In September of 2018, the singles “Mariners Apartment Complex” and “ Venice B*tch” were released, and Del Rey announced Norman F-cking Rockwell. This was the first time she featured other artists on her own release, and these features arguably highlighted Del Rey’s growing star power.
Lust for Life was released in July 2017, featuring collaborations with ASAP Rocky, Playboy Carti, The Weeknd, Stevie Nicks and Sean Ono Lennon. 2016 saw Del Rey collaborate with The Weeknd once more, on tracks “Party Monster” and “Stargirl Interlude”. That same year, she won the Billboard Trailblazer Award for Women in Music. In 2015, Del Rey also collaborated with The Weeknd on the track “Prisoner,” featured on his album Beauty Behind the Madness. She had songs featured on both The Great Gatsby and the Maleficent soundtracks.Ģ0 saw the releases of Ultraviolence and Honeymoon, both released to favorable reviews. In 2014, the Paradise EP was nominated for the Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards.
In December of 2013, she released a short film, Tropico, that included “Body Electric,” “Gods and Monsters” and “Bel Air” from the EP. Paradise was her second major release, and it fared well, being positively received by critics. Del Rey soon announced that her next project, the Paradise EP, was set to be out that November. In spite of the divided reviews, the album became the fifth best-selling album of the year. The performance may have been objectively bad, but this flop got people talking about Lana Del Rey.Īfter much hype and promotion, her first major-label album, Born to Die, was released later that month and was reviewed poorly by critics. Her stage presence was dubbed “insecure,” and she was called the worst SNL performer in history by many. She was slammed for seeming emotionless and dull. In January 2012, Del Rey served as a musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live, earning herself criticism from viewers. “Video Games” won her a Q Award for “Next Big Thing” that year. A video for her song “Blue Jeans” followed suit. She first found fame in 2011 when her homemade music video for the song “Video Games” went viral. Eventually, Del Rey bought back the rights to the record. The album was pulled due to insufficient funds from her label at the time. In 2010, her debut album, Lana Del Ray A.K.A Lizzy Grant was released for a brief amount of time on iTunes. She graduated in 2008 with a degree in metaphysics and philosophy.ĭel Rey used several stage names before her current one, such as May Jailer, Sparkle Jump Rope Queen and Lizzy Grant. During these college years, she did a great deal of volunteer work, helping homeless youth, drug and alcohol abusers and rebuilding homes on Indian reservations in Utah.
Grant soon attended the Bronx’s Fordham University as a philosophy major. She claims to have never expected to take this path seriously. This is when she began performing and songwriting. She took a year off of school after graduating and worked as a waitress. She had attended a Catholic school and sang in her church choir.Īt the age of fifteen, after developing a drinking habit, she was sent away to a Connecticut boarding school. But, who is Lana Del Rey outside of the famed 2012-2013 Tumblr, sad girl aesthetic era?ĭel Rey was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985, in New York City.
This online era saw many GIFs from her music videos, along with many picture edits of her, often romanticizing her emotionally complex lyrics. In the early 2010s, Del Rey was a prominent fixture on the social media site Tumblr, a multimedia sharing platform. On August 30, Lana Del Rey released her sixth studio album, Norman F-cking Rockwell.
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