It's not pandering to the geek market so much as viciously skewering it if the 'Forever Alone' meme has a soundtrack, it's this song.Īnd then, with nothing to keep us going but hastily-made YouTube videos of other songs that we weren't sure would make the album (or, for that matter, were even sung by Lana at all), we waited. That's the word that sums up "Video Games" better than anything it's a sweet, innocent love story ruined by a guy who loves Call of Duty more than he loves human contact and affection. It was only three months later, when people were still taking about it (and we're talking about real people here, not people who may or may not have been paid to talk about it), that I caved and listened to it, and was blown away by how tragic it was. I just assumed it would be another instance of a Zooey Deschanel-esque character desperately pandering to the geek market because they're an easy sell. The title put me off, if I'm being honest whether it was ignorance, snobbery, or something else, I couldn't imagine how a good song could have a name like "Video Games", especially with a pretty girl singing it. The funny thing about "Video Games", and the long wait for anything new after it, is that I don't think I would have bothered listening to it if she'd released another single that summer. There isn't a period in pop's history where "Video Games" wouldn't have sounded out of step with everything else that was going on - no, not even the '50s and early '60s, despite Del Rey's obvious affection for that era. Actually, 'timeless' isn't quite right it's more out of time entirely (the song's title notwithstanding). Leaving it that long without handing out any more morsels to the fans is a risky strategy in this day and age, but it worked because Del Rey is such a magnetic figure, because the song itself is f ucking incredible, and because it's the kind of track that sounds timeless the second you hear it. Six months in nothing in real life, but in pop music in the hyperactive 21st century it's an eternity, long enough for trends to first appear in the mainstream, peak in popularity, and be smacked back down by the backlash (remember UK Funky?), and long enough for domestic abuse charges to be conveniently written out of history (unfortunately, you probably do remember Chris Brown). "Video Games", the song that got the ball rolling, seems to have been around forever despite only being leaked last June, and it seems like that's exactly the point. Go ahead, lap up the irony and hate away the reality is that, whoever said it, it's a statement of great value to anybody with an audience, and it's one that Lana Del Rey has obviously taken to heart. For example ] can be used on a page, like this: meatball:WikiPedia.It will no doubt delight the army of Lana Del Rey haters that somebody who loves her as much as I do has chosen to open a review of her debut album with a quote that's been attributed to both Phineas Taylor Barnum, the infamous scam artist, and Walt Disney, the noted creator of two-dimensional cartoon characters. However, non-local interwiki pages can still be accessed by interwiki linking or by entering them in the search box. All interlanguage prefixes are marked as local, and thus URLs such as will work as expected. For example, the URL can be used to load meta:Main_page. Certain interwiki prefixes are marked as local in the table. For example, the URL will give this error, because the "meatball:" interwiki prefix is not marked as local in the interwiki table.
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