User:Amandamamacoyne/Lana Del Rey

Career Beginning and Early Recordings
Early in Del Rey's Career, she first got her name circulating by uploading self produced songs along with self made music videos to YouTube in 2011. These songs are of her most popular now, being "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans". In 2012 she debuted on Saturday Night Live for the first time, a performance to launch the release of her first album "Born to Die". What was meant to be a career highlighting moment quickly turned into backlash from fans and critics. Her performance of the single "Blue Jeans" on SNL was highly ridiculed by fans and critics alike. "It felt like everyone just stopped believing in me", she said. This performance later went on to be claimed by critics as "one of the worst outings in SNL history", this performance was even ridiculed by SNL themselves with a skit chastising the performance with Kristen Wiig impersonating Del Rey.

Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and film work.
In 2019 Del Rey worked alongside Jared Leto and Courtney Love to shoot a campaign for the famous Gucci fragrance, "Gucci Bloom". This campaign was a short film-eclectically styled advertisement that also played off the "weirdness" of it's main cast."I'm a bit eclectic, a little different, and definitely on my own path, but at the same time I have a lot of feminine sensibilities and this particular fragrance is on the lighter side and a little bit younger because of that, so I think he though i had the right spirit for it." , she said in an interview pertaining to the campaign.

Unreleased music
"Playing Dangerous" is a song recorded by Del Rey that among many others has went unreleased.