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Career of Lana Del Rey
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Since beginning her career in the mid-2000s, American singer-songwriter [[Lana Del Rey]] has released music under various aliases, embarked on numerous national and international tours, and released seven studio albums (with two additional ones being shelved). After beginning her recording career under small labels, she recorded the unreleased project ''[[Sirens (May Jailer album)|Sirens]]'' as May Jailer and the briefly-released album, ''[[Lana Del Ray (album)|Lana Del Ray]]'', under her given name Lizzy Grant. Following her her move to [[London]] in 2010, Del Rey began working with numerous producers and signing to Stranger Records. During this time, she posting homemade music videos for demos of songs she had recorded onto video-sharing platform, [[YouTube]]. Eventually, her video for the song "[[Video Games (song)|Video Games]]" received attention and eventually achieved viral success. This saw her getting offered a contract from Interscope and Polydor, followed by the subsequent release of her Baroque pop-influenced album, ''[[Born to Die (album)|Born to Die]]]'' (2012).
After the international success of her debut major-label release, she released follow-up records ''[[Ultraviolence (album)|Ultraviolence]]'' (2014), ''[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)|Honeymoon]]'' (2015), and ''[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)|Lust for Life]]'' (2017). The albums spawned a series of singles, the most successful being "[[West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)|West Coast]]", "[[High By The Beach]]", "[[Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Love]]", and "[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)|Lust for Life]]". She also released the anthems for various movies including "[[Young and Beautiful (Lana Del Rey song)|Young and Beautiful]]" for ''[[The Great Gatsby (2013 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (2013), "[[Big Eyes (song)|Big Eyes]]" for ''[[Big Eyes]]'' (2014), "[[Once Upon a Dream (Lana Del Rey song)|Once Upon A Dream]]" for ''[[Maleficent (film)|Maleficent]]'' (2014), and "Elvis" for ''[[The King (documentary)|The King]]'' (2018). In 2019, Del Rey released her most critically acclaimed work to date, ''[[Norman Fucking Rockwell!]]''. The record received two Grammy nominations and spawned the commercially successful single, "[[Doin' Time]]".
==Early career==
===2004–07: Career beginnings===
In the fall of 2004, at age 19, Grant enrolled at [[Fordham University]] in [[The Bronx]] where she majored in [[philosophy]], with an emphasis on [[metaphysics]].<ref name="vbio"/> She has said she chose to study the subject because it "bridged the gap between God and science... I was interested in God and how technology could bring us closer to finding out where we came from and why."<ref name="vbio"/> In the spring of 2005, while still in college, Del Rey registered a seven-track extended play was under with the [[United States Copyright Office]]; the application title was ''Rock Me Stable'' with another title ''Young Like Me'' also listed.<ref></ref> A second extended play, titled ''From the End'', was also recorded under Del Rey's stage name at the time, May Jailer.<ref name=hellyer></ref> Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded an acoustic album titled ''[[Sirens (May Jailer album)|Sirens]]'' under the May Jailer project,<ref name=hellyer/> which later leaked on the internet in mid-2012.<ref name="sirens"></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
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At her first public performance in 2006, for the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition, Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records,<ref name="wlsc2006"></ref><ref name="disappeared"></ref> an [[independent label]] owned by [[David Nichtern]].<ref name="disappeared"/> In 2007, while a senior at Fordham, she submitted a [[demo tape]] of acoustic tracks titled ''No Kung Fu'' to 5 Points,<ref name=hellyer/> who offered her a [[recording contract]] for $10,000.<ref name=hellyer/> She used the money to relocate to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]],<ref name="vbio"/><ref name=paradiselost/> and subsequently began working with producer [[David Kahne]].<ref name="disappeared"/> Executive Nichtern recalled: "Our plan was to get it all organized and have a record to go and she'd be touring right after she graduated from college. Like a lot of artists, she morphed. When she first came to us, she was playing plunky little acoustic guitar, [had] sort of straight blonde hair, very cute young woman. A little bit dark, but very intelligent. We heard that. But she very quickly kept evolving."<ref name=disappeared/>
[[File:Lana Turner 1944 photo.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.9|Film actress [[Lana Turner]] ''(pictured)'' inspired Del Rey's stage name]]
Del Rey graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from Fordham in 2008,<ref name=paradiselost/> after which she released a three-track [[EP (format)|EP]] titled ''[[Kill Kill]]'' in October as Lizzy Grant, featuring production from Kahne.<ref></ref> She explained that "David asked to work with me only a day after he got my demo. He is known as a producer with a lot of integrity and who had an interest in making music that wasn't just pop."<ref name="Quietus"></ref> Meanwhile, Del Rey was working doing community outreach work for the homeless and drug addicts<ref name="vbio"/>; she had become interested in community service work in college, when she had helped paint homes on an [[Indian reservation]] in [[Utah]].<ref name=nylon/><ref></ref>
===2008–10: Initial releases===
On choosing a [[stage name]] for her feature debut album, she said: "I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue."<ref></ref> The name was also inspired by actress [[Lana Turner]] and the [[Ford Del Rey]] sedan (produced and sold in Brazil).<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> Initially, she had chosen the alternate spelling of Lana Del Ray, the name under which her [[Lana Del Ray (album)|self-titled debut album]] was released in January 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Her father helped with the marketing of the album,<ref name="adirondackdailyenterprise"></ref> which was available for purchase on [[iTunes]] for a brief period before being withdrawn in April 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Kahne, as well as previous label owner Nichtern both stated that Del Rey bought the rights back from the label, 5 Points, as she wanted it out of circulation to "stifle future opportunities to distribute it—an echo of rumors that the action was part of a calculated strategy."<ref name="disappeared"/><ref name="bbcoverstory"></ref>
Del Rey met her managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, three months after ''Lana Del Ray'' was released, and they helped her get out of her contract with 5 Points Records, where, in her opinion, "nothing was happening." Shortly after, she moved to [[London]], and moved in with Mawson "for a few years."<ref name=nylon/> On September 1, 2010, Del Rey was featured by [[Mando Diao]] in their ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'' concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin.<ref name="mandodiao"></ref> The same year, she acted in a short film titled ''Poolside'', which she made with several friends.<ref></ref>
==Breakthrough==
===2011–12: Commercial success and ''Born to Die''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey Bowery 2011 P1150649.jpg|thumb|right|upright|190px|Del Rey performing at the [[Bowery Ballroom]] in December 2011]]
