![]() ![]() That being said, Born to Die’s actual musical arrangements are not very hip-hop and are pretty much as retro as they’ve been made out to be: outsize orchestrations, sweeping melodies, an endless sense of something hanging in the air. “You were sort of punk rock, I grew up on hip-hop,” she sings to a lover on “Blue Jeans” from Born to Die, a debut album whose verbal density and content is clearly informed by a close study of rap lyrics - other phrases on “Blue Jeans” include “fresh to death,” “chasing paper,” caught up in the game,” and “ride or die.” Born to Die’s excellence is based, in no small part, on Lana’s willingness to meet hip-hop on its own terms while maintaining her own sense of image and proportion. Lana Del Rey has been in a relationship with Kassidy frontman Barrie-James O’Neill since August 2011.For all the talk of her repurposing a ’40s and ’50s aesthetic, Lana Del Rey has always kept abreast of the music of the moment, and what the music of the moment happens to be, more and more and more, is rap. Lana Del Rey is best known for her songs “Young And Beautiful,” “Summertime Sadness” and “Born To Die.” Her next record Lust for Life is due later in 2017. She then followed it up with Ultraviolence (2014) and Honeymoon (2015). Her debut album Born To Die was released in January 2012, and it reached number one on the UK Album Chart. It accumulated over 20 million views in its first five months of upload. Lana released the song “Video Games” online in June 2011, following it up with an accompanying video on YouTube in August. She rebranded herself as Lana Del Rey and in October 2011, she signed a joint record deal with Interscope Records and Polydor. ![]() ![]() Instead, she began to work in community service. However, the album she recorded was later shelved, causing her to shift her focus. At 20, she signed a record deal for $10,000 and moved into a trailer park outside of the city. She began performing in clubs around the city under various names, including her birth name Lizzy Grant, as well as Sparkle Rope Jump Queen and Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena. ![]() At age 15, she attended boarding school in Connecticut, before moving to New York City when she was 18 to study metaphysics at Fordham University. Lana Del Rey (born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter. ![]()
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