#lizzy grant and the phenomena

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Lana Del Rey naming her ex boyfriend Arthur Lynn (real name Artie Levine) on her recent interview for Interview Magazine (2023).

He played guitar in some Lana shows in the early days of her career.

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My last Lana post I'll make (for a while) is the popular misconception that Lana's main archetype is a Lolita. Lana has referenced Nabokov's novel Lolita a few times in her early work especially in her early leaked music when she was switching between singer personas such as Lizzy Grant, early-Lana Del Rey. It is a total misconception that Lana however uses a Lolita archetype which in itself is a bastardization and different phenomena than characters from Lolita.

The highlighted sentence is how I'm differentiating between literary reference and the "Lolita archetype". Off to the Races, Lolita, and some of her unreleased work (Put Me in a Movie) all feature direct references to this novel. After her album Born to Die Lana does not reference a teenage protagonist or anything to do with the Lolita archetype. Lana's music videos and visuals also predominantly reference old Hollywood, femme fatales, organized crime, post-war americana, bikers and cult aesthetics. In fact her music references American cults more than the Lolita archetype.

This critique I believe comes from the coquette Internet meme but it's still worth pointing out because there are many pop stars who do erroneously use this archetype. A good example of the difference between a symbolic or literary reference and a use of the Lolita archetype is Britany Spears and her entire persona through the 90s-00s.

Most people are probably familiar with this music video (and her whole "brand" through this era) and its popularity (impact on pop culture, references in other music, as costumes, etc). I hope this illustrates the difference between actual artistic expression vs. corporate sexist exploitation.

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The Rich Whores aka Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena

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NME, January 28, 2012

In the weeks before she went truly massive, Lana Del Rey talked intimately to Laura Snapes about fame, lies and danger…

It’d be nice to think September 9, 2011 was a more innocent time for Lana Del Rey. ‘Video Games’ had gradually seeped into consciousness over the preceding months, building anticipation around the YouTube premiere of its b-side ‘Blue Jeans’, that morning.

That day I met Lana in her small, posh west London hotel room. It was a few days before snarky blog Hipster Runoff would publish an “exposé” on her past as Lizzy Grant, daughter of a moneyed family with a shelved album to her name (nothing she had ever denied); a few days before she would play an invite-only secret show at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, and then postpone her October tour dates – which had sold out in a heartbeat – until November.

But even on the cusp of becoming the phenomenon she is right now, as her debut album looks set to hit number one, there was something about Lana Del Rey that suggested she wasn’t all that innocent. It’s in the way she avoids eye contact, staring at her feet as she ties her vest in knots, awkwardly trying to run her rectangular, baby blue and pink nails through her stiff auburn curls.

We sit around a table at the foot of the bed in her room, as the TV on the wall displays a home shopping channel hawking ceramic Disney princesses on mute. She speaks like one of them – all wispy “oh my!” cautiousness and beauty queen charm. She asks if I mind her smoking the first of the many long Pall Mall cigarettes she’ll get through, saying that her PR man has told her – rather presciently – that people will write about everything you do.

She’s disarming in her nerves, often sounding as though she’s about to burst into tears, but equally for the prevailing suspicion that this could all be an act. For all the accusations that will be levelled against her over the coming months, Lana Del Rey certainly isn’t dumb. If you ask her a tricky question, she’ll answer through dipped lashes before looking up and forcing you to confirm what she’s just said; she girlishly asks, “Don’t you think I look similar?” after I’ve asked her if she’s had plastic surgery.

For all the bands that have recently peddled intrigue and mystique in their bid for popularity, none have done it as well as Del Rey – even if she’s achieved it unintentionally. Arguably, she would rather remove all doubt and speculation about her past in order to get on with the job in hand; but it’s one of the things that’s made her such a beguiling pop star from the first time we set eyes on her….

This must all seem very strange.

