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Signature. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–70s Americana. [1]
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- ‘Heroin’ “Heroin” is Del Rey’s favorite song on Lust for Life, and perhaps her saddest on record. The track, filled with references to Charles Manson and Mötley Crüe, and featuring a haunting chorus, is long-rumored to be about Del Rey’s ex-boyfriend Rob Dubuss, who died of a heroin overdose in late 2011.
- ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ On “Chemtrails,” Del Rey hypnotizes us into imagining her version of modern American life. She’s busy in swimming pools and sports cars, drinking coffee, doing laundry, washing her hair, and asking for your astrology sign.
- ‘Get Free’ “Get Free” encapsulates the energy of Del Rey’s 2017 album, Lust for Life: her commitment to change, to taking an optimistic approach to life, and to moving “out of the black and into the blue.”
- ‘Terrence Loves You’ “Terrence Loves You” is the gem Del Rey singled out as her personal favorite on Honeymoon. As she said, “It’s jazzy.” It’s full of Hollywood mythology, but especially David Bowie in his 1970s L.A.
- Who Is Lana Del Rey?
- Early Life
- Early Career
- Becoming Lana Del Rey
- 'Aka Lizzy Grant'
- 'Born to Die'
- 'Ultraviolence'
- 'Honeymoon'
- 'Lust For Life'
- 'Norman F*****G Rockwell'
Lana Del Rey makes vulnerable, emotional pop music that often incorporates nostalgia for America's past. Del Rey first performed under her real name of Lizzy Grant but found fame as Lana Del Rey in 2011 with a homemade music video for the song "Video Games." After "Video Games" became a viral hit, Del Rey was criticized for a lack of authenticity; ...
Del Rey was born as Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985, in New York City. Del Rey's parents were working in advertising in New York City when she was born, but left that life behind to move to Lake Placid, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains when Del Rey was a baby. She grew up with a younger brother and sister. Her sister, photographer C...
Del Rey, then still known as Lizzy Grant, started her career with open mic nights and club gigs. In 2006, she entered a songwriting competition; she didn't win, but a judge on the panel helped her create a demo, which led to her signing with the indie label 5 Points. With the $10,000 she earned for this deal, Del Rey moved into a New Jersey trailer...
By the time her first album came out, Del Rey had decided she wanted to work under a new name. She flirted with names like Sparkle Rope Jump Queen and May Jailer before settling on Lana Del Rey, which was selected on a trip to Miami in part for its evocation of coastal glamour. Del Rey got back the rights to her first album so as to avoid confusion...
Before Del Rey adopted the professional moniker of Lana Del Rey, she made an album titled Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant (spelling Ray with an "a," not an "e"). It came out in 2010, but the digital release was only available for a couple of months.
Del Rey's first major-label album was Born to Die, which came out in 2012. Though critics didn't embrace the album, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. 2012 also saw the release of the Grammy-nominated EP Paradise, which contained the songs "Ride" and "Cola."
Del Rey's Ultraviolence(2014), featured atmospheric ballads like "Pretty When You Cry," "Sad Girl" and "West Coast," and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It's also been certified platinum. Before its release, Del Rey redid the completed album with producer Dan Auerbach, using single takes and cheap microphones instead of professional equipmen...
2015 saw the arrival of the dark, critically praised Honeymoon. Del Rey has described the album as "a tribute to Los Angeles." She moved to California in 2012 and says it's a place where she's found more musical collaborators than in New York. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and landed at No. 1 in countries like Australia and Ireland.
In 2017, Del Rey released Lust for Life. Though there are still dark tunes on the album, songs like "Love" gave it a more upbeat tone than earlier Del Rey projects, while tracks like "Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind" take the day's politics into account. It's also the first Del Rey album with guest artists, including The Weeknd on "Lust for Life,"...
In September 2018, Del Rey released two singles from her upcoming sixth studio album, the pensive "Mariners Apartment Complex" and more expansive "Venice Bitch." She followed in January 2019 with "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It," originally named after troubled American poet Sylvia Plath, before dropping a dre...
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