How Lana Del Rey changed the rules of pop culture's fame game

Lana Del Rey has been through the whole cycle of huge acclaim and a vitriolic backlash – all before her first album has come outYou can still find traces of Lizzy Grant online. There is a video, dated 8 June 2009, that shows a young, casually-dressed blonde girl in a simple green T-shirt and jeans singing alone on stage at a New York music show called The Variety Box. Grant's voice was strong, but she seemed shy and spoke quietly to the audience to a smattering of applause.Grant looked like an...

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