Article in S Moda
Warning: bear with my GoogleTranslating this..
Mae Murray was a silent film actress known in the 20's for her 'voluptuous lips as stung by a bee' read the words in English (bee-stung lips). Actress, singer, columnist and producer, in fact she was known more as a social climber. She was married four times, last to David Mdivani, a Georgian who was posing as the prince and ruined. In her later years she dragged nightclubs, hid behind ever thicker layers of makeup, and died in absolute poverty.
The British photographer Simon Emmett, author of the cover and photos of this article, portrays Murray's life through Lana Del Rey, with recording colored celluloid in which the actress struts, more lethargic lewd and throws a kiss to the camera. Emmett has been successful. The video can not be Lana. And the singer was excited. "I!, Me!" she exclaimed, with the purring voice that is installed on the head of all who hear the song Video Games for the first time.
It seems a matter of time that Murray appears on some of the songs or the videos of Lana. For the artist, born as Elizabeth Woolridge Grant 25 years ago, who seems to act 24/7 as creative director herself, CEO of Lana Del Rey Enterprises.
In less than a year, she has starred in the original claim to fame: a contemporary tale relayed in real time on YouTube, tweets, viral and online comments.
Hard to believe that this petite and friendly girl, dressed in jeans, tank top sleepers and moccasins, of which her team seemed to adore, has generated so much conversation. Del Rey spent less than two days in Barcelona, where she will return to perform on June 15 at Sonar. She visited the Tibidabo amusement park. Very much a 'Lana', with her figures chipped and vintage gadgets.
Other things are: the 20s, 40s and 60s, Mulholland Drive, the Stars and Stripes, Elvis Presley, white hip-hop, Mazzy Star, Miami, gold, false eyelashes, Los Angeles pools and extra-long nails. All forms an aesthetic that seems neo-nostálgic passed through an Instagram filter. It is no coincidence that her meteoric access to fame coincided in time with the rise of this social network instantly old photographs, calculatedly cool.
The pop was and is false by definition, what is up when you want to be the epitome of sincere, as in the case of Adele, Lana is the opposite of such musical phenomenon. (not really sure on the translation of this one..) However, the singer will pursue the discussion of authenticity. Forums questions her videos, if her lips are real, if it's true that she lived in a trailer park (a slum housing-trailer) because her father is a millionaire and her name is not authentic.
New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones, wrote that the name 'Lana Del Rey' appears from a Post-It at a meeting of the marketing department. Right. And not just the lyrics, these definitions also she does herself, perfect for a headline: "Nancy Sinatra gangsta ',' Lolita lost in the neighborhood." But it is also possible that the marketing department has only one member: Lana Del Rey. Choosing what clothes to wear ("just skin and bird on the cover," she says, loving the porcelain collar by Spanish designer Andres Garcia) and talks using concepts like advertisers do - "I want to make it very Monaco's-dead-princess-y "- left little doubt. Lana Del Rey maybe a product - so what if it is? - But it is also her own Frankenstein.
Interview in S Moda
Do you enjoy fashion?
Mine is not so much a relationship with fashion as a relation to visual culture. In this photoshoot I thought heels were outside the jewelry that is just me (hm?) and the blue sky behind. Those are the things that inspire me, photographers and film. In my letters and my sound has attracted me more image than music.
Where do you live now?
Well look, I thought I would never leave New York, but now every time I return to the U.S., I see that I prefer California. I have a villa in the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles and now a friend will help me to get home in Hollywood.
And how is the swing?
Some days are better than others. Before all this, I was very happy. I was very involved in my community, I had people around, I could see my family often ... In the evening I wrote songs and had fun. And now ... There are all those people out there! [He says, referring to photographers, makeup artists, stylists, assistants and staff involved in recording the session]. I do not enjoy much of some things as before.
Then, when you wrote those songs at night, they're not intended to reach a large audience?
No, I'm not that kind of person. I was happy writing the lyrics and did not want more. Just have enough money to pay rent and taxes. I had great ambitions.