In 2011, Del Rey uploaded self-made music videos for her songs "[[Video Games (song)|Video Games]]" and "[[Blue Jeans (Lana Del Rey song)|Blue Jeans]]" to [[YouTube]], featuring vintage footage interspersed with shots of her singing on her webcam.<ref></ref> The "Video Games" music video became a viral internet sensation,<ref name=all></ref> which led to Del Rey being signed by Stranger Records to release the song as her debut single.<ref name="signstranger"></ref> She told ''[[The Observer]]'': "I just put that song online a few months ago because it was my favorite. To be honest, it wasn't going to be the single but people have really responded to it."<ref name="vbio" /> The song earned her a [[Q Awards|Q award]] for "Next Big Thing" in October 2011<ref></ref> and an [[Ivor Novello Awards|Ivor Novello]] for "Best Contemporary Song" in 2012.<ref name="novello"></ref> The same month, she signed a joint deal with [[Interscope Records]] and [[Polydor Records|Polydor]] to release her second studio album ''[[Born to Die]]''.<ref name="bbclovelaw" /><ref name="bbcover" /><ref name="debut"></ref><ref name="observer"></ref> Del Rey performed two songs from the album on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on January 14, 2012, and received a negative response from various critics and the general public, who deemed the performance uneven and vocally shaky.<ref name=montgomery></ref><ref></ref> She had earlier defended her spot on the program, saying: "I'm a good musician [...] I have been singing for a long time, and I think that [''SNL'' creator] [[Lorne Michaels]] knows that [...] it's not a fluke decision."<ref name=montgomery/>
''Born to Die'' was released on January 31, 2012, worldwide, and reached number one in 11 countries, though critical reaction was divided.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The same week, she announced she had bought back the rights to her 2010 debut album, and had plans to re-release it in the summer of 2012 under Interscope Records and Polydor.<ref name="albumrerelease"></ref> Contrary to Del Rey's press statement, her previous record label and producer David Kahne have both stated that she bought the rights to the album when she and the label parted company, due to the offer of a new deal, in April 2010.<ref name="bbcover"></ref> ''Born to Die'' sold 3.4 million copies in 2012, making it the fifth-best-selling album of 2012.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> In the United States, ''Born to Die'' charted on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200 album chart]] well into 2012, lingering at number 76, after 36 weeks on the chart.<ref></ref>
===2012–13: ''Paradise'' and ''Tropico''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey "Burning Desire" Video 2013.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Del Rey at the [[2012 Paris Motor Show|Paris Motor Show]] endorsing the [[Jaguar F-Type]] in 2012]]
In September 2012, Del Rey unveiled the [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]] [[Jaguar F-Type|F-Type]] at the [[2012 Paris Motor Show|Paris Motor Show]].<ref name=Elliott/> Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's global brand director, explained their choice, saying Del Rey had "a unique blend of authenticity and modernity."<ref name="Elliott"></ref> She also recorded the song "Burning Desire", which appeared in a promotional short film for the vehicle.<ref></ref><ref></ref> In late September 2012, a music video for Del Rey's cover version of "[[Blue Velvet (song)|Blue Velvet]]" was released as a promotional single for the [[H&M]] 2012 autumn campaign, which Del Rey also modeled for in print advertising.<ref></ref><ref name="Alexander"></ref> On September 25, Del Rey released the single "[[Ride (Lana Del Rey song)|Ride]]" in promotion of her upcoming [[extended play|EP]], ''[[Paradise (Lana Del Rey EP)|Paradise]]''.<ref name=bbparadise></ref> She subsequently premiered the music video for "Ride" at the [[American Cinematheque#The Cinematheque's two movie theatres|Aero Theatre]] in [[Santa Monica, California]] on October 10, 2012.<ref></ref><ref name="nme2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Some critics panned the video for being allegedly pro-[[prostitution]]<ref name="nme2" /><ref name="ok!"></ref> and [[Antifeminism|antifeminist]], due to Del Rey's portrayal of a prostitute in a biker gang.<ref name="bbcfem"></ref><ref name=slant></ref>
''Paradise'' was released on November 12, 2012 as a standalone release, as well as ''Born to Die: The Paradise Edition'', which combined Del Rey's previous album with the additional eight tracks on ''Paradise''.<ref name=bbparadise/> ''Paradise'' marked Del Rey's second top 10 album in the United States, debuting at number 10 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] with 67,000 copies sold in its first week.<ref name="prnewswire"></ref> It was also later nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album|Best Pop Vocal Album]] at the [[56th Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref name=ldrgrammys></ref> Del Rey received several nominations at the [[2012 MTV Europe Music Awards]] in November, and won the award for [[MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative|Best Alternative]] performer.<ref></ref> At the [[2013 BRIT Awards|Brit Awards]] in February 2013, she won the award for International Female Solo Artist,<ref name="billboardbrit"></ref> followed by two [[Echo Music Prize|Echo Award]] wins, in the categories of Best International Newcomer and Best International Pop/Rock Artist.<ref></ref>
Over the next several months, she released videos of two cover songs: one of [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony|Chelsea Hotel#2]]",<ref name="cohen"></ref> followed by a duet with her then-boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neil, of [[Lee Hazlewood]] and [[Nancy Sinatra]]'s "[[Summer Wine]]".<ref></ref> In May 2013, Del Rey released an original song, "[[Young and Beautiful (Lana Del Rey song)|Young and Beautiful]]" for the [[The Great Gatsby (soundtrack)|soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of ''The Great Gatsby'']].<ref name="latimesgatsby"></ref> Following the song's release, it peaked at 22 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="bbhot100"></ref> However, shortly after its release to contemporary hit radio, the label prematurely pulled it and decided to send a different song to that format; on July 2, 2013, a Cedric Gervais remix of Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" was sent there; a sleeper hit, the song proved to be a success, surpassing "Young and Beautiful", reaching number 6 and becoming her first American top ten hit.<ref></ref> The remix won the [[Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical]] in 2013,<ref></ref> while "Young and Beautiful" was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media|Best Song Written for Visual Media]].<ref name=ldrgrammys/>
In June 2013, Del Rey began filming ''[[Tropico (film)|Tropico]]'', a musical short film paired to tracks from ''Paradise'', directed by [[Anthony Mandler]].<ref name="tropico1"></ref><ref name="tropico2"></ref> Del Rey screened the film on December 4, 2013 at the [[Cinerama Dome]] in Hollywood, and presented the screening by stating that she wanted to "visually close out" this chapter of her career before releasing her next album.<ref></ref> On December 6, an EP, also titled ''Tropico'', was made available for purchase on iTunes, including a digital copy of the short film.<ref name="huffingtonpost"></ref><ref name="rollingstone"></ref>
==Subsequent releases==
===2014: ''Ultraviolence'' and soundtracks===
[[File:Lana Del Rey 2014 Coachella.jpg|thumb|left|upright|190px|Del Rey performing at [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella Festival]] in 2014]]
