Lana Del Rey - High By The Beach Video - Out Now!

[Spock 20,290]

She looks gorgeous but

SO BORING GOD

Where is Born To Die Lana that gave us amazing videos with amazing visuals?
Songs that actually had beats? (HBTB is a step in the right direction)
Albums that made you not want to kill yourself?

She said Honeymoon was a return to the BTD sound but where is it? I'm not feeling the new Lana album, yet again

[Dann 354]

the queen has spoken

tbh i was expecting better but i get the art vibe

[SlayedForTheGod 665]

ok so she is beautiful and i actually like how it was shot but this video is so bad. I cant tell if its supposed to be funny cause lana has done some of this before(aimlessly prancing around slightly mouthing lyrics in a boring setting). 1.That house was ugly. The interior looked dated, like from the 80's and they didnt even stage it(no furniture and her things) hell they hardly put a bed in. The helicopter and gun were cool but just seemed out of place in the calmness of the rest of the video which made it kind of comical. But like I said idk if that was intentional or not.

[Prometheus 1,494]

I'm very disappointed. I mean, I knew it would be campy based on the teasers, but this?  

[crisTEAne 21,059]

i really like both the song and the video. i'd say that the out-of-this-place (being high) and minimalistic vibe of the atmosphere in the video can be perceived as a materialized projection of lana's psyche. for me, the way it was photographed and its cinematography successfully convey the message of the song.  

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

Omg that twist ending

 

 

 

[Red 98,020]

OH MY GOODNESS BY FAR MY FAVORITE VIDEO OF 2015 SO FAR  

SLAY LANA

[Benji 20,113]

I was expecting something more BUT it's great

[VenusBlackStar 1,301]

I love it, especially the movement of the camera. I really like how there was hardly any cuts in the production. I think it allows the images to move in sync with the song a lot better if there were a lot of cuts.

[Sad Kid 91]

The video is great  Anyway here is the story of the video for those who didn't understand 

[Sister 9,907]

Her Dear One, James Franco!

[Robotboy 1,700]

since the song is both dull and unrelatable i cant use this.

that house was very interesting tho. its at a super weird location with all the cars on one side and then a whole beach. then i found myself searching for a nip slip through the rest of the video until she brought the gun

[StrawberryBlond 14,880]

Brilliant video, really compelling, very James Bond-esque. Not her best ever, but a step up from the more stripped-back, paractically plotless UV videos. I found it anything but boring because I was waiting for something that all this sedated build-up was for. That gun bit was absolutely hilarious! Am I just being naive or did no one expect a gun to come out of that guitar case? I thought it was literally a guitar case and it was a metaphor for running away and devoting her life to her music career! When that gun came out and the explosion happened and her face afterwards...it was just pure comedy! It was like watching the funniest plot twist video ever! Not sure if it was what they were going for, but it got a reaction. But then it all went serious again and made the final spoken lines so much more grand. As for the story...I think it's one of those videos that is actually quite different from the song. You were expecting one thing from the lyrics, got another from the video. Because I'd been so glued to the lyrics without the video, I just superimposed the lyrics onto the video's message. Hence...

Lana is in her usual world of dating rich, wildly unsuitable men. She is dating a man who's likely a major d--g dealer, which means her life is full of uncertainty and instability and she's just a trophy wife with no say. When he's called away on business, she's just left all alone in a big house with nothing to do (loving you is hard, being here is harder, you take the wheel") and is left worrying about him when he's gone ("I can't survive if this is all that's real"). The house is so sparsely decorated because it's just temporary accomodation, maybe even a safe house, it's not a homely home. It's him in the helicopter, coming back to her, keeping an eye on her. Through the words, she suddenly realises that this is no life and she wants one of her own ("I'll do it on my own, don't need your money to get what I want"), runs down to the beach to pick up the gun that's stowed there for emergencies in case there's a raid or something and shoots him, putting a sudden end to it all, meaning she doesn't have to deal with the potential repurcussions of splitting up with him. She concludes with the spoken part that this is the start of a whole new life and she found peace through revenge and is now a stronger person.

But the idea of it being about paparazzi and media perception of her (in the close up of the helicopter, it is actually a guy with a camera) is very plausible too. Like I said, a video can interpret a song very differently. James Franco's description of it is another thing I considered too - a woman living on her own going crazy, thinking people are watching her. Whatever your interpretation, I think as long as you're moved by the art, it doesn't matter. Multiple interpretations can actually show how good a piece of art is, I find. She's a true diamond in the rough, that girl.

The song is about getting high by the beach, getting high by the beach...so they filmed it in an empty house that was by the beach, by the beach.

Low budget and boring. 

If you think it's about getting high by the beach, you've clearly just fixated on the chorus. Yes, the words are simple, but that doesn't make them bad. It's obvious before we even get to the chorus that it's about Lana moving on from a man who's no good for her and she just wants to live simple and free (the only reason she sings about getting high by the beach in the first place). Just because something is low budget doesn't make it bad either. Art is not defined by money. I'd take a simple video with a compelling plot over a CGI fest to show off how much money the label has. And just because it's simple doesn't make it boring. It's meant to be a relaxing song, so the video is too. Music isn't just for dancing. You're entitled to your opinion, but it just seems a bit...superficial.

Oh, and seeing as you're a Taylor fan, I thought pretty settings, pretty costumes and guns was very 1989 era, therefore right up your street. I daresay Taylor was also heavily inspired by Lana on at least two tracks on 1989. Lyrics like "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye and I got that red lip classic thing that you like, you got that long hair, slicked back, white t-shirt and I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt," and "Thought heaven can't help me now, nothing lasts forever," "He's so tall and handsome as hell, he's so bad but he does it so well," and "Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe, red lips and rosy cheeks, say you'll see me again even if it's just in your wildest dreams" are very Lana-esque aren't they? I reckon Lana should sue for how much Wildest Dreams sounds like the beat of Without You and how the whole thing jacks her style. And I bet you don't find a slow track like Wildest Dreams boring when it's by Taylor. It's so weird when Taylor fans call other people's music boring when her album tracks are so bland they could be a cure for insomnia.

[NotAlice 393]

Perfect video for a perfect song. Love it!  my bop rn

[jojuun 4,159]

I love it!