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  • Lana Del Rey was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, and for years she performed under names that almost nobody remembers. One of them was Sparkle Jump Rope Queen. Another was May Jailer. These were the stage identities of a young American singer-songwriter who played clubs for a small underground scene. In 2023, Rolling Stone placed her at number 175 on its list of the 200 greatest singers of all time. Why did she keep changing her name? How did a moody, nostalgic sound come to reshape what pop music was reaching for? And what did it cost her to be heard?

  • Elizabeth Grant was born in Manhattan on the 21st of June 1985. Her father, Robert England Grant Jr., was a copywriter at Grey Global Group, and her mother, Patricia, was an account executive there. When Elizabeth was a year old, the family moved to Lake Placid, New York. Her father later became a domain investor, and her mother worked as a schoolteacher. She grew up Catholic, attended St. Agnes School, and sang as the cantor in her church choir.

    Kent School, an Episcopal boarding school in Kent, Connecticut, took her in when she was 14 or 15. Her parents sent her there to get sober. Alcohol and drugs had become a problem in her teens, and the whole family, including Grant herself, was worried. Her uncle, an admissions officer at the school, secured her financial aid. She later left school for rehab and says she has been sober since 2003.

    A fixation on mortality colored those years. As a small child she was floored to realize that her mother, her father and everyone she knew would die, and that she would too. She said she 'had a sort of a philosophical crisis.' She also had trouble making friends through her teens and early adult years.

    A year on Long Island with her aunt and uncle turned her toward music. She worked as a waitress, and her uncle taught her to play guitar. Soon she believed she 'could probably write a million songs with those six chords.' She began writing and playing nightclubs around New York under assorted names, including Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena.

    State University of New York at Geneseo came first, but she left to take a gap year. In the fall of 2004, at age 19, she enrolled at Fordham University in the Bronx. She majored in philosophy with an emphasis on metaphysics. She said the subject bridged the gap between God and science, and she hoped technology might help people find out where they came from and why.

    In the spring of 2005, still a student, she registered a seven-track extended play with the United States Copyright Office. The application listed the title Rock Me Stable, with Young Like Me also named. A second extended play, From the End, was recorded under the name May Jailer. Between 2005 and 2006 she also recorded an acoustic album, Sirens, which reached the internet through a leak in mid-2012.

    The Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition in 2006 gave her a first public performance and a first industry contact. There she met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records, an independent label owned by David Nichtern. In 2007, while a senior at Fordham, she sent the label an acoustic demo tape called No Kung Fu. The label offered her a $10,000 recording contract. She spent the money moving to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey, and began working with producer David Kahne.

    Nichtern remembered that the plan was to have a record ready so she could tour right after graduation. Instead, he said, 'she morphed.' He recalled a young woman with straight blonde hair and a 'plunky little acoustic guitar,' a little dark but very intelligent, who kept evolving.

    In 2008, Fordham awarded her a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. She then released a three-track extended play, Kill Kill, as Lizzy Grant, with production by Kahne. She said he asked to work with her only a day after hearing her demo. She described him as a producer with integrity who wanted to make music that was not just pop.

    Miami gave her the name Lana Del Rey. She was visiting the city often and speaking Spanish with friends from Cuba, and the name reminded them of seaside glamour. She wanted a name she could shape her music toward, and she loved how it sounded coming off the tip of the tongue. It also nodded to the actress Lana Turner and to the Ford Del Rey sedan, produced and sold in Brazil in the 1980s.

    Her self-titled debut album appeared in January 2010 under the spelling Lana Del Ray. Her father helped with the marketing. The album sold on iTunes only briefly and was withdrawn in April 2010. Kahne and Nichtern said she bought the rights back from 5 Points because she wanted the record out of circulation. They noted that this echoed rumors the move was a calculated strategy.

    Three months after the album's release, she met her managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millett. They helped her leave 5 Points, where in her opinion nothing was happening. She moved to London and lived with Mawson for a few years. On the 1st of September 2010, Mando Diao featured her in its MTV Unplugged concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin. That year she also acted in a short film, Poolside, made with several friends.

