Check Out The Smoky Visuals For Lana Del Rey's "Bel Air"
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Lana Del Rey has been a busy woman since she rose to prominence last year on the strength of a handful of viral videos. She hasn’t let up her onslaught since, regularly pumping out releases that are less songs, videos, and records and more pieces of cannily composed viral content.
It’s a strategy that hasn’t failed Del Rey so far. So you missed her debut LP Born To Die earlier this year and somehow avoided the various music videos and collaborations that followed in its wake? Good luck trying to do that the second time around.
Born To Die, I’m sorry, Born To Die – The Paradise Edition, is a 24 song monster of a re-release, pairing the deluxe version of Del Rey’s debut album with the nine track Paradise EP. That’s a whole lotta Lana.
Not that any of this is going to convert any of the haters. The cuts that we’ve heard from the Paradise EP sound like vintage Del Rey. In fact, the dead-eyed goddess was generous enough to gift the internet viewing public with an atmospheric treatment for one of the songs featured on the Paradise EP, “Bel Air,” which you can see after the jump.
“Bel Air” is, well, pretty airy, with Lana’s elided vocals sliding over some pretty melancholic strings, fitting the whole smoky aesthetic of the clip pretty well. There’s also a ton of side long glances and navel gazing, perquisites for anything Del Rey related.
All this begs the question: if you stare into a mirror in a darkened room and say Lana Del Rey three times, would the disaffected chanteuse appear?
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