Strange is the right word. When things go absolutely nowhere for so long, you can tell when the energy is shifting around a project, and in the last two months, I’ve been, like… is this real?

‘Blue Jeans’ went online this morning. Have you been keeping up with the reaction?

I’m so nervous that I haven’t really looked! I feel like the album will walk the line between ‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Video Games’. It’s still really fresh, but glamorous.

You can hear your unreleased album, ‘Nevada’, online. Would you rather it wasn’t there?

Yeah, it bothers me. The internet’s a really good place, but definitely a scary place too for someone when not everything that you’ve done has been good.

I found MySpaces for your past projects under the names Sparkle Rope Jump Queen and Lizzy Grant & The Phenomena. When are they from?

Wowwwww! Well. I would say Sparkle Rope Jump Queen was maybe 2008, 2009. I was playing guitar. I actually saw that about three weeks ago, something on Google came up. I thought, ha, you cute girl, look at what you did. They’re pretty dark. I was just playing into Garage Band.

There are lots of interesting stories about you on the MySpace for Lizzy Grant & The Phenomena – that you were a trapeze artist in Alabama, for example.

Haha! That’s not true. That is very funny. I’m a psycho. I was born on the day of the worldly rapture, according to the most famous biblical birthdays, June 21, a Gemini. What else did I put in there… I think it was Alabama, I did visit there, but I’m not a trapeze artist!

With Lana Del Rey, how important is it to tell people the truth?

Very important. Because I don’t like to get caught! I was probably 20 when I put [the …Phenomena MySpace up], no-one was paying attention to me so I was writing whatever I wanted. Even though the project has kinda taken a sort of exotic twist, which I did want, what I say is usually pretty straightforward.

There’s been a definite change in image between your former projects and now. Did it all come from you? And also… did it go further than just being aesthetic?

There aren’t many pictures of when I was singing before. They’re paintings that my sister had done from photographs. My face actually looks exactly the same as when I was really little. I know everyone talks about my lips, but my lips are my lips, and I’ve never gotten anything done. Also those paintings from those photographs, they’re taken when I was like 17, 18, the only real difference was that I had short platinum hair. But I don’t think they look that different.

Does it bother you that you’re being asked whether you’ve had surgery?

Well… yeah. I think as a girl, when you work for a long time and you don’t really get anywhere, you work on keeping a lot of integrity in your music but then all anyone talks about is your face – it’s not something you can really plan for. I don’t have a new face, I look the same.

What kind of pop star do you want to be? ‘Video Games’ came up through YouTube, but you’ve been working with some big people.

In terms of being a pop star, it’s not something I’ve thought about for a long time now, because it was so long ago that I started. Even though I’ve been singing and writing again for two years, I haven’t been on the stage for 16 months. I started living a regular life, so I’m not really sure. I don’t have to be a singer at all, it’s not the end all or be all any more.

Did the idea of being a pop star drive you?

I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half inspired because I didn’t really have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love with and start a community around me, the way they used to in the ‘60s. I wanted to be recognised as a good singer, and not much more than that.

Did you not have a lot of friends at school, or in your hometown?

I did find it hard to make friends, but it wasn’t because of the people, but because I was sort of a cerebral person, an over-thinker. I was trying to figure out a vision for my future that would make me happy when I really was not happy doing that many things.

Danger seems to recur as a theme in your songs…

I think I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people. I am attracted to the dark side, but in the same way that everyone else is. Sometimes the things that are really dangerous are because the situations or people are really magnetic and imperfect, but then when the pendulum swings you see the reason things are so amazing is because the situation is really strange.

Any specifics?

I don’t know… It just felt like fighting for survival for such a long time. Having no money, or a place to live, living day-to-day trying to figure out how to keep making music and stay alive. You sometimes find yourself in situations that you wouldn’t exactly uhh, that aren’t like, the safest, but um… Just figuring out how to make ends meet.

What kind of jobs did you have?

