Lana Del Rey

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, a.k.a. Lana Del Rey, got off to a somewhat rocky start in music. After signing a record deal, Lizzy Grant recorded an album that was shelved after she changed management and her name. People began to take notice of her when she released ‘Video Games’ on YouTube, and followed that with the ‘Born to Die’ album in 2012, a grand display of youthful drama with Del Rey’s sultry, molasses vocals poured over sleepy trip-hop drums and dense strings. But Del Rey seems constantly at odds with her own success. When asked how long she was able to enjoy success before things went bad, she replied, "I never felt any of the enjoyment. It was all bad, all of it." The songstress released ‘Ultraviolence’ in 2014, with a title track that dangerously tweaks the Crystals’ ‘He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)’ for modern times. The sense of doom and mystery Del Rey holds of her music makes it all that much heavier.

Lana Del Rey Sings Latest Single ‘Blue Jeans’ on ‘The Voice U.K.’
Lana Del Rey Sings Latest Single ‘Blue Jeans’ on ‘The Voice U.K.’
Give Lana Del Rey credit: It takes guts to perform on a TV singing-competition broadcast when some music critics have gone to great lengths to knock her inconsistent vocals. Del Rey recently appeared on an episode of 'The Voice U.K.' to sing her new single, 'Blue Jeans' — and the improvement since her maligned 'Saturday Night Live' debut in January is obvious.
Watch Lana Del Rey’s ‘Carmen’ Video
Watch Lana Del Rey’s ‘Carmen’ Video
Indie pop princess-nugget Lana Del Rey has a new dirty-clean-beautiful-ugly music video. In 'Carmen' -- viewable below -- the divisive songstress splices cultural and personal memories in what may be her most significant piece of video art yet.
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ Was Not Liked By Her Label
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ Was Not Liked By Her Label
Questions about Lana Del Rey's "authenticity" have dogged her ever since she burst onto the scene last fall. While we prefer to focus more on the music than those silly issues, we can now say that, in her brief career, she has suffered the same fate as many a "true" rocker: her record label hated her first single.
John Mayer Covers Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’
John Mayer Covers Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’
What's a poor rock star to do when he has a new album ready to promote and his stupid vocal cords won't cooperate? Well, if you're John Mayer, the answer is to sit at home and record an instrumental cover of Lana Del Rey's hit 'Video Games.'
Lana Del Rey Swims With the Alligators in New Video for ‘Blue Jeans’
Lana Del Rey Swims With the Alligators in New Video for ‘Blue Jeans’
Lana Del Rey has decided to be mysterious and sultry in the music video for her latest single 'Blue Jeans', taken from her second studio album 'Born To Die.' The 25-year old stars in a retro black-and-white clip that has her juggling a tatted-up love interest and alligators in a huge backyard pool.