Public Opinion
Shay Anon 12 hours ago
You are a fucking idiot. No wonder the world hates Americans. Acting all superior and shit. Please.
Brooke Robinson · Boss haha at Justin Biebers Bed <3
It didn't help that she delivered a shaky performance during Saturday's broadcast. While she certainly looked glam, she played with her hair a lot and fidgeted--and she sort of whispered the words of her songs. (It was her big debut, so a case of the nerves seems normal.) Immediately following the show, she was ambushed with criticism--everyone from Juliette Lewis to Brian Williams (yes, the news guy!) had something to say. Though show host Daniel Radcliffe stuck up for her saying, "It was unfortunate that people seemed to turn on her so quickly. I think people are making it about things other than the performance...I don't think it warranted anywhere near that reaction."
Take a look at "Video Games":
But there is more to Lana Del Rey than one performance. Here are fun facts about the singer completely and totally unrelated to SNL drama...
1. Her name is Lizzy Grant. Make that Elizabeth Grant, but she goes by Lizzy. The whole Lana Del Rey is a creation by her "people"--they thought the new name would be a better fit with her sound--and have been marketing her as the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra."
2. She's not a Nancy Sinatra fan. In fact, she's trying to shake that label. "As soon as [that term] flew out of [my manager's] mouth, it f--king stuck like glue," she has said. "I spend eight f--king years writing gorgeous songs and someone in a meeting says ‘gangsta Nancy Sinatra’ and that’s that. It’s brutal. I know two of Nancy’s songs but she’s not someone I’ve ever really listened to. I know everything about Frank, of course, because he’s the real singer. It just goes to show how f--king stupid people can be sometimes.” for the record, she defines her style as "Hollywood Sadcore."
3. She's a Gemini. She was born June 21, 1986-- making her astrological sign a Gemini. She spent the first few years of her life living in New York City, then moved upstate to Lake Placid. In her teens, she attended boarding schooling in Connecticut.
4. This is actually her second album (but she's counting it as if it's her first). In 2010, before she was known as Lana, Lizzy Grant put out a full-length studio album titled Lana Del Rey. Her father, who is a millionaire businessman, helped market it and it was available on iTunes, but then her manager yanked so that they could rework her image and she could become Lana Del Rey instead of be Lizzy Grant (which has a tweenie bopper Lizzie McGuire feel.)
5. She hearts Britney Spears. She has cited Britney, Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain as three of her musical influences.
Shes so inspiring :').
She is so perfect and beautiful
BalletAnny 52 minutes ago
Its amazing!! I love the style of her songs ~will you still love me when im no longer young and beautiful...
Kaira Stirling 43 minutes ago
Kaira Stirling 43 minutes ago
Lana Del Rey is amazing! Everyone's so judgemental nowadays. Her voice is amazing!!
so you're mad people like her more now? how is that bad?
2 hours ago
how does she have so many subscribers/views, who is she?
6 hours ago
I FUCKING hate how all these lana fans came out when Young & Beautiful came out...ive been her ride or die since 2011.
7 hours ago
we do not care if the lips lana are true or not it does not bring us anything! this is not the lips that make her music, but her voice! so shut your mouths! Lana is sexy!
HecticStylee
That's seriously unbelievable that such a simple lyrical order which would sound totally ridiculous and banal from mouths of ordinary people, sounds absolutely spectacular from Lana del Rey's lips... words fail me.. that's all I can say..
Respected Opinion
5 Things To Know About Lana Del Rey (Other Than She Was The Controversial Musical Guest On Last Weekend's SNL)
Leading up to her Saturday Night Live debut last weekend, newcomer Lana Del Rey was already facing criticism because she lacks the experience that many of the show's powerhouse musical guests have. And her critics had a point--her debut album hasn't even been released yet (Born to Die is expected Jan. 30)--she's had a more unconventional rise to fame as an Internet sensation.
