Īfter settling on her current stage name, Del Rey signed a recording contract with Stranger Records in June 2011, and released the track " Video Games". Grant was successfully bought out of her recording contract at her manager's request consequently, Lana Del Ray was pulled out of circulation before physical versions were produced. The final product, Lana Del Ray, was digitally released in January 2010, and her stage name was respelled Lana Del Rey shortly after its launch. But after hiring new management services, taking an interest in adopting the stage name Lana Del Ray, and a perceived lack of motivation during production, she found herself in conflict with the record label and her producer David Kahne. In 2007, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Grant signed a recording contract with the independent record label 5 Point Records, and began planning her debut studio album. The album has been retrospectively ranked in best-of lists by several publications including The Guardian and NME, and helped Del Rey acquire cult status among music fans. Del Rey's image during promotion of Born to Die was controversial tabloid media accused her of an inauthentic persona that was the result of forced marketing to gain an audience in the indie music scene. The album polarized contemporary critics praises were towards the album's distinctive sound, and criticism targeted its repetitiveness and melodramatic tendencies.
"Summertime Sadness" peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Del Rey's best-charting single in the US. In 2021, it became the second album by a woman and the first debut album by a woman to spend more than 400 weeks on the US Billboard 200, where it peaked at number two, and topped charts in Australia and various European countries including France, Germany, and the UK.īorn to Die was supported by four further singles: " Blue Jeans", " Summertime Sadness", " National Anthem", and " Dark Paradise". The album was the world's fifth best-selling album of 2012, and had sold over 7 million copies by 2014. The lyrics are about love, sex, and drugs, and features prominent references to 1950s and 1960s Americana. A predominantly baroque pop and trip hop album, Born to Die features the same cinematic composition. The album was reissued on November 9, 2012, as an expanded version subtitled The Paradise Edition.īefore the album's release, Del Rey had attracted attention with her 2011 singles " Video Games" and " Born to Die", which contrasted contemporary electronic/dance music with their cinematic sound accompanied by dramatic string instruments. It was released on January 27, 2012, through Interscope Records and Polydor Records.
Born to Die is the second studio album and major-label debut by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey.
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