Don’t you just hope that when Lana Del Rey next pays for her latte at Starbucks she opens the lid to discover it’s only half full? Or that when the melancholic American takes a subway ride the guard comes on and insists she exit at least six stops before her journey ticket dictates

And when the Summertime Sadness singer buys a true crime novel to read on the plane home, she reaches the tickly bit, turns the key page with an excited finger – only to discover the final chapters are missing?

A bit cruel? Not if you were at Elizabeth Grant’s (her real name) p*** poor excuse for a performance this week at Hampden in Glasgow. In fact, the soulful singer who sells stylised works of sadness should consider a new career as a sheep shearer in the Aussie outback - because she’s proved terrific at fleecing.

Her loyal Scots fans paid upwards of £120 to see a performance of just 14 songs during her set. To compound the injustice, of those 14 songs, three were unreleased and two were covers. Del Rey also used a hologram to showcase pre-recorded versions of others. What this all means is that young fans, many of whom most likely earn minimum wage, had to work for over an hour to pay to hear a single live song.

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