Do you have time to see real-life friends?
I have a small group of friends that have nothing to do with music. My friends are good girls, with their feet on earth. One works in real estate, one at Bloomingdale's, another is head of marketing ... Miss them.
All letters are written in first person. Do you think this contributes to the confusion or curiosity about you?
They are all real. I am the star of all my letters. I do not think they are so controversial. Tell me how things went for me. I left home at 14 to go to boarding school because I had gotten into trouble. Then I came to New York ... Look, Video Games is just one day in my life. People say that it's an anti-feminist song and I think, why? I studied and I kept to myself. At day's end I just wanted to stay home with my boyfriend and play video games.
Do you mind being called anti-feminist?
It is one of the things that bother me. And perhaps there is indeed some truth to it. I am a tough girl and I like a man who is strong in every way. May incite men to show that I'm powerful. I do many things, work hard and control everything. So in the end, what I want is to have someone to help me feel delicate and sexy again.
Do you read everything published about you? Because that's almost a full time job.
At first yes, because no one had written about me and affected me. I had spent the previous 10 years trying to be a good person. I stopped drinking, had a good relationship with my family ... When they started mixing my family in all this, I was outraged. I've learned that everything he says the press can be a lie.
When you were accused of being a manufactured product..
That's bad journalism and bad behavior. It should be illegal. All they had to do these journalists was talking to some of my acquaintances. Anyone would say that everything I did, I did it alone. I wrote the songs, I edited the videos. And about my name, I started my real name, but on stage I always acted with a different one. Everyone does it.
Why do you think that was generated around you that debate about what is authentic and what is not?
I do not know, there's nothing more authentic than me. It is understandable to question someone who says that he writes his songs but he doesn't, or someone who says his past was a certain way and lies. But not me.
Do you enjoy when you're on stage?
Now I begin to enjoy. When I'm in Paris or Italy, I have fun. When I'm in Hollywood, too, because the Los Angeles press understands me, knows I'm not trying to sell a message. Sing. But there are other places that criticism does not understand me. People with normal eyes looks at you and find someone like them and not me. I do what I want.
You always felt different?
Yes, always. So I wanted to study philosophy. I was overwhelmed by the world and I hallucinated things of concern to other people: what do we do now, where do we go on vacation?, Do you like my shoes? I, however, was always looking for a guide, a sign, a higher power.
Hard to find your hometown, Lake Placid. It is very small, just 2,000. No great city. I imagine it kind of like Twin Peaks.
Yes, exactly like Twin Peaks. I was hoping to get out and get to New York because that felt like heaven. I like going to the corner store and tell you that a man [in Spanish], "Hello beautiful, how are you? '.
What happened on Saturday Night Live? How did the criticism happen on your performance?
I expected it. What people do not realize is that before performing, websites already criticized everything I did. When I got to that stage, I knew exactly what they would say about me.
To be the classic breakup album, your first album, Born to Die, no spite. The intuition is rather wistful
At that time, talk of love made me feel alive again. I based it on that person to give structure, but actually talk about more things: driving at night for California, the sadness that sometimes gives the summer ...
Is it true you wrote the simple Video Games in 10 minutes?
No, no, I came in waves. I had been writing songs for five days with one of my best friends, Justin Parker, who writes the chords. And when he had just said, "I have a progression that reminds me of you." I loved the beginning and the chorus. It is how I imagine a paradise sounds like.
If you write your second album, are you going to talk about what fame has brought you?
No, I will take up where I left everything. I'm starting to write new tunes. I have a new song that I love. [Sings a few lines: "In the land of the gods and the angels, I was a monster."] When I thought, 'God, it reminds me of Leonard Cohen! ".
Cohen is one of your favorite artists?
I like to imagine Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan together. It makes me happy. On my list of favorites also are Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nirvana, Lil'Wayne, Eminem and Odd Future. No female... No, but I'm not against it.
What do you think about the mainstream divas, Beyoncé, Rihanna ...?
Never commented that subject. It's hard for me, everything I say is taken out of context. Too bad you asked me! The interview had gone so well so far ...
