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i'd be fuming if people attributed my success story to my family's middle class means when i spent 7 years working 4 odd jobs living in a trailer park and my parents had no idea that i was trying to make it as a singer. patty hated her and she was estranged from rob when she was in new york. queen built her life for herself from ground up with little if not zero financial support. she had her sugar daddies and boyfriends helping her out to make ends meet. it's infuriating when people gloss over the fact that lizzy grant was financially and emotionally abandoned by her parents. estranged from them for years while trying to make ends meet with sugar daddies and boyfriends and odd jobs. how many times does she have to tell you about her traumas and her mom for it to click...

people need to leave this woman alone. AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT I HAD SAID TO PEOPLE ON INSTAGRAM.....Rob made money off of his domains later in life. Lana, as a child, and her family did not have money. As a teenager she was traumatically sent away to boarding school and then was on HER OWN. I'm so sick of it! IT shouldn't even matter but the fact that we're over a decade into her career and people are still saying she bought it and that she was just a spoiled brat growing up.....IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!

Lana... if you're reading this.... I know one way you can tell your story the way it truly happened.... WRITE THAT MEMOIR BABYYYYYYYYY WE BEEN WAITING

WE ARE SO CLOSE TO HONEYMOON BANGS AGAIN

Good for her for standing up for herself. I remember she said a couple of years ago that she was never going to let anyone try to rewrite her story for her, and I love that sentiment. I think it's something important everyone should stand by x I also wrote out a full transcript of her video for anyone who wants to read it - "I wanna make this video really short and sweet just ‘cause the conversation keeps coming up about me coming from money, and my family having money, and this whole thing. I just want to say, like, coming from the most rural spot inarguably in one of the most rural spots of America that was not a wealthy town and having gone to a boarding school where I didn’t even know I was going or didn’t have any concept of and got financial aid for because my uncle worked in the administrative building and also being completely alienated from all the kids who already knew each other from New York City. I had such a tough time there because everyone knew how much money everyone had. So, unfortunately, my experience every day was having people call me WT from LP - White Trash from Lake Placid. So, I’m just saying this constant narrative when my parents were arguing about money every single day, and my dad working as a woodworker and in real estate and my mom working in education. Like, although he bought domain names later on, it doesn’t mean that they were worth anything until more recently. So, he was eccentric and amazing and ahead of his time in terms of what he was doing, but it doesn’t mean there was any money for us or to be made at the time. So, I didn’t even have any experience having anything until I was 26 and made my own money. I was living in a hostel on 17th St when I played Saturday Night Live, and how I played Saturday Night Live was because I’d gotten a publishing deal in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the guest territories. So, it’s just very challenging because I think had we had money I would have had a completely different experience and not fought so hard to be a singer probably to my detriment because I didn’t want me or my family to struggle financially. Like, the music that comes from me comes from a place at that time of concern that we would not have money. That’s the experience that I know. I didn’t know anyone who had money until I went to a private school where I couldn’t even make any friends except my roommate Christina and a couple girls - Annie and Jen who accepted me and were cool. But, you know, you can’t even find anyone from those schools who knew me because they wouldn’t talk to me. So, to say that, you know, this is the narrative, it’s just important that you know it’s not. It’s not like it was fun living in the trailer park necessarily. I signed my life away, ten records for $10,000 to 5 Points Records that Ben got me out of and I made that stretch for a year and one month by getting to stay at the Manhattan RV Mobile Home in North Bergen. It’s not a shtick. It’s not like it was some glamourous getaway. Like, I really didn’t know what to do and depended on the boyfriends that I had to let me stay with them all that while up until 26. You can ask Steven Mertens. You can ask Josh Kemp. Like, I didn’t have a chance hardly. All of the cards were stacked against me other than my voice, and my parents didn’t even know I was singing until I was on Saturday Night Live. So, why this is important is just because it’s not my truth. I would have no idea what it felt like to grow up with anything other than hearing fighting about money, and even on our monthly, like, spring break vacation every year we drove to Daytona, not flew ‘cause it was too expensive. So, I had a challenging experience all the way through, and to make it even more challenging, now I don’t even get to have my authentic story told so that the music can be listened to and interpreted in a clear manner. So, that’s my spiel. You know, it’s been going on for 13 years now. It’s just it’s so sad that I can’t own coming from, like, this beautiful rural mountain town where the character of people is completely different from anywhere I went afterwards. It’s actually disrespectful to me and to my town where we worked so hard and where I myself worked four jobs. I had a time just to even be like — if you wanna know, why don’t you go to my local town? Why don’t you ask them? Like, they knew I got sent away. They knew it was on financial aid. There’s no fact that checks out, like, that it wasn’t. So, it just sucks to have to explain myself over and over again, because if that was the story I knew, I would love to tell it. I wish it was honestly. Things would have been so much better."