On January 26, 2014, Del Rey released a cover of "[[Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty)#Lana Del Rey version|Once Upon a Dream]]" for the 2014 dark fantasy film ''[[Maleficent (film)|Maleficent]]''.<ref></ref> Following the completion of ''Paradise'', Del Rey began writing and recording her follow-up album, ''[[Ultraviolence (Lana Del Rey album)|Ultraviolence]]'', featuring production by [[Dan Auerbach]].<ref name="Guardian"></ref> ''Ultraviolence'' was released on June 13, 2014, and debuted at number one in 12 countries, including the United States and United Kingdom. The album sold 880,000 copies in its first week, worldwide.<ref></ref> The album was preceded by the singles "[[West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)|West Coast]]", "[[Shades of Cool]]",<ref></ref> "[[Ultraviolence (song)|Ultraviolence]]",<ref></ref> and "[[Brooklyn Baby]]".<ref></ref> Del Rey described the album as being "more stripped down but still cinematic and dark,"<ref></ref> while some critics characterized the record as [[psychedelic rock|psychedelic]]<ref></ref> and [[Desert rock music|desert rock]]-influenced, more prominently featuring guitar instrumentation than her previous releases.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
Two new songs by Del Rey, "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly", were featured in [[Tim Burton]]'s 2014 biographical film ''[[Big Eyes]]'', which focused on the American artist [[Margaret Keane]], released in November that year.<ref></ref> In January 2015, Del Rey hinted that she had been in the process of writing and recording material for her next album.<ref></ref> She subsequently confirmed in an interview that her next record would be titled ''[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)|Honeymoon]]''.<ref></ref> On January 15, 2015, Del Rey received a [[BRIT Award]] nomination for International Female Solo Artist, her second nomination in the category and third overall.<ref></ref>
===2015: ''Honeymoon''===
Del Rey embarked on [[The Endless Summer Tour]] in May 2015, which featured [[Courtney Love]]<ref></ref> and [[Grimes (musician)|Grimes]] as opening acts.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> After the tour's conclusion in June, she shared "[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey song)|Honeymoon]]", the first and title track from her forthcoming third studio album, on YouTube.<ref></ref> In an August 2015 interview, Del Rey revealed that the album would contain fourteen tracks, describing the songs with "a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night [[Miles Davis]] drives".<ref name=milesdavis></ref> The first single from the album, "[[High by the Beach]]", was released August 10, followed by "[[Terrence Loves You]]", released as a promotional single, available instantly with the pre-order of the album.<ref></ref> Additionally, Del Rey co-wrote and provided guest vocals on the track "[[Prisoner (The Weeknd song)|Prisoner]]" from [[The Weeknd]]'s ''[[Beauty Behind the Madness]]'', released on August 28, 2015.<ref></ref>
''Honeymoon'' was released on September 18, 2015<ref></ref> to general acclaim from music critics.<ref></ref> Jessica Hopper of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' deemed it Del Rey's "most artistic" work yet, adding: "It is a dark work, darker even than ''Ultraviolence''. While she's obviously a pop artist, ''Honeymoon'' feels as though it belongs to a larger canon of Southern California Gothic albums, and synthesizes ideas she's been vamping on from the beginning into a unified work."<ref></ref> The album was included in several year-end lists, including ''[[Newsweek]]''s Top 20 Albums of the Year,<ref></ref> and ''Billboard''s 25 Best Albums of 2015<ref></ref>; it was also named the second-best pop album of the year by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref></ref>
In November 2015, Del Rey executive produced a short film ''[[Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?|Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston]]'', documenting the life of singer-songwriter [[Daniel Johnston]].<ref name=dj></ref> Upon attending the film's premiere with Johnston and director [[Gabriel Sunday|Gabe Sunday]], she said: "The one thing I hoped is that he [Johnston] understood that while he's home alone doing his art stillhe says he writes every daythat he knows that he really did make a difference in people's lives. He made a difference in mine."<ref name=dj/> For the film, she also covered one of Johnston's songs, called "Some Things Last a Long Time", from his album ''[[1990 (Daniel Johnston album)|1990]]''.<ref></ref> Also in November 2015, Del Rey received the Trailblazer Award at the [[Billboard Women in Music|''Billboard'' Women in Music]] ceremony<ref></ref> and won the [[MTV Europe Music Award]] for Best Alternative.<ref></ref>
===2016–17: ''Lust for Life''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey at Flow Festival 2017 (5) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Del Rey performing at the Flow Festival in 2017]]
In January 2016, Del Rey was nominated with the "Favorite Female Artist" award at the [[People's Choice Awards]],<ref></ref> and she also received a [[Brit Awards|Brit Award]] nomination for International Female Solo Artist, her third nomination in the category and fourth overall.<ref></ref> The following month, on February 9, Del Rey premiered a music video for the song "[[Freak (Lana Del Rey song)|Freak]]" from ''Honeymoon'' at the [[Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre|Wiltern Theatre]] in Los Angeles.<ref></ref> In March 2016, Del Rey revealed that she had begun working on her fifth studio album, just months after releasing ''Honeymoon''.<ref></ref>
Del Rey again collaborated with The Weeknd for his third studio album ''[[Starboy (album)|Starboy]]'', released in December 2016,<ref></ref> providing backing vocals on "[[Party Monster (song)|Party Monster]]" and lead vocals on "Stargirl Interlude".<ref></ref> "Party Monster", which Del Rey also co-wrote, was released as a single<ref></ref> and subsequently reached the Top 20 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref></ref> and went [[Platinum record|certified double-platinum]] in the US.<ref> ''If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.''</ref>
[[File:Lana Del Rey playing Gibson Flying V.png|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Del Rey playing a [[Gibson Flying V]] guitar live in 2017]]
On March 29, 2017, Del Rey released a trailer announcing her new record, ''[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)|Lust for Life]]''.<ref name="spin.com"/> About the album, Del Rey stated: "I made my first 4 albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed."<ref></ref> "[[Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Love]]", the lead single, preceded the album's announcement when its<ref name="spin.com"></ref><ref></ref> [[Rich Lee]]-directed video was released in February on YouTube.<ref></ref> Robert Loss of ''[[PopMatters]]'' praised the song as "a gift to disappointed youth."<ref></ref> "[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)|Lust for Life]]", the eponymous single featuring The Weeknd, was released on April 19, 2017,<ref></ref> followed by the release of the [[Promo single|digital single]] "[[Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind]]" on May 15.<ref></ref> The following week, a music video for "Lust for Life" was released, which features Del Rey and The Weeknd sitting on the edge of the [[Hollywood Sign]], holding hands, and dancing.<ref></ref> To further promote the album, in mid-July, [[BBC Radio 1]] aired the track "[[Summer Bummer (Lana Del Rey song)|Summer Bummer]]", which features [[ASAP Rocky]] and [[Playboi Carti]], and "[[Groupie Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Groupie Love]]", which features Rocky as well.<ref></ref>
''Lust for Life'' was released on July 21, 2017.<ref></ref> In addition to the collaborations with Playboi Carti, ASAP Rocky, and The Weeknd, the album also featured guest performances from [[Stevie Nicks]]<ref></ref> and [[Sean Lennon|Sean Ono Lennon]],<ref></ref> marking the first time she has featured other artists on her own release. The album received generally favorable reviews<ref></ref> and became Del Rey's third number-one album in the United Kingdom, and second number-one album in the United States.<ref></ref><ref></ref> On September 27, 2017, Del Rey announced the [[LA to the Moon Tour]], an official concert tour with [[Jhené Aiko]] and [[Kali Uchis]] to further promote the album. The tour began in [[North America]] during January 2018<ref></ref> and concluded in August. ''Lust for Life'' was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album|Best Pop Vocal Album]] for the [[60th Annual Grammy Awards|60th Grammy Awards]], marking Del Rey's second nomination in the category.<ref name="2018Grammys"></ref>