Loving her answers about anti-feminist and writing new tunes(!)
Summertime Sadness
New still from the set of Summertime Sadness video-shooting.
Have you ever picked up a random stranger in the middle of a creepy, cold night asking for a ride, ontd? Why? Why not? A kind, elderly lady picked me up on my way to work in the morning copla weeks ago, bless her... (got my kung fu ready, just in case she's a vampire)
Carmen & Josh Rachlin
Carmen's sweetheart: Josh Rachlin, model. No interview so far, no other deets whatsoever...
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Lana about meth
Lana's Youtube comment on the meth clip in Carmen video.
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Pin Up Galore
Non monster-clawed Lana
Interesting old article at the source..
Songs written by Lana
Songs written by Elizabeth Grant, listed at ASCAP.
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1. Are You Ready
2. Day Glo Reflection
3. Roses
4. Take Me to Paris
Other songs listed online (may be listed at 5 Point Records)
1. Oooh Baby (Lana Del Rey, Eg White)
2. Velvet Crowbar (Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker)
3.Wrong (Lana Del Rey, Paul Herman)
4. Truth In Your Eyes
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. Are You Ready (Lana Del Rey, Eg White)
7. Butterflies Part 2 (Lana Del Rey, James Irvin, Tim Larcombe)
1.Boarding School (LANA, SEEFRIED CHRIS)
2.Caught You Boy (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
3.Children of the Bad Revolution (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
4.Girl That Got Away (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
5.Is It Wrong? (LANA, HERMAN PAUL PHILIP)
6.Motel 6 (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
7.Put The Radio On (LANA, HOWES ASH, STANNARD RICHARD FREDERICK)
8.Us Against The World (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
Other (non of the above) songs written by Elizabeth Grant, listed at ISWC.
1.Break My Fall (WHITING A E, COOPER M E DE FONBRUNE, GRANT ELIZABETH)
2.Everyman Has His Wish (HUNT CRISPIN MACMICHAEL SANDYS, GRANT ELIZABETH)
3.Gangsta Boy (HARRY JAMES, GRANT ELIZABETH)
4.Last Girl on Earth (PARKER JUSTIN, GRANT ELIZABETH)
5.Making Out (BENBROOK MATHEW WILLIAM , GRANT ELIZABETH)
6.Marilyn Monroe (PARKER JUSTIN, GRANT ELIZABETH)
7.Playing Dangerous (HAUGE MADS LOUIS, THORNALLEY PHIL, GRANT ELIZABETH)
8. Resistance (HUNT CRISPIN MACMICHAEL SANDYS, GRANT ELIZABETH)
9. Dangerous Girl (MOULD R SCOTT, RALPH S ANDREW, GRANT ELIZABETH)
Lana & Justin Parker
Either it has some of the above songs, only has alternative titles, or (hopefuly) completely different set of tracks... idk. And idk if I want to cry in joy or anguish knowing that makes a total of prob. 30++ other songs I've never heard
ps: the editorial photoshoot was posted here
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Carmen & Josh Rachlin
Carmen's sweetheart: Josh Rachlin, model. No interview so far, no other deets whatsoever...
Lana about meth
Lana's Youtube comment on the meth clip in Carmen video.
Pin Up Galore
Non monster-clawed Lana
Interesting old article at the source..
Songs written by Lana
Songs written by Elizabeth Grant, listed at ASCAP.
1. Are You Ready
2. Day Glo Reflection
3. Roses
4. Take Me to Paris
Other songs listed online (may be listed at 5 Point Records)
1. Oooh Baby (Lana Del Rey, Eg White)
2. Velvet Crowbar (Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker)
3.Wrong (Lana Del Rey, Paul Herman)
4. Truth In Your Eyes
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. Are You Ready (Lana Del Rey, Eg White)
7. Butterflies Part 2 (Lana Del Rey, James Irvin, Tim Larcombe)
1.Boarding School (LANA, SEEFRIED CHRIS)
2.Caught You Boy (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
3.Children of the Bad Revolution (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
4.Girl That Got Away (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
5.Is It Wrong? (LANA, HERMAN PAUL PHILIP)
6.Motel 6 (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
7.Put The Radio On (LANA, HOWES ASH, STANNARD RICHARD FREDERICK)
8.Us Against The World (LANA, DRING JAMES VERNON, STREET JODY ALEXANDER)
Other (non of the above) songs written by Elizabeth Grant, listed at ISWC.