  • A webcam and a pile of vintage footage launched the breakthrough in 2011. Del Rey uploaded self-made videos for 'Video Games' and 'Blue Jeans' to YouTube, mixing old film clips with shots of herself singing at the camera. The 'Video Games' video became a viral sensation, and Stranger Records signed her to release the song as her debut single. She told The Observer that she had posted it a few months earlier simply because it was her favorite. It was not supposed to be the single, she said, but people responded.

    October 2011 brought a Q award for 'Next Big Thing.' That same month she signed a joint deal with Interscope Records and Polydor to release her second studio album, Born to Die. In 2012 the song 'Video Games' earned her an Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song.

    Saturday Night Live on the 14th of January 2012 was a rougher night. She performed two songs from the album, and many critics and viewers judged the performance uneven and vocally shaky. She had defended her place on the show beforehand. She said she was a good musician, and that SNL creator Lorne Michaels knew 'it's not a fluke decision.'

    Born to Die arrived worldwide on the 31st of January 2012. It charted at number one in 11 countries and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, although critics at the time were divided. That week she announced that she had bought back the rights to her 2010 debut and planned to re-release it that summer. Her former label and David Kahne disputed the timing, saying the purchase had happened when she and the label parted ways.

    The sales kept coming. Born to Die sold 3.4 million copies in 2012, which made it the fifth-best-selling album of that year. By the 3rd of February 2024 it had spent 520 weeks, or ten years, on the Billboard 200. That made Del Rey the second woman to reach the milestone. Only Adele had done it before her.

    Paradise followed on the 12th of November 2012, both as a standalone release and inside Born to Die: The Paradise Edition, which added eight tracks. It debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 with 67,000 copies sold in its first week. It was later nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 56th Grammy Awards. In November 2012 she won Best Alternative performer at the MTV Europe Music Awards. In February 2013 she won International Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards, and she also took two Echo Awards.

    Jaguar chose her to help unveil its F-Type at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012, and her song 'Burning Desire' appeared in a promotional short film for the car. Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's global brand director, said she had 'a unique blend of authenticity and modernity.' That same month, H&M used her cover of 'Blue Velvet' in its autumn campaign, and she modeled in its print advertising.

    A remix delivered her first American top-ten hit. On the 2nd of July 2013, a Cedric Gervais remix of 'Summertime Sadness' was sent to radio. The sleeper hit reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The remix won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

  • Hollywood sadcore was how some critics first described the music of Lana Del Rey. Other labels followed, including alt-pop, dream pop, baroque pop, indie pop and psychedelic rock, with traces of trip hop, hip hop, lo-fi and trap. Writers kept returning to the cinematic sound and to the persistent theme of 1950s and 1960s Americana. She explained her bond with the past this way: 'I wasn't even born in the '50s but I feel like I was there.'

    AllMusic heard in Born to Die a sultry, overstated orchestral pop with heavy doses of Twin Peaks atmosphere. Ultraviolence changed the picture. Released on the 13th of June 2014 with production by Dan Auerbach, it debuted at number one in 12 countries. It sold 880,000 copies worldwide in its first week. It leaned on guitars in a psychedelic, desert-rock style, and it was recorded live in single takes with no Pro Tools vocal editing. She called it more stripped down but still cinematic and dark.

    Critics began to praise her voice after Ultraviolence. They described a contralto range of more than three octaves, moving from a girlish timbre in the high notes to jazzy ornaments in the lower register. Her voice has been called smoky and gravelly, and reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe. Los Angeles Times critic Mikael Wood compared it on Honeymoon to the voices of Julee Cruise and Eartha Kitt.

    The low register was partly a choice. Around Born to Die, she said, people were not taking her seriously, so she lowered her voice in the belief that it would help her stand out. She added that because of the way she looked, she needed something to ground the project. Otherwise, she thought, people would assume she was an airhead singer.

    Studio habits created a problem on stage. She is known for layering her vocals, which is hard to recreate live, especially without backing singers to fill out the sound. Stage fright was also blamed for her struggles as a performer. By 2014, journalists noted more confidence. Billboard called the Coachella debut of 'West Coast' a 'star-making performance.'