==Recent years==
=== 2018: Collaborations===
In January 2018, Del Rey announced that she was in a lawsuit with British rock band [[Radiohead]] over alleged similarities between their song "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]" and her song "[[Get Free (Lana Del Rey song)|Get Free]]".<ref name=radiohead/> Following her announcement, legal representatives from their label [[Warner/Chappell]] denied the lawsuit as well as Del Rey's claims of the band asking for "100% of the song's royalties". Del Rey announced that summer while performing at [[Lollapalooza]] in Brazil that the lawsuit was "over."<ref name=radiohead></ref> In early 2018, Del Rey appeared as a guest vocalist on several tracks by other musicians, including on "Living with Myself" by [[Jonathan Wilson (musician)|Jonathan Wilson]] for ''Rare Birds'' (2018),<ref></ref> and on the songs "[[God Save Our Young Blood]]" and "Blue Madonna" by [[Børns]] for ''[[Blue Madonna]]''.<ref></ref> In August, Del Rey was featured on [[Cat Power|Cat Power's]] song "Woman" from her album ''[[Wanderer (Cat Power album)|Wanderer]]'', which was released in October.<ref></ref>
In November 2018, Del Rey was announced as face of [[Gucci]]'s Guilty Fragrances, and subsequently appeared in print and television advertisements with [[Jared Leto]] and Courtney Love.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref></ref>
===2019: ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''===
In September 2018, Del Rey announced the title of her upcoming fifth studio album, ''[[Norman Fucking Rockwell!]]'', produced by Jack Antonoff.<ref name=papernfr/><ref></ref><ref></ref> That same month Del Rey premiered "[[Mariners Apartment Complex]]"<ref></ref> and "[[Venice Bitch]]"<ref name=papernfr></ref>. In 2019, Del Rey released the singles "[[Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It]]"<ref name=rshope></ref> and "[[Doin' Time]]"<ref></ref><ref></ref>. On August 22, Del Rey released a double music video for the album tracks "[[Fuck It, I Love You (Lana Del Rey song)|Fuck It, I Love You]]" and "[[The Greatest (Lana Del Rey song)|The Greatest]]", also releasing the songs as a joint-single.<ref></ref> The following week, she released a music video for "Doin' Time", which features a larger-than-life Del Rey walking through Los Angeles, in an homage to the film ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]]''.<ref></ref> Following the release of the video, "Doin' Time" debuted at number 59 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], four months after its release.<ref></ref> The track later peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' [[Rock Airplay]] chart, becoming Del Rey's first number one on any ''Billboard'' chart.
[[File:Lana Del Rey performing live - Super Rock 2019.png|thumb|left|upright=.9|Del Rey performing at [[Super Bock Super Rock|Super Rock]] in Portugal, July 2019]]
On August 6, Del Rey presented filmmaker [[Guillermo del Toro]] with his star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], and subsequently released a cover of "[[Season of the Witch (song)|Season of the Witch]]" which was featured in the del Toro-produced film, ''[[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (film)|Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]''.<ref></ref> On the same day, she released the non-album single "[[Looking for America (song)|Looking for America]]" which she spontaneously wrote and recorded earlier that week in response to the back-to-back mass shootings in [[2019 El Paso shooting|El Paso]] and [[2019 Dayton shooting|Dayton]].<ref></ref>
''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' was released on August 30, 2019.<ref name=takeaways></ref> To promote the record, Del Rey made a series of appearances on various radio shows, as well as on BBC Radio One's ''Live Lounge''.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The album received overwhelming favorable reviews from critics, and, according on internet review aggregator [[Metacritic]], is her most favorably-reviewed album to date.<ref></ref> ''[[NME]]'' awarded the album a full five out of five stars,<ref></ref> In his review for ''Rolling Stone'', [[Rob Sheffield]] wrote that "the long-awaited ''Norman Fucking Rockwell'' is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, going deep cover in all our nation's most twisted fantasies of glamour and danger," and ultimately deemed the album a "pop classic."<ref></ref> The album was nominated for two [[Grammy Award]]s, one for [[Album of the Year]] and the other for [[Song of the Year]] for [[Norman Fucking Rockwell (song)|its title track]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2KDarHN>
Del Rey was also featured on a collaboration with [[Ariana Grande]] and [[Miley Cyrus]], titled "[[Don't Call Me Angel]]", the lead single off the soundtrack for ''[[Charlie's Angels (2019 film)|Charlie's Angels]]'' (2019),<ref name="charlies angels"></ref> released on September 13, 2019, accompanied by an official video directed by [[Hannah Lux Davis]]. In its first week, the song debuted at number one in Greece, Hungary, and Scotland<ref></ref>, as well as in the top ten in territories including Australia,<ref></ref> New Zealand,<ref></ref> Ireland,<ref></ref> and the United Kingdom.<ref></ref> The song was later [[certified Gold]] in Australia and Canada.<ref>https://ift.tt/2XvJsDx>
Del Rey will appear in the Amazon Prime Special ''The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show'' alongside special guests including [[Camila Cabello]], [[James Corden]], and [[Troye Sivan]].<ref>https://ift.tt/35n4y9W>
==Upcoming projects==
===''White Hot Forever''===
In an interview with ''[[The Independent]]'', Del Rey said she did not want to take a break between albums and confirmed that a new record titled ''White Hot Forever'' was slated for a 2020 release.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> She also announced that she was contributing to the soundtrack of a new adaptation of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)
===Broadway musical===
In an interview for ''[[L'Officiel]]'' first American edition in early 2018, when asked about Del Rey's interest in making a movie she responded that she had been approached to write a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway musical]] and had recently begun work on it. When asked how long it would be until completion of the work, she replied, "I may finish in two or three years."<ref></ref><ref></ref>
==References==
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After the international success of her debut major-label release, she released follow-up records ''[[Ultraviolence (album)|Ultraviolence]]'' (2014), ''[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)|Honeymoon]]'' (2015), and ''[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)|Lust for Life]]'' (2017). The albums spawned a series of singles, the most successful being "[[West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)|West Coast]]", "[[High By The Beach]]", "[[Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Love]]", and "[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)|Lust for Life]]". She also released the anthems for various movies including "[[Young and Beautiful (Lana Del Rey song)|Young and Beautiful]]" for ''[[The Great Gatsby (2013 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (2013), "[[Big Eyes (song)|Big Eyes]]" for ''[[Big Eyes]]'' (2014), "[[Once Upon a Dream (Lana Del Rey song)|Once Upon A Dream]]" for ''[[Maleficent (film)|Maleficent]]'' (2014), and "Elvis" for ''[[The King (documentary)|The King]]'' (2018). In 2019, Del Rey released her most critically acclaimed work to date, ''[[Norman Fucking Rockwell!]]''. The record received two Grammy nominations and spawned the commercially successful single, "[[Doin' Time]]".