3:50 / prod. by Zach Dawes / midnight local time

she was estranged from her parents, it wasn't a choice

ALSO LG FROM LP (LIZZY GRANT FROM LAKE PLACID) IS COMING LDR10 "LIZZIE" RENAISSANCE HALLO OOOO ITS SO CLEAR GIRLS IM

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1084856613342543902/1164632127850151976/bleedIGDkrrOG8Kr9K76.mp4?ex=6543eb31&is=65317631&hm=42100aec55913b17cdf93d885be62213d00e0b4577885f25852b08b120989f42& here is the video she should really right an autobiography i'd love to listen

I am obsessed with that video… its the most open she’s been about her life in YEARS. And I can tell she’s being sincere and telling the truth. BELIEVE WOMEN! WOMENS STORIES MATTER!

big day for Lizzyologists

I am fully prepared for them to drop the most boring song of all time

I don't understand why people get so involved with her financial status lol money doesn't make talent

Well… in the spirit of Halloween… The Other Side is a Rick Nowels UV outtake dont know much else about it!

WHITE TRASH FROM LP the new album comes out September 5th.

Go off queen!! Put them haters in their place “They say I came from money and I didn't, and I didn't even have love and it's unfair. LA I sold my life rights for a big check and I'm upset”

I’ve always known Lana wasn’t lying about not coming from money because she’s so honest about things that a lot of people would be ashamed to admit. It’s not like she just popped on the scene out of the blue like an industry plant or a Billie Eilish type character. She was always there, and she met the right people. People just didn’t understand how this beautiful vintage starlet singer could come out of the blue with what seemed like instant success. And now that we have a whole new flood of internet raised children becoming fans it’s like 2012 all over again. At least she’s found her voice now to defend herself

Literally insane that 10+ years later shes still having to explain herself… On a side note about the 5 points records thing where she says she signed her life away - they wanted her to make 10 albums for $10,000 before Ben got her out of it?? I remember someone here also pointing out how that photoshoot chuck did of her with the american flag after she got out of that deal was basically a freedom statement I never realized how bad it was

Lana has her own verse, not only background vocals.

cover

I think she wants to tell this because she’s tired of people taking the narrative from her. Just listen to Grandfather… “it took somebody else to make me beautiful, as they intended me to be”… It gets tiring and this is her try to be heard.

She's so pretty it hurts

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey celebrated Nikki Lane’s birthday at Rancho Pillow in Round Top, Texas.

Moments ago, Lana Del Rey joined Nikki Lane onstage for a performance of their duet ‘Breaking Up Slowly’ as she opens for Chris Stapleton at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Omg I love rhinos!! I didn't know Lana had one

i never understood why people acted like they know her story better than she does

the "Things would've been so much... ...better" at the end

STEVEN MERTENS MENTION neways she better STEP. ON. THEM. the whole nepo baby/ rich parents thing around her has always been so weird and some of the shit she says in the vid is kinda crazy like how she was in a hostel during SNL?? crazyyy also her talking voice recently is so low she sound so hot

They don't want the song because Holly is not a popular artist. btw, those collaborations with pop artists suck. Yes, I'm talking about Don't Call Me Angel and Snow On The Beach.

And that's that on that, personally glad she addressed the same bullshit that's been regurgitated ad nauseam since she came on the scene--to try and make her art "less important" because she allegedly came from money or that her dad purchased her a music deal and yaddy yaddy yadda. Good for her!

Glad she finally said something about this, I honestly really like when she speaks up on things like this. Though, I'm especially glad she didn't word it like QFTC

She needs to stop with these Anne Marie/Zara Larsson/Jess Glynne songs, Dirty Sexy Money was the most palatable but when she does these songs it’s so like?? You’re better than this Charles

the single cover is so cute

Thisssss. I think the internet has a very black and white way of thinking. It’s either someone is evil or someone is an angel and nothing in between. When in reality, most people fall in between which sucks I’m sure for famous people. no one is perfect. I personally don’t know anyone irl who is 100% perfect. Obviously there’s some boundaries but it just doesn’t seem realistic to put those standards on everyone. That’s part of the beauty of being human, you live and you learn. People are always gonna be mad at something unfortunately. At the end of the day, her family’s wealth literally means nothing either way

I can't like this post cos of the bug but you're not alone Idk why people here hate on Stevie; she is literally one of the most iconic female artists ever I mean if you want meaningful lyrics and melodies look no further than Fleetwood Mac and her solo work The fanbase needs to stop sleeping on this legendary woman ETA and if you explore her work you will discover many instances where she has very obviously influenced Lana's work

