Season 1 - Współlokatorskie Lana Review & Re-Listen

Lana Del Rey

## Enter The Season

**Współlokatorskie Lana Review & Re-Listen** was the first ever season of **Jaracza Music Getaway** series. The participants were listening to the discography of **Lana del Rey**.

## About The Artist

**Elizabeth Woolridge Grant** (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as **Lana Del Rey**, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. *Variety* honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century."

Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single "Video Games"; she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, *Born to Die* (2012), which contained the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness". Del Rey's third album, *Ultraviolence* (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. *Billboard* 200. Her fourth and fifth albums, *Honeymoon* (2015) and *Lust for Life* (2017), saw a return to the stylistic traditions of her earlier releases, while her critically acclaimed sixth album, *Norman Fucking Rockwell!* (2019), explored soft rock. Her next studio albums, *Chemtrails over the Country Club* and *Blue Banisters*, followed in 2021.

Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short *Tropico* and released "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama *The Great Gatsby*. In 2014, she recorded "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure film *Maleficent* and the self-titled theme song for the biopic *Big Eyes*. Del Rey collaborated with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus on "Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy *Charlie's Angels* (2019), which peaked at number 13 on the U.S. *Billboard* Hot 100. Additionally, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection *Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass* (2020).

## Background

**Współlokatorskie Lana Review & Re-Listen** was the first ever season of **Jaracza Music Getaway** series. It was created by Eric, and was meant to be a single stand-alone event without any plans for the continuation in the future. At the time of its inauguration the term "getaway" had not even been introduced. Lana Del Rey was chosen as the reviewed artist for two main reasons: she was hugely admired by the participating judges and she has just released her then brand new album *Blue Banisters*. It is worth noticing that there had been a failed attempt to conduct the event over half of the year before it actually took place (when *Chemtrails Over The Country Club* has been up to the release), and there is one promotional graphic left from that time. Since then, the concept has been changed and upgraded.

## Promotion and Schedule

**Season 1** was not extensively promoted, as such thing has not yet been accomplished, as seen in the future competition between particular seasons. Though, simple graphics, as well as predetermined schedule had been established before the conception of the event. During the evaluation of the respective albums and as a way to make the rollout to ranking announcements more exciting, the GIFs, picturing Lana Del Rey in different music videos, were used. In addition to weekly results in form of table rankings, Wiciu's detailed reviews of each album were published.

## Final

At the end of the getaway, now typical but then the first ever watching of all of the artist's music videos took place (in which Jules didn't participate). The results of the getaway, meaning the ranking of the albums, were published without any special event, similar to the usual results of every particular album. However, different type of graphical representation was used, as well as, different approach to timing of the reults. Every place, from the worst to the best, was published every hour until midnight. Noiticeably, *Paradise* was not included in the final ranking.