==Early career==
===2004–07: Career beginnings===
In the fall of 2004, at age 19, Grant enrolled at [[Fordham University]] in [[The Bronx]] where she majored in [[philosophy]], with an emphasis on [[metaphysics]].<ref name="vbio"/> She has said she chose to study the subject because it "bridged the gap between God and science... I was interested in God and how technology could bring us closer to finding out where we came from and why."<ref name="vbio"/> In the spring of 2005, while still in college, Del Rey registered a seven-track extended play was under with the [[United States Copyright Office]]; the application title was ''Rock Me Stable'' with another title ''Young Like Me'' also listed.<ref></ref> A second extended play, titled ''From the End'', was also recorded under Del Rey's stage name at the time, May Jailer.<ref name=hellyer></ref> Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded an acoustic album titled ''[[Sirens (May Jailer album)|Sirens]]'' under the May Jailer project,<ref name=hellyer/> which later leaked on the internet in mid-2012.<ref name="sirens"></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
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At her first public performance in 2006, for the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition, Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records,<ref name="wlsc2006"></ref><ref name="disappeared"></ref> an [[independent label]] owned by [[David Nichtern]].<ref name="disappeared"/> In 2007, while a senior at Fordham, she submitted a [[demo tape]] of acoustic tracks titled ''No Kung Fu'' to 5 Points,<ref name=hellyer/> who offered her a [[recording contract]] for $10,000.<ref name=hellyer/> She used the money to relocate to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]],<ref name="vbio"/><ref name=paradiselost/> and subsequently began working with producer [[David Kahne]].<ref name="disappeared"/> Executive Nichtern recalled: "Our plan was to get it all organized and have a record to go and she'd be touring right after she graduated from college. Like a lot of artists, she morphed. When she first came to us, she was playing plunky little acoustic guitar, [had] sort of straight blonde hair, very cute young woman. A little bit dark, but very intelligent. We heard that. But she very quickly kept evolving."<ref name=disappeared/>
[[File:Lana Turner 1944 photo.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.9|Film actress [[Lana Turner]] ''(pictured)'' inspired Del Rey's stage name]]
Del Rey graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from Fordham in 2008,<ref name=paradiselost/> after which she released a three-track [[EP (format)|EP]] titled ''[[Kill Kill]]'' in October as Lizzy Grant, featuring production from Kahne.<ref></ref> She explained that "David asked to work with me only a day after he got my demo. He is known as a producer with a lot of integrity and who had an interest in making music that wasn't just pop."<ref name="Quietus"></ref> Meanwhile, Del Rey was working doing community outreach work for the homeless and drug addicts<ref name="vbio"/>; she had become interested in community service work in college, when she had helped paint homes on an [[Indian reservation]] in [[Utah]].<ref name=nylon/><ref></ref>
===2008–10: Initial releases===
On choosing a [[stage name]] for her feature debut album, she said: "I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue."<ref></ref> The name was also inspired by actress [[Lana Turner]] and the [[Ford Del Rey]] sedan (produced and sold in Brazil).<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> Initially, she had chosen the alternate spelling of Lana Del Ray, the name under which her [[Lana Del Ray (album)|self-titled debut album]] was released in January 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Her father helped with the marketing of the album,<ref name="adirondackdailyenterprise"></ref> which was available for purchase on [[iTunes]] for a brief period before being withdrawn in April 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Kahne, as well as previous label owner Nichtern both stated that Del Rey bought the rights back from the label, 5 Points, as she wanted it out of circulation to "stifle future opportunities to distribute it—an echo of rumors that the action was part of a calculated strategy."<ref name="disappeared"/><ref name="bbcoverstory"></ref>
Del Rey met her managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, three months after ''Lana Del Ray'' was released, and they helped her get out of her contract with 5 Points Records, where, in her opinion, "nothing was happening." Shortly after, she moved to [[London]], and moved in with Mawson "for a few years."<ref name=nylon/> On September 1, 2010, Del Rey was featured by [[Mando Diao]] in their ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'' concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin.<ref name="mandodiao"></ref> The same year, she acted in a short film titled ''Poolside'', which she made with several friends.<ref></ref>
==Breakthrough==
===2011–12: Commercial success and ''Born to Die''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey Bowery 2011 P1150649.jpg|thumb|right|upright|190px|Del Rey performing at the [[Bowery Ballroom]] in December 2011]]
In 2011, Del Rey uploaded self-made music videos for her songs "[[Video Games (song)|Video Games]]" and "[[Blue Jeans (Lana Del Rey song)|Blue Jeans]]" to [[YouTube]], featuring vintage footage interspersed with shots of her singing on her webcam.<ref></ref> The "Video Games" music video became a viral internet sensation,<ref name=all></ref> which led to Del Rey being signed by Stranger Records to release the song as her debut single.<ref name="signstranger"></ref> She told ''[[The Observer]]'': "I just put that song online a few months ago because it was my favorite. To be honest, it wasn't going to be the single but people have really responded to it."<ref name="vbio" /> The song earned her a [[Q Awards|Q award]] for "Next Big Thing" in October 2011<ref></ref> and an [[Ivor Novello Awards|Ivor Novello]] for "Best Contemporary Song" in 2012.<ref name="novello"></ref> The same month, she signed a joint deal with [[Interscope Records]] and [[Polydor Records|Polydor]] to release her second studio album ''[[Born to Die]]''.<ref name="bbclovelaw" /><ref name="bbcover" /><ref name="debut"></ref><ref name="observer"></ref> Del Rey performed two songs from the album on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on January 14, 2012, and received a negative response from various critics and the general public, who deemed the performance uneven and vocally shaky.<ref name=montgomery></ref><ref></ref> She had earlier defended her spot on the program, saying: "I'm a good musician [...] I have been singing for a long time, and I think that [''SNL'' creator] [[Lorne Michaels]] knows that [...] it's not a fluke decision."<ref name=montgomery/>
