If you're not sure what Los Angeles is like, watch Lana Del Rey's "Video Games." Hard to explain exactly why it's so perfect to me -- not much in my life here resembles this video -- but it's something about the dreamy glamour and debauchery of old Hollywood mixed with the sunny extendable youth of this place combined with the nastiness of city streets and the pretense and tragedy of fame. The whole filthy mess is kind of sad and sweet because, really, that's what people are.
I could make more of an effort to make sense, but instead I'll just go put this on repeat.
*also, regarding the whole Lana-is-a-Fake thing, because her real name is Lizzy and she injects her lips: isn't that just an even more multi-dimesional comment on fame and fickleness and societal standards, which is clearly what she's getting at with all her imagery anyway? And look, even her pre-makeover work is still striking those same chords: Lizzy Grant - "Kill Kill."
"Pop doesn't do 'keeping it real.' It never has. It never will."
--good point & a neat article on her from the Telegraph.
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