Lana Del Rey

{{Short description|American singer-songwriter (born 1985)}} {{Other uses}} {{pp-semi-indef|small=yes}} {{Use American English|date=December 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Lana Del Rey | image = LanaDRPrimavera310524 (32 of 147) (53765476960) (cropped).jpg  | caption = Del Rey in 2024 | alt = Lana Del Rey smiling at a festival performance | birth_name = Elizabeth Woolridge Grant | other_names = {{Hlist|Lana Del Ray|Lana Rey Del Mar|Lizzy Grant|May Jailer|Sparkle Jump Rope Queen}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1985|6|21}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}} | years_active = 2005–present | alma_mater = Fordham University (BA) | spouse = {{marriage|Jeremy Dufrene|2024}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 27, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey Marries Alligator Tour Guide Jeremy Dufrene in Louisiana Wedding |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lana-del-rey-marries-jeremy-dufrene-in-louisiana-wedding/ |access-date=September 27, 2024 |website=US Magazine |language=en |archive-date=September 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927063558/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lana-del-rey-marries-jeremy-dufrene-in-louisiana-wedding/ |url-status=live}}</ref> | works = {{hlist|Discography|live performances|songs|unreleased songs|videography}} | awards = Full list | module = {{Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | genre = {{Hlist|Alternative pop|baroque pop|dream pop|rock}} | instrument = Vocals | label = {{Hlist|{{nowrap|5 Points Records}}|Stranger Records|Polydor Records|Interscope Records}} | website = {{official URL}} }} | signature = Lana Del Rey signature.svg | signature_size = 100px }}

'''Elizabeth Woolridge Grant''' (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as '''Lana Del Rey''', is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamor and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana.<ref name=all/> She is the recipient of various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two ''Billboard'' Women in Music awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for 11 Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mier |first=Tomás |date=November 11, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey 'Woke Up Very Excited' About Her 5 Grammy Nods |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-grammys-2023-nominations-celebrates-1234875660/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=November 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111040231/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-grammys-2023-nominations-celebrates-1234875660/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Variety'' honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century". In 2023, ''Rolling Stone'' placed Del Rey on their list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", while ''Rolling Stone UK'' named her as the "greatest American songwriter of the 21st century".<ref name="Ewens">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/features/lana-del-rey-she-does-it-for-the-girls-album-27426/ |title=Lana Del Rey: she does it for the girls |last=Ewens |first=Hannah |date=March 8, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317040920/https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/features/lana-del-rey-she-does-it-for-the-girls-album-27426/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="rollingstone.com">{{cite magazine |title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=January 1, 2023 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/lana-del-rey-14-1234642409/ |access-date=February 17, 2023 |archive-date=December 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241223124518/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/lana-del-rey-14-1234642409/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Del Rey grew up in upstate New York and moved to Manhattan, New York in 2005 to pursue a music career. Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single "Video Games", leading to a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope.<ref name="stranger" /> She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, ''Born to Die'' (2012), which featured a moody, hip hop-inflected sound and spawned the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness". The album topped numerous national charts around the world, and holds the record for the longest charting album by a woman in the history of the US ''Billboard'' 200. She subsequently topped the US charts with the albums ''Ultraviolence'' (2014) and ''Lust for Life'' (2017).

Her critically acclaimed sixth album ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019) was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and listed as one of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref name = Spanos>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-track-list-865743/ |title=Lana Del Rey Announces 'Norman F-cking Rockwell' Release Date |last=Spanos |first=Brittany |date=July 31, 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone |quote=''Norman Fucking Rockwell'' will be out on August 30th. |access-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731173451/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-track-list-865743/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Schewitz">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rs500albums.com/350-301/321 |title=Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time |last=Schewitz |first=Brett |date=January 25, 2021 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-date=January 10, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110104655/https://www.rs500albums.com/350-301/321 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Del Rey's ninth studio album ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd'' was released in 2023, supported by the critically acclaimed single "A&W", which was named one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref name="Greatest500Songs">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/ |title=The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |date=February 16, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=February 18, 2024 |archive-date=September 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915162053/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Later that year, she released the ''Billboard'' Global 200 top-20 hit "Say Yes to Heaven".

Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short film ''Tropico''<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.thefader.com/2013/12/06/why-did-lana-del-rey-make-a-30-minute-video-about-god-and-what-does-it-mean-for-me |title=Why Did Lana Del Rey Make a 30-Minute Video About God, and What Does It Mean for Me? |date=December 6, 2013 |first=Duncan |last=Cooper |magazine=The Fader |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115073947/https://www.thefader.com/2013/12/06/why-did-lana-del-rey-make-a-30-minute-video-about-god-and-what-does-it-mean-for-me |url-status=live}}</ref> and released "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama ''The Great Gatsby'', which was highly praised by critics and received Grammy Award and Critics' Choice Award nominations. In 2014, she recorded "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure film ''Maleficent'' and the titular theme song for the biopic ''Big Eyes'', which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/coldplay-lorde-lana-del-rey-make-best-original-song-oscar-shortlist-182267/ |title=Coldplay, Lorde, Lana Del Rey Make Best Original Song Oscar Shortlist |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=December 13, 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530135101/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/coldplay-lorde-lana-del-rey-make-best-original-song-oscar-shortlist-182267/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/oscar-nominations-2015-full-list-academy-award-nominees-1201405517/ |title=Oscar Nominations 2015: Full List |date=January 15, 2015 |magazine=Variety |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-date=September 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906075023/http://variety.com/2015/film/news/oscar-nominations-2015-full-list-academy-award-nominees-1201405517/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey also recorded the collaboration "Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy ''Charlie's Angels'' (2019). In 2020, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection ''Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass''. In 2026, she collaborated with veteran James Bond composer David Arnold on the title soundtrack for the video game ''007: First Light'', releasing a song of the same name.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-04-16 |title=James Bond game: Lana Del Rey to sing theme on 007 First Light |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx984j49ro |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born on June 21, 1985<ref name=age> * {{cite magazine |last1=Hiatt |first1=Brian |title=Lana Del Rey – The Saddest, Baddest Diva in Rock |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 18, 2014 |issue=1212 |page=44 |quote=Del Rey is four days away from her 29th birthday (for reasons she can't explain, she's usually reported to be a year younger), but looks, at the moment, like a college junior home for the summer.}}; * {{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Ron |title=July 4, 2008 Post |url=http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2008/dailyposts/07-04-08.htm |website=Domain Name Journal |access-date=July 18, 2014 |date=July 4, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725115025/http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2008/dailyposts/07-04-08.htm |archive-date=July 25, 2014}}; *{{cite web |title=Girl, Interrupted: Lizzy Grant Becomes Lana Del Rey |url=http://blurtonline.com/feature/girl-interrupted-lizzy-grant-becomes-lana-del-rey-2 |website=Blurt |access-date=July 18, 2014 |year=2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727011844/http://blurtonline.com/feature/girl-interrupted-lizzy-grant-becomes-lana-del-rey-2 |archive-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref> in Manhattan,<ref name="vbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/lana-del-rey |title=Lana Del Rey Biography, Quotes and Facts |last=Sowray |first=Bibby |date=February 10, 2012 |access-date=June 20, 2012 |work=Vogue |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003073102/http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/lana-del-rey |archive-date=October 3, 2012}}</ref> to Robert England Grant Jr., a copywriter at Grey Global Group, and Patricia Ann "Pat" Grant (née Hill), an account executive at the same organization.<ref name="DNJournal">{{cite web |url=http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/april.htm |title=The Domain Giant You Didn't Know: Rob Grant's Roundabout Route to Real Estate Riches (Online and Off!) |date=April 2008 |first=Ron |last=Jackson |publisher=DN Journal |access-date=January 1, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014143231/http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/april.htm |archive-date=October 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Robert England Grant Jr. Marries Patricia Ann Hill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/13/style/robert-england-grant-jr-marries-patricia-ann-hill.html |access-date=December 4, 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 13, 1982 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202022012/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/13/style/robert-england-grant-jr-marries-patricia-ann-hill.html |archive-date=February 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bock |first=Melvin Lynn |author2=E. Dale Hooper |author3=Carole J. Skelly |date=1998 |title=Joseph and Mary Dale and their descendants |publisher=Windmill Publications |page=113}}</ref> She has a younger sister, Caroline "Chuck" Grant,<ref name=meetSister>{{cite web |last1=Zupkus |first1=Lauren |title=Meet Chuck Grant, Lana Del Rey's Equally Gorgeous And Talented Sister |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/08/chuck-grant-lana-del-rey-sister_n_5952704.html |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=October 26, 2017 |date=October 8, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018081804/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/08/chuck-grant-lana-del-rey-sister_n_5952704.html |archive-date=October 18, 2014}}</ref> and a younger brother, Charlie Grant.<ref name=grazia>{{cite journal |last=Rüth |first=Steffen |date=June 5, 2014 |title=Lana Del Rey |language=de |journal=Grazia |location=Hamburg, Germany |publisher=G+J/Klambt-Style-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG |issue=24/2012 |page=36 |issn=2192-3965}}</ref><ref name="nylon"/> She grew up Catholic<ref>{{cite news |date=April 10, 2016 |title=Celebrities who are practising Catholics or were raised in the church |url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/catholic-celebrities-1.4802809 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006095622/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/catholic-celebrities-1.4802809 |archive-date=October 6, 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2017 |newspaper=Newsday}}</ref> and is of Scottish and English descent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://celticlifeintl.com/ultra-lana/ |title=Ultra Lana |website=Celtic Life International |date=August 22, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204183531/https://celticlifeintl.com/ultra-lana/ |archive-date=December 4, 2022 |quote=Drawn to Scotland by her ex-boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill (lead singer of indie band Kassidy) coupled with her Scottish/Anglo ancestry}}</ref> When she was a year old, the family moved to Lake Placid, New York.<ref name="pitchbio">{{cite web |last=Dombal |first=Ryan |date=August 30, 2011 |title=Rising: Lana Del Rey |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124171215/http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey |archive-date=January 24, 2012 |access-date=January 25, 2012 |work=Pitchfork}}</ref> In Lake Placid, her father worked for a furniture company before becoming an entrepreneurial domain investor;<ref name="kent">{{cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |title=Lana Del Rey: Vamp of Constant Sorrow |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-vamp-of-constant-sorrow-74230/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=July 31, 2014 |date=January 9, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924175923/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/lana-del-rey-vamp-of-constant-sorrow-20140731?page=8 |archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref> her mother worked as a schoolteacher.<ref name=KentFA-Sydney/> There, she attended St. Agnes School in her elementary years<ref name="nylon">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nylonmag.com/articles/lana-del-rey-interview-nylon |title=National Anthem |last=Giannini |first=Melissa |date=November 28, 2013 |magazine=Nylon |access-date=June 8, 2014 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203120905/http://www.nylonmag.com/articles/lana-del-rey-interview-nylon |url-status=dead}}</ref> and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor.<ref name=nylon/><ref name="clashmusic">{{cite magazine |title=Lana Del Rey Interview |url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/lana-del-rey-interview |magazine=Clash |access-date=February 24, 2013 |date=November 29, 2011 |first=Andy |last=Welch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927010125/http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/lana-del-rey-interview |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref>

She attended the high school where her mother taught for a year,<ref name=KentFA-Sydney>{{cite news |last=Tranter |first=Kirsten |title=Lolita in the 'hood |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/lolita-in-the-hood-20140505-37r6n.html |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=March 7, 2015 |date=May 10, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406012455/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/lolita-in-the-hood-20140505-37r6n.html |archive-date=April 6, 2015}}</ref> but when she was 14<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine |last=Heaf |first=Jonathan |date=October 1, 2012 |title=Woman Of The Year: Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/woman-of-the-year-lana-del-rey |access-date=October 17, 2022 |magazine=GQ |archive-date=September 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907023451/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/men-of-the-year/home/winners-2012/woman-of-the-year-lana-del-rey |url-status=live}}</ref> or 15,<ref name="vbio" /><ref name=KentFA-Sydney /><ref name="paradiselost">{{cite web |title=Paradise Lost: An interview with Lana Del Rey |url=http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/lana-del-rey-interview |work=Electronic Beats |first=Lisa |last=Banning |access-date=October 2, 2013 |date=June 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005012807/http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/lana-del-rey-interview |archive-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> her parents sent her to Kent School,<ref name="paradiselost"/> an Episcopal boarding school in Kent, Connecticut to get sober from alcoholism. Alcoholism, along with drugs, had been a problem that started in her teenage years and had become so serious that her entire family, including Grant herself, was worried. Grant shared in an interview: "That's really why I got sent to boarding school aged 14—to get sober."<ref name=":2" /> Her uncle, an admissions officer at the school, secured her financial aid to attend.<ref name="kent" /><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |title=Dark places: summertime sadness with Lana Del Ray |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/dark-places-summertime-sadness-with-lana-del-ray-30539731.html |newspaper=Irish Independent |access-date=March 7, 2015 |date=January 9, 2014 |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726203349/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/dark-places-summertime-sadness-with-lana-del-ray-30539731.html |url-status=live}} |2={{cite magazine |last=Zadeh |first=Joe |title=American Dreamer: Lana Del Rey Interviewed |url=http://www.clashmusic.com/features/american-dreamer-lana-del-rey-interviewed |magazine=Clash |access-date=March 8, 2015 |date=December 6, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320212351/http://www.clashmusic.com/features/american-dreamer-lana-del-rey-interviewed |archive-date=March 20, 2015}} |3={{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey: Happiness is a process |url=https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/lana-del-rey-happiness-process-003000606.html |publisher=Cover Media |via=Yahoo |access-date=March 8, 2015 |date=July 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402170408/https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/lana-del-rey-happiness-process-003000606.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015}} }}</ref> According to Grant, she had trouble making friends during much of her teenage and early adult years.<ref name=GQ2011>{{cite magazine |last=Fennessey |first=Sean |title=Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201110/lana-del-rey-interview-video-games |magazine=GQ |access-date=March 7, 2015 |date=October 6, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313145103/http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201110/lana-del-rey-interview-video-games |archive-date=March 13, 2015}}</ref><ref name=friends/> She has said she was preoccupied with death from a young age, and its role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation: {{blockquote|When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal. For some reason that knowledge sort of overshadowed my experience. I was unhappy for some time. I got into a lot of trouble. I used to drink a lot. That was a hard time in my life.<ref name=thing>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9027984/Lana-Del-Rey-interview-new-album-Born-to-Die-is-a-beautiful-thing.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |title=Lana Del Rey interview: new album Born to Die is 'a beautiful thing' |date=January 24, 2012 |last=McCormick |first=Neil |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114055829/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9027984/Lana-Del-Rey-interview-new-album-Born-to-Die-is-a-beautiful-thing.html |archive-date=January 14, 2013 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}

Grant later dropped out of school to go to rehab; she has been sober since 2003.<ref name=":2" /> She spent a year living on Long Island with her aunt and uncle and working as a waitress.<ref name="kent"/> During that time, Grant's uncle taught her to play guitar and she "realized [that she] could probably write a million songs with those six chords".<ref name="bbclovelaw">{{cite news |last=Savage |first=Mark |date=January 27, 2012 |title=Love, the law, and Lana Del Rey |agency=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16729651 |url-status=live |access-date=January 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203202621/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16729651 |archive-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref> Shortly after, she began writing songs and performing in nightclubs around the city under various names such as "Sparkle Jump Rope Queen" and "Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena".<ref name="bbclovelaw"/> "I was always singing, but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously", she said:{{blockquote|When I got to New York City when I was eighteen, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn—I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point—and that was it.<ref name="vbio" />}}She originally attended State University of New York at Geneseo, but dropped out to take a gap year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tropicsofmeta.com/2015/02/02/the-gonzo-vision-of-lana-del-rey/ |title=The Gonzo Vision of Lana Del Rey |first=Alex Sayf |last=Cummings |date=February 2, 2015 |website=Tropics of Meta |access-date=January 6, 2025 |archive-date=January 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114174601/https://tropicsofmeta.com/2015/02/02/the-gonzo-vision-of-lana-del-rey/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In fall 2004, at age 19, Grant enrolled at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York 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"/>

==Career== ===2005–2010: Career beginnings and early recordings=== {{Further|Sirens (May Jailer album)|Kill Kill|Lana Del Ray (album)}} [[File:Lana Turner 1944 photo.jpg|thumb|Lana Turner, a film actress who inspired Del Rey's stage name]] In spring 2005, while still in college, Del Rey registered a seven-track extended play with the United States Copyright Office; the application title was ''Rock Me Stable'' with another title, ''Young Like Me'', also listed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=pau002950687&Search_Code=REGS&PID=UKW7t--drR2yWFBzRii2pv184PvRX&SEQ=20120822045916&CNT=25&HIST=1 |title=Registration Number / Date: PAu002950687 / April 25, 2005 |year=2005 |work=Digital Spy |access-date=August 21, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202171514/http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=pau002950687&Search_Code=REGS&PID=UKW7t--drR2yWFBzRii2pv184PvRX&SEQ=20120822045916&CNT=25&HIST=1 |archive-date=February 2, 2016}}</ref> A second extended play, ''From the End'', was also recorded under Del Rey's stage name at the time, May Jailer.<ref name=hellyer>{{cite web |url=https://i-d.co/article/the-greatest-lana-del-rey-songs-that-never-made-an-official-album/ |work=I-D |publisher=Vice |title=The Greatest Lana Del Rey Songs That Never Made an (Official) Album |date=April 18, 2017 |author-last1=Hellyer |author-first1=Isabelle |access-date=August 13, 2017 |archive-date=April 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425140733/https://i-d.co/article/the-greatest-lana-del-rey-songs-that-never-made-an-official-album/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Between 2005 and 2006 she recorded an acoustic album, ''Sirens'', under the May Jailer project,<ref name=hellyer/> which leaked on the internet in mid-2012.<ref name="sirensleak">{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a384853/lana-del-reys-may-jailer-sirens-album-leaks-in-full.html |title=Lana Del Rey's May Jailer 'Sirens' album leaks in full |date=June 1, 2012 |first=Mayer |last=Nissim |work=Digital Spy |access-date=August 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705091211/http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a384853/lana-del-reys-may-jailer-sirens-album-leaks-in-full.html |archive-date=July 5, 2012}}</ref><ref name="spinner-alterego">{{cite web |url=http://www.spinner.com/2012/05/31/lana-del-rey-may-jailer/ |title=Spinner: Lana Del Rey, May Jailer: Did Singer Have ANOTHER Alter Ego? |year=2012 |publisher=spinner.com |access-date=May 31, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110031234/http://www.spinner.com/2012/05/31/lana-del-rey-may-jailer/ |archive-date=January 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/64117 |title=Another early album from Lana Del Rey leaks online? |date=June 1, 2021 |first=Leonie |last=Cooper |work=NME |access-date=July 30, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604072107/http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/64117 |archive-date=June 4, 2012}} |2={{cite web |url=http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/77282/LISTEN-Unheard-Lana-Del-Rey-Album-Leaks-Online- |title=LISTEN: Unheard Lana Del Rey Album Leaks Online |year=2012 |publisher=entertainmentwise.com |access-date=July 30, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602174707/http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/77282/LISTEN-Unheard-Lana-Del-Rey-Album-Leaks-Online- |archive-date=June 2, 2012}} |3={{cite web |url=http://www.thestrut.com/2012/05/31/lana-del-reys-first-album-sirens-leaks/ |title=Lana Del Rey's first album 'Sirens' leaks |date=May 31, 2012 |first=Josh |last=Morrissey |publisher=strut.com |access-date=July 30, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606022747/http://www.thestrut.com/2012/05/31/lana-del-reys-first-album-sirens-leaks/ |archive-date=June 6, 2012}} }}</ref> {{Quote box | width = 280px | align = right | bgcolor = | quote = I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s. | source = —Del Rey explaining why she went into the music industry.<ref name=friends>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a362711/lana-del-rey-hoped-music-industry-would-make-her-more-friends.html |title=Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends |date=January 29, 2012 |access-date=January 20, 2012 |publisher=Digital Spy. Digital Spy Ltd |last=Simpson |first=Leah |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131005837/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a362711/lana-del-rey-hoped-music-industry-would-make-her-more-friends.html |archive-date=January 31, 2012}}</ref> }} At her first public performance in 2006 in the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition, Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records,<ref name="wlsc2006">{{cite web |url=http://wlsc2006.com/915.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013161339/http://wlsc2006.com/915.html |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |title=Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition 2006 (WLSC 2006): Prizes |access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name="disappeared">{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2695337/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview/ |title=Why Lana Del Rey's First Album Disappeared |last=Ayers |first=David |date=January 30, 2012 |work=MTV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410054156/http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview |archive-date=April 10, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</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, ''No Kung Fu'', to 5 Points,<ref name="hellyer" /> which offered her a recording contract for $10,000.<ref name="hellyer" /> She used the money to move to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey<ref name="vbio"/><ref name="paradiselost" /> and began working with producer David Kahne.<ref name="disappeared" /> 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" />

