2015-10-29
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Lana Del Rey is not at all sick with incurable diseases. She is simply extremely prone to anxieties and phobias of death. In an interview given to Billboard magazine in connection with the release of Honeymoon (Honeymoon) in September, Lana admitted that in recent years she has been having more and more panic attacks.

“Sometimes it’s hard for me to keep working, all because I know I’m going to die. Something has happened in the last three years and panic attacks have become more frequent. I feel worse and worse."

“I have always been subject to such attacks. – continues the singer. - I remember when I was 4 years old, I saw a show on TV in which a man was killed. I turned to my parents and asked, “Are we all going to die?” They said yes. I was inconsolable! I burst into tears and said, “We have to do something.”

“I went to a psychotherapist three times. But I feel at my best in the recording studio when I'm writing or singing."

Asked if having kids would calm her down, Del Rey said, “I don't think so. But sometimes the sight of children calms me down. I think I went after my mom - in the sense that I make lists - to comfort and reward myself. You know how it is: finished it, and now I'm going to do it - I'll go, walk along the beach or swim in the ocean. And I swim, although I myself am horrified that I do it. Because I'm scared to death of sharks."

Suddenly, Lana Del Rey found psychological support in the person of Yannis Philippakis (Yannis Philippakis), leader of the British dream-pop group from Oxford. He described their first meeting as follows: “Lana was in Paris and came to dinner with our mutual friend. I was excited because I deify her. At dinner I couldn't say a word. I felt like a sweaty teenager and I wanted to hide under the table. The world is a better place because Lana Del Rey lives in it."

The singer, in turn, said a lot of compliments to the group and admitted that she really likes the track "Give It All" ("Give it all"). Perhaps these conversations will end with the collaboration of the group and Lana Del Rey. The musicians found such an idea great, but expressed doubt whether the singer would be interested in such a project. One of the group members, Edwin Congreave, honestly admitted: "If I had a choice whether to hang out on my yacht with Lana or work with the guys from Oxford - I would prefer a yacht."

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Biography

Lana Del Rey - American singer, real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (Elizabeth Woolridge Grant), born June 21, 1986 in New York. She began her career as a singer in 2008 as a simple girl next door with a guitar at the ready. In 2011, she began to perform under a pseudonym, which is made up of the names of the singer Lana Turner and the name of the car Ford Del Rey, which was a success in ...

Biography

Lana Del Rey - American singer, real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (Elizabeth Woolridge Grant), born June 21, 1986 in New York. She began her career as a singer in 2008 as a simple girl next door with a guitar at the ready. In 2011, she began to perform under a pseudonym, which is made up of the names of the singer Lana Turner and the name of the car Ford Del Rey, which was successful in Latin America in the eighties. Under the influence of the producer, she also dramatically changed her image, becoming an exquisite retro beauty: plump lips, extra-long eyelashes, vampire nails, patent leather shoes. Fame came to Lana in the summer of 2011 after the release of the video clip "Video Games", which was viewed 600 thousand times on the Internet within three weeks. Her voice is very reminiscent of Nancy Sinatra's velvety contralto - so much so that the singer herself calls her style "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra".

In 2009, under the name Lizzy Grant, she released the mini-album Kill Kill. She also recorded a full-length album with producer David Canet, which was on sale via the Internet for two months in 2010, after which it was withdrawn from sale.

The first concert of Lana Del Rey took place at The Box (New York) on September 21, 2011. That same year, the debut single "Video Games"/"Blue Jeans" was released on vinyl by Stranger Records on October 10 and digitally the next day. It peaked at number ninth in the UK and third in the Netherlands.

In October 2011, Lana Del Rey received the Q magazine award in the special category Future Star, and in 2012 the British Music Award in the International Breakthrough category.

One of the reasons for Lana's paradoxical success is considered by critics to be a magnificent, thoughtful image to the smallest detail, original mischievous lyrics, as if taken from classic American westerns. And, of course, a soft, recognizable voice.

At the beginning of 2018, Lana Del Rey accepted the album "Unmasked: The Platinum Collection" by invitation, which the legendary composer

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In an interview with the London Evening Standard in 1966, at the height of The Beatles' popularity, John Lennon spoke to a reporter about a religion that, in particular Christianity, he did not much like and considered a dying ideology. To back up his point, Lennon pointed to the fact that even The Beatles were more popular than Jesus at that point in time. Taken out of context, the phrase no longer sounded like an argument, but simple bragging - moreover, blasphemous.

