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Fans of Lana Del Rey are scratching their heads about her latest sighting at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama.

Photos of the 'Summertime Sadness' singer brewing coffee while donning a Waffle House uniform and a name tag reading "Lana" went viral on social media.

Video footage of Lana Del Rey respectfully requesting a fan to stop filming without permission was extensively shared online.

She was really kind and snapped pictures with her adoring fans the whole time she was at the Alabama restaurant.

A local woman named Karina Cisneros Juarez had a chance meeting with Del Rey, and she told AL.com about the odd event. According to Juarez, Del Rey was really kind and wonderful throughout their conversation, and she admired both her music and her job.

What we do know about Lana Del Rey's stint as a waffle cook in Alabama is as follows:

There's still no explanation for why Del Rey was at a Waffle House, leaving her legion of followers to speculate.

Some fans on message boards speculated that she was shooting a video for a new album, while others thought it was a PR trick. Fans have joked that she is contemplating a complete career change.

Recent sightings of Lana Del Rey in unusual Alabama locales include a manicure shop in Birmingham and the heart of Florence.

AL.com claims she is not in the state to record new material. Many local studios, notably FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound, have verified that she has not been recording there.

Some have speculated that her trips to areas like downtown Florence and a Birmingham nail shop were connected to her new album's track "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?"

Lyrics from "Paris, Texas" by Lana Del Rey go as follows: "I took a train to Spain, just a notebook in my hand/Then I went to see some friends of mine, down in Florence, Alabama."

Despite mounting suspicion, neither Lana Del Rey's spokesperson nor Waffle House have issued statements to set the record straight.

FAQs:

What is Lana Del Rey's name?
Singer, songwriter, and record producer Lana Del Rey was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in the United States. In 2011, she released her first full-length studio album, "Born to Die," which included the smash songs "Video Games" and "Summertime Sadness."

Where in Alabama can one find a Waffle House?
Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Dothan, and Mobile are among the most frequented of Alabama's 153 Waffle House locations. Waffle House is a popular restaurant franchise that serves breakfast all day long.

They are renowned for its wonderful waffles, hash browns, and other breakfast staples. The firm has expanded tremendously since its 1955 founding in Avondale Estates, Georgia; it presently has over 2,100 sites spread over 25 states.

The restaurant is well-liked by both residents and visitors, and its 24-hour availability makes it a go-to spot even when bad weather strikes.

 

Lana Del Rey, born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985, is a popular American recording artist. Her music has a distinct cinematic aspect, and she often makes allusions to modern pop culture and Americana from the '50s and '70s.

 She has been nominated for six Grammys and a Golden Globe, and she has won two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award.

She was named "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century" by Variety, who gave her an award at their Hitmakers Show. In 2023, Del Rey was voted one of Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time,

and in the same year, Rolling Stone UK named her the century's best American songwriter. In 2012, Del Rey was recognized as one of the world's 100 most important people by Time magazine.

Del Rey, who grew up in upstate New York, relocated to the Big Apple in 2005 to pursue a career in music.

Del Rey acquired a recording deal with Polydor and Interscope after the viral popularity of her track "Video Games" in 2011. This followed after various projects, including her self-titled first studio album. 

Her first album on a big label, Born to Die (2012), which included the underground smash "Summertime Sadness," was a financial and critical triumph.

Born To Die topped the charts in several countries and was her first UK number-one album of six. Ultraviolence (2014), Del Rey's third studio album, was her first to enter the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one and had a heavier emphasis on guitar-driven music.

The stylistic traditions of her earlier releases were returned to on her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), respectively.

Her critically acclaimed sixth album, Norman Fuckin g Rockwell! (2019), which was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, delved into soft rock and was also named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone.

Chemtrails above the Country Club and Blue Banisters, her next studio albums, were released in 2021.

In a collaboration with Swift on her tenth studio album Midnights (2022), Del Rey's "Snow on the Beach" debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming her highest-charting single to date.

In 2013, Del Rey wrote and starred in the musical short Tropico, and in 2014, she released "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama The Great Gatsby, which was praised by critics and nominated for a Grammy and a Critics' Choice Award.

In 2014, she sang the Oscar-nominated theme song for the movie Big Eyes and the song "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure blockbuster Maleficent.

 The 2019 action comedy Charlie's Angels has a duet between Del Rey and another artist, "Don't Call Me Angel," which she recorded.

In 2020, Del Rey released Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, a compilation of poems and photographs.
 

Quick acceptance
Many profiles and profiles of Del Rey were published before the 2012 release of her first album on a big label, Born to Die. The Guardian released an article by Paul Harris a week before the album came out, in which Harris compared how people saw Lana Del Rey in 2008, when she was known as Lizzy Grant, to how they see her now, under her current stage name. Harris penned:

Whether their rise to prominence is orchestrated by a record executive or occurs organically in someone's bedroom, the internet has enabled characters like [Del Rey] to quickly rise to the forefront of the cultural scene. The cycle of celebrity has been accelerated. It's important to remember that all of the criticism of Del Rey is coming before her first album has even been released. This demonstrates the extreme value placed on "authenticity" by audiences, creatives, and businesses alike.

Producer Tony Simon, who had previously worked with Del Rey in 2009, spoke out in her defense when she was subjected to public accusations of inauthenticity and accusations that she was a product of her record company. Although it's hard to avoid the influence of the music industry when making a pop star, Lizzy Grant is the one who has the inspiration for her music.  According to Del Rey, "[n]ever had a persona. No need for one ever. Not ever!

Del Rey said of Born to Die, "I didn't edit myself when I could have, because a lot of it's just the way it was," in a 2017 interview. It's not that I can't connect to a lot of those songs, but since I've changed so much, I find it difficult to do so. Part of it was also because I was nervous. It seemed like I was worried and there were a lot of contradictions or odd pairings going on, so maybe that was the case. Perhaps I simply needed more time, and my road to a first album was more circuitous than it should have been. things seems like I was on my own to sort things out. It was all a game of guessing.