Everything about Lana Del Rey - from early years to resounding success
Lana Del Rey is a world-famous author and performer of songs, exploring in his texts such topics as sadness, romance, glamour, melancholy ... All works Del Rey have an attractive cinematic quality, and also - for the most part - contain references to American pop culture in the 1950s and 1960's years. In a word, this is a valuable diamond of the modern music scene! Lana has developed her own unique and instantly recognizable style, which cannot be confused with anyone else ... And her voice ... It's just magical! Del Rey literally hypnotizes you, penetrating into the very depths of the mind, causing pleasant melancholy, dreams and memories ... She presented the public with a sweet dream world of southern california, based on sad girls and bad boys, spicing its illusions with glamor and sadness... At first, she received only... ridiculous ridicule. However, it soon became clear to the whole world: Lana Del Rey much tougher than her gentle image suggests. Together with "Summertime Sadness" she became a global star and the idol of a generation, gaining not only popularity but also respect. With each new release of the album, Lana turned into the ideal she intended to be from the very beginning: a tragic romantic icon of her era ...
Childhood and youth
Del Rey produces very vulnerable and emotional pop music in this world, exploring the nature of American youth and nostalgic for the past ... Lana made her first steps under the name "Lizzy Grant", however, success came to her precisely in the image in which today she is widely known as a romantic icon of the generation ...
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant born in June 1985 years in New York. Her parents were engaged in advertising, but after the birth of the girl they left this sphere and moved to live in a picturesque village. Lake Placid. Elizabeth was not the only child in the family: later she also had a younger brother and sister. By the way: exactly Caroline Grant, who is a fairly promising photographer, took the famous album cover for "Lizzy" Lust for Life…
As a troubled teenager Elizabeth addicted to alcohol ... She attended a Catholic school, but due to behavioral problems, her parents sent her to a boarding school Connecticut. During this period, the future star really drank a lot ... Of course, the boarding school did not become Del Rey panacea, but by the age of 18 the girl came to her senses and even stopped drinking alcohol. Elizabeth decided not to go to college: instead, she went to live with relatives in Long Island. It was there that she became addicted to music and learned to play the guitar. Later she will go to Fordham University and will begin to study philosophy, but music will forever remain its true vector...
The first steps in the image of "Lizzy Grant"
In this period Elizabeth begins to take her first steps as an author and performer: in the early stages she performed under the name "Lizzy Grant" in New York clubs. In 2006, the singer signed a contract with 5 Point Records and issues Kill Kill EP. By the way: the first producer of the future icon was David Kahn…
A little later, Elizabeth will take a name for herself. Lana Del Rey and release an album of the same name 2010 years… Teaming up with Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, she will cut ties with 5 Points and move to the UK, where she will start working as a star of glamor and melancholy Lana Del Rey.
World fame: the main stages of creativity
At these stages, Elizabeth radically changes her image - her naturally blond hair becomes dark, and her image and manners - retro glamorous. At some point, she turned into such "Gangster Nancy Sinatra"! After settling in London, Lizzy focused entirely on songwriting. That was her first big hit. video games…
After the track was presented to the public, criticism and accusations of pretense rained down on the rising star: many believed that Lana's father was a millionaire, and that it was he who financed her projects. At the same time, the singer herself has repeatedly stated that her family has never been rich. Del Rey was later invited to the show "Saturday Night Live", where she was accused of acting nervously and indecisively ... Nevertheless, her debut disc was still a success, and a very decent one.
Yes, perhaps the repertoire Lana and is not rich in radio hits, however, some of her songs - as well as clips for them - scored more than a billion plays and views on YouTube! Her charm lies in her dainty, glamorous aesthetic, which intertwines cinematography, sweet hopes, and bleak prospects... For example, the video for video games includes vintage footage, old cartoons, Hollywood images, as well as the very Del Rey - tender and young, fresh and sad ...
At the same time, the clip Born to Die turned out to be much more thoughtful:
However, the biggest breakthrough for Lana was her hit "Summertime Sadness":
"Tonight I put on my red dress,
I dance in the dark, in the pale light of the moon.
I did my hair in the style of beauty queens.
Down with high heels, I'm full of life ... "
Success gave Lana new opportunities! She was a model for H&M, and also made a short film called Tropico, and made Cédric Gervais remix on "Summertime Sadness" as a result, it became platinum ... But even success has a lot of its pitfalls. Once there was a complete penetration into the singer's house, and at the beginning 2018 year - right at a concert in Orlando - a man who wanted to kidnap a star was detained by the police ... Earlier, in 2012 year, someone hacked into Lana's PC, causing all of her personal information, as well as unreleased songs, to end up on the Internet.
Influence…
Power Lana Del Rey on the modern stage is undeniable. She had a great influence on many artists, among them Billie Eilish and Maggie Lindemann. Many prestigious magazines state: popular music of the 2010s wouldn't be the same without Lana... And that's a fact. In fact, her album Born to Die showcased the transition of pop music to a darker palette with hip-hop elements, and the song of the same name was included in the list of one hundred tracks that define the sound of a whole decade! Even myself Bruce Springsteen, author of Born in the USA, called this girl one of the best songwriters in the history of America! The number of views of her clips is inexorably approaching the mark 5 billion, and it seems that its influence is not going to slow down its frantic momentum for many more decades ...
