"Lana Del Rey" and I are cousins. It's true. We were so close as kids - went to the Lake Placid diners together - back when a stack of flapjacks costed 5 cents... man, those were the days. I was actually the first one to hear "Yayo" - although in the original version, she was going to dedicate the track to her grandma and called it "Yaya" but I told her to scrap that and change the lyrics to something people would listen to. You can imagine my reaction when she STILL wrote a track called "Gramma" - thankfully that one wasn't as schmaltzy. I remember we were on the docks one day and she told me she was going to call herself "Lana Del Rey" and move to California - we had a big fight, oh it was awful. We didn't speak for 5 years. Then I met her backstage at a show once, and she pretended not to KNOW me. The Elizabeth I knew is long gone, for all I know, she's a pod person now.