    Coachella in April 2024 marked her return to performing, with a headlining slot. She then announced her first solo headlining stadium concert, at Fenway Park in Boston on the 20th of June. The show sold out. Some fans criticized it for going ahead despite a thunderstorm delay, and it was shortened to meet local sound curfew ordinances. That summer she played European festivals including Primavera Sound in Spain and the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England, for 10 shows on the 2024 leg.

    A six-date 2025 tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland ran from the 23rd of June to the 4th of July. Every show was in a stadium. It included her debut performances at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Hampden Park in Glasgow, Anfield in Liverpool and Aviva Stadium in Dublin, plus two shows at Wembley Stadium in London. Addison Rae opened the London dates.

  • Tropico was a musical short film that Del Rey wrote and starred in, shot in June 2013 and paired with tracks from Paradise. Anthony Mandler directed it. She screened it on the 4th of December 2013 at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, and the soundtrack reached digital outlets two days later.

    Her homemade clips had set the template for her screen identity. In the early days she juxtaposed webcam footage of herself with vintage home videos and films. Once the success arrived, she followed with high-budget videos for 'Born to Die' and 'National Anthem' in 2012 and 'Young and Beautiful' in 2013. Her early videos featured personas she called 'bad girl' and 'gangster Nancy Sinatra.' Clips for 'Summer Wine,' 'Carmen' and 'Summertime Sadness' were made on far lower budgets and kept more of the earlier homemade look.

    The Honeymoon era was almost entirely film noir-influenced, professionally shot work. Homemade videos for 'Pretty When You Cry' and 'Honeymoon' went unreleased because she thought they were 'too boring.' For Norman Fucking Rockwell!, her sister Chuck Grant directed three videos in the homemade format. Rich Lee directed two more in a vintage but futuristic style, similar to the Lust for Life videos he had made.

    'Young and Beautiful' came in May 2013, written for the film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. It peaked at 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The label pulled it from contemporary hit radio prematurely, preferring to push a different song. It was nominated for a Grammy Award, for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and for a Critics' Choice Award.

    A cover of 'Once Upon a Dream' for the dark fantasy film Maleficent was released on the 26th of January 2014. Later that year she contributed 'Big Eyes' and 'I Can Fly' to Tim Burton's biographical film Big Eyes, and the title song earned a Golden Globe nomination. In 2019 she joined Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus on 'Don't Call Me Angel,' lead single of the Charlie's Angels soundtrack. It was certified Gold in several countries.

    Guillermo del Toro received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the 6th of August 2019, and Del Rey presented it. She then released a cover of 'Season of the Witch' for his film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. In 2015 she had executive produced Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston, a short film about the singer-songwriter, covering his song 'Some Things Last a Long Time.' On the 21st of January 2022, her song 'Watercolor Eyes' premiered on an episode of Euphoria. On the 16th of April 2026 she released 'First Light,' the title song for the James Bond video game 007: First Light, made with veteran Bond composer David Arnold.

    Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass was her 2020 collection of poetry and photography. Jack Antonoff produced the audiobook, which came out on the 28th of July, and the physical book followed on the 29th of September. In May 2020 she announced a second book, Behind the Iron Gates - Insights from the Institution, first planned for March 2021.

    October 2022 brought a different kind of news. On the 19th of October, she posted Instagram videos revealing that her car had been burgled a few months earlier. Thieves took a backpack holding a laptop, hard drives and three camcorders. They gained access to unfinished songs, two years of family video footage and the 200-page manuscript of the second book. She erased the laptop remotely, but it held the only working copy of the manuscript. 'Despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come,' she said.

  • Lust for Life, released on the 21st of July 2017, was the first album on which Del Rey featured other artists. Guests included Stevie Nicks, Sean Ono Lennon, the Weeknd, A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti. Before its release she said, 'I made my first 4 albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed.' It became her third number-one album in the United Kingdom and second in the United States. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 60th Grammy Awards.