Del Rey graduated from Fordham with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 2008<ref name="paradiselost" /> after which she released a three-track EP, ''Kill Kill'', as Lizzy Grant, featuring production by Kahne.<ref name="cheapthrills">{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/felicia-c-sullivan/interview-singersongwrite_b_159346.html |title=Interview: Singer/Songwriter Lizzy Grant on Cheap Thrills, Elvis, The Flamingos, Trailer Parks, and Coney Island |last=C. Sullivan |first=Felicia |date=February 20, 2009 |website=The Huffington Post |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211134448/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/felicia-c-sullivan/interview-singersongwrite_b_159346.html |archive-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref> She explained: "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">{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/07106-lana-del-rey-interview |title=Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey |date=October 4, 2011 |first=John |last=Calvert |work=The Quietus |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721040309/http://thequietus.com/articles/07106-lana-del-rey-interview |archive-date=July 21, 2012}}</ref> Meanwhile, Del Rey was doing community outreach work for homeless individuals and drug addicts;<ref name="vbio" /> she had become interested in community service work in college, when she "took a road trip across the country to paint and rebuild houses on a Native American reservation".<ref name=nylon/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blick.ch/people-tv/musik/exklusiv-interview-mit-superstar-lana-del-rey-31-ich-komme-definitiv-in-die-schweiz-zurueck-id5270728.html |work=Blick |language=de |author-last1=Hug |author-first1=Dominik |title=Exklusiv-Interview mit Superstar Lana Del Rey |quote=I was still in college and we took a trip to an Indian reservation. |date=July 16, 2016 |access-date=July 22, 2017 |archive-date=July 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716125948/https://www.blick.ch/people-tv/musik/exklusiv-interview-mit-superstar-lana-del-rey-31-ich-komme-definitiv-in-die-schweiz-zurueck-id5270728.html |url-status=deviated}}</ref>

Of 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>{{cite journal |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-culture-edit/2011/10/20/lana-del-rey-interview |title=Lana Del Rey Interview |date=October 20, 2011 |access-date=August 9, 2012 |journal=Vogue UK |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110201921/http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-culture-edit/2011/10/20/lana-del-rey-interview |archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref> The name was also inspired by actress Lana Turner and the Ford Del Rey sedan, produced and sold in Brazil in the 1980s.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lana-del-rey-is-exhausted |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Lana Del Rey Is Exhausted |date=September 29, 2015 |author-last1=Petrusich |author-first1=Amanda |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430175215/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lana-del-rey-is-exhausted |url-status=dead}} |2={{cite web |author-last1=Varga |author-first1=George |date=February 14, 2018 |title=Lana Del Rey has legs, a stalker, four Grammy nominations and a possible Broadway musical |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-lana-delrey-20180214-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180524100405/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-lana-delrey-20180214-story.html |archive-date=May 24, 2018 |access-date=May 24, 2018 |work=The San Diego Union Tribune |location=San Diego, California}} |3={{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-album-feminism-metoo-music-a9085266.html |work=The Independent |title=Why I feel uneasy declaring my love for Lana Del Rey's music |date=August 30, 2019 |last=Brown |first=Helen |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926014533/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-album-feminism-metoo-music-a9085266.html |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}} }}</ref> Initially she used the alternate spelling Lana Del ''Ray'', the name under which her self-titled debut album was released in January 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Her father helped with the marketing of the album,<ref name="adirondackdailyenterprise">{{cite web |url=http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/510931.html?nav=5050 |first=Jessica |last=Collier |title=Lizzy Grant aka. Lana Del Rey releases album |publisher=adirondack daily enterprise.com |date=January 28, 2010 |access-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605033333/http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/510931.html?nav=5050 |archive-date=June 5, 2012}}</ref> which was available for purchase on iTunes for a brief period before being withdrawn in April 2010.<ref name=disappeared/> Kahne and Nichtern said that Del Rey bought the rights back from 5 Points, as she wanted it out of circulation to "stifle future opportunities to distribute it—an echo of rumors the action was part of a calculated strategy".<ref name="disappeared"/><ref name="bbcover" /> She 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 its ''MTV Unplugged'' concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin, Germany.<ref name="mandodiao">{{cite web |url=http://hitparade.ch/interview.asp?id=443 |title=INTERVIEW MIT MANDO DIAO |publisher=Hitparade.ch |access-date=August 27, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031152527/http://hitparade.ch/interview.asp?id=443 |archive-date=October 31, 2012}}</ref> Also in 2010, she acted in a short film, ''Poolside'', which she made with several friends.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmweb.pl/film/Poolside-2012-682904 |work=Film Web |title=Poolside (2012) |access-date=May 30, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531105319/http://www.filmweb.pl/film/Poolside-2012-682904 |archive-date=May 31, 2014}}</ref>

===2011–2013: Breakthrough with ''Born to Die'' and ''Paradise''=== {{Further|Born to Die|Paradise (Lana Del Rey EP)|Born to Die: The Paradise Edition}} In 2011, Del Rey uploaded self-made music videos for her songs "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans" to YouTube, featuring vintage footage interspersed with shots of her singing on her webcam.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dobbins |first=Amanda |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/lana_del_rey.html |title=Meet Lana Del Rey, the New Singer Music Bloggers Love to Hate |work=New York |date=September 21, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111212020754/http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/lana_del_rey.html |archive-date=December 12, 2011}}</ref> The "Video Games" music video became a viral internet sensation,<ref name=all>{{cite web |author-last1=Erlewine |author-first1=Stephen Thomas |author-link1=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lana-del-rey-mn0002784799/biography |title=Lana Del Rey | Biography & History |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=June 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628023832/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lana-del-rey-mn0002784799/biography |archive-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref> which led to Del Rey being signed by Stranger Records to release the song as her debut single.<ref name="signstranger">{{cite web |url=http://strangerrecords.com/#section_01news_2011-06-30-lana_signed_to_stranger |title=Lana Del Rey signs to Stranger! |date=June 30, 2011 |access-date=December 23, 2011 |publisher=Stranger Records |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218225159/http://strangerrecords.com/#section_01news_2011-06-30-lana_signed_to_stranger |archive-date=December 18, 2011}}</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 award for "Next Big Thing" in October 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/10/lana-del-rey-wins-q-award-says-album-due-out-janua.html |work=Paste |publisher=Wolfgang's Vault |title=Lana Del Rey Wins Q Award, Says Album Due Out January |last=Larsen |first=luke |date=October 25, 2011 |access-date=January 20, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128043120/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/10/lana-del-rey-wins-q-award-says-album-due-out-janua.html |archive-date=January 28, 2012}}</ref> and an Ivor Novello for "Best Contemporary Song" in 2012.<ref name="novello">{{cite web |last=Corner |first=Lewis |title=Adele, Lana Del Rey, Take That win at Ivor Novellos 2012 |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a382199/adele-lana-del-rey-take-that-win-at-ivor-novellos-2012.html |work=Digital Spy |date=May 17, 2012 |access-date=October 15, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625182551/http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a382199/adele-lana-del-rey-take-that-win-at-ivor-novellos-2012.html |archive-date=June 25, 2012}}</ref> In the same month, she signed a joint deal with Interscope Records and Polydor to release her second studio album ''Born to Die''.<ref name="bbcover" /><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/464840/lana-del-rey-to-release-interscope-debut-january-2012 |title=Lana Del Rey to Release Interscope Debut January 2012 |last=Halperin |first=Shirley |date=December 5, 2011 |access-date=December 23, 2011 |magazine=Billboard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528113255/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/464840/lana-del-rey-to-release-interscope-debut-january-2012 |archive-date=May 28, 2013}} |2={{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/04/one-to-watch-lana-del-rey |title=One to watch: Lana Del Rey |date=September 4, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |work=The Observer |last=Swash |first=Rosie |location=London, UK |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921215205/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/04/one-to-watch-lana-del-rey |archive-date=September 21, 2013}} }}</ref> She started dating Scottish singer Barrie-James O'Neill in the same year. The couple split in 2014 after three years together.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-21-1192710 |title=Lana Del Rey's ex-boyfriend says she broke up with him in an interview |date=November 24, 2015 |author-first1=Luke Morgan |author-last1=Britton |website=NME |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024132021/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-21-1192710 |url-status=live}}</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>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1677389/lana-del-rey-snl/ |work=MTV |title=Lana Del Rey's 'SNL' Performance Has Critics Howling |date=January 17, 2012 |author-last1=Montgomery |author-first1=James |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102122305/http://www.mtv.com/news/1677389/lana-del-rey-snl/ |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=https://ew.com/article/2012/01/16/lana-del-rey-saturday-night-live/ |title=Lana Del Rey's 'SNL' performance draws criticism, counter-backlash |last=Anderson |first=Kyle |date=January 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313071844/https://ew.com/article/2012/01/16/lana-del-rey-saturday-night-live/ |archive-date=March 13, 2015 |url-status=live}}</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/>

[[File:Lana Del Rey Cannes 2012.jpg|thumb|left|190px|upright|Del Rey attending the 2012 Cannes Film Festival]] ''Born to Die'' was released worldwide on January 31, 2012, to commercial success, charting at number one in 11 countries and debuting at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, although critics at the time were divided.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1048405&c=1 |title=Official Chart Analysis: Lana Del Rey album sells 117k, 43% digital |work=Music Week |date=February 6, 2012 |access-date=March 29, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105151858/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1048405&c=1 |archive-date=November 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/born-to-die/critic-reviews |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131044226/http://www.metacritic.com/music/born-to-die/critic-reviews |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2012 |title=Lana Del Rey – Born to Die |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=January 30, 2012}}</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="bbclovelaw"/> 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">{{cite magazine |title=Lana Del Rey: The Billboard Cover Story |last=Horowitz |first=Stephen |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/512467/lana-del-rey-the-billboard-cover-story |magazine=Billboard |date=January 13, 2012 |access-date=February 27, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206004648/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/512467/lana-del-rey-the-billboard-cover-story |archive-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref> ''Born to Die'' sold 3.4 million copies in 2012, making it the fifth-best-selling album of 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adele's 21 Is Biggest-Selling Album in World... Again |url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/adele/376313-adele-21-world-biggest-selling-album-second-year |publisher=MTV |access-date=February 27, 2013 |date=February 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616220631/http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/adele/376313-adele-21-world-biggest-selling-album-second-year |archive-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2013/09/03/LA71967 |title=Lana Del Rey Breaks into The Top 10 – San Francisco Business Times |work=The Business Journals |date=September 3, 2013 |access-date=September 24, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055257/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2013/09/03/LA71967 |archive-date=September 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/dmr2013.pdf |title=IFPI Digital Music Report 2013 (Page 11) |work=San Francisco Business Times |access-date=September 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927190016/http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/dmr2013.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref> In the United States, ''Born to Die'' charted on the ''Billboard'' 200 well into 2012, lingering at number 76, after 36 weeks on the chart.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lipshutz |first=Jason |title=Lana Del Rey Unveils 10-Minute 'Ride' Video: Watch |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-unveils-10-minute-ride-video-watch-474676/ |magazine=Billboard |date=October 12, 2012 |access-date=October 15, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528142437/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/viral-videos/474676/lana-del-rey-unveils-10-minute-ride-video-watch |archive-date=May 28, 2013}}</ref> As of February 3, 2024, ''Born to Die'' had spent 520 weeks (10 years) on the ''Billboard 200'', making Del Rey the second woman to reach this milestone, previously achieved only by Adele.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McIntyre |first=Hugh |date=February 5, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey Joins Adele In A Major Chart Milestone |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/02/05/lana-del-rey-joins-adele-in-a-major-chart-milestone/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=Forbes |archive-date=January 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114162452/https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/02/05/lana-del-rey-joins-adele-in-a-major-chart-milestone/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Billboard'' credited the album as "one of the main catalysts for pop's mid-2010s shift from brash EDM to a moodier, hip-hop-inflected palette."<ref name="auto" />

In September 2012, Del Rey unveiled the F-Type for Jaguar at the Paris Motor Show<ref name="Elliott">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/08/22/jaguar-taps-lana-del-rey-for-f-type |title=Jaguar Taps Lana Del Rey For F-Type |date=August 22, 2012 |access-date=August 23, 2012 |first=Hannah |last=Elliott |work=Forbes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823181352/http://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/08/22/jaguar-taps-lana-del-rey-for-f-type |archive-date=August 23, 2012}}</ref> and later recorded the song "Burning Desire", which appeared in a promotional short film for the vehicle.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 4, 2013 |title=Jaguar Releases Dramatic Trailer For Short Feature Film 'DESIRE' with Ridley Scott Associates |url=http://media.jaguar.com/news/2013/03/jaguar-releases-dramatic-trailer-short-feature-film-desire-ridley-scott-associates |access-date=July 12, 2017 |website=Jaguar.com |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115211101/https://media.jaguar.com/news/2013/03/jaguar-releases-dramatic-trailer-short-feature-film-desire-ridley-scott-associates |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=George |first=Anita |date=April 25, 2013 |title=Watch Ridley Scott Associates and Jaguar's Short Film, Desire |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/04/watch-jaguars-short-film-desire.html |access-date=July 12, 2017 |website=Paste Magazine |archive-date=July 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725112204/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/04/watch-jaguars-short-film-desire.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's global brand director, explained the company's choice, saying Del Rey had "a unique blend of authenticity and modernity".<ref name="Elliott" /> In late September 2012, a music video for Del Rey's cover of "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>{{cite web |last=Rowley |first=Allison |date=September 15, 2012 |title=Lana Del Rey's H&M TV advert revealed – watch |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a406180/lana-del-reys-hm-tv-advert-revealed-watch.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916195833/http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a406180/lana-del-reys-hm-tv-advert-revealed-watch.html |archive-date=September 16, 2012 |access-date=October 12, 2012 |work=Digital Spy}}</ref><ref name="Alexander">{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/07/17/lana-del-rey-confirmed-as-h-and-m-campaign-star |title=H&M Confirms Lana |last=Alexander |first=Ella |date=July 17, 2012 |work=Vogue U.K. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719093813/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/07/17/lana-del-rey-confirmed-as-h-and-m-campaign-star |archive-date=July 19, 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref> On September 25, Del Rey released the single "Ride" in promotion of her upcoming EP, ''Paradise''.<ref name=bbparadise>{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/474939/lana-del-rey-releases-ride-single-from-born-to-die-deluxe-edition |title=Lana Del Rey Releases 'Ride' Single From 'Born To Die' Deluxe Edition |last=Lipshutz |first=Jason |date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330054604/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/474939/lana-del-rey-releases-ride-single-from-born-to-die-deluxe-edition |url-status=live |archive-date=March 30, 2013}}</ref> She subsequently premiered the music video for "Ride" at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California, on October 10, 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey premieres her new Ride music video in Santa Monica |url=http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/pictures-today/2012/10/11/lana-del-rey-ride-music-video-santa-monica |work=Glamour |access-date=October 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018045023/http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/pictures-today/2012/10/11/lana-del-rey-ride-music-video-santa-monica |archive-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref><ref name="nme2">{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Lucy |title=Lana Del Rey Channels Blanche DuBois in Music Video For 'Ride' |url=https://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=lana_del_rey_channels_blanche_dubois_in_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 |work=NME |access-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001214335/http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/lana-del-rey-channels-blanche-dubois-in-music-video-for-ride |archive-date=October 1, 2013}}</ref> Some critics panned the video for being allegedly pro-prostitution<ref name="nme2" /><ref name="ok!">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey plays a prostitute in new 'Ride' video, has some old truckers for customers |url=http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/view/54978/Lana-Del-Rey-plays-a-prostitute-in-new-Ride-video-has-some-old-truckers-for-customers |work=OK! |access-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610075223/http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/view/54978/Lana-Del-Rey-plays-a-prostitute-in-new-Ride-video-has-some-old-truckers-for-customers |archive-date=June 10, 2013}}</ref> and antifeminist, due to Del Rey's portrayal of a prostitute in a biker gang.<ref name=bbclovelaw/><ref name=slant>{{cite web |last=Rice |first=Paul |title=Lana Del Rey's Feminist Problem |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/02/lana-del-reys-feminist-problem |work=Slant Magazine |date=February 8, 2012 |access-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815072720/http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/02/lana-del-reys-feminist-problem |archive-date=August 15, 2012}}</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 with 67,000 copies sold in its first week.<ref name="prnewswire">{{cite news |title=Lana Del Rey Debuts at No. 10 on Billboard 200 With 'Paradise' EP (Interscope/Polydor) |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lana-del-rey-debuts-at-10-on-billboard-200-with-paradise-ep-interscopepolydor-180400941.html |agency=PR Newswire |access-date=November 22, 2012 |location=Santa Monica, California |date=November 21, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605021444/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lana-del-rey-debuts-at-10-on-billboard-200-with-paradise-ep-interscopepolydor-180400941.html |archive-date=June 5, 2013}}</ref> It was also later nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.<ref name=ldrgrammys/> Del Rey received several nominations at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in November and won the award for Best Alternative performer.<ref>{{cite web |work=Spin |title=MTV EMAs 2012: Taylor Swift Is Popular in Europe, Too |last=McGovern |first=Kyle |date=November 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125024439/https://www.spin.com/2012/11/mtv-emas-2012-taylor-swift-justin-bieber-video/ |url=https://www.spin.com/2012/11/mtv-emas-2012-taylor-swift-justin-bieber-video/ |archive-date=November 25, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the Brit Awards in February 2013, she won the award for International Female Solo Artist,<ref name="billboardbrit">{{cite magazine |last=Smirke |first=Richard |title=Brit Awards 2013: Emeli Sande, Mumford & Sons, Adele Win Big |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549402/brit-awards-2013-emeli-sande-mumford-sons-adele-win-big |magazine=Billboard |date=February 21, 2013 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224045347/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549402/brit-awards-2013-emeli-sande-mumford-sons-adele-win-big |archive-date=February 24, 2013}}</ref> followed by two Echo Award wins, in the categories of Best International Newcomer and Best International Pop/Rock Artist.<ref>{{cite web |work=Marie Claire UK |url=https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/lana-del-rey-wows-in-white-at-echo-music-awards-126590 |title=Lana Del Rey Wows In White At Echo Music Awards |date=March 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927001147/https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/lana-del-rey-wows-in-white-at-echo-music-awards-126590 |archive-date=September 27, 2019}}</ref>

Over the next several months, she released videos of two cover songs: one of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2",<ref name="cohen">{{cite web |last=Sia |first=Nicole |title=Lana Del Rey Enters Her '70s Folk Period in 'Chelsea Hotel No. 2' Video |url=https://www.spin.com/2013/03/lana-del-rey-chelsea-hotel-no-2-video-leonard-cohen/ |work=Spin |date=March 27, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329165804/https://www.spin.com/2013/03/lana-del-rey-chelsea-hotel-no-2-video-leonard-cohen/ |archive-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> followed by a duet with her then-boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neill, of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-134-1249105 |work=NME |title=Lana Del Rey covers Nancy & Lee's 'Summer Wine' with Kassidy boyfriend |last=Cooper |first=Leonie |date=April 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702040757/http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-134-1249105 |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2013, Del Rey released an original song, "Young and Beautiful" for the soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of ''The Great Gatsby''.<ref name="latimesgatsby">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=August |title='Gatsby' soundtrack to feature Jay-Z, Lana del Rey, The xx and more |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-gatsby-soundtrack-to-feature-jayz-lana-del-rey-the-xx-and-more-20130404,0,6073681.story |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 6, 2013 |date=April 4, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406002137/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-gatsby-soundtrack-to-feature-jayz-lana-del-rey-the-xx-and-more-20130404%2C0%2C6073681.story |archive-date=April 6, 2013}}</ref> Following the song's release, it peaked at 22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.<ref name="bbhot100">{{cite magazine |last=Trust |first=Gary |title=Weekly Chart Notes: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Blast Back; Lana Del Rey Debuts; Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj Get Hot (100)-Headed |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/weekly-chart-notes-steve-martin-edie-brickell-blast-back-lana/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=May 7, 2013 |date=May 5, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508004558/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/1560679/weekly-chart-notes-steve-martin-edie-brickell-blast-back-lana |archive-date=May 8, 2013}}</ref> However, shortly after its release to contemporary hit radio, the label prematurely pulled it and decided to send a different song to radio; on July 2, 2013, a Cedric Gervais remix of Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" was sent to radio; a sleeper hit, the song proved to be a commercial success, surpassing "Young and Beautiful", reaching number 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and becoming her first American top ten hit.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5672768/robin-thicke-leads-hot-100-katy-perry-holds-at-no-2 |title=Robin Thicke Leads Hot 100, Katy Perry Holds at No. 2 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=August 28, 2013 |date=August 28, 2013 |first=Gary |last=Trust |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828173211/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5672768/robin-thicke-leads-hot-100-katy-perry-holds-at-no-2 |archive-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref> The remix won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical in 2013,<ref>{{cite web |title=56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=30 |work=Grammy Awards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601132218/http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=30 |archive-date=June 1, 2013}}</ref> while "Young and Beautiful" was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.<ref name=ldrgrammys/>