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“Christianity is gone. It will melt and evaporate. I don't even need to try to argue on this subject; I am right, and history will show that it will be so. Yes, even we are now more popular than Jesus - I don’t know, however, which will sink into oblivion earlier - rock and roll or Christianity. In general, Jesus was in order, it was his disciples who turned out to be so thick-headed - and the way they pervert all his teachings destroys them for me.

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A couple of months later, the interview was published in the USA - Datebook magazine came out with the phrase "I don't know what will sink into oblivion - rock and roll or Christianity" on the cover, and the quote "We are more popular than Jesus" was placed in the headline of the article. Immediately after that, The Beatles' songs were banned from radio stations in two states, then concert bans began, the Vatican called the group "satanic", religious fanatics and Ku Klux Klans began to demonstrate against the musicians. To resolve the conflict, the group even had to give a separate press conference, but it didn’t really improve the situation, because instead of apologizing, Lennon once again tried to explain his position to people who didn’t want to listen to him at all. 10 years later, Lennon recalled the incident in a completely different way: they say, thanks to Jesus for putting the spokes in the wheels for us then and our life did not turn into an endless tour - and indeed, if not for this scandal, The Beatles could have remain just a good rock 'n' roll band that, say, would never have made a Revolver album.

Pete Townsend: "Such a trifle as the death of fans, we are not a hindrance"

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In December 1979, The Who's performance at the Cincinnati Music Festival turned into a tragedy: the audience mistook the soundcheck for the beginning of the concert and rushed to the stage in a crowd, 11 people died in a stampede. The band was not told anything about this at the time in order to avoid the cancellation of the concert and even more casualties due to possible riots on this occasion. A couple of months later, when a reporter from The Rolling Stone asked bandleader Pete Townsend about how this event would affect the band's future, Pete suddenly responded very harshly.

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“It seems that the world does not quite understand how bloodthirsty and brutal The Who is. Does not understand our purposefulness, strength. It seems to everyone that we are constantly engaged in self-digging, that we are weak, that we have a lot of phobias; and like everyone who is really sick of rock music, we spend a lot of time worrying about its fate. But what was really amazing for us, in a sense, was the fact that when we were first told that 11 guys had died, we gave in for a second. But only for a second. Then we said, like, fuck it, we're not going to let that little thing stop us. We needed to take it that way [in order to continue].”

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Townsend was lucky that the year was 1980, not 2010 - and his words were not replicated and condemned by the entire Internet. But many of the fans did not understand how to respond to them. Townsend clarified his words a little later: they say that the group actually did everything possible, and helped the families of the dead, and sent flowers to the funeral, and generally supported them in all respects, but this did not mean that they now had to go forever and portray sad mines about it. Even later, in his biography, Townsend tried to justify himself even more stupidly - they say, in this interview he tried to use PR technologies, “deal with similar questions from the press” and “be ironic”, but it didn’t work out, that’s bad luck.

Mariah Carey: "I want to be thin, like starving children in Africa"

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In an interview with the Cupcake website in 1996, the singer talked about how she would like to help all the children of the world and, in particular, said that African children at least do not have problems with being overweight.

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“God, I still have so much to do. Sometimes it seems to me that all this money and success only prevents me from doing something really important - children. When I watch TV and see all these poor starving kids, I can't hold back my tears. I mean, of course, I would like to be as thin, but only without flies, death and all that.

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After such a statement, interviews from an unknown site began to reprint everything in a row - in particular, The Independent newspaper. Everyone was indignant at Mariah's hypocrisy and stupidity, although it was not she who was stupid at all, but people who believed that one of the most popular singers in the world at that time could give an interview to an unknown site, and even in 1996, when no one take the internet seriously. Of course, all these answers were a playful invention of the authors, but they coincided so exactly with the image of Carey that had developed in the minds of the listeners that no one thought that they might not be true. In principle, Mariah never had any special reasons to fight this image (well, it developed and developed), so she never bothered herself with refuting the quote.

Brian Harvey of East 17: "Ecstasy is OK!"

