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VIDEO PREMIERE: Shades of Cool

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violentest    6

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I honestly feel sorry for everyone who don't get how great Mark is for Lana's videos. He was the perfect choice especially for SoC, the way he seems so cool but at the same time so vulnerable, his eyes and the way he looks at Lana with such admiration and sadness. I was very touched by him in this video.

 

Mark honestly seems like a very nice guy in interviews and stuff. I'm sort of secretly hoping that Lana is or will be dating him in the future......

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Lirazel    700

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I feel like it's telling the story of a man wondering what could have been with his lover who died young. Hes being haunted/ reminded of her everywhere. Instead of her just hanging around some old guy, he got old and lonely and thinks back to the time they spent together. Just my interpretation  :D

Yeah, I've been thinking something like this too!

I like this video. Not as much as my faves from BTD, but better than WC and most of Paradise.

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Bae    564

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Yeah, after watching again, the daddy definitely killed Lana, possibly hid the body in his trunk, and now he's consistently haunted by her, both physically and in his memory.

 

It's the same guy as West Coast, so I'm just gonna play it like a sequel. 

 

 

The video starts with a shot of his sad eyes, fading into a shot of him driving alone in the car, where before, they were together (In the West Coast video).

As Lana starts singing, his expression turns to determination, and then you see the brake lights on the car, meaning he's stopping. Possibly to dispose of the body into the river or something, I don't know.

 

Now idk if Lana's more bitter about not getting a proper burial or getting killed by her lover, but possibly not coincidentally, this is when Lana first shows herself as a ghostly image, stemmed from betrayal, basically telling the story herself, "When he calls, he calls for me, and not for you." It's from that moment on that Lana slips into a dangerous state of posthumous denial. She says to herself as she drops her head "He loves his drugs", but then raises it again on "he loves his baby too", which is sort of like saying "I know he still loves me. I know he still loves me."

 

He spends the rest of his life forever haunted by her; she fuckin' knows that it's killing him inside, and she loves it. When he's sadly walking down the street, there's the image of Lana smoking a cigarette in the background as she sings "I can't fix him, can't make him better" (in my interpretation, sarcastically) because it's obviously his fault he's in these "shades of blue".  he fucked up and (most likely) shot Lana, and she's then decided that he's gonna spend the rest of his life feeling like shit about it.Then her ghostly image fades in again, as she takes a tongue-in-cheek vaguely sexy pose on "I can't do nothing about his strange weather", like a "oh baby sorry but you fucked up" kinda thing. Like, she physically grabs her lip and rolls her eyes, like a "yeah, right" kind of look.

 

From then on, her ghost is in control of everything. She spawns all the images in his head and all around her. She sings the chorus with fireworks in the background, pretty sure cause that's just what Lana Del Rey does.  But, when her ghost goes away, you see a shot of Mark sitting alone in the dark, then an image of a bullet firing appears to the side of him, as the background switches from fireworks to shooting stars. (there could be a pun in "shooting a star", but I'm probably reading too deeply).

 

After that's over, the second verse begins, and this is where Lana decides to fuck with him even further. She goes back in time to when he killed her and then decided he had to leave. yes, time travel isn't very Lana Del Rey, but bear with me. SO, she's walking down the street and her expression turns sour, as the shot pans to Mark closing the trunk. Then, seeing as Lana's totally dead rn, Mark looks up in  total disbelief as he thinks he sees Lana walking down the street. His face just says "WHAT THE FUCK" all the way through. The next image is of flowers bc Lana Del Rey, but also explosions and bullets. She's tryna make him insane, is what I'm getting at, yo.

And then of course, he still gets in the car, as she says "But I can't help him, can't make him better" as her ghostly image looks down, watching the car drive away. Basically, the next chorus is Lana's ghost formulating the plan to really fuck with his head, and what follows is the execution (no pun intended).

 

He sits by a pool window, and Lana ethereally swims past him, which grabs his full attention. There's a shot of Lana putting her hands together as if in prayer, then he crosses himself, as if to say "Dear god make it stop" or something. He won't admit to his regret yet, so Lana says "your heart is unbreakable", like it's a challenge, like "we'll just see about that."

 

What then follows is a sequence of memories of them together, her dancing in her Coachella dress, them embracing, all interspersed with her swimming across the pool. My interpretation is that she brings on those memories as she swims closer, like waves to the shore. She also is teasing him by doing various sexual actions, like eating a strawberry, smoking a cigarette, and her swimming shots, you can see that her expression isn't happy, her eyes have bloodlust in them. When she finally surfaces, it's an innocent and happy face he sees, and he's once again completely enamored with her. But then, the catch is, Lana's ghost then turns around and fades away, like she knows her work is done. He pensively sits by the pool window again, waiting for her to swim by. But no Lana shows, so he goes back to the memory of them together. His sad eyes driving down the road again, and the video ends in the memory.

 

That's when Lana knows she's done it, and she's driven him insane with guilt and regret.

 

 

 

Basically, it's a "you fucked up and now youre gonna pay" story.

 

Or, I could be entirely wrong, that's what threads are for. 

What's everyone else's interpretation?

How do we know she died in WC? 

 

i hear people say stuff like this all the time and like idgi, videos dont have to follow a storyline, sometimes theyre just pretty visuals that bring the song to life

that's what i think

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worm    37

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Sorry for bringing a topic back from the dead, but I couldn't really find anywhere else to post this. I did a search, but didn't see anyone around here mention that they have a clip of the video in rotation in the music section at Target. For the longest time, I kept thinking I heard the song in the distance but thought I might just be imagining things. I even tried hanging out in that area for a while to confirm, but eventually gave up. But just the other week, I finally caught it playing! I thought it was pretty cool that they still have it in rotation. Good promo for Lana!

 

I wasn't crazy about this video at first, but it's totally grown on me over time. The effects used are really interesting and unique. Perfect casting with Mark. I've realized that the video suits the song really well. I can honestly say I love it now. :)

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