the actual documentary (which premiered to mixed reviews) that it was recorded for. In 2017, following the death of the legendary singer-songwriter at age 82, she also performed the song with his son Adam at “Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen.”

Eventually some guy pulls the plug on her performance, which is just so uncalled for - who would cut off Lana Del Rey?ĭel Rey published a flickering performance video of her covering the classic 1974 Leonard Cohen track on her YouTube channel in 2013.

The H&M video has Del Rey playing a retro lounge singer, though she’s dressed in a fairly contemporary pink sweater. Recorded in 2012 for the reissue of Del Rey’s debut album, Born to Die – The Paradise Edition, and then used in an H&M campaign, “Blue Velvet” is one of her moodiest covers. Below, Billboard has rounded up the singer’s eight best covers, in alphabetical order.

No matter the case, each cover benefits from her signature velvety vocals and dramatic delivery, often managing to exude a magnetism that arguably outdoes the original. Lana Del Rey Maxes, Relaxes on Chill 'Doin' Time' Cover: Stream it Now

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