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can someone tell me if this is real??

do we even know what this was for?

This Is What Makes Us Girls is one of the best songs on BTD

omgshhhhhh this is too cute

Quit your day job and become the tour guide for the Lizzy Grant tour

The trip to Lake Placid seems so appealing right now

Visit Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus where she attended college. Listening to "Fordham Road", wander through the Bronx (careful, it's a "bad neighborhood"!) on your way there and see if you can find the cheap coffee place on Valentine or the "stone Mary in the garden". On campus, stop in to the McGinley Center there and check out the ballroom where she sang at a fundraiser. Cross campus to Rodrigue's Coffee House in Alumni House where Lana played several gigs (including her first known gig and another one the same night as the fundraiser). Get caffeinated imagining Lizzy singing "Get Drunk" and "Pawn Shop Blues" here while playing acoustic guitar. 
Visit more venues where she performed in her early years. They're all listed in the Early Shows section. (Keep in mind that some venues have closed or moved since then. I've tried to list the original addresses in the show threads when possible, but I'm not sure it's 100% accurate.) Explore her Williamsburg stomping grounds at night listening to "Oh Say Can You See". Wander through alleys and look at the bars.
 
Visit the trailer park where she lived, Manhattan Mobile Home Park at 4828 Tonelle Ave. in North Bergen, New Jersey if it hasn't been demolished yet. (It doesn't appear to have been based on Google StreetView photos from December.) Take the Lincoln Tunnel which inspired the "tunnel lined with yellow lights" lyric in "Yayo" as you take yourself "from this dark trailer park life."
 
Definitely visit Coney Island. Walk down Mermaid and Neptune Avenues. Eat cotton candy and explore the boardwalk while listening to "Mermaid Motel". Ride the coasters and the Wonder Wheel. Stick your toes in the sand while listening to "Kill Kill". Lie in the ocean singing her song. Check out the aquarium before you go. Come back for the annual Mermaid Parade.
 
You might also consider traveling down the Jersey Shore to a couple similar boardwalk destinations, Seaside Heights, where I think she wrote "Trash Magic", and Wildwood, where one of her classic photo shoots was taken.
 
And if you're really hardcore, consider a road trip to beautiful Lake Placid, where she grew up.
 
If you do any of this please take pictures and post about it!
 

@@Trash Magic @@HeadBitch

It's a little unclear exactly what period of time she was talking about that she didn't have much contact with her parents, but I'm skeptical of that claim. She also tends to downplay her family's financial situation. (See this previous post of mine for more detail.) That said, I've never seen anyone making the claim that her father bought her career or studio time present any evidence. It's completely speculation. 
Oh, and the Miley thing? That's probably based on Hipster Runoff, ground zero for Lana mythology, miscaptioning this photo (probably knowingly and satirically) "OMG u got to hang out with Miley???!?! #jeal":

 
It's just a photo where her sis Chuck happens to look a bit like Hannah Montana. That photo is practically a microcosm of the LDR-as-daddy-bought-label-creation myth. You have Lana and Chuck hanging out with her modestly wealthy dad at a domain name industry convention with his two of his much, much wealthier buds from the domain name world. But in the hands of Hipster Runoff they are music "industry insiders". Even her dad is identified not as her dad but as "an 'industry insider', probably scheming to 'trick' the indie blogosphere." Sorry Carles, but you managed to do that perfectly well all by yourself.
 
The media narrative that LDR was a label creation funded by her dad is almost entirely mythical as is Lana's narrative that neither she nor her family had money. The truth is almost certainly much more boring than any of that.
 
 

This is basically another retread of the "outtake" question. "Intended for". Probably only Lana or maybe David Kahne can really answer that. 
David Kahne has previously stated the only track he worked on with Lana besides what ended up on AKA was "C-Note", an alternate name for HDB, but after the album was finished.
 
The NKF tracks are rumored to be among the demos sent to Kahne to attract his interest in producing her and possibly fit the description of tracks recorded first with Steven Mertens and re-recorded with Kahne.
 
But we don't really know.

She bought the trailer with the $10,000 signing bonus to 5 Points

Saw this in a youtube comment
    "Not true, she's a liar. She said she didnt have any contact with her parents for years and didnt even have her social security number but if you do a simple google search, you can find a load of pictures of her (all through the years she apparently had no contact with them)with her dad at fancy events- sitting next to billionaires, being on a private jet, on a boat with another millionaire and meeting celebrities like Miley cyrus.
 
