3/29/2024 0 Comments Lana del rey sexy on stageTaken as a single work, the video and the song are pretty much a perfect art-object, commanding and deeply personal it was almost hard to imagine someone just parachuting into the pop world with her curatorial game this tight.Īs it turned out, she kinda had and she kinda hadn’t. It felt like a triumphant mainstream breakthrough for the horny/nostalgic magpie aesthetic of Tumblr (I know, finally, right?) and the most fully realized self-proclamation-through-collage clip by an artist no one had ever heard of since this. But I’m really talking about the chillwave-y dream of a video that brought it to life, the one Del Rey supposedly made on her laptop with found footage from YouTube - old Hollywood, old Vegas, Super 8 skateboard flicks, cartoons, flowers, Paz de la Huerta eating it on the driveway of the Chateau Marmont. When I say “Video Games” I’m talking about the song, an alluringly bereft ballad of sexual dependency. But it was fun while it lasted, right? I don’t know about you, but I really enjoyed letting myself imagine someone sitting in a room and auteuring “Video Games” all by her slurry, sultry, duck-lipped lonesome. So go figure - Lana Del Rey turned out to be not exactly the DIY up-from-nowhere straight-out-the-Lynchian-trailer-park untouched-by-human-marketing self-created computer-ghost we all thought we were falling in love with.
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