My opinion story.

  Singer-songwriter, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (aka. Lana Del Rey) who's from Lake Placid, New York has never had it easy in the music industry. Yet it did take her a while to find her fame over the vintage slow/ hip hop inspired music of hers.

  Lana has had a tough life while growing up in, she's been sent to boarding school because of her alcoholic abuse as a teenager. Now everyones not perfect but it shows that people the turn there lives around.

  Over the courses of years Lana began writing her own music and performed in night clubs/venues under the name of 'Lizzy Grant'. Her music was little more darker in my opinion but it was all for the aesthetic. She was later signed to an independent record company which later took a while to produce lana first album and later got shelved.

  After a while Lizzy Grant change her name to Lana Del Rey and was later signed to Interscope Records and Polydor Records. She then produced her first official album "Born To Die" in 2012 that had amazing instrumentals and vocals on it. That same year she performed on 'Saturday Night Live' (SNL) which wasn't pretty. Her performance was know as the " worst in SNL history". After this performance it wasn't certain if Lana had a career again.

  After the internet cooled down Lana still had a good hand full of supporters like me stay by her side and she later produced an extended edition of her first album called 'Paradise'. After that she kind of took a break on big television shows and when smaller. she gained her fandom back and was becoming more of a known artist but still underrated.

  Lana has 5 albums the third being more a stupid back version and more of an indie/alternative sound with heavier instrumentals and more vocals and an interesting story called 'Ultraviolence' (2014)
  The forth album 'Honeymoon' (2015) features the same aesthetic but more of and older vintage Hollywood vibe.

 Now Lana Del Rey isn't a natural performer as you may know, I've seen her live at ACL 2014 and she sounded amazing. After the SNL performance everyone put an image in there head that she just can't sing and to say that really won't matter because she already has us (her fans) that support her and stream her on spotify and buy her music on iTunes.

  Now for this fifth album 'Lust for Life' which has her first features on any of her albums; including The weeknd, Sean Ono Lennon and rumored Stevie Nicks. Lana's come a long way and will continue to surprise all of us secretly.