''Born to Die'' was released on January 31, 2012, worldwide, and reached number one in 11 countries, though critical reaction was divided.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The same week, she announced she had bought back the rights to her 2010 debut album, and had plans to re-release it in the summer of 2012 under Interscope Records and Polydor.<ref name="albumrerelease"></ref> Contrary to Del Rey's press statement, her previous record label and producer David Kahne have both stated that she bought the rights to the album when she and the label parted company, due to the offer of a new deal, in April 2010.<ref name="bbcover"></ref> ''Born to Die'' sold 3.4 million copies in 2012, making it the fifth-best-selling album of 2012.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> In the United States, ''Born to Die'' charted on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200 album chart]] well into 2012, lingering at number 76, after 36 weeks on the chart.<ref></ref>
===2012–13: ''Paradise'' and ''Tropico''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey "Burning Desire" Video 2013.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Del Rey at the [[2012 Paris Motor Show|Paris Motor Show]] endorsing the [[Jaguar F-Type]] in 2012]]
In September 2012, Del Rey unveiled the [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]] [[Jaguar F-Type|F-Type]] at the [[2012 Paris Motor Show|Paris Motor Show]].<ref name=Elliott/> Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's global brand director, explained their choice, saying Del Rey had "a unique blend of authenticity and modernity."<ref name="Elliott"></ref> She also recorded the song "Burning Desire", which appeared in a promotional short film for the vehicle.<ref></ref><ref></ref> In late September 2012, a music video for Del Rey's cover version of "[[Blue Velvet (song)|Blue Velvet]]" was released as a promotional single for the [[H&M]] 2012 autumn campaign, which Del Rey also modeled for in print advertising.<ref></ref><ref name="Alexander"></ref> On September 25, Del Rey released the single "[[Ride (Lana Del Rey song)|Ride]]" in promotion of her upcoming [[extended play|EP]], ''[[Paradise (Lana Del Rey EP)|Paradise]]''.<ref name=bbparadise></ref> She subsequently premiered the music video for "Ride" at the [[American Cinematheque#The Cinematheque's two movie theatres|Aero Theatre]] in [[Santa Monica, California]] on October 10, 2012.<ref></ref><ref name="nme2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Some critics panned the video for being allegedly pro-[[prostitution]]<ref name="nme2" /><ref name="ok!"></ref> and [[Antifeminism|antifeminist]], due to Del Rey's portrayal of a prostitute in a biker gang.<ref name="bbcfem"></ref><ref name=slant></ref>
''Paradise'' was released on November 12, 2012 as a standalone release, as well as ''Born to Die: The Paradise Edition'', which combined Del Rey's previous album with the additional eight tracks on ''Paradise''.<ref name=bbparadise/> ''Paradise'' marked Del Rey's second top 10 album in the United States, debuting at number 10 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] with 67,000 copies sold in its first week.<ref name="prnewswire"></ref> It was also later nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album|Best Pop Vocal Album]] at the [[56th Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref name=ldrgrammys></ref> Del Rey received several nominations at the [[2012 MTV Europe Music Awards]] in November, and won the award for [[MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative|Best Alternative]] performer.<ref></ref> At the [[2013 BRIT Awards|Brit Awards]] in February 2013, she won the award for International Female Solo Artist,<ref name="billboardbrit"></ref> followed by two [[Echo Music Prize|Echo Award]] wins, in the categories of Best International Newcomer and Best International Pop/Rock Artist.<ref></ref>
Over the next several months, she released videos of two cover songs: one of [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony|Chelsea Hotel#2]]",<ref name="cohen"></ref> followed by a duet with her then-boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neil, of [[Lee Hazlewood]] and [[Nancy Sinatra]]'s "[[Summer Wine]]".<ref></ref> In May 2013, Del Rey released an original song, "[[Young and Beautiful (Lana Del Rey song)|Young and Beautiful]]" for the [[The Great Gatsby (soundtrack)|soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of ''The Great Gatsby'']].<ref name="latimesgatsby"></ref> Following the song's release, it peaked at 22 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="bbhot100"></ref> However, shortly after its release to contemporary hit radio, the label prematurely pulled it and decided to send a different song to that format; on July 2, 2013, a Cedric Gervais remix of Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" was sent there; a sleeper hit, the song proved to be a success, surpassing "Young and Beautiful", reaching number 6 and becoming her first American top ten hit.<ref></ref> The remix won the [[Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical]] in 2013,<ref></ref> while "Young and Beautiful" was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media|Best Song Written for Visual Media]].<ref name=ldrgrammys/>
In June 2013, Del Rey began filming ''[[Tropico (film)|Tropico]]'', a musical short film paired to tracks from ''Paradise'', directed by [[Anthony Mandler]].<ref name="tropico1"></ref><ref name="tropico2"></ref> Del Rey screened the film on December 4, 2013 at the [[Cinerama Dome]] in Hollywood, and presented the screening by stating that she wanted to "visually close out" this chapter of her career before releasing her next album.<ref></ref> On December 6, an EP, also titled ''Tropico'', was made available for purchase on iTunes, including a digital copy of the short film.<ref name="huffingtonpost"></ref><ref name="rollingstone"></ref>
==Subsequent releases==
===2014: ''Ultraviolence'' and soundtracks===
[[File:Lana Del Rey 2014 Coachella.jpg|thumb|left|upright|190px|Del Rey performing at [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella Festival]] in 2014]]
On January 26, 2014, Del Rey released a cover of "[[Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty)#Lana Del Rey version|Once Upon a Dream]]" for the 2014 dark fantasy film ''[[Maleficent (film)|Maleficent]]''.<ref></ref> Following the completion of ''Paradise'', Del Rey began writing and recording her follow-up album, ''[[Ultraviolence (Lana Del Rey album)|Ultraviolence]]'', featuring production by [[Dan Auerbach]].<ref name="Guardian"></ref> ''Ultraviolence'' was released on June 13, 2014, and debuted at number one in 12 countries, including the United States and United Kingdom. The album sold 880,000 copies in its first week, worldwide.<ref></ref> The album was preceded by the singles "[[West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)|West Coast]]", "[[Shades of Cool]]",<ref></ref> "[[Ultraviolence (song)|Ultraviolence]]",<ref></ref> and "[[Brooklyn Baby]]".<ref></ref> Del Rey described the album as being "more stripped down but still cinematic and dark,"<ref></ref> while some critics characterized the record as [[psychedelic rock|psychedelic]]<ref></ref> and [[Desert rock music|desert rock]]-influenced, more prominently featuring guitar instrumentation than her previous releases.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
