Lana del Rey
The internet era’s femme fatale
Lana Del Rey is so perfect that, if it wasn´t because she has proven the opposite, she would look like an invention created by the record business: a sensuous way of singing and a retro look, not as erotic as a pin up, but with enough glamour to work as a model, who delivers a orchestral pop, with hints of the fifties and sixties.
Born in Lake Placid, New York, in 2008 she released her first single, “Kill Kill” under the name of Lizzy Grant, before being reborn transformed into a femme fatale baptized as Lana Del Rey. Since the very beginning she displayed her character as a mistery of which she kept on uncovering clues: first, the video of the song “Video Games” burst in the networks in august 2011 and created a big hype, after which she did a secret concert in the Grasslands Gallery of Brooklyn in September. In the autumn of the same year she released an exclusive EP with four songs.
When she had already become a viral phenomenon thanks to internet, she announced that she would release her first album, “Born To Die” at the beginning of 2012. In the last months she has taken part in the original motion picture soundtrack of the last version of “The Great Gatsby” (Baz Luhrmann, 2013) with the song “Young And Beautiful”.
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