In 2011, a melancholy voice escaped from a homemade clip and went around the world. “Video Games” then reveals to the general public a young woman still unknown, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, alias Lana del Rey. A mixture of retro glamor, spleen and fatalistic sensuality, his universe marks a break in pop. Between the current electros hits of the time, Lana Del Rey sets up her artistic paw on the front of the stage.
But its story begins much earlier. From the 2000s, she linked small concerts under various stage names, before meeting a producer in 2005, while she called Lizzie Grant. “I met the boss of a label who offered me a contract a month later. For two years, nothing happened, my disc remained in the boxes, “she told Paris Match in 2014. It was not until 2012, with” Born to Die “, that she really exploded. The album sells for millions of copies, becomes cult, and anchors Lana Del Rey in the international musical landscape.
Lana Del Rey in front of the physical dictates
Since then, the singer has continued to renew herself, through her albums, but also her haircuts. Platinum blonde, red curls, black raven hair like Amy Winehouse… Lana del Rey likes change. And if her voice has always been at the center of attention, her appearance has often been the target of criticism.
In 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, the singer gained weight. Stolen photos or even inappropriate comments on social networks, Lana Del Rey undergoes real harassment, to which she responds in her song “Black Bathing follows”, where she assumes her forms and sends the injunctions. In 2024, the singer returned to the stage with a refined silhouette, which earned her a new salvo of criticism. No matter: the singer does not comment and just flourish in her life as a bride alongside Jeremy Dufrene.
