Lana to present Jack Antonoff with "Producer of the Decade" award at the 8th annual Variety Hitmakers event - December 7th, 2024

[Elle]

Lana Del Rey is set to present Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at the the 8th annual Variety Hitmakers event taking place this Saturday, December 7th in Los Angeles, California.

Jack Antonoff has worked with Lana on several of her projects including Norman fucking Rockwell, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, as well as her upcoming album The Right Person Will Stay. Lana Del Rey was honoured with the "Artist of the Decade" award at the 5th annual Variety Hitmakers event in 2021.

 

Transcript:

Spoiler

"Hello. So happy to be here. Congratulations to everybody. Jack, you're such a big reason for why I'm friends with so many of the people I know in this room. I knew nobody when I started. That's why the first time I was ever nominated for any Grammy, I just didn't go. I didn't know how to do it. I really didn't. I didn't know a person. Then when I met Jack in 2018, he dragged me from the Clive Davis party, which is like one of the few things I actually love to do, to people watch, and he brought me to a diner and he was like, "if you just come to my home studio, I think we could write something really amazing." And I was not convinced. He is the most persistent, convincing person. I needed that. There are things, there are so many things I would not have done if he hadn't made me. After his wedding, he told me to stay at the Seaside Motel last year for five days because there was only one slot left on the Zoom session to submit to the Grammys. I at the time didn't even know that you personally had to submit. I thought that if your song was good, people just put it on a ballot, and if people voted for it the most, you won. So I waited for five days. I did a Zoom session with, you know, I started seeing like anonymous people enter the Zoom room with no names and thousands and thousands of them. We had taken an hour to practice a song that wasn't even the song that was being submitted because I didn't know how to do like, "Jimmy Jimmy Cocoa Puff, Jimmy, Jimmy, ride," so I just did my favourite song. We ended up being nominated for, was it maybe five nominations last year? So, you know, I mean, there's so many things that I learn every year. I'm so happy for everybody who has won an award. I'm hearing words tonight like innocence, is the most important thing to hold on to. Truth prevails above all. Follow your heart. This is a way different climate than 15 years ago. I'm just, you know, I have so many thoughts in my head, and I'm hoping that everyone who is here tonight who received an award will just fly with the confidence that getting it has instilled in you, if it means anything to you. Because, you know, if you have momentum, keep it up. Don't ever let it stop. Jack is a big reason why part of my story and the perception of me turned around. If it did at all, it is in part because of the music that he helped bring out in me. I love to sing. I love to write. It kind of diminished a little bit over those 10 years before I met him. Most of all, I'm grateful for him, for his example that he gave me in his marriage to Margaret. I saw the way he looked at her when he met her. He's a big reason why I waited so long to get married and why I met my amazing husband. I really feel like there's kind of a singer's curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race. It's super nerve-racking to have to kind of hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you're in an industry where maybe your values and your morals don't quite match up with what's going on, especially when people think that you probably don't have any morals or values. So it can get all twisted up. So, Jack, thank you so much for maybe helping other people look at me in a way that is a little bit closer to how I percieve myself. Freud would say that that's very important, considering 30% of how you feel about yourself is what you hear other people say about you. Regardless of whether you care or not, that's just true. So, other than my managers who really have turned my life around in the way that I still think making music is fun, you have so many friends. You've just really made it feel like Hollywood can be glamourous still, and you can still have a very rich home life even when you get rich. I was talking about me, not you! You'll be richer than all of us with your 50% on everything! Jack has more marble in his house, more herringbone-patterend wood floors, more shiplap, more farmhouse sinks, and car elevator lifts in Brooklyn than I could ever imagine he'd be interested in. Congratulations!"

 

 

Photo Gallery:

Red Carpet - Solo:

Spoiler

 

Red Carpet - with Jack Antonoff:

Spoiler

 

Inside:

Spoiler

 

Onstage:

Spoiler

 

Edited December 8, 2024 by Elle
Added gallery x

[somber]

Well deserved to be honest! I know we complain about Jack and how he's making Lana's music boring or into Taylor Swift's songs, but he has worked hard to earn this award. Plus, his production for Short n' Sweet and GNX was really good  

[DrippingPeaches]

I hope she talks at least a little bit about his work on TRPWS 

[Eternal Sunshine]

3 minutes ago, somber said:

Well deserved to be honest! I know we complain about Jack and how he's making Lana's music boring or into Taylor Swift's songs, but he has worked hard to earn this award. Plus, his production for Short n' Sweet and GNX was really good  

HE PRODUCED GNX? 

[takemybreath]

 

she will serve again 

[Candy Necklace]

Last time she attended an event in December she teased Ocean Blvd to some random Spanish reporter, hopefully she spills something

[Americen Whore]

Oh we’re definitely getting TRPWS news  

[shadesofblue]

artist of the decade presenting the producer of the decade award to her own producer is so cute  honestly deserved, he's produced so many iconic albums with lana and other artists

[Let the Light In]

Lol, he’s nowhere near being the producer of the decade

[Elle]

32 minutes ago, DrippingPeaches said:

I hope she talks at least a little bit about his work on TRPWS 

 

Well, last time she presented him with an award (Billboard's Vanguard Award at the NMPA Annual Meeting in January) is when she announced Lasso, so it could be likely! x

[motel six]

my fav song he produced is probably wild at heart  stoned at the nail salon   hope is a dangerous thing  how to disappear

[Daytona Beach Sparkler]

I really hope that we get some news abt TRPWS bc we all know what happened last December 7th 

[The Stargirl Pinky]

When LDR gets interviewed about twerp and she gives us what can I say now 2.0 

[somber]

1 hour ago, HoneyDolls said:

HE PRODUCED GNX? 

Yup I think he did the guitar and the synths in the album 

[shadesofblue]

47 minutes ago, The Stargirl Pinky said:

When LDR gets interviewed about twerp and she gives us what can I say now 2.0 

Let’s hope she figured out how to make her glass ship fly by now.  Still don’t know what that means but 

[hongkongdisco mysterygirl15]

[EstelsDream]

Ngl IMO his production is a snoozefest... but nice ig

[heroindealer]

1 hour ago, The Stargirl Pinky said:

When LDR gets interviewed about twerp and she gives us what can I say now 2.0 

‘I love all songs I’ve worked with Nikki over the past few years’  

[ionut]

1 minute ago, heroindealer said:

‘I love all songs I’ve worked with Nikki over the past few years’  

[rancidgirl]

2 hours ago, somber said:

Well deserved to be honest! I know we complain about Jack and how he's making Lana's music boring or into Taylor Swift's songs, but he has worked hard to earn this award. Plus, his production for Short n' Sweet and GNX was really good  

well i wouldn't say that, but i do agree that he's worked hard for this award and it is deserved!