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In 1997, Radio News was a regular, boring radio about the dangers of drugs and all, calling celebrities as it went on and snaring them for the same regular, boring statements about how drugs kill. One of the speakers on the question was conceived by Brian Harvey, a member of the popular boy band East 17, whose response was a bit of a surprise.

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“I somehow ate 12 tablets - and nothing, then I went home myself. I followed the speed limit, everything was fine with the car. This is generally a harmless pill, it will not harm you in any way. I don't see a problem here. Why 12? Well, the thing is, when you hit one, you go somewhere to hang out, have a great time - well, this is what people want to do. And if it makes you feel better, you can use it to occupy your weekends with something, you can go and have a good time - well, why not then? Life is too short, after all."

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Thoughtless words actually cost the group a career - Brian's statement was loudly criticized the very next day by Prime Minister John Mayor, and about every second newspaper came out with the headline "East 17 participant is a moral monster" - and all this with the image of sweet and kind boys. Harvey himself tirelessly distributed interviews for the next couple of weeks about how wrong he was and how stupid he was, but this did not save the group's reputation, and it soon broke up, after some time falling into an endless cycle of reunions and breakups that few people cared about. Harvey, after this incident, realized that he would not say anything worse, so he became one of the most cheerful speakers in British pop music and constantly gave out quotes like “Mel C is an idiot, but Richard Ashcroft’s whining makes me want to cut my veins.”

Korn's James 'Munky' Shaffer: 'Hitler Went to Heaven'

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In 2002, in response to a seemingly rhetorical question from a Metal Hammer correspondent, “You don’t think Hitler went to heaven, do you?” guitarist Korn abruptly replied that yes, he thinks. What he really thought then is unclear.

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“I think, yes, it’s true, Hitler went to heaven (if there is such a thing as heaven). He believed that what he was doing was good and right, and I think that if you are sure in your heart that you are right, then you cannot be wrong!

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Shaffer is actually still lucky - the majority and the metal public in general, and Korn fans in particular, do not care about the beliefs of idols, and the characteristic "went to heaven" is not necessarily considered positive in the subculture. Moreover, in the same interview, Shaffer apologized to the world for the fact that they helped the Limp Bizkit group become famous at one time, so after these words they were ready to forgive him and much more. But, of course, within a few weeks, the guitarist was attacked by almost all media in all countries. A little later, the musician made a statement: “The fate of Hitler and his afterlife can only be decided by higher powers, and not by me or anyone else. I apologize to everyone who was offended by my comments." In general, of course, a so-so apology, but it suited everyone - and okay.

Philip Kirkorov: “Your pink blouse, boobs and microphone annoy me”

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In May 2004, during a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, the Russian singer was already clearly out of sorts, and the question of journalist Irina Aroyan “Why are there so many remakes in your work” completely pissed him off.

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“That's it, I don't want to talk to you anymore, next question. I just don't like talking to non-professionals.<…>I don't want you to take pictures of me! You are bothering me. Your pink blouse, your boobs and your microphone annoy me.<…>Yes, I ... [don't care] how you write, just like you! I do not like non-professionals, non-professionals have nothing to do here. Do you want me to leave now? I will leave... But I will not leave, because I respect your other colleagues. And you will leave here! Everyone, got up and left here ... [far]!”

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When the journalist expelled by Kirkorov left the hall, the singer's security confiscated all the recording equipment from her - but, of course, other records of the conflict were also preserved. Kirkorov, who was not yet accustomed to the digital era, apparently did not suspect how quickly information could spread on the Internet - very soon the video from the conference hit the net, and from there it was already scattered on the air of TV channels and radio stations. Many journalists and publications announced a boycott to Kirkorov, all concerts were completely disrupted until the end of the year. Aroyan filed a lawsuit against the singer, and in the end she won - she deliberately did not ask for compensation for moral damage, so the court decided only to recover 60,000 rubles in fine from Kirkorov in favor of the state. At first, the artist refused to apologize, but he managed to establish a concert and social life only after he publicly apologized to a journalist at the Golden Gramophone award in early 2005. Although after that, Philip Bedrosovich had many more adventures associated with his intemperance.

