Of course, it wouldn’t be a Lana Del Rey album without gratuitous references to California. The final song on the album reminds us who Del Rey is at her core. The song “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have — but I have it” is a drawling confession of not f...
Lana Del Rey practices “automatic singing.” Using the improvisational songwriting technique, she lets her voice carry over accompaniments, not commandeering where her words or melodies take her, accepting all ideas she has in the moment and editing them later. Lately, her voice has led her hom...
, her songwriting received the recognition she always knew it deserved. InconversationwithRolling Stonethis month, Lana described a great unburdening in her psychic space. She is still talking—and singing—about death. But now, rather than an escape hatch, it’s a framing device through...
The rising star award was given to new-wave indie artist Master Peace, while Sir Elton John’s songwriting partner Taupin was honoured with the Ivor Novello for outstanding contribution to British music and Scottish singer Tunstall picked up her gong for outstanding song collection. Taupin...
Del Rey, then still known as Lizzy Grant, started her career with open mic nights and club gigs. In 2006, she entered a songwriting competition; she didn’t win, but a judge on the panel helped her create a demo, which led to her signing with the indie label 5 Points. With the $...
At her first performance in 2006 for the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition, Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records, an independent label owned by David Nichtern. In 2007, while a senior at Fordham, Del Rey submitted a demo tape of acoustic tracks titled ...
By the time Grant was 19, she had got into college at Fordham University, where she had taken up philosophy. Her passion for music prevailed, and she went on singing with open mic nights and gigs in clubs. While joining a songwriting competition in 2006 where she had her first public per...
and while it was once easy to label lana a pop artist—someone whose songwriting worked with tight structures and hooks, accompanied by fancy videos and dance remixes —“black bathing suit” breaks from any confines. as she moves from verse to pre-chorus to chorus, she lets the seams show...
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what’s unchangeable is her aspiration to the golden age in the U.S. And it’s the code of all her songwriting. InRadio, she sings sweetly: “American dream came true somehow.”; inRide, she sighs: “Singing blues is getting old.”; inBrooklyn ...