Fair enough.īut either way, the performance didn’t seem to dent Lana’s commercial success. Seeming a bit awkward on stage whilst not hitting quite all the notes, it led Entertainment Weekly to brand the Lana “the worst SNL musical guest of all time”, whilst Lana herself told Rolling Stone she thought she “looked beautiful and sang fine”.
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“I’m not afraid to say / That I’d die without him / Who else is gonna put up with me this way?” laments on ‘Off To The Races’ before she’s just as cheerful on ‘Dark Paradise’, singing “I wish I was dead / No-one compares to you”.Ī few days before the release of ‘Born To Die’, Lana made her first major live TV appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing ‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Video Games’ in a performance that was widely criticised. With glossy production, it’s an album drenched in the artifice of Old Hollywood, with sex, drugs, manicures and swimming pools on side and Lana playing the character of a ‘damsel in distress’ on the other, often pining over a powerful man who always seems emotionally distant. Skip forward to January 2012 then and we see the release of Lana’s debut album ‘Born To Die’. But she wanted to create this thing, Lana Del Rey.” She was this beautiful young songwriter named Lizzy Grant, it was a cool name. That was her name, she cooked that up, I thought it was a little wack. …She wanted to be known as Lana Del Rey pretty early on. She’s very headstrong and knows what she wants. The owner of Lana’s early label, 5 Points, David Nichtern wasn’t so sure, telling MTV in 2012: “I laugh pretty hard when someone said she was put into an image.
‘Who really is Lana Del Rey?!’ they seemed to ask, ‘and what other explanation could there possibly be for such a sudden change of image, other than that it was some (older, more powerful) man’s idea?’
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The seemingly quick change of her image and viral pick-up of her music alongside rumours that her career was being bankrolled by her dad’s money and shaped by a series of busybody music managers keen to shape her image to make the most profit, meant she drew her critics. That was the way that I wished it was – the melody sounds so compelling and heavenly because I wanted it to be that way.”īut just like the song’s dissecting of the difference between artifice and reality, all weren’t convinced by the quick transition from Lizzy Grant to Lana Del Rey. But then the chorus, ‘Heaven is a place on earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do’ wasn’t like that. That was what happened, you know? He’d come home and I’d see him. “‘Swinging in the backyard, pull up in your fast car, whistling my name’.
“The verse was about the way things were with one person, and the chorus was the way that I wished things had really been with another person, who I thought about for a long time,” Lana told Dazed about the track in 2011.
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Legend has it, after moving to her sister’s apartment in Manhattan, Lana recorded several takes of her singing the song, gazing into her MacBook camera, and spliced the footage with archive clips she found online of everything from skateboarding contests, old school clips of paparazzi and the Hollywood sign and cartoon apocalyptic landscapes, before uploading the footage and watching it quickly go viral. Fast forward a little over a year and Lizzy, now known as Lana Del Rey, first offered a glimpse of her melancholic “Hollywood sadcore” in the form of ‘Video Games’.
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