Her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), saw a return to the stylistic traditions of her earlier releases, while her critically acclaimed sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), explored soft rock. Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die (2012), which contained the sleeper hit " Summertime Sadness". After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single " Video Games" she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. She also has been recognized with the Variety's Decade Award at the Variety Hitmakers Awards for being ″regarded as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century″. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, a Satellite Award, and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, containing references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s and 1960s Americana. My boyfriends have been rappers.Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter. And in a since deleted caption, from her unveiling of the cover of Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey defended her inclusivity by saying that “her best friends are rappers. In an interview with BBC Radio 1 she implied that Trump was not to blame for the storming of the capitol. Twitter exploded when she wore what appeared to be a mesh and utterly ineffective face mask to a book signing last fall. Last May, Del Rey posed a “question for culture” on her Instagram where she complained that many of her women of color counterparts in the industry were not criticized for glorifying abuse or sexuality in the same way that she has been. In the last year she’s found herself in hot water a handful of times.
But she also has a penchant for controversy and biting back at critics. Online, Del Rey is far less old Hollywood vixen, and much more your mom on facebook, often posting filtered selfies and captions that invoke the same corny energy as “Live Laugh Love.” Scrolling through her Twitter feed or Instagram is reminiscent of an early 2000s Tumblr page. The very next track, “Let Me Love You Like A Woman,” reminds us that she’s, “Ready to leave LA.” And on “Wild at Heart” she finally plays out her fantasy, “I left Calabasas, escaped all the ashes.” On “Tulsa Jesus Freak” she even dreams of leaving Los Angeles for Arkansas. She lusts after the simple pleasures of “Listening to the White Stripes when they were white-hot” and “just listening to Kings of Leon to the beat,” back when she wasn’t famous. On the album’s opening track, “White Dress” she fantasizes about being a bright eyed nineteen year old waitress in Orlando. Our patron saint of nostalgia, Del Rey finds herself, as she has before, and as we all are now, longing for the good old days, real or imagined. Here her gift for romanticizing the mundane and glamorizing the traumatic shines in what might be her most intimate and precocious collection of songs yet, which explore Del Rey’s ever-more-complicated relationship with fame. She’s an expert in playing this beautiful game of very sad MadLibs, and a decade into her career even Bruce Springsteen is calling her “ simply one of the best songwriters in the country, as we speak.” Enter her seventh studio album, produced by close collaborator, Jack Antonoff, Chemtrails Over the Country Club. You could say Lana del Rey is getting better at singing about old men, old money, and old-timey things- but she’s just never been bad at it.
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