In June 2013, Del Rey filmed ''Tropico'', a musical short film paired to tracks from ''Paradise'', directed by Anthony Mandler.<ref name="tropico1">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey, as the Virgin Mother, Hints 'Tropico' Film Will Send Her Career to Heaven |url=https://www.spin.com/2013/08/lana-del-rey-farewell-project-tropico-short-film/ |work=Spin |access-date=August 28, 2013 |date=August 19, 2013 |first=Marc |last=Hogan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828024341/https://www.spin.com/2013/08/lana-del-rey-farewell-project-tropico-short-film/ |archive-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="tropico2">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey confuses fans by tweeting about 'the farewell project' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/72098 |work=NME |access-date=August 28, 2013 |date=August 18, 2013 |first=Nick |last=Levine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827130021/http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/72098 |archive-date=August 27, 2013}}</ref> Del Rey screened the film on December 4, 2013, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.<ref name="huffingtonpost" /> On December 6, the soundtrack was released on digital outlets.<ref name="huffingtonpost">{{cite news |last=Boardman |first=Madeline |date=December 5, 2013 |title=Lana Del Rey's 'Ultra-Violence' Album Announced At 'Tropico' Premiere |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/lana-del-rey-ultra-violence-album-tropico-premiere_n_4392444.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211013111/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/lana-del-rey-ultra-violence-album-tropico-premiere_n_4392444.html |archive-date=February 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-reys-new-album-is-called-ultra-violence-20131205 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album 'Ultra-Violence' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 5, 2013 |first=Kory |last=Grow |access-date=April 12, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311010256/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-reys-new-album-is-called-ultra-violence-20131205 |archive-date=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

===2014–2016: ''Ultraviolence'', ''Honeymoon'', and film work=== {{Further|Ultraviolence (album)|Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)}}[[File:Lana Del Rey Coachella.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Del Rey performing at 2014 Coachella]]

On January 26, 2014, Del Rey released a cover of "Once Upon a Dream" for the 2014 dark fantasy film ''Maleficent''.<ref>{{cite web |title='Maleficent' to Feature 'Once Upon a Dream' by Lana Del Rey |url=http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-lana-del-rey-maleficent-68709 |work=Stitch Kingdom |access-date=January 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125045949/http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-lana-del-rey-maleficent-68709 |archive-date=January 25, 2014}}</ref> Following the completion of ''Paradise'', Del Rey began writing and recording her follow-up album, ''Ultraviolence'', featuring production by Dan Auerbach.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey announces new album title: Ultraviolence |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/05/lana-del-rey-new-album-title-ultraviolence |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |location=London, UK |access-date=April 5, 2014 |date=December 5, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415051803/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/05/lana-del-rey-new-album-title-ultraviolence |archive-date=April 15, 2014}}</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, which sold 880,000 copies worldwide in its first week,<ref>{{cite news |date=June 25, 2014 |title=Lana Del Rey's 'ULTRAVIOLENCE' (Interscope/Polydor UK) Debuts At No. 1 in Twelve Countries Including U.S. & U.K., Plus Top 5 in Eight Other Countries |agency=PR Newswire |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lana-del-reys-ultraviolence-interscopepolydor-uk-debuts-at-1-in-twelve-countries-including-us--uk-plus-top-5-in-eight-other-countries-264631091.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630083607/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lana-del-reys-ultraviolence-interscopepolydor-uk-debuts-at-1-in-twelve-countries-including-us--uk-plus-top-5-in-eight-other-countries-264631091.html |archive-date=June 30, 2014}}</ref> was preceded by the singles "West Coast", "Shades of Cool",<ref>{{cite web |last=Wigler |first=Josh |date=May 26, 2014 |title=Listen To Lana Del Rey's New Single, 'Shades of Cool' |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1831922/listen-to-lana-del-reys-new-single-shades-of-cool |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530100553/http://www.mtv.com/news/1831922/listen-to-lana-del-reys-new-single-shades-of-cool |archive-date=May 30, 2014 |access-date=June 6, 2014 |website=MTV |publisher=}}</ref> "Ultraviolence",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frydenlund |first1=Zach |title=Listen to Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" |url=http://www.complex.com/music/2014/06/listen-to-lana-del-reys-ultraviolence |website=Complex |access-date=June 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607234414/http://www.complex.com/music/2014/06/listen-to-lana-del-reys-ultraviolence |archive-date=June 7, 2014}}</ref> and "Brooklyn Baby".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pollard |first1=Alexandra |title=Lana Del Rey reveals 'Brooklyn Baby', 10 other tracks leak online |url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/91617/Lana-Del-Rey-reveals-%27Brooklyn-Baby%27-10-other-tracks-leak-online |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201550/http://www.gigwise.com/news/91617/Lana-Del-Rey-reveals-%27Brooklyn-Baby%27-10-other-tracks-leak-online |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |access-date=June 8, 2014 |website=Gigwise}}</ref> She began dating photographer Francesco Carrozzini after he directed Del Rey's music video for "Ultraviolence"; the two broke up in November 2015 after more than a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/715031/lana-del-rey-and-boyfriend-francesco-carrozzini-split-report |title=Lana Del Rey and Boyfriend Francesco Carrozzini Split: Report |date=November 11, 2015 |first=Corinne |last=Heller |website=E! |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212023514/https://www.eonline.com/news/715031/lana-del-rey-and-boyfriend-francesco-carrozzini-split-report |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey described the album as being "more stripped down but still cinematic and dark",<ref>{{cite news |title=Lana Del Rey says her second album will be 'spiritual' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-21593264 |work=BBC News |date=February 27, 2013 |access-date=February 27, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302030047/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21593264 |archive-date=March 2, 2013}}</ref> while some critics characterized the record as psychedelic<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.com/13331635/vogue-fall-2015-music-guide/ |title=Best Fall Music of 2015: Justin Bieber, Lana Del Rey and More |work=Vogue |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151021075130/http://www.vogue.com/13331635/vogue-fall-2015-music-guide/ |archive-date=October 21, 2015 |last=Frank |first=Alex |date=September 7, 2015 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> and desert rock-influenced, more prominently featuring guitar instrumentation than her previous releases.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/lana-del-rey/15401 |work=NME |last=Horner |first=Al |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926204430/https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-lana-del-rey-15401 |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Album review: Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/music/album-review-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-272791.html |work=Irish Examiner |date=June 21, 2014 |last=Power |first=Ed |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926204442/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/music/album-review-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-272791.html |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Later that year, Del Rey contributed the songs "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly" to Tim Burton's 2014 biographical film ''Big Eyes''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |title='Big Eyes': The Story Behind Lana Del Rey's Stunning Secret Songs |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/big-eyes-lana-del-rey-749904 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=November 18, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121041522/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/big-eyes-lana-del-rey-749904 |archive-date=November 21, 2014}}</ref>

''Honeymoon'', Del Rey's fourth studio album, was released on September 18, 2015,<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-release-date-6663895/ |title=Lana Del Rey's 'Honeymoon' Album Gets Sept. 18 Release Date |date=August 14, 2015 |last=Lipshutz |first=Jason |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150816165425/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6663895/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-release-date |archive-date=August 16, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> to acclaim from music critics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reviews for Honeymoon |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/honeymoon/lana-del-rey |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920204618/http://www.metacritic.com/music/honeymoon/lana-del-rey |archive-date=September 20, 2015 |access-date=September 18, 2015 |website=Metacritic}}</ref> Prior to the release of the album, Del Rey previewed the track "Honeymoon",<ref>{{cite web |last=Plaugic |first=Lizzie |date=July 14, 2015 |title=Lana Del Rey's new single 'Honeymoon' is six minutes of meandering bliss |url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/8961617/lana-del-rey-new-song-honeymoon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812131615/https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/8961617/lana-del-rey-new-song-honeymoon |archive-date=August 12, 2025 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |work=The Verge }}</ref> the single "High by the Beach", and the promotional single "Terrence Loves You".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Reed |first=Ryan |date=August 21, 2015 |title=Hear Lana Del Rey's Hypnotic New Song, 'Terrence Loves You' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-lana-del-reys-hypnotic-new-song-terrence-loves-you-20150821 |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723211007/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-lana-del-reys-hypnotic-new-song-terrence-loves-you-20150821 |archive-date=July 23, 2016 |access-date=September 18, 2016}}</ref> Prior to the release of ''Honeymoon'', Del Rey embarked on The Endless Summer Tour in May 2015, which featured Courtney Love<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/12/01/lana-del-rey-courtney-love-tour/19730675/ |title=Lana Del Rey to tour with Courtney Love |first=Brian |last=Mansfield |work=USA Today |date=December 1, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204153531/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/12/01/lana-del-rey-courtney-love-tour/19730675/ |archive-date=December 4, 2014}}</ref> and Grimes as opening acts.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-recruits-grimes-for-endless-summer-tour-79491/ |title=Lana Del Rey Recruits Grimes for Endless Summer Tour |date=April 2015 |first=Ryan |last=Reed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107080031/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-recruits-grimes-for-endless-summer-tour-79491/ |archive-date=January 7, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, Del Rey co-wrote and provided vocals on the track "Prisoner" from the Weeknd's ''Beauty Behind the Madness'', released on August 28, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |work=Spin |url=https://www.spin.com/2015/08/the-weeknd-beauty-behind-the-madness-new-album-lana-del-rey-prisoner/ |last=Carley |first=Brennan |date=August 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213045855/https://www.spin.com/2015/08/the-weeknd-beauty-behind-the-madness-new-album-lana-del-rey-prisoner/ |archive-date=December 13, 2015 |title=The Weeknd's New Album Features Lana Del Rey}}</ref> In November 2015, she executive produced a short film ''Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston'', documenting the life of singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston.<ref name="dj">{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |title=When Lana Del Rey Met Daniel Johnston: Inside 'Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?' L.A. Premiere |author-last1=Stutz |author-first1=Colin |date=November 9, 2015 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6754166/lana-del-rey-daniel-johnston-hi-how-are-you-daniel-johnston-short-film-premiere |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706045120/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6754166/lana-del-rey-daniel-johnston-hi-how-are-you-daniel-johnston-short-film-premiere |archive-date=July 6, 2018}}</ref> For the film, she covered Johnston's song "Some Things Last a Long Time".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Stutz |first=Colin |date=November 6, 2015 |title=Lana Del Rey Covers Daniel Johnston's 'Some Things Last a Long Time': Listen |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-covers-daniel-johnston-some-things-last-a-long-time-6754030/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210140245/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6754030/lana-del-rey-covers-daniel-johnston-some-things-last-a-long-time |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |access-date=December 4, 2015 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> In November 2015, Del Rey received the Trailblazer Award at the ''Billboard'' Women in Music ceremony<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 6, 2015 |title=Lana Del Rey to Be Honored as 'Trailblazer' at Billboard's Women in Music |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/6753805/lana-del-rey-trailblazer-billboard-women-in-music |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328203745/http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/6753805/lana-del-rey-trailblazer-billboard-women-in-music |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 31, 2017}}</ref> and won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hosken |first1=Patrick |title=2015 MTV EMA: See The Full Winners List |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2360044/2015-ema-winners-list |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224103111/http://www.mtv.com/news/2360044/2015-ema-winners-list |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |access-date=March 31, 2017 |website=MTV News}}</ref>

On February 9, 2016, Del Rey premiered a music video for the song "Freak" from ''Honeymoon'' at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |work=Pitchfork |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/63130-lana-del-reys-forthcoming-freak-video-will-star-father-john-misty/ |title=Lana Del Rey's Forthcoming "Freak" Video Will Star Father John Misty |last=Torres |first=Erik |date=January 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160212015947/http://pitchfork.com/news/63130-lana-del-reys-forthcoming-freak-video-will-star-father-john-misty/ |archive-date=February 12, 2016 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-7-1201093 |work=NME |title=Lana Del Rey is back in the studio |last=Britton |first=Luke Morgan |date=March 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926214237/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-7-1201093 |archive-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref> Later that year, Del Rey collaborated with the Weeknd for his album ''Starboy'' (2016),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/69086-the-weeknd-details-starboy-tracklist-feat-lana-del-rey-kendrick-lamar-future-daft-punk/ |title=The Weeknd Details Starboy Tracklist Feat. Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Future, Daft Punk |website=Pitchfork |date=November 17, 2016 |first=Evan |last=Minsker |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212215640/http://pitchfork.com/news/69086-the-weeknd-details-starboy-tracklist-feat-lana-del-rey-kendrick-lamar-future-daft-punk/ |archive-date=December 12, 2016}}</ref> providing backing vocals on "Party Monster" and lead vocals on "Stargirl Interlude".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cache.umusic.com/_sites/theweeknd.com/pdf/starboy.pdf |title=Starboy album credits |publisher=Universal Music Group |access-date=February 21, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206072243/http://cache.umusic.com/_sites/theweeknd.com/pdf/starboy.pdf |archive-date=February 6, 2017}}</ref> "Party Monster", which Del Rey also co-wrote, was released as a single<ref>{{cite web |last=Mench |first=Chris |date=November 18, 2016 |title=The Weeknd Drops Two New Songs, "Party Monster" and "I Feel It Coming" f/ Daft Punk |url=http://www.complex.com/music/2016/11/the-weeknd-new-songs-party-monster-i-feel-it-coming-feat-daft-punk |access-date=January 18, 2017 |work=Complex |publisher= |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212023520/https://www.complex.com/music/2016/11/the-weeknd-new-songs-party-monster-i-feel-it-coming-feat-daft-punk |url-status=dead}}</ref> and subsequently reached the Top 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-weeknd/chart-history/hsi/ |title=The Weeknd Chart History: Hot 100 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825112435/https://www.billboard.com/music/the-weeknd/chart-history/Hot-100 |archive-date=August 25, 2019}}</ref> and was certified double-platinum in the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=American single certifications – The Weeknd – Party Monster |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=The+Weeknd&ti=Party+Monster#search_section |access-date=September 26, 2019 |publisher=Recording Industry Association of America |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212023514/https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=The+Weeknd&ti=Party+Monster#search_section |url-status=live}}</ref>

===2017–2019: ''Lust for Life'' and ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''=== {{Further|Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)|Norman Fucking Rockwell!}}[[File:Lana Del Rey at Flow Festival 2017 (5) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Del Rey performing at the 2017 Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland]]

Del Rey's fifth studio album, ''Lust for Life'', was released on July 21, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |title=Lana Del Rey Reveals Lust For Life Album Release Date |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/73763-lana-del-rey-reveals-lust-for-life-album-release-date/ |website=Pitchfork |date=May 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525150701/http://pitchfork.com/news/73763-lana-del-rey-reveals-lust-for-life-album-release-date/ |archive-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> The album was preceded by the singles "Love";<ref name="spin.com">{{cite web |last1=Gaca |first1=Anna |title=Lana Del Rey Releases Trailer for New Album Lust for Life, Which Is "Coming Soon" |url=http://www.spin.com/2017/03/lana-del-rey-new-album-lust-for-life-trailer-video/ |website=Spin |date=March 29, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330114648/http://www.spin.com/2017/03/lana-del-rey-new-album-lust-for-life-trailer-video/ |archive-date=March 30, 2017}}</ref> "Lust for Life" with the Weeknd;<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Xander |first1=Zellner |date=April 19, 2017 |title=Lana Del Rey's 'Lust for Life' Feat |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-weeknd-billboard-twitter-trending-140/ |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420172222/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7767668/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-weeknd-billboard-twitter-trending-140 |archive-date=April 20, 2017 |access-date=April 21, 2017}}</ref> "Summer Bummer" with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti; and "Groupie Love", also with Rocky.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/lana-del-rey-drops-two-new-songs-summer-bummer-and-groupie-love |title=Lana Del Rey Drops Two New Songs: "Summer Bummer" and "Groupie Love" |website=Slant Magazine |first=Alexa |last=Camp |date=July 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926222204/https://www.slantmagazine.com/news/lana-del-rey-drops-two-new-songs-summer-bummer-and-groupie-love/ |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> Prior to its release, Del Rey commented: "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>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-lana-del-reys-dreamy-love-video-w467870 |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Watch Lana Del Rey's Dreamy 'Love' Video |date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214125053/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-lana-del-reys-dreamy-love-video-127133/ |archive-date=February 14, 2019 |author-last1=Kreps |author-first1=Daniel}}</ref> The record further featured collaborations with Stevie Nicks<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/music/news/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-album-review-1202502553 |work=Variety |title=Album Review: Lana Del Rey's 'Lust for Life' |author-last1=Willman |author-first1=Chris |date=July 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616194300/https://variety.com/2017/music/news/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-album-review-1202502553/ |archive-date=June 16, 2019}}</ref> and Sean Ono Lennon,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-sean-ono-lennon-collaboration-2054352 |work=NME |title=Lana Del Rey's new song with Sean Ono Lennon features lyric about his parents |last=Britton |first=Luke Morgan |date=April 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824200217/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-sean-ono-lennon-collaboration-2054352 |archive-date=August 24, 2019}}</ref> marking the first time she has featured other artists on her own release. The album received generally favorable reviews<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/lust-for-life/lana-del-rey |work=Metacritic |title=Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926222458/https://www.metacritic.com/music/lust-for-life/lana-del-rey |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> and became Del Rey's third number-one album in the United Kingdom, and second number-one album in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lana-del-rey-scores-her-third-number-1-with-lust-for-life-on-the-official-albums-chart__19803/ |title=Lana Del Rey's Lust For Life earns her a third Number 1 album |date=July 28, 2017 |first=Rob |last=Copsey |website=Officialcharts.com |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=August 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806054127/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lana-del-rey-scores-her-third-number-1-with-lust-for-life-on-the-official-albums-chart__19803/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |date=August 2, 2017 |title=Lana Del Rey Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart, Tyler, The Creator and Meek Mill Bow at Nos. 2 & 3 |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-no-1-billboard-200-albums/ |access-date=October 24, 2021 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=August 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802222652/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7882489/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-no-1-billboard-200-albums |url-status=live}}</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>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-tour/ |title=Lana Del Rey Announces Tour |date=September 27, 2017 |first1=Michelle |last1=Kim |first2=Matthew |last2=Strauss |website=Pitchfork |access-date=September 28, 2017 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916085213/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-tour/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and concluded in August. ''Lust for Life'' was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for the 60th Grammy Awards, marking Del Rey's second nomination in the category.<ref name="2018Grammys">{{cite magazine |last=Lynch |first=Joe |date=November 28, 2017 |title=Grammys 2018 Nominees: The Complete List |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8047027/grammys-2018-complete-nominees-list |magazine=Billboard |access-date=November 28, 2017 |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504080724/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8047027/grammys-2018-complete-nominees-list |url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2018, Del Rey announced that she was in a lawsuit with British rock band Radiohead over alleged similarities between their song "Creep" and her song "Get Free".<ref name="Radiohead">{{cite web |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/26/lana-del-rey-claims-copyright-dispute-radiohead-over-creep-get-freet |title=Lana Del Rey Claims Copyright Dispute with Radiohead is Over |last=Snapes |first=Laura |date=March 26, 2018 |access-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sisario |first1=Ben |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/arts/music/lana-del-rey-radiohead-copyright.html |title=Radiohead Denies Suing Lana Del Rey Over Copyright (but Still Wants Credit) |website=The New York Times |date=January 9, 2018 |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408191328/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/arts/music/lana-del-rey-radiohead-copyright.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey announced that summer while performing at Lollapalooza in Brazil the lawsuit was "over".<ref name="Radiohead"/> Throughout 2018, Del Rey appeared as a guest vocalist on several tracks by other musicians, including "Living with Myself" by Jonathan Wilson for ''Rare Birds'' (2018),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1974084/jonathan-wilsons-new-album-features-lana-del-rey-hear-over-the-midnight/video/ |title=Jonathan Wilson's New Album Features Lana Del Rey & Father John Misty; Hear "Over The Midnight" |work=Stereogum |date=December 5, 2017 |first=Tome |last=Breihan |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006135107/https://www.stereogum.com/1974084/jonathan-wilsons-new-album-features-lana-del-rey-hear-over-the-midnight/video/ |url-status=live}}</ref> "God Save Our Young Blood" and "Blue Madonna" by Børns for ''Blue Madonna'' (2018),<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-lana-del-rey-on-borns-new-electro-soul-song-blue-madonna-202214/ |title=Hear Lana Del Rey on BORNS' New Electro-Soul Song 'Blue Madonna' |date=January 12, 2018 |last=Reed |first=Ryan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927011208/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-lana-del-rey-on-borns-new-electro-soul-song-blue-madonna-202214/ |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> and "Woman" by Cat Power for ''Wanderer'' (2018).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Renshaw |first1=David |title=Cat Power announces new album Wanderer, collaboration with Lana Del Rey |url=http://www.thefader.com/2018/07/18/cat-power-wanderer-lana-del-rey |website=The Fader |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926013323/http://www.thefader.com/2018/07/18/cat-power-wanderer-lana-del-rey |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |date=July 18, 2018 |access-date=July 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2019, Del Rey was announced as the face of Gucci's Guilty fragrances and subsequently appeared in print and television advertisements with Jared Leto and Courtney Love.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/gucci-guilty-fragrance-campaign-party-hollywood-forever-cemetery |title=Gucci Celebrates the Gucci Guilty Campaign at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery |work=Vogue |date=November 4, 2018 |first=Cameron |last=Bird |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417161049/https://www.vogue.com/article/gucci-guilty-fragrance-campaign-party-hollywood-forever-cemetery |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Reitman |first1=Shelby |title=Lana Del Rey Stars in Gucci Guilty Campaign With Jared Leto & Courtney Love |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8493537/lana-del-rey-gucci-guilty-campaign-jared-leto-courtney-love |magazine=Billboard |access-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-date=June 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616155855/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8493537/lana-del-rey-gucci-guilty-campaign-jared-leto-courtney-love |url-status=live}}</ref> The campaign was centered around the concept of "Hollyweird".<ref name=":52">{{Cite web |last=Sunnucks |first=Jack |date=June 2, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey on Being 'Just Weird Enough' for the Gucci Guilty Campaign |url=https://i-d.co/article/lana-del-rey-interview-gucci-guilty-album-norman-rockwell/ |access-date=October 4, 2022 |website=i-D}}</ref> Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele said Guilty is a scent for a woman who does whatever she wants; Del Rey stated she is "very much that person".<ref name=":52" />

