Success brought Del Rey new opportunities. In , she made a short film called Tropico , as well as a Tropico EP. In , Del Rey participated in a big U. She attended the Met Gala alongside Jared Leto while sporting a halo with wings and a dress with knives sticking out of a gold heart. Yet success also has its pitfalls: Del Rey's house was broken into, and in February , a man was arrested at a concert in Orlando, Florida, for plotting to kidnap the singer.
And Del Rey's computer was hacked in , exposing personal information and unreleased songs, many of which have spread online. Del Rey has received six Grammy Award nominations. The song "Ultraviolence" featured the controversial line "He hit me and it felt like a kiss"; in , Del Rey said she's no longer comfortable with the lyric. Early the following year, it was revealed that Radiohead asked for some of the publishing rights to Del Rey's "Get Free" due to similarities to their hit song "Creep.
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Olivia Rodrigo —. Lana Del Rey is actually named Elizabeth Woolridge by birth. She grew up in upstate New York and while she struggled in school at a young age, she would eventually end up in Long Island with her extended relatives.
Although music would eventually become her passion, Del Rey continued her education at Fordham University and studied philosophy. Despite her studies, Del Rey continued to write songs and record her own tracks. Something in Del Rey kept punching away at that burning desire to create and share her feelings with the world and soon enough that determination would pay off.
She used the money to move to a trailer park and continued her studies at Fordham, where under the guidance of a producer, would release songs. Her father helped her market the album but when nothing seemed to happen, she took the situation for what it was and moved to London. Her big break came in with her second studio album Born to Die after she signed a joint deal with two record companies. She recalls doing the most simple tasks: washing her hair, doing laundry, watching late-night TV, and laying out watching the chemtrails in the sky in suburbia.
These illustrate the beauty of the mundane—a normalcy that is difficult to find when one achieves the fame Del Rey has. She references Princess Diana when she sings about cameras that have flashes causing car crashes. They reveal her impulses to hit the road and reinvent herself in a quest for freedom and a longing to feel a sense of wanderlust. Following similar themes as her previous songs, this one is a poignant take on the hollowness of fame.
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