    Norman Fucking Rockwell! followed on the 30th of August 2019. It was the first album she made with Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote and produced much of it. According to Metacritic, it is the best-reviewed album of her career. NME gave it five stars out of five, and Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone called it a 'pop classic.' It earned Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and, for its title track, Song of the Year. Rolling Stone later placed it among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

    Chemtrails over the Country Club arrived on the 19th of March 2021 to critical acclaim. It was first slated for 2020 under the title White Hot Forever, but a delay in vinyl manufacturing pushed it back. Antonoff and Del Rey produced most of it. Blue Banisters followed on the 22nd of October 2021.

    Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd reached listeners on the 24th of March 2023. In the Interview magazine cover story for March 2023, photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen and conducted by Billie Eilish, she said some songs on it were 'super long and wordy.' The singles 'A&W' and 'The Grants' arrived on the 14th of February and the 14th of March. Rolling Stone later named 'A&W' one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. On the 10th of November 2023 she earned five Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year for the album and Song of the Year for 'A&W.' Another came for 'Candy Necklace,' with Jon Batiste.

    'Say Yes to Heaven' had been waiting since November 2013, when she wrote and recorded it for Ultraviolence and then cut it. Parts leaked on the 15th of August 2016 and were put on Spotify by others impersonating her. She finally released it as a single on the 19th of May 2023, and it became a Billboard Global 200 top-20 hit.

    The Weeknd became a frequent collaborator. On the 28th of August 2015, his album Beauty Behind the Madness came out with 'Prisoner,' which she co-wrote and sang on. On his 2016 album Starboy, she provided backing vocals on 'Party Monster,' which she co-wrote, and lead vocals on 'Stargirl Interlude.' 'Party Monster' reached the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double-platinum in the United States. In 2025 they teamed up again on 'The Abyss,' from his album Hurry Up Tomorrow.

    Taylor Swift's Midnights, released on the 21st of October 2022, included 'Snow on the Beach,' written by Swift, Del Rey and Antonoff. It debuted at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, Del Rey's highest-peaking entry on that chart. She had only sung backing vocals, so fans asked for her to have a verse. On the 26th of May 2023, Swift answered with a remix on the Til Dawn edition of Midnights featuring 'more' Lana Del Rey.

    On the 31st of January 2024, at a Billboard pre-Grammy event, Del Rey announced a tenth studio album. It was first titled Lasso, due in September 2024, then The Right Person Will Stay, due in May 2025. She finally confirmed the title Stove, for release in January 2026, and it is set to be her first country album. 'Henry, Come On' and 'Bluebird,' both co-written with Luke Laird and produced alongside Drew Erickson, preceded it.

  • Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday sit near the top of the mid-twentieth-century voices that Del Rey cites. She also names Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bobby Vinton, The Crystals, Brian Wilson, Nancy Sinatra and Miles Davis, along with torch singers Julie London and Julee Cruise. In 2012 she told BBC radio presenter Jo Whiley that she liked 'the masters of every genre,' naming Nirvana, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley.

    Bruce Springsteen, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and the Eagles come from a later generation of influences. Leonard Cohen and Joan Baez represent the folk side, and she has looked up to Cat Power, Courtney Love, Eminem and Amy Winehouse. The soundtrack to American Beauty partly inspired Born to Die.

    Poetry runs through her lyrics. She credits Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg as instrumental, and the line 'nothing gold can stay' in 'Venice Bitch' is the title of a Robert Frost poem. She has also named the directors David Lynch and Federico Fellini, the painters Mark Ryden and Pablo Picasso, and the actress Lauren Bacall. The novel Lolita, and the films made from it in 1962 and 1997, fascinated her. She wore Lolita fashion and wrote a song of the same name, a bonus track on some editions of Born to Die.

    Billboard credited Born to Die as one of the main catalysts for pop's mid-2010s shift from brash EDM to a moodier, hip-hop-inflected palette. In 2019 it included 'Born to Die' among the 100 songs that defined the 2010s. It added that the song marked a sonic shift that changed the pop landscape.

    Billie Eilish, Finneas, Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift are among the many artists who have named Del Rey as an influence. Older stars have praised her too, including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Elton John, Courtney Love, the director David Lynch and the director John Waters.

    The Washington Post listed Del Rey as the only musician on its Decade of Influence list. Pitchfork named her one of the greatest living songwriters of the United States. The Guardian called her 'pure female haze' a hallmark of the defiant female pop stars to come. In 2023, Rolling Stone UK named her the greatest American songwriter of the 21st century. Variety honored her at its Hitmakers Awards.