[[File:Lana Del Rey @ Grammy Museum 10 13 2019 (49311725777).jpg|thumb|left|Del Rey performing at the Grammy Museum in October 2019]] On August 6, 2019, 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" for his film, ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-releases-looking-for-america-and-season-of-the-witch-listen/ |title=Lana Del Rey Releases "Looking For America" and "Season of the Witch": Listen |website=Pitchfork |date=August 9, 2019 |first=Evan |last=Minsker |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101111551/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-releases-looking-for-america-and-season-of-the-witch-listen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> On the same day, Del Rey released the non-album single "Looking for America", which she spontaneously wrote and recorded earlier that week in response to back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dawson |first=Brit |date=August 7, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey shares a new song in response to mass shootings |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/45532/1/lana-del-rey-response-song-mass-shootings-looking-for-america |access-date=October 24, 2021 |website=Dazed |archive-date=August 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807121152/https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/45532/1/lana-del-rey-response-song-mass-shootings-looking-for-america |url-status=live}}</ref>

Her sixth studio album, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'', was released on August 30, 2019.<ref name=takeaways>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/5-takeaways-from-lana-del-reys-new-album-norman-fucking-rockwell/ |work=Pitchfork |title=5 Takeaways From Lana Del Rey's New Album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! |last=Sodomsky |first=Sam |date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910031246/https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/5-takeaways-from-lana-del-reys-new-album-norman-fucking-rockwell/ |archive-date=September 10, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-ariana-grande-cover-882199/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920085325/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-ariana-grande-cover-882199/ |archive-date=September 20, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey Covers Ariana Grande in BBC Live Lounge |date=September 9, 2019 |last=Shafer |first=Claire}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-break-up-with-your-girlfriend-cover-video-8529446/ |title=Lana Del Rey Covered Ariana Grande Because It's Christmas, Apparently: Watch |last=Rowley |first=Glenn |date=September 9, 2019 |access-date=September 10, 2019 |archive-date=February 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203141407/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8529446/lana-del-rey-break-up-with-your-girlfriend-cover-video |url-status=live}}</ref> Having announced the album in September 2018,<ref name=papernfr/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-poetry-book-2380799 |title=Lana Del Rey says she wants to publish a book of poetry |last=Daly |first=Rhian |date=September 18, 2018 |website=NME |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=February 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210054837/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-poetry-book-2380799 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spin.com/2019/01/lana-del-rey-album-update-new-single-teaser/ |title=Lana Del Rey Says Her New Album and Book of Poetry Are Done |date=January 2, 2019 |first=Winston |last=Cook-Wilson |work=Spin |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=January 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130151723/https://www.spin.com/2019/01/lana-del-rey-album-update-new-single-teaser/ |url-status=live}}</ref> the album was preceded by the singles "Mariners Apartment Complex",<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Reed |first=Ryan |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-jack-antonoff-new-song-mariners-apartment-complex-723271 |title=Lana Del Rey Recruits Jack Antonoff for New Song 'Mariners Apartment Complex' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209104855/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-jack-antonoff-new-song-mariners-apartment-complex-723271/ |archive-date=December 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> "Venice Bitch",<ref name=papernfr>{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=Katherine |url=http://www.papermag.com/norman-fucking-rockwell-lana-2606014325.html |title=Lana's New Album Is Called 'Norman Fucking Rockwell' |work=Paper |date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903223915/https://www.papermag.com/norman-fucking-rockwell-lana-2606014325.html |archive-date=September 3, 2019}}</ref> "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It",<ref name=rshope>{{cite magazine |last1=Reed |first1=Ryan |title=Hear Lana Del Rey's Mournful New Song 'Hope Is a Dangerous Thing...' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-song-hope-is-a-dangerous-thing-774028/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329195105/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-song-hope-is-a-dangerous-thing-774028/ |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |date=January 9, 2019}}</ref> and "Doin' Time",<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Daw |first1=Stephen |title=Lana Del Rey Covers 'Doin' Time' in New Sublime Documentary Clip: Watch |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-doin-time-sublime-documentary-summertime-8511610/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-date=August 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829180829/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8511610/lana-del-rey-doin-time-sublime-documentary-summertime |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = Spanos/> as well as the joint-single "Fuck It, I Love You"/ "The Greatest".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-fuck-it-i-love-you-the-greatest-video-874899/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Lana Del Rey Drops Double Video for 'F-ck It I Love You,' 'The Greatest' |last=Shaffer |first=Claire |date=August 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920085339/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-fuck-it-i-love-you-the-greatest-video-874899/ |archive-date=September 20, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> The album received widespread critical acclaim, and, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, is the best-reviewed album of Del Rey's career to date.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/norman-fucking-rockwell!/lana-del-rey/critic-reviews |work=Metacritic |title=Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831121821/https://www.metacritic.com/music/norman-fucking-rockwell!/lana-del-rey/critic-reviews |url-status=live}}</ref> ''NME'' awarded the album five out of five stars.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dhaly |first=Rhian |title=Lana Del Rey – 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' review |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-review |website=NME |date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901170018/https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-review |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> In his review for ''Rolling Stone'', Rob Sheffield wrote "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>{{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Lana Del Rey Builds Her Most Elaborate Fantasies Yet on 'Norman F-cking Rockwell' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-reys-norman-fucking-rockwell-878534/ |date=August 30, 2019 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205035129/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-reys-norman-fucking-rockwell-878534/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Song of the Year, for its title track.<ref name="ldrgrammys">{{Cite web |date=October 26, 2022 |title=Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/lana-del-rey/17822 |access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Grammy Awards |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022084619/https://www.grammy.com/artists/lana-del-rey/17822 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Warner |first=Denise |date=November 20, 2019 |title=2020 Grammy Nominees: The Complete List |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2020-grammy-nominations-complete-list-8544267/ |magazine=Billboard |location= |publisher=Valence Media |access-date=December 28, 2021 |archive-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224065252/https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2020-grammy-nominations-complete-list-8544267/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' marked the first time Del Rey worked with Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote and produced much of the album;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cowen |first=Trace William |date=August 22, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey Wasn't Immediately Sold on the Idea of Working With Jack Antonoff on New Album |url=https://www.complex.com/music/2019/08/lana-del-rey-wasnt-sold-working-with-jack-antonoff-new-album |access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Complex}}</ref> Antonoff later worked with Del Rey on her following studio album<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shaffer |first=Claire |date=March 22, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey's 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' Is a Somber American Travelogue |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-reys-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-1144980/ |access-date=October 26, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322181745/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-reys-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-1144980/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and spoken word album.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussey |first=Allison |date=July 28, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey Releases New Spoken Word Poetry Album Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-lana-del-reys-new-spoken-word-poetry-album-violet-bent-backwards-over-the-grass/ |access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Pitchfork |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110060857/https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-lana-del-reys-new-spoken-word-poetry-album-violet-bent-backwards-over-the-grass/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The corresponding tour was held in the fall of 2019.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-norman-f-cking-rockwell-tour-866062/ |title=Lana Del Rey Sets First Leg of Norman F-cking Rockwell Tour |first1=Daniel |last1=Kreps |date=August 1, 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 1, 2019 |archive-date=August 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801191747/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-norman-f-cking-rockwell-tour-866062/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In September, Del Rey was featured on a collaboration with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus titled "Don't Call Me Angel", the lead single of the soundtrack for the 2019 film ''Charlie's Angels''.<ref name="charlies angels">{{cite web |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |date=June 27, 2019 |title=Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey's "Don't Call Me Angel": Watch The Trailer |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2049383/preview-ariana-grande-lana-del-rey-miley-cyrus-charlies-angels-song/video/ |access-date=June 28, 2019 |website=Stereogum |archive-date=October 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013120117/https://www.stereogum.com/2049383/preview-ariana-grande-lana-del-rey-miley-cyrus-charlies-angels-song/video/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The song was moderately successful internationally and was later certified Gold in several countries.<ref>[https://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/singles-chart ARIA Australian Top 50 Singles Chart – Australia's Official Top 50 Songs, Pop, Rock and All Genres] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124205238/https://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/singles-chart |date=November 24, 2018 }}. ARIA Charts. Retrieved on March 22, 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gold/Platinum |url=https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/ |access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Music Canada |archive-date=January 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125014337/https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In November, Del Rey appeared in the Amazon Prime special ''The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show'', alongside guests such as Camila Cabello, James Corden, and Troye Sivan.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kacey-musgraves-christmas-show-special-907779/ |title=Kacey Musgraves Announces All-Star Christmas Special |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 4, 2019 |first=Claire |last=Shaffer |access-date=March 22, 2020 |archive-date=January 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108194625/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kacey-musgraves-christmas-show-special-907779/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Gonzalez, Sandra. (November 4, 2019) [https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/entertainment/kacey-musgraves-christmas/index.html Kacey Musgraves is getting a Christmas special on Amazon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305201843/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/entertainment/kacey-musgraves-christmas/index.html |date=March 5, 2020 }}. ''CNN''. Retrieved on March 22, 2020.</ref>

===2020–2021: ''Chemtrails over the Country Club'', ''Blue Banisters'', and poetry collections=== {{Further|Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass|Chemtrails over the Country Club|Blue Banisters}} In an interview for ''L'Officiel''{{'}}s first American edition in early 2018, when asked about her interest in making a film, Del Rey responded she had been approached to write a 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>{{cite news |url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story |title=Groupie Love: Lana Del Rey by Kim K, Stevie Nicks, Courtney Love, & More |last=Defebaugh |first=William |date=February 7, 2018 |magazine=L'Officiel |access-date=April 7, 2018 |archive-date=May 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522233313/https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-says-shes-working-on-a-musical/ |title=Lana Del Rey Says She's Working on a Musical |last=Sodomsky |first=Sam |date=February 7, 2018 |access-date=April 7, 2018 |website=Pitchfork |archive-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306202726/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-says-shes-working-on-a-musical/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She also announced she would be contributing to the soundtrack of a new adaptation of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''.<ref name="stereogum.com">{{cite web |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |date=August 30, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey Says She's Working On Another New Album Called White Hot Forever |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2056648/lana-del-rey-says-shes-working-on-another-new-album-called-white-hot-forever/news/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-date=February 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203090652/https://www.stereogum.com/2056648/lana-del-rey-says-shes-working-on-another-new-album-called-white-hot-forever/news/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

After announcing a spoken word album in 2019, Del Rey released ''Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass'' and its corresponding spoken word album in 2020. The physical book was released on September 29 and the Jack Antonoff-produced audiobook on July 28.<ref name="auto1">: {{Cite web |title=Lana Del Rey on Instagram: "Violet bent backwards over the grass link in bio 🌲" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CCb-vW7p8Dt/ |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CCb-vW7p8Dt |archive-date=December 23, 2021 |access-date=October 8, 2020 |website=Instagram}}{{cbignore}}{{broken link|date=May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 8, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey – Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass |url=https://lanadelrey.com/ |access-date=October 8, 2020 |website=Lana Del Rey Official Website |archive-date=January 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113225529/https://www.lanadelrey.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The spoken word poem "LA Who Am I to Love You" was released as the lead single the day before the album's release. In May 2020, Del Rey announced a second book, ''Behind the Iron Gates – Insights from the Institution'', which was originally planned to be released in March 2021;<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Peters |first=Mitchell |date=May 24, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey Shares New Spoken Word Piece 'Patent Leather Do-Over': Listen |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-spoken-word-piece-patent-leather-do-over-listen-9389738/ |access-date=October 27, 2022 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027190441/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-spoken-word-piece-patent-leather-do-over-listen-9389738/ |url-status=live}}</ref> her progress on the book was lost when the manuscript was stolen from her car in 2022.<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |last=Squires |first=Bethy |date=October 19, 2022 |title=Lana Del Rey Loses Music, Manuscript in a Robbery |url=https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/lana-del-rey-lost-music-manuscript-in-a-robbery.html |access-date=October 19, 2022 |website=Vulture |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115083700/https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/lana-del-rey-lost-music-manuscript-in-a-robbery.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In September 2020, Del Rey was featured on a remix of Matt Maeson's 2019 song "Hallucinogenics". The duo had previously performed the song together live in 2019. In November 2020, Del Rey announced that she would release a digital record composed of "American standards and classics" on Christmas Day, though it has yet to be released.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Martoccio |first=Angie |date=November 4, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey Preps LP of Standards, Covers 'You'll Never Walk Alone' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-youll-never-walk-alone-standards-album-1085886/ |access-date=March 20, 2021 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=February 11, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211081400/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-youll-never-walk-alone-standards-album-1085886/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The record features several songs recorded with Nikki Lane. In the same month, she contributed to a documentary about Liverpool F.C., ''The End of the Storm'', where she performed the club's anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone". Del Rey also released the cover as a limited-edition single, with all profits going to the LFC foundation.<ref>{{cite web |title=The End of the Storm soundtrack to benefit LFC Foundation |url=https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/415825-the-end-of-the-storm-soundtrack-to-benefit-lfc-foundation |website=LiverpoolFC.com |date=November 13, 2020 |publisher=Liverpool Football Club |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113143258/https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/415825-the-end-of-the-storm-soundtrack-to-benefit-lfc-foundation |url-status=live}}</ref> She is known to be a fan of the club and has attended matches at Anfield.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunter |first1=Steve |title=PHOTOS: Lana Del Rey at Anfield |url=https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/130816-photos-lana-del-rey-at-anfield |website=LiverpoolFC.com |date=March 10, 2013 |publisher=Liverpool Football Club |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=March 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321070927/https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/130816-photos-lana-del-rey-at-anfield |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey started dating reality tv star Sean Larkin in September 2019. The pair split in March 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lana Del Rey and Sean 'Sticks' Larkin Have Split: 'Right Now, We're Just Friends,' Says Cop |url=https://people.com/music/lana-del-rey-sean-larkin-split/ |access-date=December 21, 2020 |work=People |date=March 19, 2020 |first=Maria |last=Pasquini |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230094814/https://people.com/music/lana-del-rey-sean-larkin-split/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2020, it was reported that she was engaged to musician Clayton Johnson.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lana Del Rey is engaged, and here's what we know about her under-the-radar fiancé |url=https://news.yahoo.com/lana-del-rey-engaged-heres-195946147.html |access-date=December 21, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 16, 2020 |first=Christine |last=D'Zurilla |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024030652/https://news.yahoo.com/lana-del-rey-engaged-heres-195946147.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

On March 19, 2021, Del Rey released her seventh studio album, ''Chemtrails over the Country Club'', to critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/chemtrails-over-the-country-club/lana-del-rey |publisher=Metacritic |title=Chemtrails Over the Country Club by Lana Del Rey Tracks and Reviews |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410181619/https://www.metacritic.com/music/chemtrails-over-the-country-club/lana-del-rey |url-status=live}}</ref> Announced in 2019, the album was originally slated for release in 2020 under the title ''White Hot Forever''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-new-album-white-hot-forever-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-tracklist-a9084746.html |title=Lana Del Rey reveals new album White Hot Forever will be released in 2020 |last=Harrison |first=Ellie |website=The Independent |date=August 30, 2019 |access-date=October 20, 2019 |archive-date=December 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203100155/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-new-album-white-hot-forever-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-tracklist-a9084746.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="stereogum.com" /> but was postponed in November 2020 due to a delay in vinyl manufacturing. Like ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'', ''Chemtrails over the Country Club'' was mostly produced by Del Rey alongside Jack Antonoff.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/who-is-lana-del-rey-jack-antonoff-september-poetry-cover |title=Who is Lana Del Rey? |website=Interview Magazine |date=September 8, 2021 |first=Jack |last=Antonoff |access-date=July 4, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321170545/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/who-is-lana-del-rey-jack-antonoff-september-poetry-cover |url-status=live}}</ref> It was preceded by the singles "Let Me Love You like a Woman" on October 16, 2020,<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-single-let-me-love-you-like-a-woman-1075739/ |title=Lana Del Rey Returns With Tender New Song 'Let Me Love You Like a Woman' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 16, 2020 |first1=Brittany |last1=Spanos |first2=Althea |last2=Legaspi |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018153059/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-single-let-me-love-you-like-a-woman-1075739/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the title track on January 11, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daly |first=Rhian |date=January 11, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey shares beautiful new song 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-2853990 |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=NME |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111192937/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-2853990 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ehrlich |first=Brenna |date=January 11, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey Reveals Cover, Tracklist for 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-chemtrails-cover-tracklist-1112420/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=June 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620233414/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-chemtrails-cover-tracklist-1112420/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Music videos were released for both songs as well as "White Dress".<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=March 2, 2021 |first=Gil |last=Kaufman |title=Lana Del Rey Rollerblades Down a Desert Highway in Hazy 'White Dress' Teaser |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-white-dress-teaser-9533451/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |magazine=Billboard |quote=Lana Del Rey dropped a 20-second teaser for her upcoming "White Dress" single over the weekend, giving fans another peek at the visual from the single off her upcoming ''Chemtrails Over the Country Club'' album. |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130193523/https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-white-dress-teaser-9533451/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Her eighth studio album, ''Blue Banisters'', was released on October 22, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murray |first=Robin |date=March 20, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album 'Rock Candy Sweet' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-rock-candy-sweet |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225946/https://www.clashmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-rock-candy-sweet |archive-date=March 20, 2021 |access-date=March 20, 2021 |website=Clash}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussey |first=Allison |date=March 20, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album Rock Candy Sweet |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-rock-candy-sweet/ |access-date=March 20, 2021 |website=Pitchfork |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321020041/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-rock-candy-sweet/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lana Del Rey on Instagram: "Album out later later… Single out soonish. Have a good fourth x" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ4sLo6pGxQ/ |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CQ4sLo6pGxQ |archive-date=December 23, 2021 |access-date=July 4, 2021 |via=Instagram}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was preceded by the simultaneous release of three songs on May 20, 2021: the title track, "Text Book", and "Wildflower Wildfire",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |date=May 20, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey – "Blue Banisters," "Text Book," & "Wildflower Wildfire" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2148489/lana-del-rey-blue-banisters-text-book-wildflower-wildfire/music/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520173551/https://www.stereogum.com/2148489/lana-del-rey-blue-banisters-text-book-wildflower-wildfire/music/ |url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the release of the single "Arcadia" on September 8, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lavin |first=Will |date=September 8, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey reveals 'Blue Banisters' album release date and shares new song, 'ARCADIA' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-reveals-blue-banisters-album-release-date-and-shares-new-song-arcadia-3040781 |access-date=October 16, 2021 |website=NME |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016140446/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-reveals-blue-banisters-album-release-date-and-shares-new-song-arcadia-3040781 |url-status=live}}</ref> A music video was released for "Arcadia" on September 8, 2021, with an alternate music video for the track released on October 7, 2021. A music video for the track "Blue Banisters" was released on October 20, 2021.

