//, Sorry, we have to make sure you're a human before we can show you this page. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.Her music is noted for its stylized, cinematic quality; it explores themes of sadness, tragic romance, glamor, and melancholia, and it contains many references to pop culture, particularly 1950s and 1960s Americana. [26] "Terrence Loves You" has been described as "hypnotic", with Del Rey singing over piano, strings, and a "moaning" saxophone. [51][52][53] "Religion" was noted as being one of Del Rey's most optimistic love songs, however the song was also noted for still be "tinged with the singer's favourite kind of noirish self-destruction". Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, professionally known as Lana Del Rey, was born in New York City, New York, on June 21, 1985.She was raised in Lake Placid, New York, with her brother Charlie and sister Chuck.She began writing music after learning guitar from her uncle at age 18, and while still in school in New York, began performing at many underground clubs. Lana Del Rey cut a casual figure as she stepped out in Studio City, California on Sunday, after hitting back would be-critics of her new album, Chemtrails. Her music is about tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia. In January 2015, Lana Del Rey announced via Billboard that she had begun work on her fourth studio album, announcing she was going to release an album entitled Honeymoon sometime that same year. While she's obviously a pop artist, Honeymoon feels as though it belongs to a larger canon of Southern California Gothic albums, and synthesizes ideas she's been vamping on from the beginning into a unified work. Upon release, Honeymoon received mostly positive from music critics, appearing on the 2015 best albums lists of many publications. Musically, Honeymoon has been variously described as a retro-styled work of "grand, cinematic baroque pop",[11] "elegantly melancholy dream pop",[12] and a return to "the cinematic trip hop" of Del Rey's debut album Born to Die[13] and incorporates elements of trap,[14] blues,[15] downtempo pop,[16] and jazz. The argument started after Lana Del Rey posted a comment on Kanye West’s Instagram (more on that next.) "[59] The liner notes to the CD and vinyl releases, however, still feature additional photography by Krug. Lana Del Rey has one of the most enigmatic personalities of modern pop, and it’s won her one of the most devoted audiences of the 2010s. [67], Del Rey also released a promotional single, "Terrence Loves You", on August 21, 2015. On February 9, 2016, she held a music video premiere for the song "Freak" at The Wiltern, in Los Angeles. "[79], The Daily Telegraph awarded the album four out of five stars, and called it "an ambient album for broken-hearted hipsters" and praised the melodies and arrangements on the album. [19], Lyrically, Honeymoon features content that touches upon tortured romance, bitterness, lust and violence.