Taylor Swift has just rocked the world music industry with her impressive comeback with the album ” Midnights “. Many people predicted that the era of albums selling over 1 million copies was “dead” when even Adele with her recent album 30 failed to reach the million-selling mark in its first week of release, but Midnights excellently achieved the feat. in an era of streaming dominance. The songs from the album Midnights have “swept” global charts over the past week and will definitely land on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including both the Champion and Runner-up positions.

The two’s collaboration in Snow On The Beach is attracting attention

The notable collaboration in Midnights between Lana and Taylor

Besides the opening song Anti-Hero , Snow On The Beach is also one of the most notable songs on the album Midnights , marking the first collaboration between Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. Ever since information about this “handshake” was rumored on social media platforms, global fans have been excited because two very special female artists in the music industry agreed to stand together in a production. Products. However, when Snow On The Beach was just released, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift fans fell into a situation of… “half laughing and crying” when Lana Del Rey’s segments were very few, and many people even had to struggle to watch them. I can hear the singing part of “America’s sad girl” in the song.

Lana Del Rey was one of the famous names in the world music industry in the early 2010s. But perhaps not all young audiences remember the extremely talented female artist Lana Del Rey, who “broke” the world music scene in the early 2010s.

“America’s Sorrowful Daughter” was once famous, the one who brought cinematic sadness to her music

Before becoming famous worldwide, Lana Del Rey also released her debut album titled Lana Del Ray in 2010 but did not receive significant attention. Lana Del Rey’s career took a turn when she released the MV Video Games in 2011, becoming a phenomenon that caused a stir around the world because of her sad music, a haunting, late voice and a bold style. nostalgia that the public has not seen in anyone for a long time. The album Born To Die and the Paradise Edition released in 2012 became a worldwide explosion with a series of hits such as Born To Die, Ride, Summertime Sadness, National Anthem ,… not forgetting the extremely popular soundtrack. Young And Beautiful for the “blockbuster” The Great Gatsby .

Lana once caused a stir with many hits

One of Lana’s best songs

The public flocked to songs that were rich in narrative, sung as if telling stories with Lana Del Rey’s irresistible, magical voice. Her music at that time was the embodiment of sadness, of feelings that she did not know how to express to anyone. People who come to Lana Del Rey’s music also have many feelings, creating a very unique music audience that has been a loyal companion to the female singer for many years. The sadness and pathos continued to be “heavier” with the album Ultraviolence released in 2014, a music project filled with dark colors. The next two albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust For Life (2017), are brighter and more dreamy with dream-pop filling the space.

Lana Del Rey has created a very unique “school”, an extremely unique color scheme when appearing. While the whole music industry is “seething” with feminist songs with strong messages – Lana Del Rey is still gentle with her melancholy about love, about her obsession with older men, about the frivolous Hollywood dreams of the 50s and 60s of the last century, about endless cinematic sadness. There is a reason why people call Lana Del Rey a “sad woman” because throughout her music, whether written about joy or sadness, there is still an inexplicable sadness. In terms of image, from the early years to the peak of her career, Lana Del Rey also had a close connection with “sadness” in music, transforming into female celebrities of the 50s – 60 of Hollywood, even transforming into the legendary Marilyn Monroe in the National Anthem MV with a world-famous love story.

As a game changer, she paved the way for many later tragic and melancholy vocalists such as Lorde, Billie Eilish, Halsey… It can be said that without Lana Del Rey, the public would cannot accept artists with “sadcore” music like the present. Many young artists have acknowledged Lana Del Rey’s influence on music and style

Returning to a series of relatively dense projects, but is the old “aura” still strong?

Lana Del Rey released albums quite regularly and worked relatively hard, continuously experimenting with many new music genres in the following years: soft rock, country folk, jazz, Americana,… and even writing books. , writing poetry. Her artistic creativity is still positively evaluated by experts. However, frankly speaking, her musical products since the album Norman F*cking Rockwell! (2019) to two albums released in the same year 2021 Chemtrails Over The Country Club and Blue Banisters , although still receiving positive reviews from critics, their sales performance has continuously declined. Basically because of the impromptu way of releasing music, the promotion plan is also very impromptu, releasing music to satisfy the artist’s huge “ego”, to be satisfied in the world of Lana Del’s artistic experiments. Rey.

Lana releases albums quite consistently, but the effects are only at a decent level

Lana Del Rey’s most recent album release is called Blue Banister , released in October 2022, only at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with sales of only 19 thousand copies. This is an alarming situation when this achievement is also Lana Del Rey’s lowest achievement in the past 12 years and is her only album not in the top 3 positions of Billboard 200. However, due to having built a strong loyal audience, Lana Del Rey still works hard with a series of art projects, tours, exhibitions,… Lana Del Rey has always been a symbol of the music she pursues and always recognizes. Received respect from the music-loving public and colleagues.

Throughout her career, Lana Del Rey brought home 2 BRIT Awards and 6 Grammy Award nominations. Variety magazine also honored her at the Hitmakers Awards and called her “one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century” along with many other beautiful words from the media. Her fans are also closely connected to the emotions of Lana Del Rey’s music, so they are not too “competitive” about musical achievements – also a characteristic of the female singer’s fandom.