Lana Del Rey dons Chanel to accept NMPA's Songwriter Icon Award in NYC (2024)

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Lana Del Rey opted for quite a leggy look as she made her way into the National Music Publishers' Association's Annual Meeting, which was held at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan on Wednesday.

The 11-time Grammy nominee - turning 39 next week - has a suspiciously slimmer 5ft7in frame than she had just one year earlier - sparking speculation she's hopped on the trendy Ozempic train like Kelly Clarkson, Whoopi Goldberg, Rebel Wilson, and Oprah Winfrey.

Lana (born Elizabeth Grant) nearly suffered a wardrobe malfunction fashioning a black-tweed Chanel blazer into an ultra-mini-dress and matching pumps selected by her stylist Molly Dickson.

Hairstylist Anna Cofone coiffed Del Rey's tidy French twist and make-up artist Etienne Ortega fully contoured her complexion and overlined her lips for the New York awards ceremony.

The Manhattan-born, Malibu-based belter happily posed for selfies with waiting fans just five days after yelling at 'stalkers' who 'followed' her and her family through the streets of Paris where there's strict paparazzi laws stemming from the death of Princess Diana.

'Get away from me!' Lana exclaimed in the video obtained by TMZ.

'Don't follow me! Don't follow me! I am upset! Don't let them follow me. I only have one day here. I work every single day! I have four hours to myself! Shut up! Don't follow people!'

Del Rey later commented on one of her Instagram fan accounts: 'These a**holes actually told me that they were going to alter the pictures of me to make me look bad after we got into a fight.'

Once safely inside the venue, the 44-time NMPA Gold & Platinum-certified artist joined NMPA president David Israelite and her publicist Jody Gerson onstage to accept the trophy for NMPA Songwriter Icon 2024.

'I'll paint a really quick picture of what it was like when I was getting into music,' Lana said in her acceptance speech.

'I was [attending] Fordham [University] up in the Bronx. I read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich - had nothing to do with money. I switched from the business program into becoming a philosophy major because his major point was to burn all bridges except to Plan A - absolutely no Plan B.

'Now at that point, I was 18 so the wake of my past had not crashed in. Life hadn't happened and I was very open to only having a Plan A. And I was thrilled with it up until the age of 26 when life was complicated by then after I became a little more well known.'

Del Rey admitted that up until then her 'only friends were in the books' that she read such as Hill's and Esther and Jerry Hicks' Ask and It is Given.

'These wonderful writers encouraging me to have an invisible council [since] I didn't have a real council yet, which I do now with the most famous lawyers, managers, and publishers in the world,' the Golden Globe-nominated songwriter explained.

'But it took a lot of imagination. I didn't have to fake it til I made it. I had to really feel it. That's something that's really hard now as life has gotten more complicated. I've heard that the further along you go down a path, the path gets more narrow. So it's up to me to try and widen that path so I feel excited - as excited as I did then. I work on it every day, the people I work with certainly make that easier.'

Lana concluded: 'Thank you for this. I probably know 20 percent of the audience here, which might surprise the rest of everybody. Congratulations to everybody! Thank you!'

Del Rey is next scheduled to put her three-octave contralto pipes to use by headlining her first stadium gig at Boston's Fenway Park on June 20, which is already sold out.

The A&W songstress - who gets 55.1M monthly listeners on Spotify - is scheduled to release her 10th studio album and first country record Lasso sometime this September.