===2022–present: ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd'' and ''Stove''=== {{Further|Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd|}}

On January 21, 2022, Del Rey premiered a song titled "Watercolor Eyes" on an episode of ''Euphoria''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-watercolor-eyes-listen/ |title=Lana Del Rey Shares New Song "Watercolor Eyes": Listen |last=Bloom |first=Madison |website=Pitchfork |date=January 21, 2022 |access-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121053853/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-watercolor-eyes-listen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey confirmed in 2022 she had been working on new music and poetry; however, on October 19, 2022, she posted a series of videos to her Instagram revealing her car was burgled "a few months"<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Medina |first=Dani |date=October 19, 2022 |title=Lana Del Rey Says Laptop Containing New Music, Book Was Stolen |url=https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-10-19-lana-del-rey-says-laptop-containing-new-music-book-was-stolen/ |access-date=October 20, 2022 |website=iHeart |archive-date=February 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221174512/https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-10-19-lana-del-rey-says-laptop-containing-new-music-book-was-stolen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> prior, and her backpack—containing a laptop, hard drives, and three camcorders—was stolen, giving thieves access to unfinished songs, a 200-page manuscript of her upcoming poetry book ''Behind the Iron Gates - Insights from an Institution'', and two years' worth of family video footage. Del Rey erased the stolen laptop's contents remotely, which contained the only working copy of her poetry book.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":42" /> "Despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come",<ref name=":42" /> Del Rey concluded in her Instagram videos.<ref name=":42" /> On October 21, 2022, Del Rey was featured on "Snow on the Beach" by Taylor Swift,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Spanos |first=Brittany |date=October 21, 2022 |title=Taylor Swift Lets Us Into Her Darkest Dreams On 'Midnights' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021040124/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/ |url-status=live}}</ref> on her album ''Midnights'', written by Swift, Del Rey, and Jack Antonoff.<ref name="Apple Music">{{cite web |last=Swift |first=Taylor |date=October 21, 2022 |title=Midnights |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/midnights/1649434004 |website=Apple Music (US) |access-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012053554/https://music.apple.com/us/album/midnights/1649434004 |url-status=live}}</ref> The song debuted at number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Del Rey's highest-peaking entry on the chart.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Trust |first1=Gary |date=October 31, 2022 |title=Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100, Led by 'Anti-Hero' at No. 1 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-all-hot-100-top-10-anti-hero-1235163664/ |access-date=October 31, 2022 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031172231/https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-all-hot-100-top-10-anti-hero-1235163664/ |url-status=live}}</ref> On December 7, 2022, Del Rey released "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" as the lead single from her ninth studio album of the same name.<ref name="PF DYK">{{cite web |last1=Strauss |first1=Matthew |last2=Ruiz |first2=Matthew Ismael |date=December 7, 2022 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album, Shares New Song |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-shares-new-song-listen/ |access-date=December 8, 2022 |website=Pitchfork |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208214034/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-shares-new-song-listen/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2023, Del Rey was photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen and interviewed by Billie Eilish for the cover of ''Interview''<nowiki/>'s March issue.<ref name=":0a">{{Cite web |last=Lent |first=Caitlin |date=February 14, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish Fall in Love |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/lana-del-rey-and-billie-eilish-fall-in-love |access-date=February 18, 2023 |website=Interview Magazine |archive-date=February 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214155530/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/lana-del-rey-and-billie-eilish-fall-in-love |url-status=live}}</ref> In the interview, Del Rey revealed that the album would explore her innermost thoughts and that some of the songs on the album are "super long and wordy".<ref name=":0a" /> On February 14, 2023, "A&W" was released as the second single from the album and, a month later, on March 14, 2023, the third single of the album, "The Grants", was released.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murray |first=Robin |date=February 14, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey Shares Beautiful New Song 'A&W' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-beautiful-new-song-aw/ |access-date=February 16, 2023 |website=Clash |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115020505/https://www.clashmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-beautiful-new-song-aw/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Examines The Power Of Memory & Family On New Song "The Grants" |url=https://genius.com/a/lana-del-rey-examines-the-power-of-memory-family-on-new-song-the-grants |access-date=March 15, 2023 |website=Genius |archive-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318035434/https://genius.com/a/lana-del-rey-examines-the-power-of-memory-family-on-new-song-the-grants |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd'' was released on March 24, 2023.<ref name="PF DYK" />

On May 19, 2023, Del Rey released her popular unreleased song "Say Yes to Heaven" as a single, having previously written and recorded it in November 2013, planning to include it in ''Ultraviolence'', before cutting it. Parts of the song were leaked on August 15, 2016, and released on Spotify by others impersonating Del Rey.<ref>{{cite web |last=Black |first=Sandra |date=May 19, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey officially releases 'Say Yes to Heaven' |url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/lana-del-rey-officially-releases-say-yes-to-heaven-22969396 |access-date=May 19, 2023 |website=Hot Press |archive-date=January 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250121014313/https://www.hotpress.com/music/lana-del-rey-officially-releases-say-yes-to-heaven-22969396 |url-status=live}}</ref> On May 26, 2023, Taylor Swift released a remix of "Snow on the Beach", featuring "more" Lana Del Rey, along with the ''Til Dawn'' edition of her album ''Midnights'', due to demand from fans wanting Del Rey to have a verse in the song, when in the original she only had backing vocals.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bowenbank |first=Starr |date=May 26, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift's 'Snow on the Beach (feat. More Lana Del Rey)' Has Arrived: Stream It Now |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-snow-on-the-beach-feat-more-lana-del-rey-stream-it-now-1235340826/ |access-date=May 26, 2023 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=February 11, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211184402/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-snow-on-the-beach-feat-more-lana-del-rey-stream-it-now-1235340826/ |url-status=live}}</ref> On July 20, 2023, Del Rey was spotted pouring coffee and chatting with customers at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama, in full employee uniform complete with her own "Lana" name tag.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dailey |first=Hannah |date=July 21, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey Works a Shift at a Waffle House in Alabama: See the Photos |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-works-waffle-house-alabama-photos-1235376235/ |access-date=July 22, 2023 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=January 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114235906/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-works-waffle-house-alabama-photos-1235376235/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey later explained about the situation that after a few hours there the servers asked if she wanted a shirt, to which Del Rey said yes. While wearing her uniform, the Waffle House manager asked her to serve a regular customer.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lamour |first=Joseph |date=July 25, 2023 |title=We finally know why Lana Del Rey was working at a Waffle House in Alabama |url=https://www.today.com/food/news/lana-del-rey-waffle-house-alabama-rcna95985 |access-date=June 12, 2025 |magazine=Today |archive-date=April 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419022352/https://www.today.com/food/news/lana-del-rey-waffle-house-alabama-rcna95985 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2023, Del Rey embarked on a promotional tour which lasted until 2025.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Blistein |first=Jon |date=August 21, 2023 |title=See Lana Del Rey This Fall — If You're Lucky Enough to Live In One of These 10 Cities |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-tour-dates-fall-2023-1234809452/ |access-date=August 21, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=February 11, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211191250/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-tour-dates-fall-2023-1234809452/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

On October 20, 2023, Del Rey featured in Holly Macve's single "Suburban House". Macve shared that the two artists had originally crossed paths in 2017 and that she was a "big fan of [Lana's] music".<ref>{{cite web |last=Duran |first=Anagricel |date=October 23, 2023 |title=Listen to Lana Del Rey team up with Holly Macve for new single 'Suburban House |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/listen-to-lana-del-rey-team-up-with-holly-macve-for-new-single-suburban-house-3519902/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |website=NME |archive-date=October 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231025190712/https://www.nme.com/news/music/listen-to-lana-del-rey-team-up-with-holly-macve-for-new-single-suburban-house-3519902 |url-status=live}}</ref> On November 10, 2023, Del Rey earned 5 nominations at the 2024 Grammy Awards, which included Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Album for ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd'', Song of the Year and Best Alternative Music Performance for "A&W", and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Candy Necklace" with Jon Batiste.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Full Nominees List |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list |access-date=November 10, 2023 |website=Grammy Awards |archive-date=November 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110180725/https://www.grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list |url-status=live}}</ref> She was hired as the face for the Skims 2024 Valentines Day Collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/lana-del-rey-skims-campaign-grammys-coachella |title=Lana del Rey Talks Headlining Coachella, Her Grammys Noms, and Why She Loves Valentine's Day |date=January 18, 2024 |access-date=January 28, 2024 |archive-date=March 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307204653/https://www.vogue.com/article/lana-del-rey-skims-campaign-grammys-coachella |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:LanaWembley030725-144_-_54640470921.jpg|thumb|Del Rey (left) performing with Addison Rae (right) at Wembley Stadium in July 2025]] On January 31, 2024, at ''Billboard''{{'}}s pre-Grammy event, Del Rey announced her upcoming tenth studio album. Originally titled ''Lasso'' and due for release in September 2024,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Brandle |first=Lars |date=February 1, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album 'Lasso' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-announces-album-lasso-1235594901/ |access-date=February 1, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310063300/https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-announces-album-lasso-1235594901/ |url-status=live}}</ref> the album's title would change to ''The Right Person Will Stay'' due for release in May 2025 before Del Rey confirmed the new title ''Stove'' and its release in January 2026.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/lana-del-rey-reveals-why-forthcoming-country-album-delayed-11798120 |title=Lana Del Rey Reveals Why Forthcoming Country Album The Right Person Will Stay — Now Titled Stove — Was Delayed |date=August 26, 2025 |access-date=August 26, 2025 |first=Ilana |last=Kaplan |work=People}}</ref> It is set to be her first country album. "Tough", a collaboration with American rapper Quavo, was released on July 3, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saponara |first=Michael |date=June 28, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey & Quavo Reveal Release Date for Upcoming 'Tough' Collaboration |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/lana-del-rey-quavo-tough-song-release-date-1235720275/ |access-date=June 28, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=June 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629022353/https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/lana-del-rey-quavo-tough-song-release-date-1235720275/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2024, Del Rey resumed performances with a headlining slot at Coachella. Following the performance, she announced her first-ever solo headlining stadium concert at Fenway Park in Boston on June 20.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=May 6, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces First-Ever U.S. Stadium Headlining Gig |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-first-stadium-headlining-show-fenway-boston-1235674286/ |access-date=August 15, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref> The show, which sold-out, garnered criticism from some fans for going ahead, despite being delayed due to a thunderstorm and being shortened to follow local sound curfew ordinances.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farrar |first=Molly |title=Readers: Lana Del Rey should've rescheduled Fenway Park show |url=https://www.boston.com/community/music/2024/06/24/readers-say-lana-del-rey-shouldve-rescheduled-her-fenway-park-show/ |access-date=August 15, 2024 |website=www.boston.com |date=June 24, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Throughout the summer, Del Rey performed at festivals throughout Europe, including Primavera Sound in Spain<ref>{{Cite web |last=Richards |first=Will |date=June 3, 2024 |title=Primavera Sound 2024 review: Lana Del Rey, Lankum and lightning hit Barcelona |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/primavera-sound-2024-festival-review-lana-del-rey-sza-steve-albini-40149/ |access-date=August 15, 2024 |website=Rolling Stone UK |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Jenne |first1=Ellen |last2=Roy |first2=Nicola |date=August 13, 2024 |title=Reading and Leeds fans 'beg' for iconic act to join Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/lana-del-rey-reading-leeds-29733219 |access-date=August 15, 2024 |website=Manchester Evening News |language=en}}</ref> In total, Del Rey performed 10 shows on the 2024 leg of the tour.

In November 2024, Del Rey announced a six-date 2025 UK and Ireland leg, which began on June 23 and ended on July 4. An all-stadium leg, it marked her debut performances at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Hampden Park in Glasgow, Anfield in Liverpool, Aviva Stadium in Dublin, and two shows at Wembley Stadium in London.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yates |first=Jonny |date=November 25, 2024 |title=Lana Del Rey announces 2025 UK and Ireland stadium tour dates |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/25/lana-del-rey-tour-uk-tickets-presale/ |access-date=November 25, 2024 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey achieves major milestone with 2025 Summer Tour |url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/577076-lana-del-rey-achieves-major-milestone-with-2025-summer-tour |website=Geo News |date=November 30, 2024 |access-date=May 27, 2025}}</ref> Opening acts for the UK and Ireland shows were announced on June 22, 2025, consisting of London Grammar in Cardiff, Banks in Glasgow, Liverpool and Dublin, and Addison Rae for the London dates.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey announces support acts for UK stadium tour |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-announces-support-acts-for-uk-stadium-tour-3871739 |website=NME |date=June 22, 2025 |access-date=June 22, 2025}}</ref> In 2025, Del Rey and the Weeknd collaborated on the track "The Abyss" from his album ''Hurry Up Tomorrow''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2025 |title=Florence + the Machine, Lana Del Rey guest on new The Weeknd album |url=https://www.1057thepoint.com/music-news/florence-the-machine-lana-del-rey-guest-on-new-the-weeknd-album/ |access-date=March 13, 2025 |website=105.7 The Point |language=en-US |archive-date=April 1, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401020444/https://www.1057thepoint.com/music-news/florence-the-machine-lana-del-rey-guest-on-new-the-weeknd-album/ |url-status=live}}</ref> On April 25, 2025, Del Rey performed at Stagecoach Festival, previewing several new songs from her upcoming country-influenced album.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-sturgill-simpson-zach-bryan-set-for-stagecoach-festival-2025/ |title=Lana Del Rey, Sturgill Simpson, and Zach Bryan Set for Stagecoach Festival 2025 |website=Pitchfork |date=September 5, 2024}}</ref> The album was preceded by the singles "Henry, Come On" and "Bluebird", both co-written with Luke Laird and produced alongside Drew Erickson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Announces New Album 'The Right Person Will Stay' |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-the-right-person-will-stay |website=Pitchfork |date=November 29, 2024 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250418214437/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-the-right-person-will-stay/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Shares New Song "Bluebird": Listen |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-bluebird-listen |website=Pitchfork |date=April 18, 2025 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |archive-date=May 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250516130633/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-shares-new-song-bluebird-listen/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey at Stagecoach 2025 |url=https://www.papermag.com/lana-del-rey-stagecoach-2025 |website=Paper Magazine |date=April 27, 2025 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |archive-date=May 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250515222610/https://www.papermag.com/lana-del-rey-stagecoach-2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 16, 2026, Del Rey released the song "First Light" from the soundtrack to the ''James Bond'' video game of the same name.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Romano |first1=Nick |date=April 16, 2026 |title=From 'Video Games' to video games, Lana Del Rey records new James Bond theme song for 007: First Light|url=https://ew.com/lana-del-rey-james-bond-theme-song-007-first-light-11950902 |website=Entertainment Weekly |language=en-US |access-date=April 16, 2026}}</ref>

== Artistry ==

===Musical style=== Del Rey has been labeled an "alt-pop" artist.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |last1=Shouneyia |first1=Alexa |date=November 21, 2019 |title=Songs That Defined the Decade: Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-songs-that-defined-the-decade-8544101/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023160415/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-songs-that-defined-the-decade-8544101/ |url-status=live}} |2={{cite web |last1=Haack |first1=Brian |date=September 28, 2017 |title=Lana Del Rey Announces 2018 Tour With Jhené Aiko, Kali Uchis |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-2018-tour-jhene-aiko-kali-uchis |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=Grammy Awards |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023161136/https://www.grammy.com/news/lana-del-rey-announces-2018-tour-jhene-aiko-kali-uchis |url-status=live}} |3={{cite web |last1=McNiece |first1=Sam |date=October 29, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey, Nightmares on Wax + more, our favourite records of the week |url=https://beat.com.au/lana-del-rey-nightmares-on-wax-more-our-favourite-records-of-the-week/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=Beat |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023160417/https://beat.com.au/lana-del-rey-nightmares-on-wax-more-our-favourite-records-of-the-week/ |url-status=live}} |4={{cite web |last1=Fisher-Quann |first1=Rayne |date=October 23, 2022 |title=Newest Lana Del Rey Screams Its Way Into Broken Hearts |url=https://nextmag.ca/newest-lana-del-rey-screams-its-way-into-broken-hearts/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=Next |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522012657/https://nextmag.ca/newest-lana-del-rey-screams-its-way-into-broken-hearts/ |url-status=live}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 28, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey Sets New Album 'Blue Banisters' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-new-album-blue-banisters-9564193 |access-date=October 31, 2021 |website=billboard.com |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026120801/https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/9564193/lana-del-rey-new-album-blue-banisters |url-status=live}}</ref> Her works have been variously categorized as pop,<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=https://www.spin.com/2019/08/lana-del-rey-looking-for-america-video/ |title=Lana Del Rey Previews New Song About Mass Shootings in America |last=Burks |first=Tosten |website=Spin |date=August 5, 2019 |access-date=October 7, 2019 |quote=The pop singer shared an in-studio recording of the track Monday night on Instagram |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806125751/https://www.spin.com/2019/08/lana-del-rey-looking-for-america-video/ |url-status=live}} |2={{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Neil |author-link=Neil McCormick |title=Lana Del Rey, Lust For Life: this pop star for the selfie generation is about as real as it comes – review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lana-del-rey-lust-life-review-pop-star-selfie-generationis-real/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lana-del-rey-lust-life-review-pop-star-selfie-generationis-real/ |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 20, 2017 |access-date=July 20, 2017 |quote=Del Rey's perfect artifice has been to dress up harsh truth in the gauzy balm of seductive pop}}{{cbignore}} |3={{cite web |title=Sex, Lies, and Lana Del Rey |url=http://www.maxim.com/stars/sex-lies-and-lana-del-rey |website=Maxim |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128045003/http://www.maxim.com/stars/sex-lies-and-lana-del-rey |archive-date=November 28, 2014 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |quote=Lana Del Rey is America's sultriest and edgiest pop-music sensation ... [and] America's most enigmatic, controversial, and seductive rock star.}} }}</ref> rock,<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |title=Sex, Lies, and Lana Del Rey |url=http://www.maxim.com/stars/sex-lies-and-lana-del-rey |website=Maxim |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128045003/http://www.maxim.com/stars/sex-lies-and-lana-del-rey |archive-date=November 28, 2014 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |quote=Lana Del Rey is America's sultriest and edgiest pop-music sensation ... [and] America's most enigmatic, controversial, and seductive rock star.}} |2={{cite magazine |title=Lana Del Rey Is Rock's Saddest, Baddest Diva: Inside the New Issue |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-rey-is-rocks-saddest-baddest-diva-inside-the-new-issue-20140716 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 16, 2014 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213151032/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-rey-is-rocks-saddest-baddest-diva-inside-the-new-issue-20140716 |archive-date=December 13, 2014}} }}</ref> dream pop,<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/music/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-album-review |title=Lana Del Rey 'Honeymoon' album review |work=Time Out London |date=September 17, 2015 |first=Nick |last=Levine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803110803/http://www.timeout.com/london/music/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-album-review |archive-date=August 3, 2016}} |2={{cite web |title=Ultraviolence |url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s4025070.htm |website=ABC News |access-date=July 25, 2014 |date=June 16, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715002924/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s4025070.htm |archive-date=July 15, 2014}} }}</ref> baroque pop,<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-drops-west-coast-listen-6052258/ |title=Lana Del Rey Drops 'West Coast': Listen |magazine=Billboard |date=April 14, 2014 |access-date=June 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116000012/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6052258/lana-del-rey-drops-west-coast-listen |archive-date=November 16, 2016}} |2={{cite web |last1=Pettifer |first1=Amy |title=Madonna's Rebel Heart: A Track By Track Review |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/17298-madonna-m-track-by-track-review |website=The Quietus |date=February 25, 2015 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150225142257/http://thequietus.com/articles/17298-madonna-m-track-by-track-review |archive-date=February 25, 2015}} |3={{cite web |last1=Rosebury |first1=Will |title=Is Lana Del Rey About to Drop New Music? |url=http://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2016/11/lana-del-rey-new-2016 |website=Pigeons & Planes |publisher=Complex |access-date=April 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426154415/http://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2016/11/lana-del-rey-new-2016 |archive-date=April 26, 2017}} |4={{cite web |url=https://www.vix.com/en/ovs/music/9800/is-lana-del-rey-pop-or-alternative |title=Is Lana Del Rey Pop or Alternative? |website=Vix |first=Erick |last=Lappin |access-date=September 27, 2019 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425151811/https://www.vix.com/en/ovs/music/9800/is-lana-del-rey-pop-or-alternative |url-status=dead}} }}</ref> indie pop, psychedelic rock,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vix.com/en/ovs/music/9800/is-lana-del-rey-pop-or-alternative |title=Is Lana Del Rey Pop or Alternative? |website=Vix |first=Erick |last=Lappin |access-date=September 27, 2019 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425151811/https://www.vix.com/en/ovs/music/9800/is-lana-del-rey-pop-or-alternative |url-status=dead}}</ref> while incorporating trip hop,<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |title=Born To Die – Album Reviews |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/born-to-die-20120130 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=September 11, 2013 |date=January 30, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927092825/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/born-to-die-20120130 |archive-date=September 27, 2013}} |2={{cite web |last=Abebe |first=Nitsuh |title=Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward Vegas |url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/01/lana-del-rey-lurching-toward-vegas.html |work=Vulture |access-date=September 11, 2013 |date=January 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927080949/http://www.vulture.com/2012/01/lana-del-rey-lurching-toward-vegas.html |archive-date=September 27, 2013}} |3={{cite web |last=Rytlewski |first=Evan |title=Lana Del Rey: Born To Die: Music Review |url=https://www.avclub.com/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-1798171335 |work=A.V. Club |access-date=September 11, 2013 |date=January 31, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927115159/http://www.avclub.com/articles/lana-del-rey-born-to-die%2C68365 |archive-date=September 27, 2013}} }}</ref> hip hop,<ref>{{cite web |last=Rice |first=Paul |title=Lana Del Rey's Feminist Problem |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2013/16/lana-del-reys-feminist-problem |work=Slant |access-date=June 6, 2013 |date=February 8, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927052919/http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2013/16/lana-del-reys-feminist-problem |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref> lo-fi,<ref name="NME">{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Mike |title=Lana Del Rey: Music and witchcraft – read the exclusive NME interview |url=https://www.nme.com/features/lana-del-rey-interview-lust-for-life-2017-2113496 |website=NME |access-date=June 25, 2019 |date=July 21, 2017 |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115084430/https://www.nme.com/features/lana-del-rey-interview-lust-for-life-2017-2113496 |url-status=live}}</ref> and trap elements.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-44-1224171 |title=Lana Del Rey talks 'hip-hop' and 'trap' influences on new single 'High By The Beach' |website=NME |date=August 11, 2015 |author-first1=Luke Morgan |author-last1=Britton |access-date=June 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609172416/http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/87496 |archive-date=June 9, 2016}}</ref> Upon her debut release, Del Rey's music was described as "Hollywood sadcore" by some music critics.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |last=James |first=Nicole |title=New Video: Lana Del Rey, 'Blue Jeans' |url=http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2011/09/12/lana-del-rey-blue-jeans-video |publisher=MTV |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529145732/http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2011/09/12/lana-del-rey-blue-jeans-video |archive-date=May 29, 2012}} |2={{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey – Biography |url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/lana-del-rey |publisher=MTV |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023015950/http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/lana-del-rey |archive-date=October 23, 2012}} }}</ref> It has been repeatedly noted for its cinematic sound and its references to various aspects of pop culture; both critics and Del Rey herself have noted a persistent theme of 1950s and 1960s Americana.<ref name="cheapthrills" /><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/02/06/120206crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Lana Del Rey's Image on "Born to Die" |author-last1=Frere-Jones |author-first1=Sasha |date=February 6, 2012 |access-date=April 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424193631/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/02/06/120206crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all |archive-date=April 24, 2012}} |2={{cite web |last=Lansky |first=Sam |title=Lana Del Rey's "Ride": Listen to the Dreamy Single |url=http://idolator.com/6938611/lana-del-rey-ride-listen-new-single-paradise-edition |work=Idolator |date=September 25, 2012 |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126091321/http://idolator.com/6938611/lana-del-rey-ride-listen-new-single-paradise-edition |archive-date=January 26, 2013}} |3={{cite web |last=Williot |first=Carl |title=Lana Del Rey's Dreary "Blue Velvet" Cover: Hear It In Full |url=http://idolator.com/6910222/lana-del-rey-blue-velvet-cover-listen |work=Idolator |date=September 17, 2012 |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103034519/http://idolator.com/6910222/lana-del-rey-blue-velvet-cover-listen |archive-date=January 3, 2013}} |4={{cite web |last=Freeman |first=Nate |title=Lana Del Rey to Channel David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" as the Face of H&M's New Global Campaign |url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/814154/lana-del-rey-to-channel-david-lynch%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cblue-velvet%E2%80%9D-as-the-face-of-hms-new-global-campaign |work=Art+Auction |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014032910/http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/814154/lana-del-rey-to-channel-david-lynch%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cblue-velvet%E2%80%9D-as-the-face-of-hms-new-global-campaign |archive-date=October 14, 2012}} |5={{cite web |last=Abebe |first=Nitsuh |title=Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward Vegas |url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/01/lana-del-rey-lurching-toward-vegas.html |work=New York |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929091819/http://www.vulture.com/2012/01/lana-del-rey-lurching-toward-vegas.html |archive-date=September 29, 2012}} }}</ref> The strong elements of American nostalgia brought ''Idolator'' to classify her firmly as alternative pop.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.idolator.com/7625496/dark-pop-songs-retire-genre-label-alt-pop |title=Silent Shout: It's Time To Stop Calling Stuff 'Dark Pop' |last=Williott |first=Carl |date=March 9, 2016 |website=Idolator |access-date=September 10, 2019}}{{dead link|date=August 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Del Rey elaborated on her connection to the past in an interview with Artistdirect, saying "I wasn't even born in the '50s but I feel like I was there."<ref name=Fellini>{{cite web |first=Amy |last=Sciarretto |url=http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/lana-del-rey-is-working-on-new-music-and-shared-some-hints-about-it/11313805 |title=Lana Del Rey Is Working on New Music and Shared Some Hints About It |work=Artistdirect |date=January 20, 2015 |access-date=February 16, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224065550/http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/lana-del-rey-is-working-on-new-music-and-shared-some-hints-about-it/11313805 |archive-date=February 24, 2016}}</ref>

