Lana Del Rey, née Elizabeth Grant, has achieved global pop stardom by embracing retro Americana and melancholic grandeur. Raised in Lake Placid, New York, she went viral in 2011 with a nostalgic homemade clip for “Video Games,” a hazy love song that mixed sensual intimacy with Gatsbyish largesse. Major label debut Born to Die and follow-up Ultraviolence applied an inscrutable and postmodern approach to lavish pop and rock’n’roll. Since 2017’s Lust for Life, she has broadened her examination of American archetypes to include modern-day, first-person storytelling, as celebrated on the 2019 critics’ favorite Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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