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Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Prior to this she had other financial help with this transformation that took place over a one and a half to two year period from 2009 to 2011. Lizzy Grants efforts to hide her past started to unravel, the trailer park life didn't go hand in hand with the discovery of her millionaire father that she was and is still in close contact with and the man who helped to market her first album and EP. Pictures of Lizzy and Grant were discovered through his involvement in T.R.A.F.F.I.C and photos taken of Lizzy with her Father in casinos dated the same time that she said she was living in a trailer park and starving started to expose a very different background to what Lizzy wanted us to believe. The trailer park life was also given as the reason Lizzy couldn't afford to have surgery but the pictures taken with her father tell much more than lizzy wanted you to know. Rob Grant started his life as an advertising guru in Madison Avenue and then went on to property development when Lizzy was born and eventually real estate and online real estate in 1995. Lizzy had even tried to deny her fathers wealth saying he was just an entrepreneur and that didn't mean he was rich then she tried to deny they had money when she was growing up although he had made a serious amount of money in real estate when she was a child and by 1995 he was in online real estate where he made his fortune Lizzy would have been 9yrs old. Lizzy was also afforded a private boarding school eduction. When you discover all of this and then realise that Lizzy can't actually sing that well Live, and hasn't taken sole credit for anything she has written, you can't help but feel the music industry are trying to get dirty and take you for a ride you don't want to go on, I can't get into Lizzy/ Lana and not just because she clearly can't sing live or deliver songs with realness and passion but mostly because she went along with all of this and when I realise why she did I know why I don't like her. http://twitpic.com/80d3kh http://www.billboard.com/features/lana-del-rey-th… http://webmediaproperties.com/dn_journal_april_08… http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a358142/la… http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=…— January 17, 2012 4:17 a.m.
Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Can I just point out that the "Live At The Premises" is not actually live nor is "Live at Corinthia Hotel London" both are pre recorded. You also seemed to have missed an important part of your research on her background. Aside from the Millionaire father and the plastic surgery, she had already signed to Interscope before Video Games and Blue Jeans were even uploaded on youtube. She signed with Interscope in July 2011, Video games was uploaded 19 Aug 2011, Blue Jeans Sept 9 2011. "Ferdy Unger-Hamilton of Interscope denied that LDR is manufactured he said that he did not sign the singer when he first met her a year prior to when the star agreed a deal with him back in September." We already know the contract was signed in July, It's here where her labels, which provided her a budget for videos (now debatable if she even made them herself) and album completion, as well as hired a publicity firm Shore Fire Media, deviate from standard practices remember Video games was uploaded 19 Aug 2011, Blue Jeans Sept 9 2011 according to Interscope they hadn't signed at this point. LDR had industry and financial support right from the start, a recent interview with David Kahne, who produced Grant as well as albums for Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor and Kelly Clarkson, believes something else was going on. Agreeing to work with her in 2008 after 5 Points connected them, he witnessed the beginnings of her reinvention from a platinum blonde guitar-cradler to an alt-indie princess. Contrary to what Del Rey asserts, Kahne is under the impression that she bought the rights back from 5 Points to stifle future opportunities to distribute it an echo of rumors that the action was part of a calculated strategy. "I think Lizzy Lana owns it, so [her team] wanted it out of circulation. That's why they bought the rights from them," Kahne says. "I think she wanted to be Lana Del Rey and didn't want to be Lizzy Grant. That was her family name, and she's very dramatic. She wiped [out] this other person. I think she actually thinks that she's that other person, and she probably is. So that was the decision that she made, that she didn't want traces of that whole person around, as far as I can tell." So the whole youtube internet sensation is a lie they tried to sell us the idea that the momentum or interest in this girl was based solely on her music and the interest it was generating, but we know that she already had Interscope behind her and Shore Fire Media before Video Games was even uploaded. The interest in LDR was nothing more than heavy internet 'guerrilla' marketing, planting meme after meme after meme. People took the bait but the facts started to be uncovered. cont..— January 17, 2012 4:12 a.m.