![]() ![]() That was her name, she cooked that up, I thought it was a little wack. She wanted to be known as Lana Del Rey pretty early on. She’s very headstrong and knows what she wants. That’s why I laugh pretty hard when someone said she was put into an image. So all along the way, I told her the right way to go, with the name, but she made certain decisions. I always asked Lizzy if she was okay with this, does she want to be doing this? And it was emotional, but she did. I went in a couple of times to kind of make peace. It was like any of those projects: there was a certain amount of friction between the artist and the producer. He worked hard to get the vocals to where he wanted them to be. The manager came in and was insulting about the record, and I thought, “Wow, we’re an indie label, we got David Kahne to produce this record and you’re negative about it.” I think it had some masterful elements to it and a huge amount of work went into it. A lot of things happened that made it difficult to figure out exactly what image she was going to have, what she was going to support, and clearly didn’t seem that excited about the record. She wanted to change her name, got new management, they wanted to change the record. And then we were moving towards the whole album and that’s when things shifted. So that was a very positive circumstance. ![]() So we got featured based on the EP as one of the iTunes emerging artists of that year. A guy at Apple, who’s a programmer for the new stuff, he loved it. ![]() She got quite a nice notoriety from that. What happened was, we first put out an EP under the name Lizzy Grant. ![]()
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