Larry Jackson speaks on getting Lana Del Rey on SNL & signing her to Interscope

[paradisetropico]

sorry if this is the wrong topic thread, please move it mods... 

Larry Jackson speaks about getting Lana Del Rey on SNL & signing her to Interscope! 

 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7F3Xomh64jZibxbLuOhXuw?si=ca2f46102e8c4f75

 

Larry speaks about A&R and how amazing Lana Del Rey is! he helped sign her to Interscope and get her the SNL deal. calls her initially as "ah Lizzy" 

Larry and his pal John Ehmann were fired from SONY Music. John Ehmann said Larry should listen to a demo called "Diet Mtn Dew" by an artist named Lana, who Sony just passed on.  

Larry loved it! 

says he met Lana 2 months after he himself moved to Los Angeles. she came in looking like she had walked off the set of the BTD album cover! Lol. he was enthralled by her. 

Says the night before she signed w/Interscope, she got a deal from SONY UK for 2 times as much money, and she said No! and signed the next day with Interscope !!!! (our queen) 

Larrys says lana means so much to him and Interscope. He says at that point he was willing to help her do anything to help her artistic vision come to life (especially understanding that 2 times amount Sony offered was a big deal to a artist trying to make ends meet) 

He says she told him she wanted to be "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra" and he was sold! Ed/Ben/Lana signed officially and INterescope helped them make BTD with Emile Haynie and Justin Parker. 

BTD cost only $183,000. 

says he got an idea to write a letter to Jimmy Iovine to send to Lorne Michael of SNL about getting Lana on. 

Discussed how being an A&R is about believing in the vision when no one else does. Says the Brian Williams article was very hurtful to him and to lana (bc at the time Brian Williams was a respected journalist - which is funny now because he got fired and lost journalistic integrity for fabricating a story about jumping out of a plane in the Iraq war in 2003 _ LOL did "did anyone else die for you") 

 

Larry talks a bit more about how she and Chief Keef at such important musical figures who have shaped music and provided a breath of fresh air to a time of stagnant music. 

 

Larry says he felt extremely motivated after SNL and so did Lana. 

 

[Candy Necklace]

Thanks for sharing this!! It’s always soo interesting to learn more about her early career, is the Sony bit new information? 

[Lindsay Lohan]

7 minutes ago, Candy Necklace said:

Thanks for sharing this!! It’s always soo interesting to learn more about her early career, is the Sony bit new information? 

 

I think it was touched on like once in the past a very long time ago

 

I mentioned it in a thread 2 months ago so this is so cool to know that it hasn't been a forgotten fact... though a little misleading because though she wasn't signed with Sony, she had a deal with them and had a lot of sessions under them (late 2010-mid 2011), I believe this was just for her to work more and bring new music into them to potentially sign her but they weren't feeling anything she was doing. Then Video Games blew up and Sony probably wanted to sign her then but she was like nah and went to Interscope

 

There was a guy at Sony who was in love with Lana (thought she was hot) and opened up closed studios just for her to record free stuff  queen shit...

[paradisetropico]

1 minute ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

 

I think it was touched on like once in the past a very long time ago

 

I mentioned it in a thread 2 months ago so this is so cool to know that it hasn't been a forgotten fact... though a little misleading because though she wasn't signed with Sony, she had a deal with them and had a lot of sessions under them (late 2010-mid 2011), I believe this was just for her to work more and bring new music into them to potentially sign her but they weren't feeling anything she was doing. Then Video Games blew up and Sony probably wanted to sign her then but she was like nah and went to Interscope

 

There was a guy at Sony who was in love with Lana (thought she was hot) and opened up closed studios just for her to record free stuff  queen shit...

maybe Larry got confused or misremembered things, im sure it could be possible 

[Lindsay Lohan]

1 minute ago, paradisetropico said:

maybe Larry got confused or misremembered things, im sure it could be possible 

 

I'm sure he's right it's just missing a little bit of context on to why Sony wanted her to begin with 

[blackenedrussianpoetry]

19 minutes ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

There was a guy at Sony who was in love with Lana (thought she was hot) and opened up closed studios just for her to record free stuff  queen shit...

Femme fatale was truly on the run…

[Rust Dress]

i wonder how different everything would be had she signed with sony.. 

[Beautiful Loser]

What an info bomb to wake up to, thank you so much for sharing this, this is so interesting! 

[yayo6408]

Interesting news, I wonder which unreleased songs we have were recorded at Sony?

[knivesdasilvia]

time stamp?

[Brooklyn Fetus]

hellooo can this thread go hot? this is so interesting i wanna know more abt this