Of ''Born to Die'', AllMusic said that its "sultry, overstated orchestral pop recast her as some sort of vaguely imagined chanteuse for a generation raised on Adderall and the Internet, with heavy doses of ''Twin Peaks'' atmosphere".<ref>{{cite web |last=Thomas |first=Fred |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ultraviolence-mw0002677059 |title=Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey |website=AllMusic |access-date=June 20, 2014 |archive-date=October 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024160830/http://www.allmusic.com/album/ultraviolence-mw0002677059 |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey's subsequent releases would introduce variant styles, particularly ''Ultraviolence'', which employed a guitar-based sound akin to psychedelic and desert rock.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lana-del-reys-ultraviolence-what-712693 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |title=Lana Del Rey's 'Ultraviolence': What the Critics Are Saying |author-last1=Trakin |author-first1=Roy |date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140618053547/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lana-del-reys-ultraviolence-what-712693 |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |access-date=July 23, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Kenneth Partridge of ''Billboard'' noted this shift in style, writing: "She sings about drugs, cars, money, and the bad boys she's always falling for, and while there remains a sepia-toned mid-century flavor to many of these songs, [Del Rey] is no longer fronting like a thugged-out Bette Davis."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6121485/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-album-review-song-by-song-track-by-track |magazine=Billboard |title=Lana Del Rey, 'Ultraviolence': Track-by-Track Album Review |author-last1=Partridge |author-first1=Kenneth |date=June 16, 2014 |access-date=July 22, 2017 |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618203638/https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6121485/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-album-review-song-by-song-track-by-track |url-status=live}}</ref> Upon the release of ''Honeymoon'', one reviewer characterized Del Rey's body of work as being "about music as a time warp, with her languorous croons over molasses-like arrangements meant to make clock hands seem to move so slowly that it feels possible, at times, they might go backwards".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-review-stopping-time-alone/406027/ |work=The Atlantic |title=The Saddest Honeymoon |author-last1=Kornhaber |author-first1=Spencer |date=September 19, 2015 |access-date=September 8, 2017 |archive-date=September 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920190452/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-review-stopping-time-alone/406027/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Prior to coming to prominence under the stage name Lana Del Rey, she performed under the names Lizzy Grant, Lana Rey Del Mar,<ref>{{cite web |last=Bates |first=Andy |title=What you see vs. what you get |url=http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/503335.html?nav=5050 |work=Adirondack Daily Enterprise |date=November 4, 2008 |access-date=October 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521090634/http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/503335.html?nav=5050 |archive-date=May 21, 2013}}</ref> Sparkle Jump Rope Queen,<ref name="sparklejumpropequeen">{{cite news |title=Lana Del Rey – pass notes No 3,256 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2012/sep/30/lana-del-rey-pass-notes?newsfeed=true |work=The Guardian |access-date=October 16, 2012 |location=London, UK |date=September 30, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930182943/http://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2012/sep/30/lana-del-rey-pass-notes?newsfeed=true |archive-date=September 30, 2013}}</ref> and May Jailer.<ref name="sirensleak" /> Under the stage name Lizzy Grant, she referred to her music as "Hawaiian glam metal",<ref name="index">{{cite web |last=Tremblay |first=Brea |title=Lizzy Grant, 2008 |url=http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/Lizzy_grant2.shtml |work=Index Magazine |access-date=October 3, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608053638/http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/Lizzy_grant2.shtml |archive-date=June 8, 2012}}</ref> while the work of her May Jailer project was acoustic.<ref name="sirensleak" /><ref name="spinner-alterego" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/64117 |title=Another early album from Lana Del Rey leaks online? |date=June 1, 2021 |first=Leonie |last=Cooper |work=NME |access-date=July 30, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604072107/http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/64117 |archive-date=June 4, 2012}}</ref>

===Influences=== {{multiple image | footer = Artists from Frank Sinatra (''left'') to Amy Winehouse (''right'') have influenced Del Rey and her music. | image1 = Frank Sinatra in 1957.jpg | width1 = 133 | alt1 = Frank Sinatra in 1957 | image2 = Amy Winehouse f4962007 crop.jpg | width2 = 126 | alt2 = Amy Winehouse in 2007 | align = right}}

Del Rey cites a wide array of musical artists as influences, including numerous pop, jazz, and blues performers from the mid-twentieth century, such as Andrew Lloyd Webber,<ref name=spin>{{cite web |first=David |last=Renshaw |url=http://www.thefader.com/2018/03/05/lana-del-rey-you-must-love-me-cover |title=Listen to Lana Del Rey's "You Must Love Me" cover |work=The Fader |date=March 5, 2018 |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190926013230/http://www.thefader.com/2018/03/05/lana-del-rey-you-must-love-me-cover |access-date=August 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Bobby Vinton,<ref name=shades>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/shades-of-cool-12-of-lana-del-reys-biggest-influences-20140716 |title=Shades of Cool: 12 of Lana Del Rey's Biggest Influences |magazine=Rolling Stone |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009181628/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/shades-of-cool-12-of-lana-del-reys-biggest-influences-20140716 |archive-date=October 9, 2014 |date=July 16, 2014 |author=''Rolling Stone'' staff}}</ref> The Crystals,<ref name=shades/> Brian Wilson, Nancy Sinatra, and Miles Davis.<ref name=milesdavis>{{cite web |title=Listen To Lana Del Rey's New Single 'Honeymoon' |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lana-del-rey-honeymoon_55a557aae4b0ecec71bd3714 |work=The Huffington Post |date=July 14, 2015 |first=Oliver |last=Whitney |access-date=August 9, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719091732/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lana-del-rey-honeymoon_55a557aae4b0ecec71bd3714 |archive-date=July 19, 2015}}</ref> Torch singers Julie London<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/6784901/billboard-women-in-music-trailblazer-lana-del-rey-pop-inspirations |title=Billboard Women in Music 'Trailblazer' Lana Del Rey: 'There's Not Such a Narrow Lane for 'Pop' |date=December 3, 2015 |author-last1=Dodero |author-first1=Camille |access-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920203147/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/6784901/billboard-women-in-music-trailblazer-lana-del-rey-pop-inspirations |url-status=live}}</ref> and Julee Cruise have also served as influences.<ref name=shades/> "[I really] just like the masters of every genre", she told BBC radio presenter Jo Whiley in 2012, specifically naming Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtAFIa52_eA |title=Interview with Lana Del Rey |first=Jo |last=Whiley |publisher=BBC Radio 2. BBC |date=February 2, 2012 |access-date=June 20, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017185452/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtAFIa52_eA |archive-date=October 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=February 22, 2021 |title=Lana Del Rey 'didn't want to sing anymore' after Amy Winehouse died |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/51998/1/lana-del-rey-did-not-want-to-sing-anymore-after-amy-winehouse-died |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website=Dazed |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501063925/https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/51998/1/lana-del-rey-did-not-want-to-sing-anymore-after-amy-winehouse-died |url-status=live}}</ref>

Several rock and pop musicians and groups from the late-twentieth century have also inspired Del Rey, such as Bruce Springsteen,<ref name=18things>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/18-things-you-learn-after-two-long-days-with-lana-del-rey-20140724 |title=18 Things You Learn After Two Long Days With Lana Del Rey |magazine=Rolling Stone |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |date=July 24, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122129/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/18-things-you-learn-after-two-long-days-with-lana-del-rey-20140724 |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Britney Spears,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a363464/lana-del-rey-britney-spears-inspires-me/ |title=Lana Del Rey: 'Britney inspires me' |first=Lewis |last=Corner |date=February 2, 2012 |website=Digital Spy}}</ref> singer-songwriter Lou Reed, and rock band the Eagles, as well as folk musicians such as Leonard Cohen<ref name=shades/> and Joan Baez. Del Rey has also named singer-songwriter Cat Power,<ref name=18things/> Hole frontwoman Courtney Love,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.virginmedia.com/music/news/story/2014/06/23/lana-del-rey-is-inspired-by/ |work=Virgin Media |title=Lana Del Rey is inspired by Courtney Love |date=June 23, 2014 |access-date=July 21, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721222329/http://www.virginmedia.com/music/news/story/2014/06/23/lana-del-rey-is-inspired-by/ |archive-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> rapper Eminem, and singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse as artists she looked up to.<ref name=shades/> Del Rey has cited the soundtrack to ''American Beauty'' as a partial inspiration for her album ''Born to Die'' (2012).<ref>{{cite news |last=Rosen |first=Christopher |date=September 4, 2012 |title=Lana Del Rey's Movie Dreams: 'Hopefully I Will Branch Into Film Work And Stay There' |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/lana-del-rey-movie_n_1854738.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908010026/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/lana-del-rey-movie_n_1854738.html |archive-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref>

Inspired by poetry, Del Rey cites Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg as instrumental to her songwriting. In her song "Venice Bitch", the lyric "nothing gold can stay" is also the title of a Robert Frost poem.<ref name="whitman">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey hates personal critics |url=https://www.contactmusic.com/lana-del-rey/news/lana-del-rey-hates-personal-critics_1350370 |website=contactmusic.com |date=June 23, 2012 |access-date=October 24, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927134425/http://entertainment.stv.tv/showbiz/309071-lana-del-rey-hates-personal-critics/ |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Alex |title=Here's Lana Del Rey's new Walt Whitman-referencing track, 'The Body Electric' |url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/184151/heres-lana-del-reys-new-walt-whitman-referencing-track-the-body-electric/ |work=Death and Taxes |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927122419/http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/184151/heres-lana-del-reys-new-walt-whitman-referencing-track-the-body-electric/ |archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref> Del Rey has cited film directors, David Lynch and Federico Fellini, and painters, Mark Ryden and Pablo Picasso, as influences<ref name=Fellini/><ref name="dlynch">{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey open to David Lynch collaboration: 'I would love to do anything with him' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-16-1203870 |work=NME |date=December 11, 2015 |author-first1=Luke Morgan |author-last1=Britton |access-date=February 27, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303161824/http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/90277 |archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> and has stated actress Lauren Bacall is someone she admires.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 8, 2013 |title=FASHION Magazine Summer 2013 Cover: Lana Del Rey |url=https://fashionmagazine.com/style/fashion-magazine-summer-2013-cover-lana-del-rey/ |access-date=February 7, 2020 |website=FASHION Magazine |archive-date=February 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221225004/https://fashionmagazine.com/style/fashion-magazine-summer-2013-cover-lana-del-rey/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She has an interest in and was influenced by the book ''Lolita'' and the title character, as well as the films it spawned in 1962 and in 1997. She has demonstrated Lolita fashion in the past and even wrote a same-titled song, included as a bonus track on some editions of her 2012 album ''Born to Die''.

===Voice and timbre=== Del Rey possesses an expansive contralto vocal range, which spans three-plus octaves and has been described as captivating and highly emotive, ranging with great ease from high notes in a girlish timbre to jazzy ornaments in her lower register.<ref name="Lana Live Set" /><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/music/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5919180 |title=Lana Del Rey – Born To Die, Review |publisher=MSN. Microsoft Corporation |date=February 23, 2012 |access-date=May 19, 2012 |first=Melody |last=Oei |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227001733/http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/music/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5919180 |archive-date=February 27, 2012}} |2={{cite web |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/lana-del-rey-born-to-die/2720 |title=Lana Del Rey Born To Die Review |work=Slant Magazine |date=January 25, 2012 |access-date=May 31, 2012 |first=Sal |last=Cinquemani |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527123015/http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/lana-del-rey-born-to-die/2720 |archive-date=May 27, 2012}} |3={{cite web |url=http://www.readthemike.com/2012/02/18/born-to-try-but-sometimes-trying-isn't-good-enough/ |title=Born to Try, but Sometimes Trying isn't Good Enough |publisher=Read the Mike |date=February 18, 2012 |access-date=February 22, 2012 |first=Tom |last=Da Silva |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703020436/http://www.readthemike.com/2012/02/18/born-to-try-but-sometimes-trying-isn%27t-good-enough/ |archive-date=July 3, 2013}} }}</ref> Following the release of ''Ultraviolence'', which was recorded live in single takes and lacking Pro Tools vocal editing, critics increasingly appreciated Del Rey's vocal ability, praising her large range, increased vocal confidence, and uniquely emotive delivery.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 |title=How Lana Del Rey Fought to Get Her Radical 'Ultraviolence' Released – Rolling Stone |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 18, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106010542/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 |archive-date=January 6, 2015}} |2={{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-review |title=Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence review – great songs about awful, boring people |author-first1=Alexis |author-last1=Petridis |work=The Guardian |date=June 12, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613045734/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-review |archive-date=June 13, 2014}} |3={{cite web |url=https://consequence.net/2014/06/album-review-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ |title=Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence – Album Reviews – Consequence of Sound |work=Consequence of Sound |date=June 17, 2014 |first=Sasha |last=Geffen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620075706/https://consequence.net/2014/06/album-review-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ |archive-date=June 20, 2014}} }}</ref> When recording in the studio, Del Rey is known for vocal multi-layering, which, as it has been noted, is difficult for her to replicate within a live setting, especially with the lack of backing singers to fill out the original vocal style.<ref name="Lana Live Set">{{cite web |url=http://thatgrapejuice.net/2012/04/watch-lana-del-rey-redeems-performing-entire-lp-live/ |title=Lana Del Rey Redeems Herself By Performing Entire LP Live |publisher=That Grape Juice |date=April 22, 2012 |access-date=May 19, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425001626/http://thatgrapejuice.net/2012/04/watch-lana-del-rey-redeems-performing-entire-lp-live/ |archive-date=April 25, 2012}}</ref> Stage fright has also been noted as a major contribution to Del Rey's struggles with live performances;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hub.contactmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-gets-terrible-stage-fright_1348506 |title=Lana Del Rey – Lana Del Rey Gets Terrible Stage Fright – Contactmusic.com |author=Bang Showbiz |work=Contactmusic.com |date=June 21, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110085313/http://hub.contactmusic.com/news/lana-del-rey-gets-terrible-stage-fright_1348506 |archive-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> however, journalists noted in 2014 her live performances had increased in confidence. ''Billboard'' deemed the Coachella debut of "West Coast" to be a "star-making performance" and lauded the singer's vocal abilities.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/events/coachella-2014-lana-del-rey-debuts-west-coast-single-in-6052253/ |title=Coachella 2014: Lana Del Rey Debuts 'West Coast' Single In Star-Making Performance |date=April 14, 2014 |first=Jason |last=Lipshutz |magazine=Billboard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417072908/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/6052253/coachella-2014-lana-del-rey-debuts-west-coast-single-in |archive-date=April 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/review/182811-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ |title=Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence |date=June 16, 2014 |first=Ryan |last=Lathan |work=PopMatters |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709132500/http://www.popmatters.com/review/182811-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ |archive-date=July 9, 2014}}</ref> Music critics have called her voice "smoky",<ref>{{cite web |last=Matthews |first=Cameron |title=Joey Ramone's 'New York City,' New Neil Young Song & More |url=http://www.spinner.com/2012/09/25/news-joey-ramones-new-york-city-new-neil-young-and-more/ |work=Spinner |publisher=AOL |access-date=September 26, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102011004/http://www.spinner.com/2012/09/25/news-joey-ramones-new-york-city-new-neil-young-and-more/ |archive-date=November 2, 2012}}</ref> "gravelly",<ref name="index"/> and reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe.<ref name="index" /> Upon the 2015 release of ''Honeymoon'', her voice was compared by ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Mikael Wood to those of Julee Cruise and Eartha Kitt.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-0919-lana-del-ray-20150920-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |title=With 'Honeymoon,' Lana Del Rey further tightens control of her image |date=September 18, 2015 |access-date=August 19, 2017 |author-last1=Wood |author-first1=Mikael |archive-date=February 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221182354/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-0919-lana-del-ray-20150920-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Del Rey began using lower vocals with ''Born to Die'', claiming "people weren't taking me very seriously, so I lowered my voice, believing that it would help me stand out. Now I sing quite low... well, for a female anyway".<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a352467/lana-del-rey-people-didnt-take-me-seriously-with-a-high-voice.html |date=November 23, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |work=Digital Spy |last=Copsey |first=Robert |title=Lana Del Rey: 'People didn't take me seriously with a high voice' |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226200445/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a352467/lana-del-rey-people-didnt-take-me-seriously-with-a-high-voice.html |archive-date=December 26, 2011}} |2={{cite web |title=Home Guitars Acoustic Bass Drums Tech DJ Tech News Reviews Tuition Video Forum Samples iPad/iPhone Apps Magazines How to create drowsy Lana Del Rey-style vocals |url=http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/how-to-create-drowsy-lana-del-rey-style-vocals-531265/1 |work=MusicRadar |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112050621/http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/how-to-create-drowsy-lana-del-rey-style-vocals-531265/1 |archive-date=November 12, 2012}} |3={{cite web |last=Firth |first=Holly |title=Lana Del Rey: People Didn't Take Me Seriously |url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/68981/Lana-Del-Ray-People-Didn%27t-Take-Me-Seriously |work=Gigwise |publisher=Giant Digital |access-date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703165736/http://www.gigwise.com/news/68981/Lana-Del-Ray-People-Didn%27t-Take-Me-Seriously |archive-date=July 3, 2013}} }}</ref> "I sing low now, but my voice used to be a lot higher. Because of the way I look, I needed something to ground the entire project. Otherwise I think people would assume I was some airhead singer. Well, I don't think... I know. I've sung one way, and sung another, and I've seen what people are drawn to", she said on the topic.<ref name="clashmusic" />

