![]() ![]() As you are probably well aware, there is nothing - nothing - more important to the self-regarding music fan than authenticity. The reasons for this are not so complicated. Given all of the wild imputations, interpretations and polarized reactions - again, despite Del Rey having done little more than release a very popular YouTube video - a more accurate “gangster” likeness may well be Hillary Clinton. Plucked from obscurity in record time and with a boarding-school pedigree, she is a breathing projection of the most sensitive issues in navel-gazing today, chief among them authenticity, popularity and the intersection between the two. Business Insider, another in a growing list of passengers angling for a ride on the trash train, declared her a “hipster robot” and “musical equivalent of a smoke-filled room.” (The heart pains to even think about Brooklyn Vegan, home to the music universe’s most agitated hive of commenters.) You see, Del Rey is no regular old buzz beast. ![]() If Pitchfork’s doting is one expression of Del Rey’s rise, then so is the fact that meme arch-authority Hipster Runoff has devoted (as of this writing) 21 posts to mocking her. Although last Friday, Del Rey announced that her first album, Born to Die, will come out Jan. 30. Not done with her, on September 30 the site published a 1,600-word exegesis on why she seems to provoke as many people as she awes, no small feat considering the “gangster Nancy Sinatra,” as Del Rey’s team touts her, hasn’t yet released a full album. The real feather in Del Rey’s fixie, however, came on August 3, when Pitchfork crowned “Video Games” a Best New Track. Tonight’s show, originally scheduled for the smaller Box on the Lower East Side, was moved to the Bowery after selling out in an hour tickets to that show sold out in presale, and as of a few weeks ago scalpers were charging $175 for the $13 ticket. In less than three and half months since its posting on YouTube, her single “ Video Games - a schizophrenic montage that marries “’World of Warcraft’ screen clips and paparazzi footage with vintage backyard home movies and skateboarding flicks” - has been viewed almost nine million times. If you haven’t heard of her yet, I’m informed there’s a very good chance you will soon: according to The Hollywood Reporter, her “striking Lauren Bacall-like looks, perfectly-plumped lips and enchanting, hushed singing style” have made her “among the most buzzed about artists to emerge in recent months.”Īnd buzzed about she is. Though she did stick around long enough to do an interview with the Huffington Post, Grant ditched her persona (and her hair color) and emerged, this summer, as the current Interscope Records-signed entity known as Lana Del Rey. Her hair was platinum blonde then, and her music, earnest and surf-inflected, was heavy on the organ. ![]() Del Rey is the stage name of one Lizzy Grant, who, all the way back in 2008, arrived in the city from Lake Placid to try to make it as a singer-songwriter. debut tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Her concerns with the theft are more so rooted in not just the invasion of privacy but the frequency with which she’s been the target of such incidents, describing them as “a bit of a roadblock in terms of the creative process and keeping things safe and valuable and keeping me safe as well, with all of the action that’s been going on around me, my home, everywhere I go.After nearly ripping the Internet apart, “Lana Del Rey” will make her grand U.S. Still, Del Rey said she has plans to share her ninth studio album in the near future. So that is an update that I would obviously normally not give, but I’m worried about it.” ![]() And in terms of the camcorders, we shall see what happens with that. “And in terms of the book, I loved the book that I lost with all of my heart and put a lot of passion into it. “Please don’t listen to the music if you hear it because it’s not coming out yet,” Del Rey requested. But three camcorders featuring footage of her family and hard drives containing unreleased music and personal photos that have started trickling out online were also stolen. Since the bag contained her only copy of her unpublished book, the singer remotely wiped the device out of concern that the project would leak. ![]()
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