    Her YouTube and Vevo pages have combined views of over seven and a half billion. In 2022, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University launched a fall course titled 'Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey.'

  • The Guardian ran a piece by Paul Harris a week before Born to Die appeared, comparing the Lizzy Grant of 2008 with the Lana Del Rey of 2012. Harris noted that the backlash was arriving before her first major-label album had even been released. He tied it to a cultural obsession with authenticity.

    Tony Simon, a producer who had worked with her in 2009, rejected the claim that she was a creation of the pop machine. He said the roots of it all were firmly inside Lizzy Grant. Del Rey put it more bluntly: 'Never had a persona. Never needed one. Never will.' In a 2017 interview she looked back at Born to Die as the work of a nervous artist whose every move on the road to a first record had been guesswork.

    The video for 'Ride' premiered at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica on the 10th of October 2012. Some critics panned it as allegedly pro-prostitution and antifeminist, because she played a prostitute in a biker gang.

    Feminism became a recurring flashpoint. In 2014 she said the issue was 'just not an interesting concept' to her, and that she was more interested in SpaceX and Tesla. By 2017 she told Pitchfork that things had shifted culturally, and that women started to feel less safe once the Trump administration began. After the Harvey Weinstein cases, she voiced support for the Me Too movement.

    A 2017 Instagram post drew criticism after she defended herself against accusations of glamorizing abuse by pointing to other female artists. In May 2020 she attracted more criticism for briefly posting a video of looters during the George Floyd protests. In November 2020 she honored Joe Biden's election by covering 'On Eagles' Wings.'

    In January 2018, Del Rey announced a lawsuit against Radiohead over alleged similarities between their song 'Creep' and her song 'Get Free.' Representatives of the band's publisher denied it. That summer, performing at Lollapalooza in Brazil, she said the matter was 'over.'

    On the 20th of July 2023, she was spotted pouring coffee at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama, in full uniform with a 'Lana' name tag. She explained that after a few hours the servers asked if she wanted a shirt, and she said yes. Then the manager asked her to serve a regular customer.

    August 2019 produced 'Looking for America,' which she wrote and recorded spontaneously within a week of the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. All proceeds went to relief funds for victims of those shootings and the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting of the 28th of July 2019. In October 2020 she donated $350,000 from sales of Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass to DigDeep, a Los Angeles non-profit founded by George McGraw in 2014. DigDeep provides electric-pumped water to remote families in the Navajo Nation.

    In the early 2000s, she worked at a homeless shelter and helped build houses at Navajo Nation. In December 2020 she released a cover of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' to benefit charities supported by the Liverpool F.C. Foundation. She performed the club's anthem in the documentary The End of the Storm. She is a fan of the club and has attended matches at Anfield.

    The Quietus interviewed her in 2011, and she said she believes in God because of how much trouble she found in New York. She described her approach to religion as like her approach to music: take what she wants and leave the rest. On her 2023 album she featured the megachurch pastor Judah Smith, and she has been involved with his church, Churchome.

    On the 26th of September 2024, Del Rey married Jeremy Dufrene, a tour boat captain in Des Allemands, Louisiana. Smith officiated. The couple had first met in 2019, when she took a tour with him.

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Common questions

Who is Lana Del Rey?

Lana Del Rey is an American singer-songwriter born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on the 21st of June 1985 in Manhattan. Her music is known for a melancholic, cinematic take on glamor, romance and 1950s-1970s Americana.

What is Lana Del Rey's real name?

Lana Del Rey's real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. Before adopting her current stage name she also performed as Lizzy Grant, May Jailer and Sparkle Jump Rope Queen.

How did Lana Del Rey become famous?

Lana Del Rey became famous in 2011 when her self-made YouTube video for 'Video Games' went viral. It led to a joint deal with Interscope Records and Polydor and the release of her album Born to Die on the 31st of January 2012.

How did Lana Del Rey choose her stage name?