Kanye West: 'George Bush doesn't care about black people'

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About a million similar stories are connected with Kanye West, and for one of his antics (when he burst onto the stage during the Grammy presentation, interrupted Taylor Swift's speech and began to resent the unfair distribution of awards), he was called an asshole by Barack Obama himself. But it was still not an interview. Kanye tried to repeat the trick of John Lennon, starring in the image of Jesus for the cover of Rolling Stone, but he did not achieve a reaction similar to that caused by The Beatles - religious fanatics and Klansmen were already tired of fighting pop culture. The really embarrassing situation came in early September 2005, when, days after Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed New Orleans (and, coincidentally, a week after Late Registration was released), NBC hosted a telethon to help the victims. Kanye was supposed to go out with comedian Mike Myers and give the usual inspirational speech from the teleprompter, but instead decided to accuse the entire country of racism.

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“I get sick of the way we are portrayed in the media. You see a black family, they immediately say: "They are looting." You see the white one: "They are looking for food." And you know, that's why we had to wait five days [for the government to send federal aid] because most of the victims were black.<…>George W. Bush doesn't care about blacks at all!"

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Myers, puzzled, tried to pretend that nothing was happening on the air, at some point West was simply cut off his microphone, in the replays of the transmission his attack was simply cut out. But the bomb had already exploded anyway: all the media from the BBC to The New York Times wrote about the incident, The Legendary K-O recorded the song "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" with samples from Kanye's speech, and NPR devoted an entire lengthy broadcast discussing whether Bush really doesn't care about blacks. In order not to escalate the conflict, NBC called West a week later on the air of the show Saturday Night Live, in which at the same time that very speech was good-naturedly ridiculed. The stunt also greatly contributed to the growth in sales of the Late Registrarion album. Kanye, of course, did not go back on his words, two years later he explained his act by the fact that, like many other Americans, he was not at all sure at that moment whether George W. Bush cared about anything at all. But Bush was offended: in a 2010 interview, he admitted that West's outburst was "one of the most disgusting moments of my presidency."

Bob Dylan: "Croats are such Nazis"

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At the end of 2012, a French Rolling Stone interviewer asked one of the world's top music-political artists about the current state of whites and blacks in the US. Dylan, speaking about the fact that conflicts between them still exist, made several analogies, as a result of which it turned out that all Croats are equated with the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klans. Oops.

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“Blacks know that many whites would not want to give up slavery. If these people got their way, blacks would still be yoke-they can't pretend no one knows.<…>If the blood of a slave owner or a member of a clan flows in your veins, blacks feel it. It is noticeable to this day. In the same way, Jews can feel Nazi blood, and Serbs can feel Croatian.”

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Members of the Croatian community in France reacted negatively to the interview, and later filed a lawsuit - at the end of 2013 it became known that their application was accepted, and Dylan, in all seriousness, faces up to a year in prison for inciting hatred. However, in April 2014, the judge dropped all charges against Dylan, although the case did not end there - now, instead of the musician, the defendant is the French publisher Rolling Stone.

Jack White: "The Black Keys stop copying me"

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The Guardian journalist Tim Jonze prepared a profile of the singer Lana Del Rey for the release of her new album "Ultraviolence". One of the main themes of his research was the gloomy image of the singer and how she romanticizes death; not surprisingly, during the conversation, Jonze asked Del Rey if she wanted to die herself.

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“I wish I were already dead,” Lana Del Rey said, completely unexpectedly for me. She talked about her characters - including Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain - and I noticed that they were united by death in their youth. Then I asked her if she thought there was something luxurious about it. "Don't know. Mmm. Yes,” she replied. “Don’t do it like that,” I answer instinctively. “But I really want it,” she said. ( from an article in The Guardian)

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Del Rey's performance infuriated Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt's daughter, who in a series of tweets told Lana something like "I'll never know my father because of this, and you're stuffed." Del Rey first tried to shift all the blame for the interview onto the journalist - they say, at first she pretended to be a fan, and then she began to ask provocative questions. Jonze responded reasonably by saying that when you are asked whether you find death attractive and whether you want to die, you can always answer "no". Later, Del Rey personally answered Frances Bean Cobain, saying that she loves only her father's music, and does not consider his death in his youth to be “cool” at all. One way or another, something clearly went wrong with the Ultraviolence promotional campaign.