Basically I did anything on Craigslist. $100 a pop: I would move people out of places, paint houses, wear bike sports jackets for a truck magazine, or NYU students would pay $100 to spend a week doing a film.

Amazing – have you got some poncey student films made about you?

Well they’re not pretentious, but I am terrible! The kids who would ask me to do it probably thought I looked right, but then we would get on location and they’d be sorry they asked because I’m really shy in front of the camera!

Were you not tempted by a regular job?

I definitely thought, ‘If it’s gonna be this hard I’m not gonna be a singer and have nothing’. That would have been fine, but it’s only in the last two years that I started getting tired.

Did you ever nearly quit singing?

In my mind, I was always thinking about it. I stopped playing shows. I definitely didn’t wanna be a singer any more after a while.

Originally published in NME with the headline “I'm so nervous…”

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afraid - lana del rey

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“Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don’t know why”

- Born to die // Lana Del Rey

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I'm neon phosphorescent like an open Christmas present

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Ok scene ideas

Michael nearly gets mauled to death by Fredbear, leading to one of the many scars riddling his body by adulthood

After Elizabeth's death, when William is completely consumed by his work, Michael is actually nice to Cassidy, trying to reassure him that Elizabeth will come home, which goes south due to Cassidy insisting Liz is dead. While Michael lashes out at the time, he backtracks shortly after and tries to console him and apologize.

Cassidy tries to tell Michael what happened. Michael, not believing it at all (granted, his story that Baby "ate Lizzie" sounds unlikely, but Mike was also really mean about it), accuses Cassidy of wanting Elizabeth to be dead, in a scene similar to satsuki (dunno if that's how it's spelled, sorry) and mei's fight in my neighbor totoro, but way more intense and way meaner, since the boys are twice as old as the girls in totoro.

One of Michael's friends is actually surprisingly kind to Cassidy.

Despite his extreme phobia of the animatronics, he's surprisingly not particularly scared of the Puppet, and inadvertently starts a small phenomena of children calling it Charlie that follows the Puppet to the pizzeria in Hurricane years after Cassidy dies.

Elizabeth and Charlie were pretty close. Due to her early onset BPD symptoms, she had very few other friends, and her death hit Elizabeth HARD.

Ooh, the one with Michael and Cassidy after Elizabeth’s death is actually how I imagine it would be sometimes after that, and one of Michael’s friends being surprisingly nice to Cassidy makes me think of the Freddy mask bully mostly because of the fact that in the FNaF 4 minigames he’s the least “aggressive” of the bunch specifically during the bite scene since he’s kinda off to the side, and his mask is the only one without eyes

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“Sparkle Jump Rope Queen”, “Lizzy Grant and The Phenomena” maar misschien beter bekend als Lana Del Rey, is mijn favoriete artiest.                    Ookal kent iedereen de naam “Lana del Rey” , toch heeft het niets met de artiest te maken. Ze vond Lana en Del Rey gewoon mooi samen klinken.   

Op 21 juni 1985 was Elizabeth Woolridge Grant geboren in een knus gezinnetje, later kreeg ze nog een zusje en een broertje erbij. Al van jongs af aan was ze al bezig met muziek, ze zong namelijk in een kerkkoor. Nadat ze afgestudeerd was, was ze toegelaten aan De state university of New York. Maar ze koos ervoor om een jaar te leven op Long Island bij haar tante en oom, waar ze ging werken als serveerster. In die periode leerde ze gitaar spelen en realiseerde ze zich dat ze wel miljoenen liedjes kon schrijven met 6 akkoorden! Daar trad ze ook op onder de namen “Sparkle Jump Rope Queen” en “Lizzy Grant and The Phenomena”, zoals ik al vermeld had. Later ging ze studeren aan de Universiteit van Fordham, terwijl ze tussendoor vrijwilligerswerk deed bij thuisloze jongeren en drugs- en alcoholverslaafden... 

