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That heartbreak, those moments of raw honesty that center on herself instead of an identity group, are her appeal. Women want to be her. Men want to be with her. She is the spirit of American possibility, independence, resilience. She is the pin-up singer who is most definitely still a woman in an age when people struggle to define what a woman is. 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." 'Ultraviolence' The news that Del Rey had signed with the label Interscope made some wonder if "Video Games" was a marketing ploy and not a video she'd created herself. There was also speculation that her father was a millionaire who'd bankrolled her (Del Rey has said her family was never wealthy). In 2012, Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live and was criticized for looking nervous and singing hesitantly. However, her first studio album was still a success, as were subsequent releases. Albums 'AKA Lizzy Grant' Best Known For: Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey took the world by storm with her single "Video Games" in 2011. Since then she's built up a body of work that features languid, melancholic tunes and fascinating videos.

As it happens when it comes to my amazing friends and this cover, yes, there are people of color on this record's picture and that's all I'll say about that," she wrote. "We are all a beautiful mix of everything - some more than others, which is visible and celebrated in everything I do." To her ultra-devoted fans, she is the patron saint of the misunderstood. But along with forging a deep personal connection with her core audience, Del Rey’s baroque, retro-pop style, intense intimacy, and unapologetically honest lyrics have changed the sound of pop music in the past decade. 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. 'Lust for Life' As a teenager in the small community of Lake Placid, Del Rey started drinking heavily. She'd attended Catholic school, but her parents sent her to Kent School, a boarding school in Connecticut, because of her drinking. Some of the world’s most notorious works of fiction are those teeming with unapologetically left-wing, against-the-grain, and culturally disruptive rallying cries for change. Within this realm of culture reside the fiery blaze of the oppressed: worlds that have been repeatedly suppressed by the glowing ammunition of conservative values, some of which crumble at the mere defiance of tradition. However, on the opposing side, a more insidious truth takes root – a society consumed by the stoicism of unwritten laws, one that has long forsaken the hidden malevolence at its very core. The debate surrounding Lana Del Rey as a problematic figure can be seen as trite, often eliciting eye rolls when brought up again. Yet, embedded within it is a narrative as ancient as time itself: a perverse, paedophilic undercurrent ingrained within society, one that will persist unless we actively exercise prudence.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 equipment. 'Honeymoon'

However, some fans of Del Rey have defended "Judah Smith Interlude" as satirical or "ironic." As Coleman Spilde wrote for the Daily Beast, "Del Rey is exactly the type of person who would attend a celebrity-studded mega-church, both for a cleansing of the soul and to lambaste its intrinsic flamboyance with her friends." 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. In an interview with The Guardian in 2014, Del Rey said, "I wish I was dead already" after talking about Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, something Cobain's daughter criticized her for. No this was not intended-these are my best friends, since you are asking today," she wrote — although it was written as a standalone comment, not a reply to anyone in particular. Tellingly, Lana Del Rey’s songs have gone from fetishising fame and success to yearning for a life without either. A distant spiritual cousin of Joni Mitchell’s For Free – which she covered – White Dress breathily suggests she was happier as a waitress or unknown singer: ironically it’s set to the kind of irresistible tune that sent her Chemtrails Over the Country Club album to No 1. 7. Love (2017)Lately this has proven particularly true. Ahead of releasing ‘Lust For Life’ in 2017, she stated her intention to retire stars and stripes from her live shows. “I’m not going to have the American flag waving while I’m singing ‘Born to Die’,” she told Pitchfork . ”It’s not going to happen. I’d rather have static.” Many diasporic Mexicans also regard Lana as the Anglophone heir to the cultural tradition of tragic, elder female singers – colloquially dubbed “señora music”. In señora music, outsidership features as a gendered position: one of underappreciation and martyrdom. TikTok often compares Del Rey to Jenni Rivera , a Long Beach-bred Mexican-American singer, while Danielle suggests that she’s also reminiscent of Amanda Miguel and Jeanette. “This is the music introduced to us by our parents,” she says, describing it as exploring “dramatic vulnerability and unhinged emotional release”. Del Rey’s lyrics – an alchemy of love, duty, desire and neglect – clearly chime with this. As Kimberly, another Mexican fan, says: “She suffers in her relationships, [and that parallels] the sort of imbalanced relationships dynamics we see play out at home.”

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