Sorry, I'm not dead yet Lana Del Rey says it in a way that makes me cringe. She remembers her favorite musicians - Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain. I notice that they all died early, and I ask her if she thinks this is romantic? "I do not even know. Maybe yes". And again he complains about life.

“You can’t say that,” I react out of inertia.

- I don't care.

- Well, do not!

- I want and I say. I'm tired of working all the time, but nobody cares.

- Work on what? Over the music?

- Generally over everything. I don’t throw words into the wind: if I knew that I would die tomorrow, of course, I would be scared, but I didn’t panic.

We are in New Orleans, in a city where they do not know peace and tranquility. A couple of blocks from the hotel where Lana Del Rey stayed, on Bourbon Street, homeless people roam day and night, French jazzmen sing. Even her hotel room looks like someone was killed there: things are scattered, on half-empty packages of chips, on the computer there is a bloody stain of ketchup.

“Uh-uh,” she says, trying to play songs from her latest album on her laptop. How did ketchup get here?

But when we go out onto the balcony, everything around seems to freeze. “Magic place,” Lana adds, lighting up a cigarette. And then she starts to tell why she is unhappy: she does not like being a pop star, because she is always criticized.

“If I die, my parents will come to say goodbye to me and say: “Darling girl, your life was like a movie, you left us so early.” Yes, a shitty movie.

The interview lasts an hour, and most of the time she talks about something sad. Listening to her story - about childhood on the street, biker gangs and seven million albums sold Born to Die- It's hard to believe that she is really disappointed in life.

The conversation starts with video games, the title track with which Lana debuted in 2011. She recorded tracks and videos and posted them on the Internet, but they did not pay attention to her, and after video games critics began to disassemble her songs and image in parts. Does she understand anything about the aesthetics of beauty? Does she really not work with any label? How much money did her father invest in promoting her songs? How many times did she pump her lips? Is Elizabeth Grant her real name or another fake?

I ask how many years she made music before she wrote video games? And I hear in response: “I can’t stand this song. It's terrible, like my whole life."

When the laptop turns on, the voice of a sad girl is heard from the speakers. "Fools never learn to change properly." Apparently, Lana Del Rey's new album is going to be a success.

- If I had everything that is written in magazines: money, a lot of money, sex with just anyone ... In fact, I want peace and tranquility - to write songs, and to be respected for it.

In the last year, critics have calmed down a bit, and Lana did not notice how new enemies appeared in her life. In 2012, her "cloud" on the Internet was hacked. The hackers had all the photos, bills, hospital records, not to mention the songs. “All 211 songs,” she sums up. Who did this is not clear, but this someone is slowly leaking all her personal information.

If you look at how Lana Del Rey lives, it's easy to guess why she feels exhausted. Pop idols of recent years are women, and she is one of them.

“I get reminded of it all the time,” she says. - Many people explain the popularity of women with sexism, but I think the point is different. I am not a feminist.

I think of musicians who have been in the spotlight of critics lately: Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Sinead O'Connor.

“Probably, these girls are provocateurs,” Lana says. “I have never been like that. What can shock my songs? Is that a strange lyric.

What about the video for the song Ride, where she sits down with one or another elderly biker (for this she was even called a whore).

“Okay,” she replies. “I can see your feminist eyebrow twitching. It was a very personal video for me, it's about free love.

How does it reflect her real life?

— Oh, it's all about me.

Hanging out with bikers and changing guys like gloves?

“Yeah,” she says, looking around and laughing.

In terms of the number of accusations of fraud, she will surpass any pop star. She tells me how she hitchhiked around the country as a teenager. "I didn't have a home or health insurance." For six years she did not communicate with her parents, who were dubbed her producers. “Father always had less money than everyone else. In 1994, he was engaged in the development of the Internet and went bankrupt.

Lana Del Rey likes to describe her turbulent moments as if she were writing a romance novel: she recalls how she often wandered around New York in the evenings, meeting strangers "where the night left them." “I remembered how Dylan liked to talk about music with the first person he met all night. I met writers and artists. Some became my friends, others became something more.”

“That sounds very frivolous.

“I’m fine with my intuition.

Are you still having fun like this?

- Occasionally.

Do passers-by often recognize you?

- Fifty fifty. If they find out, I just run away.

"Aren't they surprised you're roaming the streets?"

