Lana Del Rey to Perform on SNL to Promote Release of Debut LP

Lana Del Rey will be the musical guest on the first episode of Saturday Night Live of 2012 to promote the release of her debut LP.

She’ll appear on the 1/14 episode, which will be hosted by Daniel Radclifffe.

Born To Die (the album) is a collection of tracks about which Lana says “are an homage to true love and a tribute to living life on the wild side.”

Album tracks include ‘Million Dollar Man’, ‘Off To The Races’, ‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Carmen’.”

Many indie-blog haters have commented on her meteoric rise to fame, pegging her as a cosmetically augmented poseur who is the oversexed product of major-label Machiavellis, without whom she’d be nothing; hence the future of the “Video Games” singer feels a little uncertain.

She went from mysterious internet phenomenon to the Q awards at such speed you’d suspect even the shadowy management that suppressed her first album and got her to change her name are a bit taken aback.

But, like the criticisms levelled against her it doesn’t seem to matter, at least while the song is playing.

Watch the beautiful video for Lana’s latest single “Born to Die” below: