The most captivating moment in Lana Del Rey's glistening New Jersey soiree manifested as an homage Friday night, a vintage-pop nod that proved particularly direct and earnest for the singer who's made a fortune peddling Brill Building pastiche for a hip-hop-obsessed generation. At the end of her new, characteristically lilting tune "Cherry," - taken from the bright 2017 LP "Lust For Life" - Del Rey strode straight into "Scarborough Fair," a 52-year-old Simon and Garfunkel song and inspiration for "Cherry" I'd wager no one in the young, flower-crowned audience could have placed unless they'd already known it was coming.
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