- In Los Angeles - surprises. In Oklahoma, no.

At eighteen - here the dark memories again take over her - she suffered from alcohol addiction and now, moonlighting as a social worker, she tries to help those who are addicted to drugs or booze. She talks about it as a calling.

She says that all her songs are about these people. "These are not simple pop ballads." She gives an example of the rhythm of her music and tells how it reflects her state of mind. “Life seems dirty, muddy to me, and my songs are the same.”

She wants to be a serious singer and author, which is why early criticism offended her so much. Maybe Lana really should go back in time to remember the dignity with which she got out of the scandals after video games and started getting the expert approval she thinks she deserves?

Rain beats against the railing and mixes with cigarette smoke. I think about the concert she has tonight. About the screaming fans around her taking selfies. And, of course, she must like it all.

“No,” Lana says, looking down the busy street. Let's end the interview. I feel good on this balcony, it's so calm here.

She throws her head back, closes her eyes, and seems to be petrified. ≠

What is the song about, Meaning of the song: In her song, Lana Del Rey sings that there are people who just feel good together. They somehow miraculously find each other. When this happens, everything becomes unimportant - all that is needed is to always be next to each other, side by side, enjoying each other to the last breath.

Born to Die by Lana Del Rey became a popular song in 2011-2012. It was released to support an album called Born to Die. The singer gained popularity by releasing this album.

About the song Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

The song is spoken from a woman's point of view. The girl is sad on Friday evenings, she feels lonely. She walks unfamiliar streets and tries to find her young man. It is unlikely that he can be called such, he is just her friend, who can always cheer up a girl. They are not friends and not a couple, their chemical bond is present in the air, but there is no relationship between them. They just relax together: smoke weed, walk around the city at night, ride in a car. The girl asks the young man not to upset her, not to make her cry. Lana sings about how they were born to die. Enjoy every moment of their lives without thinking about the consequences. And then die. The singer considers such people real. Such people live for today, kiss in the pouring rain and do not pay attention to passers-by. The composition describes a difficult relationship that will never turn into a formal one. They will remain beyond the bounds of the possible, because the guy will never belong to the girl, and the girl will not insist on it, because the main thing for her is that he is nearby.

About the clip of Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

The video of the same name was released in December 2011. Lyrical clip, where there is no special meaning. A beautiful picture that will please the audience. It all starts with the fact that Lana Del Rey is standing in an embrace with an unknown man against the backdrop of the flag of America. Soon an antique palace appears with a massive armchair in which the singer is located. There are two tigers around her. There are huge roses in her hair. Scenes where the performer is driving a car with her young man are separately inserted into the video clip. They kiss and just enjoy the long ride. A wonderful clip with a soulful atmosphere of old palaces. Lana perfectly coped with the role of the mistress of time. She expresses the feelings of the heroine of the song, who needs heroes who will make her alive, allow her to do pranks that she will never remember. She dreams that her life will be carefree. Such a man is and tries not to upset a beautiful girl. Separately, the backgrounds included in the clip are beautiful, the ceilings of cathedrals, the night road and the old castle.

Lana Del Rey on '27 Club': 'I don't like the romanticization of an early death'

As part of her tour in support of the latest Honeymoon album, world famous singer Lana Del Rey will visit Moscow and perform at the Park Live festival. In anticipation of the HELLO! I personally found out from the drama queen what is hidden behind her image and why she is so sad.

You pronounce "Lana Del Rey" - and before your eyes there is a picture as if from an old movie: a diva from America of the 60s is driving along the highway to nowhere. Only then does a voice appear with a bewitching timbre, with which Lana sings about love, eternity and the end of the world.

Her career once began precisely with a "picture": in 2011, videos for Lana's songs Video Games and Blue Jeans hit the Web and immediately became popular. Neither previously recorded tracks, nor concerts in arthouse clubs in New York, nor the support of her father, entrepreneur Robert Grant, helped her succeed. But the style that she has adhered to since then helped.

Her real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. In a personal file - attending a Catholic school, problems with alcohol in adolescence, studying philosophy in New York, wealthy parents and great prospects, which she betrayed with music. Lana always tells this biography in an interview in different ways - exaggerating something, keeping silent about something. She melts her memories into songs, and the images created in her head into stage reality, which is dearer to her than the real one. In fact, there is too little poetry for Lana.

