Award winning American singer Elizabeth Woodbridge Grant, professionally known as Lana Del Rey has told fans this morning that she won’t be performing in Hyde Park in London this year due to issues surrounding music and culture differences in the UK to USA. She has apologised to fans after recently deleting her own social media accounts, presumably because of her decision to pull out of her UK gig and amongst fear of backlash.
Raised in northern New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey’s breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single “Video Games”; she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope.[5] She achieved critical and commercial success with her major label debut album, Born to Die (2012), which contained the sleeper hit “Summertime Sadness”. Born To Die became her first of six number-one albums in the UK, and also topped various national charts around the world. Del Rey’s third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200. Her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), saw a return to the stylistic traditions of her earlier releases, while her critically acclaimed sixth album and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), explored soft rock, and was also named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone.[6][7] Her next studio albums, Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, followed in 2021. Del Rey collaborated with Taylor Swift on “Snow on the Beach”, from Swift’s tenth studio album Midnights (2022); it debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, marking Del Rey’s highest peak on the chart.
Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short Tropico[8] 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 and won the Satellite Award. In 2014, she recorded “Once Upon a Dream” for the dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent and the self-titled theme song for the biopic Big Eyes, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and was shortlisted for the Best Original Song category at the 87th Academy Awards, but it didn’t make the final nominations.[9][10] Del Rey also recorded the collaboration “Don’t Call Me Angel” for the action comedy Charlie’s Angels (2019). Additionally, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020).