‘Mermaid Motel’ is the first unreleased song I found and loved. She was just complete Hollywood horror, and I loved it! A desire to learn everything about her led me to Lizzy Grant’s discography and demos, and although the songs weren’t as grand as her studio releases, they were still great! Her early unreleased songs carry a messiness and home made quality which reminds us of the humanity of Lana’s music, something I must say was lost during the manufacturing of a star in the Born To Die era. I was also going through my America phase, as lots of 10 year olds do, so I supposed that helped. Her aesthetic was just so enchanting and magical.

That is where the love affair with her began.

I watched her transfixed as she sat on her rightful throne amongst two tigers in a church and I replied “yes, that’s why I love her.” I was watching the top 40 round my grandparents house, and I distinctly remember my grandad seeing Queen Lana and saying “She’s a bit mournful isn’t she?”. The first time Lana Del Rey entered my consciousness was in 2011 when I saw the music video for her second breakthrough hit, Born To Die. I think we can all agree that none of those monikers hold the gravitas that LDR does, but her numerous re-inventions means we have bucket loads of unreleased material that can be found online, and they tend to be the ones fan say they would sell their souls to hear for the first time again. Lana has 9 studio albums under her belt, including numerous singles under her previous artist names May Jailor, Lizzy Grant, and Sparkle Jump Rope Queen. This one is DADDY ISSUES, for twerkin' (what I imagine her pop debut would have looked like):ĭigging that Florida Dark playlist and stealing it.All-american singer, Lana Del Rey, is famous for her melancholy sound and poetic lyrics, and unsurprisingly, she has always been like this. This one is SPARKLE JUMP ROPE QUEEN, it has some of her quirkier and more offbeat songs:

This one is called WHITE PONTIAC HEAVEN, for the in-between era of Sirens-AKA: I have one master playlist called 'Miss America' that I listen to chunks of at a time, with like 86 songs.I won't share that. (HunterAshlyn, if you don't share your 'No One Even Knows How Hard Life Was' playlist, I will! Unless you don't want me to. Here's the latest edition of my 'surf noir' playlist, in which I've tried to recreate/continue the feeing of 'AKA Lizzy Grant.' (I've finally given this playlist an actual name, beyond that of a rock subgenre ) Personally, I'm obsessed with tweaking my unreleased playlists. They simply reveal how we like to group songs together when we listen to them. Playlists are very personal and imo there's no right or wrong way to do them.

Lana del rey unreleased album cover