Lana Del Rey chose her stage name after visiting Miami and speaking Spanish with friends from Cuba, who felt it recalled seaside glamour. The name was also inspired by the actress Lana Turner and the Ford Del Rey sedan sold in Brazil in the 1980s.

How long has Lana Del Rey's Born to Die stayed on the Billboard 200?

As of the 3rd of February 2024, Born to Die had spent 520 weeks, or ten years, on the Billboard 200. That made Lana Del Rey the second woman to reach that milestone, after Adele.

Who did Lana Del Rey marry?

Lana Del Rey married Jeremy Dufrene, a tour boat captain from Des Allemands, Louisiana, on the 26th of September 2024. They first met in 2019 when she took a tour with him.

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  73. 176NewsLana Del Rey Says She's Working on a MusicalSam Sodomsky — February 7, 2018
  74. 181Lana Del Rey Loses Music, Manuscript in a RobberyBethy Squires — October 19, 2022
  75. 182MagazineLana Del Rey Preps LP of Standards, Covers 'You'll Never Walk Alone'Angie Martoccio — November 4, 2020
  76. 183The End of the Storm soundtrack to benefit LFC FoundationLiverpool Football Club — November 13, 2020
  77. 184PHOTOS: Lana Del Rey at AnfieldSteve Hunter — Liverpool Football Club — March 10, 2013
  78. 189Who is Lana Del Rey?Jack Antonoff — September 8, 2021
  79. 190MagazineLana Del Rey Returns With Tender New Song 'Let Me Love You Like a Woman'Brittany Spanos et al. — October 16, 2020
  80. 194Lana Del Rey Announces New Album 'Rock Candy Sweet'Robin Murray — March 20, 2021
  81. 195Lana Del Rey Announces New Album Rock Candy SweetAllison Hussey — March 20, 2021
  82. 199Lana Del Rey Shares New Song "Watercolor Eyes": ListenMadison Bloom — January 21, 2022
  83. 201MagazineTaylor Swift Lets Us Into Her Darkest Dreams On 'Midnights'Brittany Spanos — October 21, 2022
  84. 202MidnightsTaylor Swift — October 21, 2022
  85. 204Lana Del Rey Announces New Album, Shares New SongMatthew Strauss et al. — December 7, 2022
  86. 205Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish Fall in LoveCaitlin Lent — February 14, 2023
  87. 206Lana Del Rey Shares Beautiful New Song 'A&W'Robin Murray — February 14, 2023
  88. 216MagazineLana Del Rey Announces New Album 'Lasso'Lars Brandle — February 1, 2024
  89. 234MagazineListen to Lana Del Rey and Zach Bryan duet on new track "Lies"Laura Molloy — October 16, 2026
  90. 235MagazineSongs That Defined the Decade: Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die'Alexa Shouneyia — November 21, 2019
  91. 238Newest Lana Del Rey Screams Its Way Into Broken HeartsRayne Fisher-Quann — October 23, 2022
  92. 244Lana Del Rey 'Honeymoon' album reviewNick Levine — September 17, 2015
  93. 245UltraviolenceJune 16, 2014
  94. 247Madonna's Rebel Heart: A Track By Track ReviewAmy Pettifer — February 25, 2015
  95. 248Is Lana Del Rey About to Drop New Music?Will Rosebury — Complex
  96. 250MagazineBorn To Die – Album ReviewsRob Sheffield — January 30, 2012
  97. 251Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward VegasNitsuh Abebe — January 25, 2012
  98. 252Lana Del Rey: Born To Die: Music ReviewEvan Rytlewski — January 31, 2012
  99. 253Lana Del Rey's Feminist ProblemPaul Rice — February 8, 2012
  100. 258MagazineLana Del Rey's Image on "Born to Die"February 6, 2012
  101. 259Lana Del Rey's "Ride": Listen to the Dreamy SingleSam Lansky — September 25, 2012
  102. 268The Saddest HoneymoonSeptember 19, 2015
  103. 269What you see vs. what you getAndy Bates — November 4, 2008
  104. 270NewsLana Del Rey – pass notes No 3,256September 30, 2012
  105. 271Lizzy Grant, 2008Brea Tremblay
