Lana Del Rey is the girl of the moment. On a freezing New York afternoon, wind-chill factor -8C, she breezes into the lobby of an exclusive members’ club with the untouchable aura of someone transported within their own micro-climate. She looks immaculate, as indeed she has always looked since the world first sat up and took notice – perfectly turned out in tight blue slacks, green shirt and a suede jacket, like a beatnik princess. Long auburn hair falls in perfect lines around her face, deep brown eyes casting a frank, steady gaze beneath long, false lashes.
In the flesh she still has a girlish slightness of frame, but in front of cameras she is capable of shifting swiftly from a kind of coltish innocence to vampish knowingness. It’s a quality that is hard to pin down but is present in the videos, songs and photo shoots that have suddenly and dramatically elevated her from the obscure margins of the internet to the centre of the pop zeitgeist, a kind of doubleness, a sense of duality and merging contradictions. She is a person into whom you can read a lot.
Which is what the world has been doing. In May 2010, the unsigned Del Rey posted a home-made video on YouTube of a deceptively simple song called Video Games, in which she sang in a low, sultry voice about a remembered moment of idle and possibly idyllic love to an achingly sad melody, set to found footage of old Hollywood and sun-bleached shots of Del Rey. It’s a clip that has a strange, otherworldly power, emphasised, perhaps, by the absence of beats, the quiet poise of its artful construction, allied to intense yet understated emotion.
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Thanks to LanaDelReyFans.blog.cz for these HQ pictures of Lana Del Rey when she appeared at the BBC radio studios in London yesterday. You can see the candids one post before. Enjoy them. (:
Appearances > 2012 > Inside Absolute Radio in London (Jan 23)
We added more untagged pictures from yesterday when Lana were outside the BBC Radio studios in London and replaced the old ones. Some of them are even UHQ. We have 47 pictures in total including tagged + MQ’s. Enjoy! (:
Candids > 2012 > Outside Radio 1 in London (Jan 23)
Two songs of Lana Del Rey, “Video Games” and “This Is What Makes Us Girls“, were feautured at Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2012. You can watch the preview video below:
Like we promised you can check the german ‘Intro’ scans featured Lana Del Rey below. Due the magazine is for free, you can even print the magazine for your own use. Just click here, open the online magazine, find the print button, sign up on issuu and get the pages as a PDF file. (:
Magazine Scans > 2012 > Intro (February – Germany)
We found another HQ outtake taken by Nicole Nodland, you can check it below.
Photoshoots > 2011 > Nicole Nodland #7
We found some never-seen-before photoshoot potraits taken by Charles Cave. Enjoy! (:
Photoshoots > 2010 and older > Charles Cave
Appearances > 2012 > At Radio6 Studio In UK (Jan 23)