1.Break My Fall (WHITING A E, COOPER M E DE FONBRUNE, GRANT ELIZABETH)
2.Everyman Has His Wish (HUNT CRISPIN MACMICHAEL SANDYS, GRANT ELIZABETH)
3.Gangsta Boy (HARRY JAMES, GRANT ELIZABETH)
4.Last Girl on Earth (PARKER JUSTIN, GRANT ELIZABETH)
5.Making Out (BENBROOK MATHEW WILLIAM , GRANT ELIZABETH)
6.Marilyn Monroe (PARKER JUSTIN, GRANT ELIZABETH)
7.Playing Dangerous (HAUGE MADS LOUIS, THORNALLEY PHIL, GRANT ELIZABETH)
8. Resistance (HUNT CRISPIN MACMICHAEL SANDYS, GRANT ELIZABETH)
9. Dangerous Girl (MOULD R SCOTT, RALPH S ANDREW, GRANT ELIZABETH)
Lana & Justin Parker
Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" is one of the biggest hit singles of the last 12 months, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and breaking into the charts across the globe. But the song, now a world-wide phenomenon, started life in a bedroom in Lincoln's Boultham Park.
Co-written by Del Rey and Lincoln songsmith Justin Parker, 38, it has now been nominated for a prestigious Ivor Novello award, going up against Nero and James Blake in the best contemporary song category. The pair met in February 2010 for their first-ever writing session after Justin's publishers Sony/ATV Music played some of his songs to Del Rey. They wrote 12 songs together in 15 months. Video Games, National Anthem and the critically-acclaimed Born to Die, all made the chart-toping album.
Justin, who has been writing music since he was 17 and playing guitar since he was five years old, came up with Video Games in his bedroom a couple of months after he started working with Del Rey. "I thought it would be a really good fit for her, so the next time I saw her, I played it and it was just incredible," he said.
"We wrote the whole thing in three hours and everything just happened naturally. It's almost as if Video Games fell out of the both of us. It was incredibly easy and a lot of fun.
"Lana is such a great lyricist and, with Video Games, she paints a really great picture of a girl and a guy. It's so well done and she's incredibly talented."
The glamorous songstress was unsigned at the time but liked Video Games so much that she made her own music video on her laptop and uploaded it to YouTube. It received millions of hits but people started to take notice after Fearne Cotton gave its first-ever airing on Radio 1. Justin said: "Lana couldn't get a deal or anything like that, but when Fearne played the song, that was it. Suddenly everyone wanted to sign her.
"It's incredible to hear your own songs on the radio. It was so emotional and a big sense of relief that finally all your work had come to something. But because it was a song with Lana, it was especially important because we'd worked so hard and it was such a long trek until anyone took notice of who she was.
"I really found my muse in Lana. She really got me musically and it got to the stage where I knew what she liked and vice versa. "I'm supposed to be writing with her again later this year in New York, where she's based. I'll definitely be one of the writers she'll go to if she decides to make another album, but who knows what will happen next?"
Since working with Del Rey, Justin has also written songs for former Ivor Novello award winner Bat For Lashes and has also worked with up-and-coming folk artist Lissie. He will also be in attendance at the Ivor Novello awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House, London, on Thursday, May 17. Other artists nominated include Adele, Florence and the Machine and Kate Bush.
Either it has some of the above songs, only has alternative titles, or (hopefuly) completely different set of tracks... idk. And idk if I want to cry in joy or anguish knowing that makes a total of prob. 30++ other songs I've never heard
ps: the editorial photoshoot was posted here
Source 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 </a>