It didn't help that she delivered a shaky performance during Saturday's broadcast. While she certainly looked glam, she played with her hair a lot and fidgeted--and she sort of whispered the words of her songs. (It was her big debut, so a case of the nerves seems normal.) Immediately following the show, she was ambushed with criticism--everyone from Juliette Lewis to Brian Williams (yes, the news guy!) had something to say. Though show host Daniel Radcliffe stuck up for her saying, "It was unfortunate that people seemed to turn on her so quickly. I think people are making it about things other than the performance...I don't think it warranted anywhere near that reaction."
Take a look at "Video Games":
But there is more to Lana Del Rey than one performance. Here are fun facts about the singer completely and totally unrelated to SNL drama...
1. Her name is Lizzy Grant. Make that Elizabeth Grant, but she goes by Lizzy. The whole Lana Del Rey is a creation by her "people"--they thought the new name would be a better fit with her sound--and have been marketing her as the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra."
2. She's not a Nancy Sinatra fan. In fact, she's trying to shake that label. "As soon as [that term] flew out of [my manager's] mouth, it f--king stuck like glue," she has said. "I spend eight f--king years writing gorgeous songs and someone in a meeting says ‘gangsta Nancy Sinatra’ and that’s that. It’s brutal. I know two of Nancy’s songs but she’s not someone I’ve ever really listened to. I know everything about Frank, of course, because he’s the real singer. It just goes to show how f--king stupid people can be sometimes.” for the record, she defines her style as "Hollywood Sadcore."
3. She's a Gemini. She was born June 21, 1986-- making her astrological sign a Gemini. She spent the first few years of her life living in New York City, then moved upstate to Lake Placid. In her teens, she attended boarding schooling in Connecticut.
4. This is actually her second album (but she's counting it as if it's her first). In 2010, before she was known as Lana, Lizzy Grant put out a full-length studio album titled Lana Del Rey. Her father, who is a millionaire businessman, helped market it and it was available on iTunes, but then her manager yanked so that they could rework her image and she could become Lana Del Rey instead of be Lizzy Grant (which has a tweenie bopper Lizzie McGuire feel.)
5. She hearts Britney Spears. She has cited Britney, Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain as three of her musical influences.
10 February 2012
Bibby Sowray
Born in New York in 1986, her birth name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
- She was raised in Lake Placid, a quiet village outside of New York State. Aged 15, she was sent to boarding school in Connecticut, before moving to New York City when she was 18 to study metaphysics at Fordham University - "that was when my musical experience began. I kind of found people for myself," she told Vogue of the time.
- 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. "I was always singing, but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously," she told us. "When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it."
- Aged 20, she signed a record contract for $10,000 and moved into a trailer park outside of the city. The album she recorded was later shelved, causing her to shift her focus. Instead, she began to work in community service. "Homeless outreach, drug and alcohol rehabilitation - that's been my life for the past five years," she told Vogue in 2012.
- She decided to rebrand herself as Lana Del Rey and in October 2011, she signed a joint record deal with Interscope Records and Polydor.
- Del Rey released the song Video Games online in June 2011, following it up with an accompanying video on YouTube in August. "I just put that song online a few months ago because it was my favourite. To be honest, it wasn't going to be the single but people have really responded to it. I get very sad when I play that song. I still cry sometimes when I sing it," she told the Observer in 2011.
- Video Games accumulated in excess of 20 million YouTube views in its first 5 months of upload.
- Her debut album Born To Die was released in January 2012. It charted at number one on the Official UK Album Chart.
- She has described her unique look - auburn hair in Veronica Lake waves, full lips and permanently artistic talons - as "Gangster Nancy Sinatra" and "Lolita got lost in the hood".
- Of her stage name, she has told us: "I wanted a name I could shape the music toward. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue."
- She appeared on the cover of the March 2012 issue of British Vogue. Alexandra Shulman said in her editor's letter: "I am one of the many thousands of people enraptured by the throaty, seductive voice of Lana Del Rey... Once I had seen Lana play at a small event in London, I was convinced that she would be a great Vogue cover girl, even though she is probably one of the newest stars in her field that the magazine has ever had on the cover."
- Del Rey said in the accompanying interview that she may not release a second album, stating: "Oh, I don't think I'll write another record. What would I say? I feel like everything I wanted to say, I've already said."