She lived in NY in a flat with her brother and sister that their parents bought for them. But she rented a trailer park trailer for 6months with a boyfriend and pretends she was poor....
 
Shes been rich her whole life, she paid for studio time and worked with very big producers before she got famous (not to mention got plastic surgery) how do you assume she paid for all that? Studio time alone costs thousands...but she claimed she "barely had money for cereal". "
 
 
How much of it is true?
 

I think that it been added (A.K.A...) because it was in iTunes because it was the cover.
They added it to introduce her- It's her debut album and people need to know who's Lana Del Ray.
Same with Born To Die- she added the name Lana Del Rey on the cover art but the real name is Born To Die, not Lana Del Rey Born To Die.
That's the reason why Ultraviolence did not contain her name on the cover art, cause there's no need anymore, people already know who's Lana Del Rey and she has no other reason to add "Lana Del Rey" on the cover.
 
So that's what I think tho.

The Kill Kill EP was released under Lizzy Grant. Hence the reason why someone apparently felt the need to put "A.K.A. Lizzy Grant" on the Lana Del Ray album.
 
I find this common fixation on categorizing artists' careers into distinct "eras" a bit obsessive and misguided, especially with respect to Lana. These are typically not neat distinctions, often fuzzy, unknowable, uncertain, or riddled with inconsistencies. It's a fool's errand, an attempt to impose an artificial sense of order onto something that is inherently disordered and resistant to neat classification. I also think there are other distinctions that are more relevant, like her career pre-fame and post-fame.

this looks like she has roots though? I think it was ashy brown-blonde but more brown...
 
 
 
That's dry shampoo, i'm pretty sure. If you're not aware it makes your hair white. That looks too white to be natural+ there's brown more near the root area. 
Also super brown roots here?
 
 

She's definitely a blonde/ dirty blonde.

Yes, she likely lightened her hair further after cutting it short in early 2007 ( ), but if you take a look at earlier pictures in the threads for her Makor, WLSC, and Loveseat Collective performances, I'm inclined to think that dirty blonde hue was her natural coloring, and she was already about 21 at the time. I guess it's possible her natural hair color may have turned darker later than that, but I'm not sure how common that really is, and all evidence says she was blonde up until that point. Aside from when she was modeling, it seems like she was pretty low maintenance with her appearance up to that point as well, so I'd be a little surprised if she was coloring it then. I'd bet cake on dirty blonde.

True. I guess this is more accurate.
 

The people who are tasked with responding to e-mails value brevity since they have to deal with so many e-mails on a daily basis. I've gotten worse replies to (important) inquiries. It also depends on the school and its culture - a prestigious, culturally conservative and expensive private school will (probably) respond differently compared to a liberal arts college or a state school. I've noticed that colleges with very low acceptance rates (below 10%) tend to be more formal in their replies while colleges that are not extremely selective tend to be less formal (Fordham's acceptance rate is 47%). Basically, from my experience with colleges, I didn't think it was weird at all.
 
I did think calling her Lana Del Rey was weird, but my e-mail called her that and I only included her real name for looking it up. She is a famous person and she's famous under the name Lana Del Rey, not Elizabeth Grant; calling famous people by their legal names can feel weirdly intimate (which is why I never refer to Lady Gaga as Ms. Germanotta, for example). I imagine any files they have on her would be under Elizabeth Grant, but perhaps they've gotten this question before and know that this is relevant to Lana, famous person, not random student Elizabeth Grant.
 
Unfortunately, this is all they gave me in the e-mail and I kind of didn't want to pry any more than I'd already done. If you'd like to try yourself to see if you get a more detailed or different response, google Fordham alumni office, which is how I got in touch with them. They responded fairly quickly, as you can see. (Please don't drown them in e-mails though; they're probably fairly busy with non-Lana stuff)

Well, when I went to a lakehouse around late September with a few friends (95% of them going to Fordham,) we had discussed a lot about Lana when I put on her music as we played a bunch of drinking games outside. Anyway, when I mentioned the song "Fordham Road," we got into the subject of how she went to Fordham University and studied metaphysics/philosophy. Four of the friends that are/were also Fordham students had stated that while she is noted among the university's famous alumni, she did not graduate from the university. The next time I see them, I'll inquire about it again, as I forgot whether it was a yearbook or a listing (or even something on the campus itself like a bulletin board or some shit) that confirmed that she attended but did not graduate. However, as stated above, one source states she did graduate in 2008. Discrepancies.
 
Be that as it may, as far as I'm concerned with my resources, she is not a graduate. Which I don't think would be a breach on academic information unless Fordham said she dropped out or flopped or something. I don't entirely know how degrees work at four-year-schools, so I can't theorize if she got at least an Associate's or was an undergraduate. But I'll try to get confirmation when I can with how far she possibly pursued her academic career.

omgshhhhhh this is too cute

Part 2 

or possibly a dog she once had?

@ also drew my attention to this 2012 Channel V Music interview with Lana after her Splendour in the Grass performance that talks about recording at night while going to school, and completing four years of college, but supposedly working something out with her professors to do independent studies to accommodate recording AKA. (She also discussed metaphysics.)
(h/t @ellipsis for the transcription)

Another afterthought I had: She sings about having "a big degree in philosophy" in "Aviation", which appears on Sirens, believed to have been recorded in 2005 or 2006, and also in the leaked collection of songs reputed to be From the End, which was registed with the US copyright office in 2005. So it may still be a reference to her own field of study, but she couldn't have had her degree yet when she sang this.

Interviews that appear to just parrot her claims, yes, but concrete information? No. Though I'm not sure what could constitute concrete proof other than a copy of her diploma, a graduation convocation ceremony program listing her name, or information from Fordham saying she graduated. 
I wouldn't say the general consensus is that she didn't graduate. Along with @, I'm probably one of the leading skeptics, and I'd put the odds that she graduated from Fordham well above 50/50.
 
That said, the fact that she habitually misstates her field of study while simultaneously speaking shallowly and unintelligently about it in interviews makes me somewhat skeptical about her academic claims. (She routinely says her degree was in metaphysics, a major Fordham does not offer and did not offer when she attended there. It is certainly plausible that she majored in philosophy, as the song "Aviation" suggests, possibly with an emphasis in metaphysics, but her degree, if she obtained one, would have been in philosophy.) Another possible reason for some skepticism is the timeline of her recording AKA. A Fordham article about a campus gig she played says she was a junior in the spring of 2007 and she started recording AKA in the fall. David Nichtern, head of 5 Points Records, confirms this timeline, implying she recorded it during her senior year of college, and graduated, but the question is did she? Was she able to record AKA while going to school? Maybe. In a German interview she said the album was recorded at night.
 
At any rate, here's an interview quote suggesting she did graduate:
 
The Age, May 10, 2014

And here's another one supporting the timeline above:
 
NYT, June 15, 2014

The link's dead, but another user found a MySpace comment by a Fordham student that said Lizzy came back to campus to play her music in her class, referring to her as an "alum":

(Hmm, I wonder if this was a class taught by Mark Naisson.) 
And here's a Buzzfeed article that suggests she didn't graduate, but provides no sourcing (plus I wonder if it's a feedback loop problem echoing skepticism from this community):

It's not much of a question, nor is it worthy of its own thread, but I was reading my abnormal psych book and there is an insert on avoidant personality disorder, and it reads: "This woman paints a sad and lonely figure as she sits by the Paris grave of the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of the rock group The Doors. Legions of Morrison fans have visited the grave for a variety of reasons since his 1971 death. Clinicians believe, however, that in some cases the overly devoted fans of long-gone celebrities - particularly fans who build their lives around the celebrities - manifest avoidant personality disorder. Uncomfortable and inhibited in real social situations, some people with this personality disorder develop an inner world of fantasy and imagined relationships." ~Tropico~
 
Sound familiar? Is this my future?
 
I wasn't sure where to post this, I just found it interesting.

I don't know if there was already this question, but I'm sad and mad because the videos for Trash Magic, Pin- Up Galore, Disco and Get Drunk disappeared from Youtube into the abyss.   They were not as glorious as few official, high-production videos for BTD era, but they had that specific dark charisma and elegiac, morbid charm. Actually, they were irresistible. I'm not sure if Lana was the author of those video collages (I think it was fan-made), except for Maya Deren's „Meshes of the Afternoon“ sticked with Get Drunk (which worked perfectly, as morose, moody suspense). I miss them already because I liked to stare at the visuals while listening to those songs, because they made them more atmospheric and each video dragged me even deeper into the whirlpool magic of the song, and now I have only trite text on white screen (I mean, lyrics are not trite, but the whole conception, cause it kills the mood ). Did anybody downloaded those videos (if that is possible, sorry for my ignorance) and if he/she did, can it be returned, or can I find it elsewhere?