While she attended Fordham University, she continued to play music, and she started getting serious around 2005. Her uncle taught her how to play guitar, and soon she was writing songs and playing New York clubs, sometimes under the name Lizzy Grant. Born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in New York City to a pair of wealthy parents, she was raised in Lake Placid, not starting to pursue music until she was out of high school and living with her aunt and uncle on Long Island. Lana Del Rey's journey to this stardom was a long, steady climb. By the time of albums like 2019's Grammy-nominated Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2021's Blue Banisters, and 2023's Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, Del Rey's character of the damaged torch singer and tragic romantic icon had become nuanced and complex, and her increasingly orchestrated and often cuttingly direct songwriting had evolved in tandem. Her popularity grew after a hit remix of her single 'Summertime Sadness,' and her second LP, 2014's Ultraviolence, received positive reviews to accompany her sales. This dream world was on display in its rudimentary form on her 2012 debut album, Born to Die, but became more personal with subsequent releases. Lana Del Rey is one part songwriting superpower, one part constructed character, embodying a Southern California dream world of sad girls and bad boys, manufactured melancholy, and genuine glamour, and reflecting all of it back in her stylized, meticulously arranged noir-pop songs.

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