The fact that she dedicates a whole enthusiastic post to a collab with a quite unknown artist but refused to say anything else about SOTB than "Hope you like the ❄️ song" or whatever she said on that comment makes me love her infinitely for some reason

I found an article from 2008 talking about rob’s business ventures https://ibb.co/gRJbx4V it sounds more like he didn’t actually see all that money and a lot of the money he did make was put into other businesses. ”However Grant found there was also a downside to his occupation. Advertisers doled out multi-million dollar accounts” “After six years in a very high pressure job burn out started to set in just as Rob and Pat had their first child, Elizabeth (Caroline and Charlie followed over the next few years to round out the family). With a family to think about now, they decided to pull up stakes and make a radical change in their lifestyle by moving upstate to the mountains. All of their friends thought they were crazy and warned them that if they walked away from their jobs they would never be able to come back. Grant said, “even so I looked at my life and thought if I stayed in Manhattan and raised a family it would be enormously expensive and we would have to live in an apartment out in the suburbs. It just turned my stomach to think that I could spend the rest of my life going back and forth to the city on a commuter train.” -page 2- “On the downside, the more domains Grant piled up the scarier it got because of the extremely high annual registration and renewal fees at that time. “It was brutal,” Grant said, “because you had these high carrying costs but absolutely no revenue. You really had to believe. I feel it was the true test of whether or not someone has vision. I sat for years paying these registration fees and not earning a nickel and wondering if I was out of my mind.”

LAKE PLACID single out on November 3rd.

Saddens me that she has to address this... It obviously bothers her a lot that some people are basically trying to take away part of her story. There will always be haters!!! Lana, do you!!!

damn she looks so fucking good tho that hair omg

I’ve been so busy these past few weeks & haven’t watched the video, but damn - it’s honestly not surprising that she’s defending herself as so many people get her herstory <2010 100% wrong But I guess the positive is that it’s Lizzi Grant content 😭

Honestly my hopes for the next Marina album center around some shit she's said in the past. She's talked about greek mythology before IIRC and wanting to do an album around that, and I personally think that would be the move to make. I'm going to pick my words carefully and deliberately here - L&F was a low point in her discography, and I do think that Ancient Beans WAS a step up sonically and a return to the ~energy of "old Marina", despite lyrically being VERY pegged to the zeitgeist of it's creation. I feel like the way to do a "clean slate" here is to just go feral with a whole ass concept album and step into a different person(s)/persona(s). I'd LOVE to see her go back to that greek mythology idea and give us a concept album, and even find a way to work in some of that New Woke Feminism she always getting criticized about. Write a tortured ballad from the perspective of Persephone. Sing about being tricked by a man to eat the pomegranate seeds, sing about how it doesn't get easier spending all the time away from the sun, small slices of your time stolen from a man who felt you were his to take and his to trick. Metaphor up the lack of choice for a woman in it, and how so many things are seen as 'duty' because a man deemed it so. Flip shit around too, go wild. Rewrite the whole concept of 'Pandora's Box' into something more lighthearted and fun. Give us an uptempo bop about a girl who was bored with the world and there she found a box filled with chaos and wonder and she set it all free, the good and the bad, just for the contrast it all brings. Was it a little bit stupid to unleash evil on the world? Sure, but now it makes all of the good that much better because we all know what "worse" looks like, and it's the space in-between that we should have a little fun with now. I feel like Eros, Aphrodite, and Psyche would be a 'perfect' story to Marina-fy, since it deals with jealous women and game playing and the absurdity of it all, and how even if you manage to adhere to impossible beauty standards (Aphrodite's three impossible tasks), it's *still* not enough. There's a whole lot of "jealous woman" stereotype shit in there, that would be absolutely low hanging fruit to hit with the Marina Bat of "women should build each other up, ugh". I feel like, in the spirit of something like "How to be a Heartbreaker", do a fun take on 'Helen of Troy' and the whole Trojan War (to go hand in hand with my idea of "rewriting" Pandora's Box to be a bit more fun); Helen was bored af of her man, she wanted a little excitement, she decided to mess around with a man on the side, and now we're at "Oops I sparked a war, lets make it his fault, tee hee hee, look at that, the gods are all protecting me, dames can get away with it all" or some shit. Have I said this before? I feel like I have. Idk. But it would be nice to see.

why does she always get so randomly triggered by this like where are all of these comments coming from that she's reading??

Oh ok

I prefer collabs with unknown artists who have a good voice more than with artists who just have a big name.

Lana invited Holly to her house in LA so she could record her record which I think is really wholesome! She is the kindest.

piano discourse makes me want to off myself

Crosspost with the 'cringe' thread at the Lana fans wondering how Holly got to collab with Lana when she has 'only 9k followers' Edit: clocked by Lana

"LanaDelRey---Core"