===Videos and stage=== [[File:Lana Del Rey at Flow Festival 2017 (7).jpg|thumb|upright|Del Rey performing at the 2017 Flow Festival]]

Del Rey's videos are also often characterized for their cinematic quality with a retro flair.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.elitedaily.com/p/13-music-videos-from-the-2010s-you-should-definitely-jam-to-rn-22798740 |title=13 Music Videos From The 2010s You May Have Forgotten About & Should Jam To |first=Marisa |last=Casciano |date=April 11, 2020 |website=Elite Daily |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209095846/https://www.elitedaily.com/p/13-music-videos-from-the-2010s-you-should-definitely-jam-to-rn-22798740 |url-status=live}}</ref> In her early career, she recorded clips of herself singing along to her songs on a webcam and juxtaposed them alongside vintage home videos and films to serve as "homemade music videos", a style which helped gain her early recognition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacManus |first=Richard |date=January 30, 2025 |title=How Lana Del Rey Found Internet Fame on YouTube in 2011 |url=https://cybercultural.com/p/lana-del-rey-youtube-2011/ |access-date=October 31, 2025 |website=Cybercultural |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Thelandersson |first=Fredrika |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/21st_Century_Media_and_Female_Mental_Hea/x8qWEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lana+del+rey+homemade+music+videos&pg=PA10&printsec=frontcover |title=21st Century Media and Female Mental Health: Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture |date=October 22, 2022 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-031-16756-0 |pages=10 |language=en}}</ref> After the success of these homemade videos, Del Rey had a series of high-budget music videos, including "Born to Die" and "National Anthem" (both 2012) and "Young and Beautiful" (2013).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pedestrian.tv/music/lana-del-rey-national-anthem-music-video/ |title=Lana Del Rey's 'National Anthem' Is The Best Music Video Of The 2010s, There I Said It |date=December 9, 2019 |first=Melissa |last=Mason |website=pedestrian.tv |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223193221/https://www.pedestrian.tv/music/lana-del-rey-national-anthem-music-video/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-reys-boy-toy-in-born-to-die-meet-bradley-soileau-510833/ |title=Lana Del Rey's Boy Toy in 'Born to Die' – Meet Bradley Soileau |date=January 25, 2012 |author-first1=Gregory Jnr |author-last1=DelliCarpini |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-date=July 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714234603/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-hook/510833/lana-del-reys-boy-toy-in-born-to-die-meet-bradley-soileau |url-status=live}}</ref> Her early videos featured her personas "bad girl"<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Berman |first=Judy |date=June 15, 2017 |title=Lana Del Rey's Persona Evolution in 7 Videos |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-evolution-of-the-lana-del-rey-persona-in-7-videos/ |access-date=October 24, 2021 |website=Pitchfork |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026032656/https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-evolution-of-the-lana-del-rey-persona-in-7-videos/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and "gangster Nancy Sinatra".<ref name=":1" />

Her videos for tracks after that including "Summer Wine", "Carmen", and "Summertime Sadness" were produced off of significantly lower budgets and retained more elements of Del Rey's earlier style. The ''Ultraviolence'' era incorporated an admixture of high budget videos and self-made ones, while the ''Honeymoon'' era was almost strictly film noir-influenced professionally-shot visuals. Both eras saw some of Del Rey's homemade videos for tracks such as "Pretty When You Cry" and "Honeymoon" go unreleased due to Del Rey's opinions they were "too boring".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1847218/lana-del-rey-pretty-when-you-cry-teaser-video/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618200230/http://www.mtv.com/news/1847218/lana-del-rey-pretty-when-you-cry-teaser-video/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |title=Lana Del Rey Looks Pretty, Doesn't Cry In 'Pretty When You Cry' Teaser |first=John |last=Walker |date=June 16, 2016 |website=MTV News |access-date=October 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/31913/1/watch-lana-del-rey-s-rejected-honeymoon-video |title=Watch Lana Del Rey's rejected 'Honeymoon' video |date=July 5, 2016 |first=Selim |last=Bulut |website=Dazed |access-date=October 24, 2021}}</ref> The ''Lust for Life'' era was widely characterized for its mildly filtered vintage-inspired look with a futuristic flair. For ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'', Del Rey's sister, Chuck Grant, directed three videos in Del Rey's "homemade video" format,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hypebae.com/2019/12/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-music-video-bartender-happiness-is-a-butterfly-watch |title=Lana Del Rey's New 'Norman Fucking Rockwell' Music Video Is a Triple Threat |website=HYPEBAE |date=December 20, 2012 |first=Alexandra |last=Pauly |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428155143/https://hypebae.com/2019/12/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-music-video-bartender-happiness-is-a-butterfly-watch |url-status=live}}</ref> while Rich Lee directed the two following videos in a vintage but futuristic style, similar to the ''Lust for Life'' videos he directed.

Critics have noted Del Rey for her typically simple but authentic live performances.<ref name="caramanica">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-live-review.html |work=The New York Times |title=Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More |date=September 6, 2017 |access-date=September 6, 2017 |author-last1=Caramanica |author-first1=Jon |archive-date=September 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906171036/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-live-review.html |url-status=live}}</ref> A September 2017 concert review published in ''The New York Times'' noted: "For more than an hour, Ms. Del Rey was eerily casual, singing and smiling with the ease of someone performing at singer-songwriter night at the local coffee shop."<ref name="caramanica" /> Another review by Roy Train for ''The Hollywood Reporter'' in 2014 noted "a distance in her bonhomie, obvious even from my perch at the opposite end of the stage high above the fray, the chill still palpable".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/concert-review-lana-del-rey-708719 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |title=Lana Del Rey Will be Your Mirror: Concert Review |last=Trakin |first=Roy |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-date=September 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907075905/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/concert-review-lana-del-rey-708719 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Public image== ===Early reception=== Prior to the release of her debut major label album ''Born to Die'' in 2012, Del Rey was the subject of several articles discussing her image and career trajectory.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/why-we-fight/8679-the-imagination-of-lana-del-rey |work=Pitchfork |title=The Imagination of Lana Del Rey |date=September 30, 2011 |author-last1=Abebe |author-first1=Nitsuh |access-date=July 31, 2017 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801043722/http://pitchfork.com/features/why-we-fight/8679-the-imagination-of-lana-del-rey/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=stranger/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/2012/01/deconstructing-lana-del-rey/ |work=Spin |title=Deconstructing Lana Del Rey |date=January 30, 2012 |author-last1=Hopper |author-first1=Jessica |access-date=July 30, 2017 |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320101609/https://www.spin.com/2012/01/deconstructing-lana-del-rey/ |url-status=live}}</ref> One article by Paul Harris published by ''The Guardian'' a week before the album's release noted the differences between Del Rey's perceived persona in 2008, when she performed as Lizzy Grant and posted music videos on YouTube, and in 2012, as Lana Del Rey.<ref name="stranger">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/21/lana-del-rey-pop |work=The Guardian |title=Lana Del Rey: The strange story of the star who rewrote her past |author-last1=Harris |author-first1=Paul |date=January 21, 2012 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |archive-date=June 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626140818/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/21/lana-del-rey-pop |url-status=live}}</ref> Harris wrote: {{blockquote|The internet has allowed figures like [Del Rey] to come rapidly to the fore of the cultural landscape, whether or not their emergence is planned by a record executive or happens spontaneously from someone's bedroom. It has speeded up the fame cycle. It is worth noting that the huge backlash to Del Rey is happening before her first album has even been released. This reveals a cultural obsession with the "authenticity" that fans, artists and corporations all prize above all else.<ref name="stranger"/>}}Tony Simon, a producer who had worked with Del Rey in 2009, defended her against allegations that she was a product of her record label: "To be clear, all the detractors saying she's some made-up-by-the-machine pop star are full of shit. While it's impossible to keep the businesses' hands out the pop when creating a pop star, the roots of where this all comes from are firmly inside of Lizzy Grant."<ref name="hellyer" /> In Del Rey's own words, she "[n]ever had a persona. Never needed one. Never will."<ref>{{cite web |last=Kornhaber |first=Spencer |title=Lana Del Rey Says She Never Had a Persona. Really? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/09/lana-del-rey-says-she-never-had-persona-really/597883/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=September 17, 2019 |date=September 15, 2019}}</ref>

In a 2017 interview, Del Rey said, "I didn't edit myself [on ''Born to Die''] when I could have, because a lot of it's just the way it was. I mean, because I've changed a lot and a lot of those songs, it's not that I don't relate but... A lot of it too is I was just kinda nervous. I came off sort of nervously, and there was just a lot of dualities, a lot of juxtapositions going on that maybe just felt like something was a little off. Maybe the thing that was off was that I needed a little more time or something, and also my path was just so windy just to get to having a first record. I feel like I had to figure it out all by myself. Every move was just guesswork."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.complex.com/music/lana-del-rey-interview-2017-cover-story |work=Complex |title=Lana Del Rey Talks "Lust for Life," Avoiding Cultural Appropriation, and Getting Political |author-last1=Callahan-Bever |author-first1=Noah |date=July 26, 2017 |access-date=July 31, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202011914/https://www.complex.com/music/lana-del-rey-interview-2017-cover-story |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Social views ===  Having been labeled as antifeminist by multiple sources,<ref name="nme2"/><ref name="bbclovelaw"/><ref name=slant/> Del Rey stated in 2014: "For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I'm more interested in... SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism... I'm just not really that interested."<ref name="nmedr">{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-37-1207109 |work=NME |title=Lana Del Rey clarifies feminism comments in interview with James Franco |author-first1=Luke Morgan |author-last1=Britton |date=September 3, 2015 |access-date=January 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112020712/http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-37-1207109 |archive-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> She also said: {{blockquote|For me, a true feminist is someone who is a woman who does exactly what she wants. If my choice is to, I don't know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don't think that's necessarily being anti-feminist. For me, the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don't know too much about the history of feminism, and so I'm not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.<ref name=nyt2014>{{cite news |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |title=Finding Her Future Looking to the Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/arts/music/lana-del-rey-still-stirs-things-up-with-ultraviolence.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 12, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108074643/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/arts/music/lana-del-rey-still-stirs-things-up-with-ultraviolence.html?_r=0 |archive-date=November 8, 2015}}</ref>}}

In 2017, Del Rey further clarified her updated view on feminism in an interview with ''Pitchfork'':<ref name="Frank, Alex">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-a-conversation-with-lana-del-rey |title=Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Conversation With Lana Del Rey |date=July 19, 2017 |author-last1=Frank |author-first1=Alex |access-date=November 15, 2019 |work=Pitchfork |archive-date=November 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103153237/https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-a-conversation-with-lana-del-rey/ |url-status=live}}</ref> {{blockquote|Because things have shifted culturally. It's more appropriate now than under the Obama administration, where at least everyone I knew felt safe. It was a good time. We were on the up-and-up... Women started to feel less safe under [[First presidency of Donald Trump|[the Trump] administration]] instantly. What if they take away Planned Parenthood? What if we can't get birth control? Now, when people ask me those questions, I feel a little differently...<ref name="Frank, Alex"/>}}

After the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases, she voiced her support for the Me Too movement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |date=August 28, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey on Trump, Kanye and the Right Time for a Protest Song |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/arts/music/lana-del-rey-norman-rockwell-album.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-date=August 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828172003/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/arts/music/lana-del-rey-norman-rockwell-album.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

She attracted criticism for a 2017 Instagram post defending herself against accusations of glamorizing abuse in part by pointing out an array of other female artists and their successes with works about "imperfect sexual relationships".<ref name="WaPo-controversy">{{cite news |last1=Rao |first1=Sonia |date=May 22, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey announces a new album, but nobody is talking about the album |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/21/lana-del-rey-instagram-statement/ |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-date=June 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603110545/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/21/lana-del-rey-instagram-statement/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bradley |first1=Laura |date=May 21, 2020 |title=Lana Del Rey Swears She Wasn't Whining About Black Singers' Successes in Messy Instagram Post |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/lana-del-rey-managed-to-piss-off-an-army-of-music-fans-with-one-ig-post |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=The Daily Beast |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531025206/https://www.thedailybeast.com/lana-del-rey-managed-to-piss-off-an-army-of-music-fans-with-one-ig-post |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Mamo |first1=Heran |date=May 21, 2020 |title=A Timeline of Lana Del Rey's Biggest Controversies |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-biggest-controversies-timeline-9388639/ |access-date=June 2, 2020 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531093037/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9388639/lana-del-rey-biggest-controversies-timeline |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey responded to the criticism that race was the theme of her post by saying that she mentioned the singers she did because she "[loves] these singers and [knows] them".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carras |first1=Christie |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-05-22/lana-del-rey-instagram-post-response |title=Lana Del Rey defends Instagram post: 'Don't...call me racist' |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 22, 2020 |access-date=September 8, 2020}}</ref> She clarified that she was referencing those "who don't look strong or necessarily smart, or like they're in control etc.," when she mentioned people "who look like [her]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Griffith |first1=Janelle |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/lana-del-rey-slammed-over-her-assessment-beyonc-nicki-minaj-n1212006 |title=Lana Del Rey slammed over her assessment of Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande |work=NBC News |date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=September 8, 2020 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030002802/https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/lana-del-rey-slammed-over-her-assessment-beyonc-nicki-minaj-n1212006 |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey attracted further criticism for briefly posting a video of looters during the George Floyd protests in May 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |date=June 1, 2020 |title=George Floyd protests: Lana Del Rey faces backlash for sharing 'dangerous' video of looters |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-george-floyd-protests-instagram-looting-video-black-lives-matter-tinashe-a9541531.html |access-date=June 2, 2020 |work=The Independent |archive-date=June 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603102527/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-george-floyd-protests-instagram-looting-video-black-lives-matter-tinashe-a9541531.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Del Rey had been critical of U.S. President Donald Trump during his first presidency. She had described him as being a narcissist and a product of a culture of sociopathy, stating his mental state makes him devoid of any understanding of what his words and actions can lead to.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brodsky |first1=Rachel |title=Lana Del Rey clarifies comments around Donald Trump, accuses music media of taking quotes 'out of context' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-bbc-trump-interview-b1786370.html |access-date=December 28, 2021 |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Print Limited |date=January 13, 2021 |archive-date=December 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208072503/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lana-del-rey-bbc-trump-interview-b1786370.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2021, Del Rey incited commentary for stating Trump "[didn't] know that he's inciting a riot" as a result of his "delusions of grandeur".<ref name="WP">{{cite news |title=Facing backlash, Lana Del Rey continues to defend her comments on Trump and race |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/01/13/lana-del-rey-donald-trump-chemtrails-album-rollout/ |access-date=January 18, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 13, 2021 |first=Sonia |last=Rao |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115121816/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/01/13/lana-del-rey-donald-trump-chemtrails-album-rollout/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She was critical of Kanye West in 2018 for his support of President Trump.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45704579 |title=Lana Del Rey confronts Kanye West over support for Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live |date=October 1, 2018 |first=Mark |last=Savage |access-date=March 20, 2021 |website=BBC |archive-date=January 17, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117013031/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45704579 |url-status=live}}</ref> During the first year of Trump's first presidency, Del Rey alleged she attempted to use witchcraft against Trump.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-used-hex-on-donald-trump-2113859 |title=Lana Del Rey confirms attempt to use witchcraft against Donald Trump |website=Nme.com |date=July 21, 2017 |first=Nick |last=Reilly |access-date=March 20, 2021 |archive-date=March 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306214852/https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-used-hex-on-donald-trump-2113859 |url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2020, Del Rey honored Joe Biden's election as President of the United States by covering "On Eagles' Wings".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9480265/lana-del-rey-eagles-wings-hymn-cover-joe-biden-speech |title=Lana Del Rey Covers 'On Eagle's Wings' Hymn in Honor of Joe Biden's Acceptance Speech |newspaper=Billboard |date=November 8, 2020 |first=Mitchell |last=Peters |access-date=March 20, 2021 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212152742/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9480265/lana-del-rey-eagles-wings-hymn-cover-joe-biden-speech/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the release of the artwork for ''Chemtrails Over the Country Club'' on Instagram, Del Rey gained widespread press coverage for suggesting that her friends, featured on the cover, were "a beautiful mix of everything", saying that she had always been "inclusive without even trying to" throughout her career.<ref name="WP" /><ref>{{cite web |title=More Lana Del Rey drama ensues after her diversity comments about new album art |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-01-11/lana-del-rey-album-cover-video-chemtrails-over-the-country-club |website=Los Angeles Times |date=January 11, 2021 |first=Christie |last=D'Zurilla |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114184458/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-01-11/lana-del-rey-album-cover-video-chemtrails-over-the-country-club |url-status=live}}</ref> Del Rey elaborated, saying her close friends and boyfriends had been "rappers" and addressed her critics, saying that before commenters turned it into a "WOC/POC issue", she "wasn't the one storming the capital" and was "changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there".<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Reveals, Immediately Defends New Album Chemtrails Over the Country Club Cover |url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/lana-del-rey-reveals-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-cover.html |website=Vulture |date=January 11, 2021 |first=Halle |last=Kiefer |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116213620/https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/lana-del-rey-reveals-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-cover.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Reveals Chemtrails Over the Country Club Album Art and Tracklist |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-reveals-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-album-art-and-tracklist/ |date=January 10, 2021 |first=Evan |last=Minsker |website=Pitchfork |publisher=People |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111165625/https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-reveals-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-album-art-and-tracklist/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She subsequently deleted the comments.<ref name="WP" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Del Rey Criticized for album art |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/01/11/lana-del-rey-new-album-cover-criticism-comments/6626104002/ |work=USA Today |date=January 11, 2021 |first1=Jenny |last1=Ryu |first2=Charles |last2=Trepany |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112072414/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/01/11/lana-del-rey-new-album-cover-criticism-comments/6626104002/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Following criticism from media outlets, Del Rey tweeted "A woman still can't get mad right? Even when a mob mentality tries to *incite*."<ref name="WP" />