Haar carrière begon toen ze het liedje “video games” uitbracht, die binnen een maand een miljoen hits had. Dit is ook het lied wat ik gekozen heb,niet alleen voor het nummer zelf maar ook voor de visuals van de videoclip. Het is een collage van allemaal nostalgische beelden met tussendoor webcam videos waarin lana zingt. De combinatie van de tekst, de melodie, de videoclip maakt het voor mij af. Ook is het het favoriete liedje van mijn opa, waardoor het voor mij nog meer betekent. 

Daarna heeft ze nog veel muziekalbums zoals “Honeymoon” en “Lust for life” uitgebracht. Haar nieuwste album is uitgekomen in eind augustus dit jaar, en daarom gaat ze ook op tour. Met veel geluk heb ik tickets kunnen scoren voor haar concert in Amsterdam, nu kan ik haar ook live horen!

Het bijzondere aan Lana is dat ze haar eigen stijl blijft verder doen ookal valt dat niet bij iedereen in de smaak. Haar melancholische-stijl heeft veel verwijzingen naar de pop-cultuur van de jaren vijftig en zestig in Amerika. Zelf hou ik ook van oudere muziek dus dat is alleen maar een pluspunt. Ook schrijft ze niet alleen maar over liefde maar kaart ze ook soms de problemen aan in Amerika bv. met het liedje “Looking for Amerika”. Haar stem vind ik ook heel anders dan andere artiesten,maar in een zeer goede manier.

Een weetje: de artiesten waar Lana het meest naar opkeek waren Kurt Cobain en Britney spears,Die een volledig andere muziekstijl hebben! 

Ik zie al uit naar 21 februari 2020 wanneer ik haar in het echt ga zien!

[bluephoenixdruidicprincess]

Hey, just wanted to say first that your reviews are still awesome and I'm glad you put some humor into them. Now my questions for this week, I remember in one episode where Josie felt Lizzie's pain and knew she was in trouble. But during their sweet 16, Lizzie didn't know that Josie was in trouble. Do you think this is the writers saying Lizzie is a bad sister or was it a point they forgot about? Also, what do you think about the possible friendship between Hope and Lizzie?

Once again, thank you! I’m so glad you’re enjoying them. Thank you for enjoying my humor as well, I’m not super confident in my sense of humor, so it does warm my heart to know that people do enjoy the humor I interject in these reviews. And I do try to put in as much humor as I can, if I didn’t laugh at this show, I’m pretty sure I’d end up crying on account of the show being so terrible. I really do wish this show was funny intentionally, though. The plot sucks, most of the characters are carboard cut-outs, the least the show can do is make me laugh genuinely, you know? If it managed to do that, I might’ve been able to cut it a little more slack and while still calling the show absolute trash, I could at least also call it funny trash that I don’t mind watching. But sadly, the only thing JP has for humor are really cringey pop culture references.

Alright, with these writers’ track record, it could legitimately be either or. Plot holes and inconsistencies are nothing new when it comes to TVD universe. It could very well mean that the writers forgot about it and really will only use the “twin link” when it suits the narrative. But also, the writers have also been pretty consistent with trying to paint Lizzie as the “bad” sister and Josie the “good” sister. They really have not been super subtle about it.

But I do have somewhat of an idea on “twin links”. Twins run in my family. My aunts are identical twins and at a family reunion, I once asked them if it’s true if twins can feel the other when they’re in pain. And they told me it’s somewhat true. But it’s less about feeling each other’s pain and more so about having a sort of alarm bell going off in the back of your head. You know how sometimes you’re minding your own business but you’ll have that nagging thought in the back of your head telling you you forgot something but you can’t quite remember what it was? That’s how my aunts explained it. When the other is in pain, it’s this feeling they have in the back of their mind telling them something is wrong but they can’t quite determine what it is. Granted, as we are all individuals, it’s possible separate sets of twins experience this phenomena in different ways. Apart from how the writers may be interpreting the “twin link”, how I interpret the Salvatore-Forbes twins’ “twin link”, I think it’s a little different for both of them based on their personalities. I think Josie feels it more because of how dependent she is on Lizzie. She’s so dependent on Lizzie to the extent that so much of her own identity is attached to Lizzie. Lizzie is basically Josie’s center so if something’s off with Josie’s center, it’s going to resonate a lot with her, her very being is going to be thrown off-balance. And while Lizzie is certainly dependent on Josie as well, Lizzie has more of a sense of self that isn’t directly attached to Josie. So I do believe Lizzie feels the ‘twin link” as well, but more to the extent of what I described above with my aunts, it’s more of a feeling in the back of her head, she may feel that’s something’s off but she can’t quite place what it is. And since Lizzie, by her nature, is narcissistic and self-centered and she was at a party where she was basically the center of attention, she most likely just shook the feeling off. She was already being stimulated by all of these other things, she could’ve mistaken that feeling for anything. So me personally, I don’t think it’s because she’s a bad sister, we saw when she was trapped in that alternate universe, when she found out that her sister was dead in that universe, it destroyed her. Josie is also Lizzie’s center in a way, but it’s a little bit different. Josie is Lizzie’s center in the sense of her self-control. You can see in that same episode that whenever Lizzie felt like her bond with Josie was weakening, she was losing her ability to be in control of herself.

And being completely selfless for your siblings isn’t what necessarily makes you a “good” sibling. Me and my three brothers love each other but I’m sure we’d never want to sacrifice everything for each other. We’d never ask that of the others, either. We love each other and we want each other to be happy and just knowing that is all we need to feel like we’re “good” siblings. But how I interpret sibling relationships is very different from how these writers are interpreting sibling relationships. They may not be subtle about what they’re trying to do but I’ll be subtle on their behalf and add these little nuances to the characters since they’re so inept at it.

Honestly, I’m way more interested in a Hope and Lizzie friendship than I am in a Josie and Hope friendship. From what little we’ve seen, Josie and Hope just don’t have a whole lot of personality to the friendship but in the short snippet we got in the mummy episode, I saw sparks for a really interesting friendship between Lizzie and Hope. Even though I don’t necessarily like how Hope is all doom and gloom all the time, I do feel like Lizzie and Hope can benefit each other greatly. Their darknesses they hold within themselves are obviously very different and as I pointed out in that review, they really shouldn’t be compared to each other but I do believe they can help each other with that. Lizzie can help Hope with her sense of belonging. Lizzie does have a confidence about her that could enable Hope to learn how to involve herself more with the day-to-day activities of the real world, thus finally giving her a sense of belonging and inclusion and Hope might be someone who can help Lizzie in dealing with her darkness. One of the biggest issues Lizzie has is that she doesn’t really have anyone who understands what it’s like to not feel like they’re in complete control of their feelings and thus their magic, and I feel like Hope can be the person that can give her that understanding and also be the one to call Lizzie out on her destructive tendencies in a more constructive way than what we’ve gotten with Penelope. Hope can give Lizzie that understanding and help Lizzie to be better and Lizzie can also give Hope the same. Basically, they have the ability to understand each other in ways no one else at the school really can.

Thanks for the ask! Hopefully I made sense somewhere amidst all this rambling. And hopefully you continue to enjoy my commentary on Lega-Trash!

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Lana Del Rey Net Worth in 2018, rich American singer and songwriter

Lana Del Rey is an American singer, songwriter as well as a model. Her real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. She was born in the New York City state of United States. Her former stage name was “Lizzy Grant”. Let us explore Lana Del Rey Net Worth in the year 2018. medianet_width = "600"; medianet_height = "250"; medianet_crid = "442568836"; medianet_versionId = "3111299"; Also, check out on Lana Del Rey parents and know her age and height.

Lana Del Rey Net Worth in 2018 is $8 Million.

