Lana Del Ray – This Girl is Going to Eclipse Adele, By Mike Hughes

Here are both versions of Lana Del Ray’s new single, “Born To Die”.

Another blogger writes about LDR… “This is just mesmeric. More produced. Less immediate (not that the last one was exactly pop-obvious). Very slightly emasculated, as she now offers to “kiss” as opposed to “fuck you hard in the pouring rain”. She has at least two voices, one all sliding away and knowing, the other sugar-girl-twee. This came from the record company entitled ‘official video’ but is captioned ‘official video coming soon’. What’s that? I think there will be another version along shortly with tame wild beasts or something, but this version works brilliantly. Lana looks sulky and sultry and defiant as her eyes either lazily close or POP OPEN in some sort of infinite loop.

It certainly answers the question about Del Ray’s UK hit, “Video Games” – you know, the obvious one about whether there’d be any more where that came from…

– Mike Hughes

(Oh BTW, keep scrolling down a bit, there’s another video)

And for the sake of completeness, here is a live version from Paris, complete with the fucking line: