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The per capita income in Lake Placid in 2018 was $34,972.🗽
 
The median income for a household in lake placid in 2000 was $28,239. 🤠
 
For comparison, Eminem, on eight mile in rundown Detroit in 2000, had a median income of 40,100. 🏭

The font is giving chemtrails 

I choose to believe her, I mean why else would she have signed that unfavorable contract with 5 Points Records? It is clear from her biography that she needed all the money and that nothing was given to her.

I choose to believe her, I mean why else would she have signed that unfavorable contract with 5 Points Records? It is clear from her biography that she needed all the money and that nothing was given to her.

that was some luck with "Love del Rey" combined with "comic", it took me at least 10 tries

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 

I finally listened to her post. Im glad she rectified that false narrative and nothing is controversial in it, so good for her!

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.” 

To add to this, him buying domain names in the mid 90s was simply a smart investment as he bought domains that he thought were likely to be valuable later... He had to wait until the 00s until any of them were actually worth anything, some are probably still not worth much
 
Edit: oh she literally said this in her post, thanks Elle for the transcription x

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."

five minutes of Lana talking is all I needed this Thursday

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 

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

lana ily 5ever but who cares, she is living the life of an artist with fans who are beyond dedicated to worshipping her talent this is not worth commenting on, esp at this point...obviously she feels opposite, but like these are total strangers and online trolls and they really mean nothing and say nothing about her or her work.
 
anyways she looks gorgeous, new holly mcvae song is lovely, excited for whatever is next

WE ARE SO CLOSE TO HONEYMOON BANGS AGAIN 

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

LAKE PLACID single out on November 3rd. 

WT from LP the new album out Summer 2024

the bigger question is when did he start all these ventures and how well he's doing all these juggling..... it just sounds like he had a luck for being an early adaptor to the internet era and turned some domain names into some money in the mid 90s where she's already a teen 
 
plus, it's always the disposable income and liquid cash that make one feel financially secure, which their household dont see BIG money flowing around back in the days

In a Dazed profile from July, Rob Grant, Del Rey’s father, outlined his working history, saying, “I’ve had restaurants, boat-building companies, rustic furniture, advertising, the internet, real estate. And a lot of them I still have.” He also spoke about a successful ad campaign he spearheaded that landed him “a beautiful office of glass overlooking New York City,” and about bulk-buying domain names in the mid-’90s. As of 2012, Grant’s company operated 1,600 websites and owned around 800 domain names, according to Insider.
 
Not them clocking her at the end of the article

there's also an article about it
https://uproxx.com/pop/did-lana-del-rey-grow-up-rich-family/

I tried to get some topiary and flowered horse concepts the other day.  🥹
It never makes what you want, but as is life. 🥀
 
 

 

 

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

big day for Lizzyologists