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In the year 2011, Lana Del Rey signed a record contract worth $10,000 with 5 Points Records. In the year 2010 her original debut album was released, which was hit and then she signed a joint deal in 2011 October with Interscope Records and Polydor. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Her video games won the prize for the best contemporary song at 57th Ivor Novello Awards. These video games had about 20 million viewers on YouTube in first five months.m The net worth of Lana Del Rey as of the year 2018 is estimated to be around $8 Million. It may not be 100% accurate, but this figure of $8 Million of net worth was reported from a number of trustable sources. Her stunning Malibu, California house was $3 million. She wrote her first song while she was at the age of 18, and then signed her first recording contract with 5 point records. Her first digital album was released in January the year 2010. Her songs were very popular. Some popular albums of Lana Del Rey are Lust for Life of 2017, Honeymoon of 2015, Ultra Violence of 2014 and Unreleased of 2012. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); It is no surprise that Lana Del Ray net worth is $8 million given her fruitful career.

Lana Del Rey Family and Parents

Lana Del Rey is from a Scottish descent and she has two younger siblings. Her father by the name Rob Grant is a former Grey group executive copywriter who came out to be a web developer, and the name of her mother is Patrica Grant.

Lana Del Rey was seen with her parents/family Rob Grant and Patricia Grant in West Hollywood The sister of Lana Del Rey is Caroline and brother is Charlie. Her father is a self-made entrepreneur. Lana Del Rey stated that they never lived a wealthy lifestyle. Her paternal grandfather Robert England Grant was a kidder, Peabody & co. investment banker, a vice president of plough, Inc. and venture capitalist. Lana Del Rey was seen with her parents/family Rob Grant and Patricia Grant in West Hollywood (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});

Lana Del Rey Age and Height

Lana Del Rey was born on 21st June the year 1985, now her age is 31 years old. Her height is 1.7 metres.

Lana Del Rey Wiki Style Biography

It is said that Lana Del Rey before becoming a singer, she wanted to be a poet. Her father wrote country songs as a hobby and her mother was interested in singing. After graduation, Del went to the state university of New York at Genesco, but she decided not to attend there but lived with her uncle and aunt on a Long Island. During the stay with her uncle and aunt, her uncle taught her to play guitar and then she started writing songs and performing nightclubs in various names such as “Sparkle Jump Rope Queen” and “Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena”. In the year 2012, she got MTV music awards. Born to die was officially released on 31 January 2012 and reached in eleven countries. Lana Del Rey played in various stage names like Sparkle Jump rope Queen, May jailer and Lena Rey Del Mar. But finally, she decided to go with ‘Lana Del Ray’. She won an award of ‘Next Big Thing in’ 24 October the year 2011. She tattooed letter M on her left hand in the memory of her grandmother and in the right hand she tattooed ‘trust no one’. During her career, Lana Del Ray has accumulated a total net worth of $8 million as of 2018. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});

Her dating life and boyfriend

Lana del has been in relation with Kassidy who was an ex-member of Barrie-James O’Neill since the year2011. In London, they both spent a lot of a good time. In her dating history, many other big names also came, like James Francesco carrozzini, Andrei Gillott, Axl Rose, Shannon Leto, Barrie-James O’Neill.At present she is single. Del is also a successful model for Jaguar F-type. She is a lover of English soccer and a supporter of English Premier League. This is only a short biography of Lana Del. Please leave us a comment in this Lana Del Rey Net Worth Article. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Trending. Cheap Celebrities Who Are Terrible Tippers Rich Celebrities Who Live Humble Lives Celebrities Who Are Incredibly Generous Tippers. No 8 might surprise you. Best Animal Shows that You will Love. Celebrities Who Drive Most Expensive Cars In The World Read the full article

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[wildsycamore]

Do you know if there are more unpublished albums like Lana Del Ray (Steven Mertens recording) or The Phenomena of Lizzy Grant (mixtape)? If so, can you reveal the names?

Nope