Her first single, Video Games, went viral and became an underground sensation, especially since it had such an authentic vibe to it. When she broke through with the baroque pop song, Video Games in 2011, her critics were quick to point out that she does in fact come from a wealthy background, which she has since hit back on. Viral Video (Games)Ĭhanging her name to the more exotic sounding, Lana Del Rey, which is said to have reminded her of the glamour of the seaside, she scored a record deal and used the money to buy a home in a trailer park. This was around the same time that Lady Gaga was starting out, and funnily enough, they even performed together from time to time. She returned to the city in 2006 to launch her music career, where she took a while to find her footing by singing in bars under the names Lizzy Grant and May Jailer. Around the time that she was 18, she was sent to boarding school in Connecticut, which was partially due to her struggle with alcoholism from which she luckily recovered. Lana Del Rey was born as Elizabeth Grant in New York City in 1985 and was later raised in Upstate New York. This Friday, Lana Del Rey will grace the stage at the Ziggo Dome, which is a good reason to get to the bottom of it. Why have the diehard critics changed their minds? Her art and way of being has brought on a lot of criticism, but her most recent album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, has cut her some slack and been much more positive. Did she really just sing that? Does she even mean what she sings? To what extent is her rebellious image authentic? People have wondered this over the past 10 years while listening to her melancholic songs and watching her nostalgic videoclips.

And then she talks as an artist again, Since she became famous over that aesthetic, she kept doing similar things to the first album because she didn't know she had to decide between keep doing what the audience wanted or live her own life.Lana Del Rey’s lyrics raise just as many questions as they raise eyebrows.

I want to get off but I keep riding the ride' 'Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind

Now with the Song 'Ride', but there's really a phrase of 'Ride' to prove It: And She comes up again with Born To Die / Paradise references,.' My birds of Paradise' can be a metaphor to 'my songs of Paradise (álbum).All of those last records are softer than the first ones and 'Get Free' is the last song in Lust for Life, so it makes sense to me) ROCKWELL, CHEMTRAILS O.T.C.C, BLUE BANISTERS. (She's saying that this 'manifesto' will make her upcoming records a little bit softer, and It did happened, look at The songs in : NORMAL F. (This lyrics reminds me the song Dark Paradise).In GET FREE she's saying Goodbye to that ERA.Wich is the one that gave her the Fame and is wich everybody expected her to continue writing and singing about. (That life of Alcohol, Old Men type of thing) She's saying that She doesn't live that past life anymore.

To me this song is a scream of liberty from Lana to the mainstream industry and her fans ( The Born To Die & Paradise stans).To play someone's game or to live my own life and now I do I never really notice that I had to decide

I want to get off but I keep riding the ride Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind

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