Last summer Lana Del Rey received the National Music Publishers’ Association Songwriter Icon award in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. Her acceptance speech included a brief mention of Duluth.
“I’m from Lake Placid, New York; six hours north of here,” Del Rey says at the 4:25 mark in the video. “If you go through the Cascades there’s really only one way to go. Until I was 16 there was only about 900 people there — coldest village in the nation, other than the city of Duluth, by the way. Fucking freezing.”