  106. 272Listen to Lana Del Rey's "You Must Love Me" coverDavid Renshaw — March 5, 2018
  107. 273MagazineShades of Cool: 12 of Lana Del Rey's Biggest InfluencesRolling Stone staff — July 16, 2014
  108. 274Listen To Lana Del Rey's New Single 'Honeymoon'Oliver Whitney — July 14, 2015
  109. 276Interview with Lana Del ReyJo Whiley — BBC Radio 2. BBC — February 2, 2012
  110. 278Magazine18 Things You Learn After Two Long Days With Lana Del ReyBrian Hiatt — July 24, 2014
  111. 279Lana Del Rey: 'Britney inspires me'Lewis Corner — February 2, 2012
  112. 286Lana Del Rey – Born To Die, ReviewMelody Oei — MSN. Microsoft Corporation — February 23, 2012
  113. 287Lana Del Rey Born To Die ReviewSal Cinquemani — January 25, 2012
  114. 288Born to Try, but Sometimes Trying isn't Good EnoughTom Da Silva — Read the Mike — February 18, 2012
  115. 292Lana Del Rey Redeems Herself By Performing Entire LP LiveThat Grape Juice — April 22, 2012
  116. 295Lana Del Rey: UltraviolenceRyan Lathan — June 16, 2014
  117. 300Lana Del Rey: People Didn't Take Me SeriouslyHolly Firth — Giant Digital
  118. 302How Lana Del Rey Found Internet Fame on YouTube in 2011Richard MacManus — January 30, 2025
  119. 303Book21st Century Media and Female Mental Health: Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl CultureFredrika Thelandersson — Springer Nature — October 22, 2022
  120. 306Lana Del Rey's Persona Evolution in 7 VideosJudy Berman — June 15, 2017
  121. 312The Imagination of Lana Del ReySeptember 30, 2011
  122. 313Deconstructing Lana Del ReyJanuary 30, 2012
  123. 315Lana Del Rey Says She Never Had a Persona. Really?Spencer Kornhaber — September 15, 2019
  124. 318NewsFinding Her Future Looking to the PastJon Pareles — June 12, 2014
  125. 323MagazineA Timeline of Lana Del Rey's Biggest ControversiesHeran Mamo — May 21, 2020
  126. 327NewsLana Del Rey clarifies comments around Donald Trump, accuses music media of taking quotes 'out of context'Rachel Brodsky — Independent Print Limited — January 13, 2021
  127. 335Lana Del Rey Criticized for album artJenny Ryu et al. — January 11, 2021
  128. 338FAQ
  129. 347BookLook at Me!Jonathan Reiss — Hachette Books — October 9, 2018
  130. 351Beabadoobee Channels Her Inner Lizzy GrantPaolo Ragusa — May 2, 2022
  131. 354NewsBØRNS on songwriting, touring and Lana Del ReyNikki Escalante — February 27, 2018
  132. 356NewsZella Day's Where Does The Devil Hide: ReviewedJacob Webb — September 28, 2020
  133. 364VideoTaylor Swift and Lana Del Rey InterviewiHeartRadio — March 14, 2025
  134. 365Instagram postMay 2025
  135. 366NewsEthel Cain's Preacher's Daughter reviewBen Tipple — May 13, 2022
  136. 370MagazineLana Del Rey talks Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, critics, Waffle HouseMikey O'Connell — September 20, 2023
  137. 372Conan Gray on Becoming the Voice of Gen ZAna Rosi — March 23, 2020
  138. 379NewsLana Del Rey is realChris Richards — October 24, 2019
  139. 380Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! Album ReviewJenn Pelly — September 3, 2019
  140. 381New rules: the destruction of the female pop role modelLaura Snapes — November 25, 2019
  141. 385MagazineA Lana Del Rey Course Launched at NYU's Clive Davis InstituteRania Aniftos — September 20, 2022
  142. 389NewsAll About Lana Del Rey's Husband, Jeremy DufreneAimée Lutkin — September 27, 2024
  143. 390NewsLana Del Rey Married a Normie. Other Celebrities Have Too.Alexandra Petri — October 23, 2024
  144. 392Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del ReyJohn Calvert — October 4, 2011

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