===Charity work=== Over the years, Del Rey has supported multiple causes and made several recordings available as offerings to help support causes she believes in. Her 2019 single "Looking for America" was released in response to the August 3–4, 2019, mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, with all proceeds from the song going to relief funds benefiting victims of the August shootings and the July 28, 2019, Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hampton |first=Rachelle |date=August 9, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey's New Song Responds to the El Paso and Dayton Shootings |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/lana-del-rey-shooting-song-looking-for-america-el-paso-dayton.html |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=Slate Magazine |archive-date=December 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226215726/https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/lana-del-rey-shooting-song-looking-for-america-el-paso-dayton.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2020, she donated $350,000 from the sales of her book ''Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass'' to DigDeep,<ref name="flagstaffbusinessnews/digdeep">{{cite news |title=DigDeep Bringing Clean Water to Navajo Homes |url=https://www.flagstaffbusinessnews.com/digdeep-bringing-clean-water-to-navajo-homes/ |access-date=September 19, 2023 |work=Flagstaff Business News |date=June 4, 2020 |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014174628/https://www.flagstaffbusinessnews.com/digdeep-bringing-clean-water-to-navajo-homes/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> a Los-Angeles-based<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |url=https://www.digdeep.org/faq |website=DIGDEEP |access-date=September 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011173412/https://www.digdeep.org/faq/ |url-status=live}}</ref> non-profit organization, founded by George McGraw in 2014, which provides electric-pumped<ref name="redbull/navajo-water"/> water for some of the most remote<ref name="kdnk/dig-deep-water">{{cite news |title=Project Dig Deep Brings Water to Navajo Homes |url=https://www.kdnk.org/news/2020-09-14/project-dig-deep-brings-water-to-navajo-homes |access-date=September 19, 2023 |work=KDNK |date=September 15, 2020 |location=Carbondale, Colorado |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014174628/https://www.kdnk.org/news/2020-09-14/project-dig-deep-brings-water-to-navajo-homes |url-status=live}}</ref> families and communities<ref name="redbull/navajo-water">{{cite web |last1=Gifford |first1=Bill |title=On the Navajo reservation, a tiny nonprofit is bringing life-giving water to the Indigenous people hardest hit by the pandemic |url=https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/navajo-water-project-heroes-2020 |website=redbull.com |access-date=September 19, 2023 |date=December 1, 2020 |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014174627/https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/navajo-water-project-heroes-2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> of the Navajo Nation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reilly |first1=Nick |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-donates-350000-to-provide-navajo-nation-with-clean-water-2808918 |title=Lana Del Rey donates $350,000 to provide Navajo Nation with clean water |work=NME |date=November 4, 2020 |access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> Later in December, Del Rey released a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone" to benefit charities supported by the Liverpool F.C. Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2020 |first=Will |last=Lavin |title=Lana Del Rey announces limited edition 7" vinyl of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' cover |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-announces-limited-edition-7-vinyl-of-youll-never-walk-alone-cover-for-charity-2829283 |access-date=February 5, 2021 |website=NME}}</ref>

In the early 2000s, Del Rey worked at a homeless shelter and participated in humanitarian work, including building houses at Navajo Nation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAmxUDpgO8Y/ |title=Instagram post by Lana Del Rey • May 25, 2020 at 9:29am UTC |website=Instagram}}</ref>

==Impact== 250px|thumb|Del Rey performing in 2012 Del Rey has been mentioned as an influence by a number of artists including The Weeknd,<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2015 |title=The ice couple of pop: Lana del Rey and the Weeknd's numb cool vs. the heat of Kanye and Rihanna |author-first1=Sasha |author-last1=Frere-Jones |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-0926-lana-del-rey-and-abel-tesfaye-20150926-story.html |access-date=July 11, 2025 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Billie Eilish,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-ocean-eyes-lana-del-rey-1235007087/ |title=Billie Eilish Says ‘Ocean Eyes’ Would ‘Not Even Exist Without’ Lana Del Rey |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=April 18, 2024}}</ref> Finneas,<ref>{{cite web |title=Finneas Credits Lana Del Rey & Lorde For Inspiring Billie Eilish |url=https://thatgrapejuice.net/2020/04/finneas-credits-lana-del-rey-lorde-for-inspiring-billie-eilish/ |website=That Grape Juice |date=April 29, 2020 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref> XXXTentacion,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reiss |first1=Jonathan |title=Look at Me! |date=October 9, 2018 |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0-306-84541-3 |page=61 |url=https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/jonathan-reiss/look-at-me/9780306845413/ |access-date=October 15, 2021}}</ref> Charli XCX,<ref>{{cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |title=Charli XCX Talks The Velvet Underground & Nico, Lana Del Rey, Celebrates Jack Antonoff At Variety's Hitmakers Awards |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2290148/charli-xcx-talks-the-velvet-underground-nico-lana-del-rey-celebrates-jack-antonoff-at-varietys-hitmakers-awards/news/ |website=Stereogum |date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> Clairo,<ref>{{cite web |last=Zadeh |first=Joe |title=Clairo pays homage to Lana Del Rey and poses with gun after 2025 Grammys |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/clairo-pays-homage-to-lana-del-rey-and-poses-with-gun-after-2025-grammys-3834285 |website=NME |date=February 3, 2025 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> Troye Sivan,<ref>{{cite web |title=YouTube video (ID: uzpwaKovtmw) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzpwaKovtmw |website=YouTube |date=January 23, 2022 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref> Beabadoobee,<ref>{{cite web |last=Ragusa |first=Paolo |title=Beabadoobee Channels Her Inner Lizzy Grant |url=https://officemagazine.net/beabadoobee-channels-her-inner-lizzy-grant |website=Office Magazine |date=May 2, 2022 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> Slayyyter,<ref>{{cite web |last=Love |first=Michael |title=Slayyyter Is 2018 Pop, Inspired By 2007 Britney, Lindsay, and Paris |url=https://www.papermag.com/slayyyter |website=PAPER Magazine |date=October 15, 2018 |access-date=December 20, 2025}}</ref> Madison Beer,<ref>{{cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |title=Madison Beer Talks About 'Silence Between Songs,' Her Lana Del Rey-Inspired New Album |url=https://variety.com/2023/music/news/madison-beer-silence-between-songs-lana-del-rey-album-interview-1235720528/ |website=Variety |date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> BØRNS,<ref>{{cite news |last=Escalante |first=Nikki |title=BØRNS on songwriting, touring and Lana Del Rey |url=https://fashionjournal.com.au/music/borns-songwriting-touring-lana-del-rey/ |work=Fashion Journal |date=February 27, 2018 |access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> Taylor Swift,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mier |first=Tomás |title=Taylor Swift Praises Lana Del Rey's Stardom: 'She Knows She's the Best' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-lana-del-rey-stardom-praise-1235035312/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 27, 2025 |access-date=May 29, 2025}}</ref> Zella Day,<ref>{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Jacob |title=Zella Day's Where Does The Devil Hide: Reviewed |url=https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/2020/9/28/zella-days-where-does-the-devil-hide-reviewed |work=Scene+Heard |date=September 28, 2020 |access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> Gracie Abrams,<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Facebook post by Gracie Abrams: "Ok Lana Del Rey thank you so much for this album Lana Del Rey on today of all days thank you love you so much forever" |url=https://www.facebook.com/gracieabrams/posts/ok-lana-del-rey-thank-you-so-much-for-this-album-lana-del-rey-on-today-of-all-da/733675891756536/ |website=Facebook |date=March 26, 2023 |access-date=July 25, 2025}}</ref> Selena Gomez,<ref>{{cite web |last=Rivieccio |first=Genna |title=Selena Gomez Borrows From Elements of Lit, Lana Del Rey and Beyoncé for "Sunset Blvd" Lyrics and Visuals |url=https://www.culledculture.com/selena-gomez-sunset-blvd-video/ |website=Culled Culture |date=March 15, 2025 |access-date=August 13, 2025}}</ref> Kacey Musgraves,<ref name="auto2">{{cite news |last=Marks |first=Craig |title=Kacey Musgraves on 'Deeper Well,' her new album and finding peace in the chaos |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-13/kacey-musgraves-deeper-well-interview |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 13, 2024 |access-date=May 13, 2025}}</ref> Daniel Seavey,<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Seavey details debut solo album that 'feels 100 % like me from top to bottom' |url=https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1883965142356091089 |website=Rolling Stone (via X) |date=February 2025 |access-date=July 25, 2025}}</ref> Suki Waterhouse,<ref>{{cite news |last=Garland |first=Emma |title=Suki Waterhouse: 'I was carrying a lot of shame around myself for a long time' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/26/suki-waterhouse-i-was-carrying-a-lot-of-shame-around-myself-for-a-long-time |work=The Guardian |date=April 26, 2022 |access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> Jesse Jo Stark,<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |title=GREATEST: Jesse Jo Stark |url=https://www.goat.com/editorial/jesse-jo-stark-interview-greatest-magazine |website=GOAT |date=July 2022 |access-date=August 14, 2025}}</ref> Addison Rae,<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |title=Addison Rae Explains Why She & Lana Del Rey Are Similar: ‘I’m a Perfectionist As Well’ |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/addison-rae-lana-del-rey-perfectionist-like-her-1236047127/ |magazine=Billboard |date=August 19, 2025}}</ref> Kali Uchis,<ref name="auto2"/> Jesse Rutherford,<ref>{{cite video |title=Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey Interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvzxni-snAY |publisher=iHeartRadio |date=March 14, 2025 |access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> Banks,<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Instagram post |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DLVGizoRbmW/ |website=Instagram |date=May 2025 |access-date=July 25, 2025}}</ref> Ethel Cain,<ref>{{cite news |last=Tipple |first=Ben |title=Ethel Cain's Preacher's Daughter review |url=https://diymag.com/review/album/ethel-cain-preachers-daughter-album-review |work=DIY |date=May 13, 2022 |access-date=July 10, 2025}}</ref> Chappell Roan,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Samel |first=Ketki |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Chappell Roan soars at Herbst Theatre despite lack of audience connection |url=https://www.dailycal.org/archives/chappell-roan-soars-at-herbst-theatre-despite-lack-of-audience-connection/article_1bce4428-2b8a-55bb-9d8f-5ca6935c9925.html |access-date=March 11, 2025 |website=The Daily Californian |language=en}}</ref> Niall Horan,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Niall Horan Reveals His Spotify Playlist That Is Already Inspiring Album No. 4 (Exclusive) |url=https://people.com/niall-horan-reveals-spotify-playlist-already-inspiring-album-number-four-exclusive-7509227 |access-date=July 11, 2025 |website=People |language=en}}</ref> Nessa Barrett,<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 20, 2022 |title=Nessa Barrett says that her dream collaborator is Lana del Rey. "I am very inspired by her." |url=https://x.com/Variety/status/1594467237737680896?t=yZ-0FdsYYXn_gfX0kTrkZw&s=19 |website=Variety on Twitter}}</ref> Olivia Rodrigo<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/lana-del-rey-billie-eilish-olivia-rodrigo-critics-waffle-house-1235593189/ |title=Lana Del Rey talks Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, critics, Waffle House |last=O'Connell |first=Mikey |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 20, 2023 |access-date=September 20, 2023}}</ref> and Conan Gray.<ref name="GrayTweet">{{cite tweet |user=conangray |number=866307456221286401 |title=lana will always, always be a massive inspiration in my life |date=May 21, 2017 |url=https://twitter.com/conangray/status/866307456221286401 |access-date=October 8, 2025}}</ref><ref name="WMag">{{cite web |last=Rosi |first=Ana |title=Conan Gray on Becoming the Voice of Gen Z |website=W Magazine |date=March 23, 2020 |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/conan-gray-kid-krow-interview |access-date=October 8, 2025}}</ref> ''Billboard'' credited ''Born to Die ''with being one of the main catalysts for pop music's shift from an overall brash EDM tone to a moodier, hip-hop-inflected palette in the mid-2010s, and opined that Del Rey is indispensable to the decade's pop music, having influenced alternative-leaning pop artists such as Lorde, Halsey, Banks, Sky Ferreira, Father John Misty, Sia, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift.<ref name="auto">{{cite magazine |title=Every Lana Del Rey Song, Ranked: Critic's List |url=https://www.billboard.com/media/lists/lana-del-rey-best-songs-ranked-8528500/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=August 30, 2019}}</ref> In 2019, ''Billboard'' included "Born to Die" amongst the 100 songs that defined the 2010s, adding that it marked "a sonic shift that completely changed the pop landscape".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-songs-that-defined-the-decade-8544101/ |title=Songs That Defined the Decade: Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die' |date=November 21, 2019 |magazine=Billboard |last=Shouneyia |first=Alexa}}</ref> ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' was named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by ''Rolling Stone.''<ref name="Schewitz" /> Del Rey has received praise from older artists, some of whom have been inspirations to Del Rey herself, including Bruce Springsteen,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lynch |first=Jessica |date=August 16, 2020 |title=Bruce Springsteen Calls Lana Del Rey "One of the Best Songwriters" |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-lana-del-rey-from-his-home-to-yours-15698/ |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=Rolling Stone Australia}}</ref> Joan Baez,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pearson |first=Victoria |date=July 6, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey Wanted to Sing With Joan Baez. But First, She'd Have to Find Her. • T Australia |url=https://taustralia.com.au/lana-del-rey-joan-baez/ |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=T Australia}}</ref> Elton John,<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 24, 2019 |title=Musicians on Musicians: Elton John & Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-lana-del-rey-musicians-on-musicians-cover-902354/ |access-date=December 9, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> Courtney Love,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Ellie |date=December 28, 2022 |title=Courtney Love says Kurt Cobain and Lana Del Rey are the only "true musical geniuses" she's ever known |url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/courtney-love-says-kurt-cobain-and-lana-del-ray-are-the-only-true-musical-geniuses-shes-ever-known-3372107 |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=NME}}</ref> and directors David Lynch and John Waters.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 22, 2023 |title=John Waters and David Lynch really love Lana Del Rey |url=https://www.avclub.com/john-waters-david-lynch-praise-lana-del-rey-1851042613 |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=The A.V. Club}}</ref>

''The Washington Post'' listed Del Rey as the only musician on their "Decade of Influence" list.<ref>{{cite news |last=Richards |first=Chris |date=October 24, 2019 |title=Lana Del Rey is real |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2fgraphics%2f2019%2fentertainment%2flana-del-rey%2f%3f |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 6, 2020 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> ''Pitchfork'' named her one of the greatest living songwriters of the US.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell/ |title=Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! Album Review |work=Pitchfork |date=September 3, 2019 |first=Jenn |last=Pelly |access-date=October 24, 2021}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' declared Del Rey's own "pure female haze" a "hallmark of the defiant female pop stars to come".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/25/destruction-of-female-pop-role-model-decade-in-music |title=New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model |first=Laura |last=Snapes |date=November 25, 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Her YouTube and Vevo pages have combined views of over seven and a half billion.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/LanaDelRey/about Lana Del Rey]. YouTube (May 5, 2011). Retrieved on March 22, 2020.</ref><ref>{{in lang|de}} [https://www.musikindustrie.de/markt-bestseller/gold-/platin-und-diamond-auszeichnung/datenbank/#topSearch Datenbank: BVMI]. Musikindustrie.de. Retrieved on March 22, 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aria.com.au/accreditations |title=Accreditations – ARIA |website=Aria.com.au |access-date=October 8, 2020}}</ref> In 2022, New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music launched the fall semester course "Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey", which deals with Del Rey's music.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aniftos |first=Rania |title=A Lana Del Rey Course Launched at NYU's Clive Davis Institute |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-class-nyu-clive-davis-institute-1235142098/ |date=September 20, 2022 |access-date=September 21, 2022 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Del Rey at number 175 on its 2023 list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref name="rollingstone.com" /> '' Rolling Stone UK'' named her The Greatest American Songwriter of the 21st century (2023).<ref name="Ewens" />

==Accolades== {{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Lana Del Rey}}

Del Rey has received many awards, including 3 MTV Europe Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards, a Satellite Award and an MTV Video Music Award. Alongside those accolades, she has also been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards<ref name=ldrgrammys /> and a Golden Globe Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Globe Winners 2015: Complete List |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/golden-globe-winners-2015-updated-list-1201400369/ |website=Variety |access-date=January 12, 2015 |date=January 11, 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life== On September 26, 2024, Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene, a tour boat captain in Des Allemands, Louisiana married.<ref name="wedding marsh">{{cite news |last1=Saad |first1=Nardine |title=The wedding marsh: Lana Del Rey reportedly marries alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-09-27/lana-del-rey-wedding-jeremy-dufrene-alligator-guide-louisiana |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 27, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Shock">{{cite news |last1=Spencer-Elliott |first1=Lydia |title=Lana Del Rey marries alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene in shock wedding in Louisiana |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/lana-del-rey-alligator-tour-guide-wedding-jeremy-dufrene-b2619884.html |work=The Independent |date=September 27, 2024}}</ref> The couple first met in 2019, when Del Rey took a tour with him there.<ref name="About Lana">{{cite news |last=Lutkin |first=Aimée |date=September 27, 2024 |title=All About Lana Del Rey's Husband, Jeremy Dufrene |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a62103404/who-is-lana-del-rey-boyfriend-jeremy-dufrene/ |work=Elle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Petri |first1=Alexandra |title=Lana Del Rey Married a Normie. Other Celebrities Have Too. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/arts/music/lana-del-rey-jeremy-dunfre-dolly-parton.html |work=New York Times |date=October 23, 2024}}</ref>

===Religion=== Del Rey has said that she believes in God.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stimson |first=Brie |date=October 10, 2023 |title=Lana Del Rey shuts down claims she practiced witchcraft on her tour |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lana-del-rey-shuts-down-claims-practiced-witchcraft-tour#:~:text=The%20%22Say%20Yes%20to%20Heaven,would%20believe%20in%20God%20too. |access-date=March 16, 2025 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref> She told ''The Quietus'' in 2011, "My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences... because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too... I dunno about congregating once a week in a church and all that, but when I heard there is a divine power you can call on, I did. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music–I take what I want and leave the rest."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calvert |first=John |date=October 4, 2011 |title=Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/lana-del-rey-interview/ |access-date=March 11, 2025 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}</ref> Lana Del Rey featured megachurch pastor Judah Smith on her 2023 album, ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd''. She has been involved with his church, known as Churchome.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/lana-del-reys-judah-smith-interlude-is-deeper-than-you-think/ |title=Yes, Lana Del Rey’s Album Features a Homophobic Pastor—but It’s Not What You Think |author=Coleman Spilde |date=March 24, 2023 |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=January 30, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.them.us/story/lana-del-rey-judah-smith-megachurch-pastor |title=Lana Del Rey Included a Megachurch Pastor’s Sermon on Her Album and Fans Are Divided |first=Abby |last=Monteil |date=March 27, 2023 |website=Them.us |access-date=January 30, 2026}}</ref> Smith officiated Del Rey’s wedding in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.papermag.com/lana-del-rey-wedding |title=Lana Del Rey, Still Married, Shares Exclusive Wedding Photos |website=Papermag.com |access-date=January 30, 2026}}</ref>

==Discography== {{Main|Lana Del Rey discography|List of songs recorded by Lana Del Rey}}

'''Studio albums''' {{div col}} * ''Lana Del Ray'' (2010) * ''Born to Die'' (2012) * ''Ultraviolence'' (2014) * ''Honeymoon'' (2015) * ''Lust for Life'' (2017) * ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019) * ''Chemtrails over the Country Club'' (2021) * ''Blue Banisters'' (2021) * ''Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd'' (2023) * ''Stove'' (2026) {{div col end}}

==Written works== * ''Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass'' (2020)

==Filmography== {{Main|Lana Del Rey videography}}

{{div col}} * ''Poolside'' (2010) * ''National Anthem'' (2012) * ''Ride'' (2012) * ''Tropico'' (2013) * ''Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?'' (2015) * ''Freak'' (2016) * ''Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen'' (2017) * ''The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show'' (2019) * ''Norman Fucking Rockwell'' (2019) {{div col end}}

== Tours == {{Main|List of Lana Del Rey live performances}}

* Born to Die Tour (2011–2012) * Paradise Tour (2013–2014) * The Endless Summer Tour (2015) * LA to the Moon Tour (2018) * The Norman Fucking Rockwell! Tour (2019) * 2023 Tour * UK and Ireland 2025

==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Grande, P. B.; (2020); Desire in Lana Del Rey; In Desire (pp. 195–226); Michigan State University Press [https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctv11vcdwg.9*] *Chirkis, B.; (March 26, 2024); How Lana Del Rey Promotes Feminism Through Her Sad Girl Persona; Trinity Tripod; [https://trinitytripod.com/arts/how-lana-del-rey-promotes-feminism-through-her-sad-girl-persona/#:~:text=A%20lot%20of%20Del%20Rey's,feminine%20standards%20set%20by%20society.* How Lana Del Rey Promotes Feminism Through Her Sad Girl Persona – Trinity Tripod]

== External links == {{sister project links|wikt=no|commons=Category:Lana Del Rey|v=no|voy=no|n=no|s=no|b=no|d=Q37150}} * {{Official website|https://www.lanadelrey.com|Official website}} * {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0002784799|label=Lana Del Rey}} * {{IMDb name|4787894}} * {{Discogs artist}}

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