Lana Del Rey In San Francisco: Internet Sensation Draws Huge Crowd At Amoeba Music (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

"The Queen! The Queen!"

"I love you, Lizzie!"

"Hey, Lana, let's f*ck!"

Internet it-girl Lana Del Rey has a tendency to evoke a whole spectrum of emotions, but no bullies or naysayers could be found at Amoeba Music's Haight Ashbury store on Thursday night.

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Coming off an SNL stint the the blogosphere ripped to shreds, a redemptive stop on Letterman and a lovefest at Amoeba's sister store in Los Angeles earlier this week, the viral sensation performed five songs for hundreds of rabid fans--some decked out in signature LDR gear, others crying and mouthing the lyrics, and none over the age of thirty. (Except Apple's own Steve Wozniak, spotted backstage.)

"What are you all doing here?" the demure starlet, dressed like a country club wife sprinkled with just the right amount of hipster fairy dust, asked the crowd incredulously. "I'm obsessed with you. I love you."

Despite rampant criticism for shaky past performances, Del Rey (known as Lizzie Grant in another life) pulled out all the stops at Amoeba, showcasing a staggeringly wide vocal range and using the perfect blend of confidence and reserve to flirt with her audience.

Afterwards, she spent nearly two hours signing CDs for throngs of devotees. "It's my birthday and I want a picture more than anything," Emily Mastren, 23, told The Huffington Post.

"Lana Del Rey singlehandedly saved my soul," added 20-year-old Angela Zuniga. "I just want to be able to tell her how much she has inspired me and how much she has changed my life."

Love her or hate her, the sultry songstress isn't going anywhere. Her recent album, "Born To Die," has soared to the top of the charts, Lana Del Rey memes multiply by the minute, and a profile in the New York Times magazine is slated to hit stands this weekend.

And her doting admirers are none too pleased. "I just love how vague she is," gushed Rachel Overcash, 27. "She reigns in irony, classicly."

An Internet celebrity giving a free show at one of the city's last record stores? Nothing ironic about that.

Take a look at video and images from Del Rey's appearance below (photographs by Kaitlin Layher, Gabriel Wheeler and Matthew Alavi):

Comments

[John Will]

03:42 AM on 02/16/2012

She did good performance there, one of the best I've seen. Nothing like that sad SNL. More Lana: http://www.bublaa.com/bubble/Lana%20Del%20Rey%20fans

[John Will]

03:41 AM on 02/16/2012

S

[Cosmiacian]

04:46 PM on 02/13/2012

Her fans obviously don't respect her anymore than her naysayers do. Comments like, "Take it off!" and "Woo! Yeah!" after she sings, "Heard you like the bad girls..." being yelled from the audience prove that people are much more inthralled with her sex appeal than her "music."

She's commodifying women, and destroying "music" at the same time. Why do people continue to support her? Ridiculous.

[icewomancometh]

07:26 PM on 02/13/2012

So some of her fans are too enthralled for you, so you give her that much credit? Commodifying women and destroying "music"? Is this for real? Sounds like you're giving her credit for evoking so much for whatever reason. Most music and show doesn't

[floatingisland]

01:52 AM on 02/14/2012

People are going to yell things that they shouldn't in a crowd to get attention. I would see the theme of Born to Die (and the lyrics in general) and Lana as an artist to be less about sex appeal than most pop music.

[Milash]

03:11 PM on 02/13/2012

She kind of reminds me of Emma Watson.

[scoobydubious]

03:55 AM on 02/13/2012

You know, I'm on the internet everyday and somehow i just completely missed this whole thing entirely. I have really no idea who this chick is. Was this a goofy YouTube thing for preteens?

[Violet Lazarte]

02:12 AM on 02/13/2012

The formula seems right. She has an aura of mystery, melancholy & 'weirdness' (which some construe to be either good or bad), & these elements all come together to make her "interesting". She's a beautiful girl, so she's fun to watch, & her voice is either sleepy or soothing. Maybe she has no real "talent" like we used to know talent (like Whitney Houston - oh no I di'in't), but at this point, she has plenty of haters (publicity), & she's fresh meat. The gimmick works. It seems she's found her place in the entertainment biz. She's probably the next big "indie" "star". That's probably contradictory..

[VenusFlyTrapInFurs]

05:51 PM on 02/12/2012

HuffPost took these pictures straight from Amoeba's website...see more of em:
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/san-francisco/2012-february-09/lana-del-rey/photos.html
and blog review:
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2012/02/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/lana-del-rey-at-amoeba-san-francisco.html

[sf girl]

04:08 PM on 02/12/2012

Those nails are awful!

[davidbaerwald]

12:53 PM on 02/12/2012

A lot of my colleagues in the music business are being very unjust to this lovely girl.

[bring in swat]

07:43 PM on 02/11/2012

when claiming to be a "singer" one should be aware of this thing called Pitch and Melody, it helps communicate this thing called Song...uhg

[icewomancometh]

08:05 PM on 02/11/2012

Go tell that to Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan and Joe Strummer. Nothing wrong with Lana Del Rey except those that just don't like her for some odd reason.

[bring in swat]

09:31 AM on 02/12/2012

to even mention her or 98% of the current "talent" is a the very least Laughable on So many levels my gut hurts and is saddened for you. the above you mentioned were incredibly unique creative power houses that have decades and decades of success behind them...her?

[victorvelasco]

02:55 AM on 02/13/2012

At least Jagger, Dylan and Strummer can modulate their voices and possess a wider range of emotion...if that's odd.

[aristippe]

05:02 PM on 02/11/2012

She's gonna be the biggest star ever, she's going supernova

[binarystar]

12:47 PM on 02/11/2012

you guys are hilarious with these p.r. articles.

"I just love how vague she is"

yeah that about sums it up.

[Joel Kent Melville]

12:42 PM on 02/11/2012

she's hot but I dont like her music no offense....

[martinchill]

12:20 PM on 02/11/2012

shades of Ellsworth Tooey and the celebration of mediocrity.

[CharliePoole]

12:07 PM on 02/11/2012

"Lana Del Rey singlehandedly saved my soul," added 20-year-old Angela Zuniga.

Doesn't sound like you had much to save, if true.

[aristippe]

05:06 PM on 02/11/2012

she helps me exercise my demon