It’s assault of the 50 foot Lana Del Rey within the “Doin’ Time” video: Watch
Tomorrow brings the discharge of Lana Del Rey’s new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell. As we’ve neared the discharge date, her promotional push has kicked into excessive gear; simply final week she dropped two new singles with joint visuals. Now, she’s unveiled a cheeky music video for her Chic cowl, “Doin’ Time”.
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Whereas the observe is from a late-’90s reggae punk band, the video is an homage to campy 1950s sci-fi cinema. The clip sees LDR turning into a display big similar to the basic Assault of the 50 Foot Girl. There’s even a scene of her stepping over a freeway, replicating the film’s iconic poster. However director Wealthy Lee provides a surreal twist to the idea, with Del Rey additionally enjoying the position of a scorned lover watching her bigger self at a drive-in theater. She’s coping with a philandering beau similar to within the 1958 movie, and as soon as once more it’s as much as a giantess to take issues into her personal arms.
Watch Lana Del Rey’s “Doin’ Time” video under.
LDR’s Norman Fucking Rockwell is out tomorrow, August 30th. Different singles shared forward of the discharge embody “Hope Is a Harmful Factor for a Girl Like Me to Have — However I Have It”, “Venice Bitch”, “Fuck It I Love You”, “The Best”, and considered one of our favorites of 2018, “Mariners House Advanced”. Del Rey additionally not too long ago shared studio variations of her response to the latest mass shootings, “On the lookout for America”, and her “Season of the Witch” cowl from Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Tales to Inform within the Darkish.
She’ll be on the street via fall and into winter, and you will discover tickets to her upcoming exhibits right here.
