She greets me in the drive -В inquisitive, friendly and aware. Lautner was a seminal Southern California architect, and Del Rey says her choice of lodging was deliberate. I meet her for the interview at a John Lautner house she rents in Los Angeles. Del Rey is now a few years into her return from the desert, having arrived on a mystery train of Santa Ana winds, existential dread and вЂњsoft ice creamвЂќ (to quote her song вЂњSalvatoreвЂќ) that is uniquely her own. album sales at 2.5 million, and her videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. SheвЂ™s a global phenomenon, part of the national conversation and cultural soundscape. вЂњThat was the most joyous time of my life.вЂќ The screen that so many gossipy personas have been projected onto (rich preppy, suicidal anti-feminist, morbid dilettante) hasВ instead transformed into a nearly religious dashboard icon ofВ ghostly seduction. вЂњFor seven years I wrote sexy songs about love,вЂќ she says. She was tarred as a poseur -В part Edie Sedgwick, part Valley of the Dolls, a Never Will Be Ready for Primetime Player -В but it turned out that Del Rey was only at the end of Act One in an all-American A Star Is Born passion play of celebrity crucifixion and resurrection.Д«orn Lizzy Grant in Lake Placid, N.Y., Del Rey moved to Manhattan at 18. That exodus was partly born of the need to heal following a 2012 appearance on Saturday Night Live that elicited a slaughter-of-the-lamb storm of derision over the then up-and-coming starвЂ™s seemingly zoned-out amateurism. I really needed to be out there singing.вЂќ It already happened -В IвЂ™m actually done with the world tour I started four years ago, when I needed to be out there.

2 on the Billboard 200 in September, but when I asked if she planned to go on the road to promote it, she shook her head. Lana Del ReyвЂ™s fourth album, Honeymoon, debuted at No. THIS COVER STORY FIRST APPEARED IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE GET THIS WEEKвЂ™S ISSUE HERE OR SUBSCRIBE TO BILLBOARD HERE

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