Since 2012, Lana Del Rey has sold a total of 19.1 million albums around the world and has had more than 3.5 million online views. As it turned out, she wasn’t the outsider who was looking for recognition, but a rich girl, with a father who was a millionaire and able to fund her career. They came to the conclusion that she wasn’t true to her style and that her image was all a concept. Outsider of rich girl?Ĭritics soon found out that the social media accounts of the former Lizzy Grant had been removed just before bringing out Video Games. Her feminine looks, hovering somewhere between the 60s Hollywood glamour and the casual-cool California girl, appealed to a lot of people. Lana Del Rey’s breathy voice, home-made, grainy videoclip with classic, Hollywood snapshots, were refreshing in a time where music and video clips tended to be polished. Her first single, Video Games, went viral and became an underground sensation, especially since it had such an authentic vibe to it. When she broke through with the baroque pop song, Video Games in 2011, her critics were quick to point out that she does in fact come from a wealthy background, which she has since hit back on. Viral Video (Games)Ĭhanging her name to the more exotic sounding, Lana Del Rey, which is said to have reminded her of the glamour of the seaside, she scored a record deal and used the money to buy a home in a trailer park. This was around the same time that Lady Gaga was starting out, and funnily enough, they even performed together from time to time. She returned to the city in 2006 to launch her music career, where she took a while to find her footing by singing in bars under the names Lizzy Grant and May Jailer. Around the time that she was 18, she was sent to boarding school in Connecticut, which was partially due to her struggle with alcoholism from which she luckily recovered. Lana Del Rey was born as Elizabeth Grant in New York City in 1985 and was later raised in Upstate New York. This Friday, Lana Del Rey will grace the stage at the Ziggo Dome, which is a good reason to get to the bottom of it. Why have the diehard critics changed their minds? Her art and way of being has brought on a lot of criticism, but her most recent album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, has cut her some slack and been much more positive. Did she really just sing that? Does she even mean what she sings? To what extent is her rebellious image authentic? People have wondered this over the past 10 years while listening to her melancholic songs and watching her nostalgic videoclips. Lana Del Rey’s lyrics raise just as many questions as they raise eyebrows.
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