Lana del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

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There's a line of the demo version of This Is What Makes Us Girls if I remember correctly (I don't have my booklet nearby and can't find a scan so I'm not sure). Carras, Christi. "Music | Lana Del Rey makes spoken-word album as 'reparation' to Native Americans". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on March 17, 2020 . Retrieved January 4, 2020– via Los Angeles Times. At age 18, Lana began performing in clubs around Brooklyn, NY under various monikers including Lizzy Grant, May Jailer, and Sparkle Jump Rope Queen. Around the same time, she began attending Fordham University in The Bronx, where she majored in philosophy with a specific focus on metaphysics.

A visual artist as well as performer, Del Rey has released a number of music videos, including a short music film that she wrote, directed and starred in, titled Tropico. The piece features dark undertones and haunting scenes of vintage technicolor. Many fans speculate that the song is about Lana Del Rey's long-term relationship with her ex-boyfriend Sean Larkin. The “on that side of paradise” line on “Tomorrow Never Came” finishes with another speculated literary reference: “In the tropic of cancer.” It’s possible that Lana is referencing the latitude where the sun is most directly overhead, which is arguably its own kind of paradise. However, fans have also theorized that this is a call out to Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, which is “notorious for its candid sexuality.” If they’re correct, this wouldn’t be the first time Lana has referenced a controversial piece of literature, as both Tropic of Cancer and Howl have both been at the center of famous obscenity trials. T.S. Eliot a b c D'Souza, Shaad (July 8, 2020). "Lana Del Rey's "eclectic and honest" new album is out this month". The Fader. Archived from the original on July 9, 2020 . Retrieved June 9, 2020. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (b. June 21, 1985), best known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an icon of modern alternative singing and songwriting.a b "Lana Del Rey Chart History - Vinyl Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022 . Retrieved October 26, 2020. I had a thought for a while about how I wanted the album to be around a dollar because I just love the idea that thoughts are meant to be shared and that they were priceless in some way, and there was a second part that I’d been thinking of before releasing it which was that I wanted half of what the spoken word is going for to benefit Native American organizations around the country, whether it was for preserving their rights or trying to help keep their land intact. The song includes an interpolation of the classic song "Old Man River," which was first introduced in the 1927 musical "Show Boat." I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” Lana reads at the film’s climax. Rather than condemning lawlessness and immorality, “Howl” indicts society for its treatment of those at the margins. By reading the poem at what might be seen as the height of her protagonists’ moral decay, Lana draws attention to their suffering in a world that has proven unkind.

Lana Del Rey has one of the most enigmatic personalities of modern pop, and it’s won her one of the most devoted audiences of the 2010s.

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Only days after NFR!’s release, in an interview with The Times, Lana confirmed that a new project entitled Chemtrails Over the Country Club (originally called as White Hot Forever) was in the works with a potential release in 2020. Nearing the end of 2019, Lana also announced she would be releasing a spoken word poetry album on January 4th, 2020, as the book itself was taking long to hand-bind.

She signed her first recording contract with 5 Points Records in 2007 and her first digital album, Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant, was released in January 2010.

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Light of my life, fire of my loins,” Lana sings on “Off to the Races,” pulling directly from the opening lines of Lolita. The phrase “Velvet night” in “This Is What Makes Us Girls” is another line borrowed from the novel, and one that stands out for its striking, descriptive quality. Fans also speculate that “Carmen” may be a reference to the scene in the novel when Humbert Humbert and Lolita sing, “Oh my Carmen, my little Carmen.” Even the song’s French monologue portion has Nabokov written all over it: The author grew up speaking French and often dipped in and out of the language in his work. Walt Whitman Lana Del Rey hates personal critics". STV. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 . Retrieved October 5, 2012. Next to Lana’s “Nabokov” tattoo is another in the same cursive font: “Whitman.” Walt Whitman, a 19th century American poet, was known for his sensual verse and mythology of self – qualities that appear in Lana’s lyrics and poetry as well. Specifically, Lana borrows the title and chorus of “Body Electric” from Whitman’s poem “I Sing The Body Electric,” a celebration of the human body and its individual parts. In addition to name-dropping Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, Lana sings, “Whitman is my daddy,” including the poet in her aesthetic of subversive, vintage Americana.

And as far as the title goes, saying that something is “textbook” basically means that it went as planned or conceptualized.And in this case, what Lana seems to be attributing that characteristic to is the featured romance. In other words, she was feeling down and just like that met the love of her life – like a fairytale, if you will.Lana Del Rey Shares Artwork for Violet Spoken Word Album". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 11, 2020. I had wanted to do it because in doing my own work in connecting to my family lineage, I was encouraged to also try and connect with the country’s lineage—this was a while ago—and it kind of informed the next album that I’ve been working on. And I just really wanted to sort of pay homage to this country that I love so much by doing my own reparation, I guess I would say, my own reparative act. I know it’s an unusual choice, and I have no reasoning for it other than it just feels right to me, so as long as my spoken word album is distributed, half of it will be going to Native American organizations across North America.