Lana Del Rey

Name: Lana Del Rey
Given Name: Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Date Of Birth: 21st of June 1986
Hometown: Lake Placid, NY
Music: Alternative
First Album: Lana Del Rey A.K.A. Lizzy Grant (2010)
Latest Album: Born To Die (2012)


I think now that everyone is talking about Lana Del Rey, I should, too.
But I'm not going to talk about what you think I am, I'm going to talk about her lips a lot.
Yup.
To get Lana Del Rey, you just have to a lot of fifties-appeal, a pinch of pin-up and stirr well, to serve with a sauce à la Hipstamatic. BOOM.
She's amazing, I really have to say. A bit Marina And The Diamonds, a bit Paloma Faith, and a lot of LANA DEL REY. Her music is kind of retro, something new, and totally my thing.
(In case you don't know her, which is humanly impossible, but well, click here to listen to Summertime Sadness on YouTube, the video is AMAZING.)
Last year, she kind of came out of nowhere and by now, everybody loves her - from Indie-kids to Mainstream people, even my Mum likes her music. She's basically doing everything right.
But you do have to think about the fact that she's sort of an art project, if you will.
Her musical success came when she had her lips done - before that, when she was still Lizzy Grant, she flopped.
I don't know maybe that's a coincidence. Maybe not.
But if not, isn't that just awful?
Holywood, Home of Plastic Fantastic, where botox and a boob job are daily business. Nice title, huh? Every picture, in magazines or on the TV, is photoshopped. The exclusive-club Hollywood has its rules, and we all know that. If you're pretty, you're in. If you're not, you let youself be made pretty. The uniform for success seems to be a mix of botox, liposuctions, collagen, and nose jobs. If you want to play with the upper ten-thousand, you need to bring the right moulds to the sandpit.

Of course, not everyone does it à la Cut Face Crowd, like Meg Ryan or Lindsay Lohan. (Yeah, honey, I know what you did last summer.) Lana Del Rey still looks natural - by the way, she got her lip job from her first paycheck. Not a lot of people know that she actually got a single (Kill Kill) out in 2008 - as Lizzy Grant, with white-blonde hair and her first set of lips. Nobody wanted to buy it.
The sad thing is that it's not going to stop being that way.
You're pretty, you can go.
You're not - stay home with Mama.
And especially we, you know, as teenage girls, are SO influenced by what we see (it's actually true, even though our mothers say it), and by now - be honest - we all know at least one person who's "had something done".
But we should really leave the surgery to those who made them famous, the Hollywood crowd. You know, where there's eternal youth and beauty, and all that crap. (Sorry.)
Lana Del Rey's music is brilliant, and I'm sure it'd still be if she was still Lizzy Grant. But her way up yould ahve a few more red lights and diversions.
So yeah. Check her out, and best listen to Kill Kill as well. It's awesome.