Candy Necklace - Music Video [OUT NOW]

[pinkelliot 273]

1 minute ago, barttttender said:

 

you're just not getting it babe. It's a dis of the whole idea of nonsense pop video culture.

 

music videos are dying out, people don't care, and the idea of Hollywood glamor and red carpet culture is tired af.

 

because everyone knows right now that behind it is hard work, and pain, and sweat, and blood and couch casting, and unequal pay, etc

 

she explicitly voices this in the video by saying "i can't be a robot."

 

she's over the industry. Like really over it. Tired of playing the game. She dissed it Arcadia but this is taking it to the next level.

 

So that's why she said "where do we go from here?" It's a full 180 from her BTD video.

 

 

I mean yeah ... I get it. That said I think not everything needs to be a diss of "classic" music videos, the culture and everything ... sometimes we juste want art, like a cinematic serve and I think the video would have been more impactful without the BTS footages ! Especially when you see how big the production was. But overall I'm happy and loving all these looks and storytelling ! Just weird choices but I'll take that !

[Let the Light In 18,858]

2 minutes ago, Good Intentions said:

now I need the extended version on Spotify

I loved it so much.

 

Honestly if she kept the video same with this extended version and minimized/erased all the talking, it would elevate whole video to another level. I think the video itself is self-explanatory and she explaining the concept explicitly takes away from it. 

[fishtails 13,831]

This is just like her Burning Desire look but with blonde hair  I love all the self references in this music video 

 

[mrborntolose 9,989]

gorgeous but i’m anticipating someone to make a really cool shortened edit!! 

 

also what are the chances some of these BTS could be for another music video? 

[prettywhenimhigh 49,438]

this is what I'm going to watch when the doctor says I have 10 minutes and 57 seconds left to live  

[jimmyjimmycocoapuff 6,288]

Just now, fishtails said:

This is just like her Burning Desire look but with blonde hair  I love all the self references in this music video 

 

ikr its giving ldr cinematic universe

[Fireffie 3,721]

Another detail that I loved:

when at the end they show all of them wearing the necklaces except the last Lana (the one with the Priscilla hair), I think it could mean that she’s finally free? From the media?

 

so many interesting clues 

[average BB enjoyer 69]

*silently liking the others who also found the bts scenes annoying*

[honeymoon is alive 21,905]

1 minute ago, Fireffie said:

Another detail that I loved:

when at the end they show all of them wearing the necklaces except the last Lana (the one with the Priscilla hair), I think it could mean that she’s finally free? From the media?

 

so many interesting clues 

wow that's really smart and it makes sense

[fishtails 13,831]

1 minute ago, Fireffie said:

Another detail that I loved:

when at the end they show all of them wearing the necklaces except the last Lana (the one with the Priscilla hair), I think it could mean that she’s finally free? From the media?

 

so many interesting clues 

I think that might be it, also because the video finally goes to color when she's shown not wearing a necklace anymore 

[Ultraviolencez 2,611]

the way she did not include the black dahlia scene

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

soo btd coded

[The Stargirl Pinky 72,187]

HELP ofc I was in a meeting when this came out sjdndjfndfjf wish me luck I’m going in 

[Three White Butterflies 27,489]

literally left a meeting to watch this.....it's very interesting haven't seen anything like it before I love her xoxoxo

[blackenedrussianpoetry 2,516]

Imagine if each of the separate looks are for another ocean blvd songs. One look for one song. Love Lanz for dropping a music video on a Wednesday night.

[American Whore 51,649]

13 minutes ago, SalvaWHORE said:

Maybe the fact that she includes all those bts cuts alongside with official video is to prove a point that all these hollywood women she portrays in this MV (Marilyn, the black dahlia girl etc.) have all faced tragic ending by the exploitation of the media. And while her fake "character" in this video has the same ending (m*rdered & the paparazzi all swarm around her dead corspe) - she herself, in fact - the real Lana Del Rey in real life "behind all the scenes", behind this "character" is still alive & breathing, as we see in the ending of the video - it's just all "made up"

 

It's giving National Anthem right here 

 

 

the hair is definitely giving old LDR, it's interesting how it reflects on the media and seems like her message to criticism - this shot makes me think of the acclaim she got during NFR, but the murder being used to symbolize how she "glorifies abuse" with the man in the car who was looking at her throughout the second half of the video, but it could also symbolize how the media murders her for being vulnerable and being herself, which is almost just as abusive of a relationship as her being with a man who beats her and she sings about it

[Venice Peach 54,376]

If we only got the actual scenes from the MV what would the story/concept even be? Looking old Hollywood glamour and pretty? 

 

It's clear that she doesn't use MVs as promo to boost songs so I'm glad she can develop interesting concepts while still giving us visuals and looking amazing as always anyway 

 

We'll eventually get standard medium-big budget MVs like the Chemtrails one at some point but it makes so much sense to release this one for Ocean Blvd.

[domandapiano 12,113]

Honestly love it. The behind the scenes aren’t really behind the scenes they were always planned to be part of the music video, ya know? 
 

while I get not liking it (that’s totally valid), if it was just Lana looking pretty as these different women the whole meaning of video would be lost. 

[prettywhenimhigh 49,438]

4 minutes ago, Honeyyoung said:

soo btd coded

 

they definitely had this nicole photoshoot in the moodboard  

[rural legend 2,154]

I would have loved for the BTS to be displayed differently, for instance have crew photos in photo frames in certain scenes or a video of the director talking to Lana on a tv screen that she is staring at etc. It is very obvious what they were going for but I wish they didn't have to say it out loud and instead used some imagery, illusion, storytelling to explain it.