Two new songs by Del Rey, "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly", were featured in [[Tim Burton]]'s 2014 biographical film ''[[Big Eyes]]'', which focused on the American artist [[Margaret Keane]], released in November that year.<ref></ref> In January 2015, Del Rey hinted that she had been in the process of writing and recording material for her next album.<ref></ref> She subsequently confirmed in an interview that her next record would be titled ''[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)|Honeymoon]]''.<ref></ref> On January 15, 2015, Del Rey received a [[BRIT Award]] nomination for International Female Solo Artist, her second nomination in the category and third overall.<ref></ref>
===2015: ''Honeymoon''===
Del Rey embarked on [[The Endless Summer Tour]] in May 2015, which featured [[Courtney Love]]<ref></ref> and [[Grimes (musician)|Grimes]] as opening acts.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> After the tour's conclusion in June, she shared "[[Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey song)|Honeymoon]]", the first and title track from her forthcoming third studio album, on YouTube.<ref></ref> In an August 2015 interview, Del Rey revealed that the album would contain fourteen tracks, describing the songs with "a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night [[Miles Davis]] drives".<ref name=milesdavis></ref> The first single from the album, "[[High by the Beach]]", was released August 10, followed by "[[Terrence Loves You]]", released as a promotional single, available instantly with the pre-order of the album.<ref></ref> Additionally, Del Rey co-wrote and provided guest vocals on the track "[[Prisoner (The Weeknd song)|Prisoner]]" from [[The Weeknd]]'s ''[[Beauty Behind the Madness]]'', released on August 28, 2015.<ref></ref>
''Honeymoon'' was released on September 18, 2015<ref></ref> to general acclaim from music critics.<ref></ref> Jessica Hopper of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' deemed it Del Rey's "most artistic" work yet, adding: "It is a dark work, darker even than ''Ultraviolence''. While she's obviously a pop artist, ''Honeymoon'' feels as though it belongs to a larger canon of Southern California Gothic albums, and synthesizes ideas she's been vamping on from the beginning into a unified work."<ref></ref> The album was included in several year-end lists, including ''[[Newsweek]]''s Top 20 Albums of the Year,<ref></ref> and ''Billboard''s 25 Best Albums of 2015<ref></ref>; it was also named the second-best pop album of the year by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref></ref>
In November 2015, Del Rey executive produced a short film ''[[Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?|Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston]]'', documenting the life of singer-songwriter [[Daniel Johnston]].<ref name=dj></ref> Upon attending the film's premiere with Johnston and director [[Gabriel Sunday|Gabe Sunday]], she said: "The one thing I hoped is that he [Johnston] understood that while he's home alone doing his art stillhe says he writes every daythat he knows that he really did make a difference in people's lives. He made a difference in mine."<ref name=dj/> For the film, she also covered one of Johnston's songs, called "Some Things Last a Long Time", from his album ''[[1990 (Daniel Johnston album)|1990]]''.<ref></ref> Also in November 2015, Del Rey received the Trailblazer Award at the [[Billboard Women in Music|''Billboard'' Women in Music]] ceremony<ref></ref> and won the [[MTV Europe Music Award]] for Best Alternative.<ref></ref>
===2016–17: ''Lust for Life''===
[[File:Lana Del Rey at Flow Festival 2017 (5) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Del Rey performing at the Flow Festival in 2017]]
In January 2016, Del Rey was nominated with the "Favorite Female Artist" award at the [[People's Choice Awards]],<ref></ref> and she also received a [[Brit Awards|Brit Award]] nomination for International Female Solo Artist, her third nomination in the category and fourth overall.<ref></ref> The following month, on February 9, Del Rey premiered a music video for the song "[[Freak (Lana Del Rey song)|Freak]]" from ''Honeymoon'' at the [[Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre|Wiltern Theatre]] in Los Angeles.<ref></ref> In March 2016, Del Rey revealed that she had begun working on her fifth studio album, just months after releasing ''Honeymoon''.<ref></ref>
Del Rey again collaborated with The Weeknd for his third studio album ''[[Starboy (album)|Starboy]]'', released in December 2016,<ref></ref> providing backing vocals on "[[Party Monster (song)|Party Monster]]" and lead vocals on "Stargirl Interlude".<ref></ref> "Party Monster", which Del Rey also co-wrote, was released as a single<ref></ref> and subsequently reached the Top 20 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref></ref> and went [[Platinum record|certified double-platinum]] in the US.<ref> ''If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.''</ref>
[[File:Lana Del Rey playing Gibson Flying V.png|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Del Rey playing a [[Gibson Flying V]] guitar live in 2017]]
On March 29, 2017, Del Rey released a trailer announcing her new record, ''[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)|Lust for Life]]''.<ref name="spin.com"/> About the album, Del Rey stated: "I made my first 4 albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed."<ref></ref> "[[Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Love]]", the lead single, preceded the album's announcement when its<ref name="spin.com"></ref><ref></ref> [[Rich Lee]]-directed video was released in February on YouTube.<ref></ref> Robert Loss of ''[[PopMatters]]'' praised the song as "a gift to disappointed youth."<ref></ref> "[[Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)|Lust for Life]]", the eponymous single featuring The Weeknd, was released on April 19, 2017,<ref></ref> followed by the release of the [[Promo single|digital single]] "[[Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind]]" on May 15.<ref></ref> The following week, a music video for "Lust for Life" was released, which features Del Rey and The Weeknd sitting on the edge of the [[Hollywood Sign]], holding hands, and dancing.<ref></ref> To further promote the album, in mid-July, [[BBC Radio 1]] aired the track "[[Summer Bummer (Lana Del Rey song)|Summer Bummer]]", which features [[ASAP Rocky]] and [[Playboi Carti]], and "[[Groupie Love (Lana Del Rey song)|Groupie Love]]", which features Rocky as well.<ref></ref>
''Lust for Life'' was released on July 21, 2017.<ref></ref> In addition to the collaborations with Playboi Carti, ASAP Rocky, and The Weeknd, the album also featured guest performances from [[Stevie Nicks]]<ref></ref> and [[Sean Lennon|Sean Ono Lennon]],<ref></ref> marking the first time she has featured other artists on her own release. The album received generally favorable reviews<ref></ref> and became Del Rey's third number-one album in the United Kingdom, and second number-one album in the United States.<ref></ref><ref></ref> On September 27, 2017, Del Rey announced the [[LA to the Moon Tour]], an official concert tour with [[Jhené Aiko]] and [[Kali Uchis]] to further promote the album. The tour began in [[North America]] during January 2018<ref></ref> and concluded in August. ''Lust for Life'' was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album|Best Pop Vocal Album]] for the [[60th Annual Grammy Awards|60th Grammy Awards]], marking Del Rey's second nomination in the category.<ref name="2018Grammys"></ref>
==Recent years==
=== 2018: Collaborations===
In January 2018, Del Rey announced that she was in a lawsuit with British rock band [[Radiohead]] over alleged similarities between their song "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]" and her song "[[Get Free (Lana Del Rey song)|Get Free]]".<ref name=radiohead/> Following her announcement, legal representatives from their label [[Warner/Chappell]] denied the lawsuit as well as Del Rey's claims of the band asking for "100% of the song's royalties". Del Rey announced that summer while performing at [[Lollapalooza]] in Brazil that the lawsuit was "over."<ref name=radiohead></ref> In early 2018, Del Rey appeared as a guest vocalist on several tracks by other musicians, including on "Living with Myself" by [[Jonathan Wilson (musician)|Jonathan Wilson]] for ''Rare Birds'' (2018),<ref></ref> and on the songs "[[God Save Our Young Blood]]" and "Blue Madonna" by [[Børns]] for ''[[Blue Madonna]]''.<ref></ref> In August, Del Rey was featured on [[Cat Power|Cat Power's]] song "Woman" from her album ''[[Wanderer (Cat Power album)|Wanderer]]'', which was released in October.<ref></ref>
In November 2018, Del Rey was announced as face of [[Gucci]]'s Guilty Fragrances, and subsequently appeared in print and television advertisements with [[Jared Leto]] and Courtney Love.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref></ref>
===2019: ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''===
In September 2018, Del Rey announced the title of her upcoming fifth studio album, ''[[Norman Fucking Rockwell!]]'', produced by Jack Antonoff.<ref name=papernfr/><ref></ref><ref></ref> That same month Del Rey premiered "[[Mariners Apartment Complex]]"<ref></ref> and "[[Venice Bitch]]"<ref name=papernfr></ref>. In 2019, Del Rey released the singles "[[Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It]]"<ref name=rshope></ref> and "[[Doin' Time]]"<ref></ref><ref></ref>. On August 22, Del Rey released a double music video for the album tracks "[[Fuck It, I Love You (Lana Del Rey song)|Fuck It, I Love You]]" and "[[The Greatest (Lana Del Rey song)|The Greatest]]", also releasing the songs as a joint-single.<ref></ref> The following week, she released a music video for "Doin' Time", which features a larger-than-life Del Rey walking through Los Angeles, in an homage to the film ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]]''.<ref></ref> Following the release of the video, "Doin' Time" debuted at number 59 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], four months after its release.<ref></ref> The track later peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' [[Rock Airplay]] chart, becoming Del Rey's first number one on any ''Billboard'' chart.
[[File:Lana Del Rey performing live - Super Rock 2019.png|thumb|left|upright=.9|Del Rey performing at [[Super Bock Super Rock|Super Rock]] in Portugal, July 2019]]
On August 6, Del Rey presented filmmaker [[Guillermo del Toro]] with his star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], and subsequently released a cover of "[[Season of the Witch (song)|Season of the Witch]]" which was featured in the del Toro-produced film, ''[[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (film)|Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]''.<ref></ref> On the same day, she released the non-album single "[[Looking for America (song)|Looking for America]]" which she spontaneously wrote and recorded earlier that week in response to the back-to-back mass shootings in [[2019 El Paso shooting|El Paso]] and [[2019 Dayton shooting|Dayton]].<ref></ref>
''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' was released on August 30, 2019.<ref name=takeaways></ref> To promote the record, Del Rey made a series of appearances on various radio shows, as well as on BBC Radio One's ''Live Lounge''.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The album received overwhelming favorable reviews from critics, and, according on internet review aggregator [[Metacritic]], is her most favorably-reviewed album to date.<ref></ref> ''[[NME]]'' awarded the album a full five out of five stars,<ref></ref> In his review for ''Rolling Stone'', [[Rob Sheffield]] wrote that "the long-awaited ''Norman Fucking Rockwell'' is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, going deep cover in all our nation's most twisted fantasies of glamour and danger," and ultimately deemed the album a "pop classic."<ref></ref> The album was nominated for two [[Grammy Award]]s, one for [[Album of the Year]] and the other for [[Song of the Year]] for [[Norman Fucking Rockwell (song)|its title track]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2KDarHN>
Del Rey was also featured on a collaboration with [[Ariana Grande]] and [[Miley Cyrus]], titled "[[Don't Call Me Angel]]", the lead single off the soundtrack for ''[[Charlie's Angels (2019 film)|Charlie's Angels]]'' (2019),<ref name="charlies angels"></ref> released on September 13, 2019, accompanied by an official video directed by [[Hannah Lux Davis]]. In its first week, the song debuted at number one in Greece, Hungary, and Scotland<ref></ref>, as well as in the top ten in territories including Australia,<ref></ref> New Zealand,<ref></ref> Ireland,<ref></ref> and the United Kingdom.<ref></ref> The song was later [[certified Gold]] in Australia and Canada.<ref>https://ift.tt/2XvJsDx>
Del Rey will appear in the Amazon Prime Special ''The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show'' alongside special guests including [[Camila Cabello]], [[James Corden]], and [[Troye Sivan]].<ref>https://ift.tt/35n4y9W>
==Upcoming projects==
===''White Hot Forever''===
In an interview with ''[[The Independent]]'', Del Rey said she did not want to take a break between albums and confirmed that a new record titled ''White Hot Forever'' was slated for a 2020 release.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> She also announced that she was contributing to the soundtrack of a new adaptation of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)
===Broadway musical===
In an interview for ''[[L'Officiel]]'' first American edition in early 2018, when asked about Del Rey's interest in making a movie she responded that she had been approached to write a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway musical]] and had recently begun work on it. When asked how long it would be until completion of the work, she replied, "I may finish in two or three years."<ref></ref><ref></ref>
==References==
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