We are talking with Lana on the eve of the concert in Moscow. We are talking not so much about the upcoming performance, but about the search for oneself, the torments of creativity. "Music is not the only thing that interests me," she says. But so far, participation in the cinema is limited for the singer to writing title tracks for famous films - Big Eyes, The Great Gatsby, Maleficent and The Age of Adaline. And we're talking about "good old" sadness. As the singer herself notes: "She never left me, my everyday life is still poisoned by this feeling."

Lana, you have released three albums in the last four years. It seems that you never have a creative stagnation.

If. I increasingly have periods when I can not write a single line. In addition, I am constantly on the move, on tour. And if at the beginning of my career I naively believed that I could write on the road - you know, romance, travel - then later it turned out that I can concentrate and stop being lazy only at home, in America. I lock myself in the studio with the musicians, don't get out of there for several weeks, and in the end the album is ready.

All your records are different, and at the same time you have a very recognizable style: the atmosphere of the 60s, minor moods, slow pace. You yourself almost do not move on stage - as opposed to active modern performers ...

Few people know, but in fact I just love to dance. (smiles) I remember when we were making my third Ultraviolence album in Nashville, at the end of each day we would turn on the recorded tracks and break away as best we could. My music producer Dan Auerbach invited his friends into the studio, sometimes we just brought people there whom we met right in the store around the corner, and once the actress Juliette Lewis danced with us. Then for the first time in my life I plunged into such a creative atmosphere, rediscovered myself. And she became more open.

Before that you were closed?

Before that, I just felt lonely, superfluous. But when there are so many people around you who love the same thing as you, when everyone believes in you, you willy-nilly begin to believe in yourself. And now, when the recording starts, it's like I'm in another universe, where I feel good, and I don't care if someone looks at me or not. Perhaps everything is not so successful for me in real life: unlucky in love, quarrels in the family ... But my life in the studio is one continuous happiness. I always have a good mood there.

You grew up in a small American village called Lake Placid. Probably, already there they began to feel superfluous?

On the contrary - I then had a bunch of girlfriends, we were very similar and completely inseparable. We ran away to parties, met older guys ... And then my parents found out about all this, and at the age of 14 I was sent to a boarding school. There I mostly communicated with only one teacher. He was 22 years old and it was he who introduced me to the songs of Jeff Buckley and the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. When I came to New York after graduation at the age of 19, I began to look for like-minded people, people who thought and felt like me. But then I realized that I was too late. Nobody talked about romance and songs: my peers were obsessed with career, money, success.

And what did you do?

I gave up this race. I dropped out of the NYU my parents dreamed of and spent six long years just writing songs, working as a waitress, and starting to play at clubs with friends. Of course, I was scared that others would think: "Who does she think she is?! What kind of star is she!" But as immodest as it may sound, I just liked my music.

How did your parents react to your decision?

I will never forget how my father came to the studio after the first success. I was recording my second album, Born To Die, and he was blown away by how confidently I gave instructions to the producer, how I sang. My parents always knew that I wanted to become a singer, and even helped me in some ways, even though I did not live up to their expectations regarding my career. But I think it was after that moment in the studio that they realized that I was really capable of achieving a lot.

Did music help you find what you wanted so much - like-minded people?

Yes, now I constantly spend time with musical groups in general and with men in particular. They mostly play in bands. (Smiling.) I love men, it's easy with them. I think I myself will soon become a real tear in such a company.

Many of your icons and role models - Jeff Buckley, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain - died young, some of them at 27 years old (representatives of the so-called "27 Club" - Ed.)

(Interrupts.) I never liked them just because they left early. It just seems to be the fate of those I admire. I don't like this romanticization of early death. Any artist is much more useful when he is alive.

Lana, do you believe in real talent, in inspiration?

All my life I have been firmly convinced of only one thing - that I have a talent. Before my debut, I had been writing songs for ten years, and this was the most important, the most stable part of my life. And the only thing that really upsets me now is those very “failures” of inspiration, stagnation, which began to happen more and more often. But I do not despair, I have found a new way to wake up the muse. Recently I was driving to the ocean for a swim and I started humming a tune while driving. So I go now - with a voice recorder and singing songs. Just like in the movies.