{"id":694102,"date":"2026-05-28T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/non-classifiee\/how-did-lana-del-rey-become-cool-again\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:23:20","slug":"how-did-lana-del-rey-become-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture-en\/music\/how-did-lana-del-rey-become-cool-again\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Lana Del Rey become cool again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lana Del Rey at the Valentino Spring\/Summer 2026 show during Paris Fashion Week on October 5th, 2025. Photo by Neil Mockford\/GC Images via Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Charli xcx<\/a><\/strong> dropped her name in the song Mean Girls<\/em>, Billie Eilish<\/a><\/strong> praises her, pop phenomenon Addison Rae<\/a><\/strong> performed with her, Skims<\/a><\/strong> chose her to pose as in their latest glamorous, kitsch campaign shot by Nadia Lee Cohen<\/strong>, a few years after a live performance at Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong> and Kanye West<\/strong>\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, she has made an impression with ethereal appearances at the Met Gala as well as at the Valentino spring-summer 2026 show in Paris. Not to mention her standout concerts during the 2024 edition of Coachella\u2026 In short, singer Lana Del Rey<\/a><\/strong> is on everyone\u2019s lips. Yet only a few years ago, the enigmatic music star was far from unanimously admired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An inspiration for Addison Rae and Charli xcx<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let’s go back to 2021. The American artist, now 40, released two uneven albums, Chemtrails Over the Country Club <\/strong><\/em>and Blue Banisters<\/strong><\/em> was at the center of many controversies. At a time when her inspiration seemed to be faltering, almost to the point of caricaturing her country-folk style with poetic lyrics about sex and death, Lana Del Rey<\/a><\/strong> also tarnished her image, so central to her success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before her recent resurgence, the talented singer-songwriter accumulated a series of missteps off stage. Questionable choices and slip-ups that, in the eyes of some, saw her fall from idol pedestal to an unsettling pseudo-rock diva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the more so, as these controversies fed into the criticism she had faced at the start of her career back when she was still operating in the informal indie rock scene under the name Lizzy Grant<\/strong>. Among them, the use of cosmetic surgery, her very pin-up, Hollywood imagery catering to the male gaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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