- Young and Beautiful. Oh my god. This song is amazing.
- So good! All of her music is SO good!
♪ (industrial music) ♪
♪ (soft piano music) ♪ (wind whistling)
- What's this?
- Lana!
- ♪ Packing all my things for the summer ♪
- Who is th-- is this Lana Del Rey?!
- (sighs contently) I love Lana Del Rey.
- (sighs) Let me just... My queen.
- That's beautiful.
- ♪ ...stop the way I was feeling the day your record dropped ♪
- Should I be watching this? It seems very private.
- ♪ ...white mustang ♪ ♪ Your white mustang ♪
♪ The day I saw your white Mustang ♪
- I'm a fan, but I do think a lot of her songs do sound similar.
♪ ...and revving and revving it up ♪
- Her music just feels like a warm hug, you know?
It's so comforting.
- Actually pretty good.
I'm surprised.
- ♪ ...me like lightening ♪
- So mysterious, Lana. - That was sick.
The shots are sick, and I love Lana.
- So good! All of her music is SO good!
- (FBE) So that was the latest video to be released by Lana Del Rey
off her album Lust for Life. - Got it. Love it.
- (FBE) And since Lana's been requested for so long,
we're gonna show you some more songs from throughout her career now.
- Lana music videos? Oh, yes! (laughs)
I can do this all day.
- ♪ It's you, it's you, it's all... ♪
- Isn't this one of her first songs?
- Video Games. This is what started Lana.
- (mouthing) ♪ Tell you all the time ♪
- ♪ Heaven is a place on Earth for you ♪
♪Tell me all the things... ♪ - Yeah, I like this song.
This is probably one of my favorite ones by her.
- Very Brigitte Bardot in this video, definitely.
- ♪ Is that true? ♪
- I listen to this song when I'm driving, and I think
I'm the most troubled teen in all of Los Angeles.
- ♪ They say that the world was built for two ♪
- I'm not quite feeling this one as much.
- It's like the-- the theme is indie, but not indie,
'cause she's pretty mainstream.
♪ Baby now you do ♪
- (sighs) Yeah. It's a good day.
- Eh, not so much on that one. Her voice didn't hit it,
the beat wasn't there, the rhythm wasn't there.
- I think I specifically wanted to learn piano
just so I could play this song.
- It doesn't sound like things are digitally modified.
It doesn't sound like-- it's just a pure-- she just sings.
- ♪ Kiss me hard before you go ♪
- Oh my god. I love this jam.
- ♪ Summertime sadness ♪ - Oh yeah. This is a classic.
- Summertime Sadness, also a good one.
- I think this was probably the first song that I heard of her
I had on replay over and over.
- ♪ I got that summertime, summertime sadness ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Su-su-summertime summertime sadness ♪
- Summer 2014, after graduating high school,
this was the anthem.
- ♪ Oh no ♪
- Oh, people remix this song all the time,
and I absolutely hate Lana Del Rey remixes,
'cause why would you mess with perfection?
- It was okay, but I just don't think I'm her demographic.
- Her voice is very transformative.
It will take you where it is that she wants to take you.
- ♪ Hot summer days, rock and roll ♪
- Oh! Young and Beautiful.
Oh my god. This song is amazing.
- This one's a classic. This is one of her better ones.
- ♪ I got to know ♪
♪ Your pretty face and electric... ♪
- This song, bro. This song.
- Look at that the orchestra. That's so cool.
- ♪ When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
- This was off The Great Gatsby if I remember,
and this song blew up.
- ♪ I know you will ♪
- I love how all of her music videos are kind of old-fashion-y.
- ♪ Will you still love me ♪
- God, she's got such a pure voice.
- ♪ Beautiful ♪ - 10 out 10. Best song.
- Every single song is so good.
I've never ever listened to a Lana Del Rey song
and been like, mm, eh, no.
- Simplicity is key for her. She doesn't like to go over the top,
and do something like, you know, Gaga,
or Marina and the Diamonds.
For her it's more about keeping it simple and straightforward.
- There's not a whole lot of layers to her music.
Her voice is essentially the same
throughout the entire-- all the songs.
She has a lot of potential.
She just needs to pay off her story telling and her music.
She's right there.
- ♪ Look at you kids with your vintage music ♪
- I love this music video.
- There she goes, killing it again.
Very '70s hippie chick.
- She looks like Priscilla Presley in this specific music video.
- ♪ Signals crossing can get confusing ♪
- Wow.
- ♪ It's enough just to make you feel crazy, crazy... ♪
- She's so beautiful.
- ♪ You get ready, you get all dressed up ♪
- I really like this song. I've never heard it before.
- ♪ ...in particular ♪ ♪ Back to work or the... ♪
- What's funny is that in this music video,
I notice that she looks a lot happier
than in any other music video,
and I think a lot of people noticed that, too.
- ♪ To be young and in love ♪
- See, it's still that same vocal just... all the way across.
- ♪ ...love ♪
- Ah, just the best. The best.
And I'm totally gonna listen to Lana Del Rey on the way home.
- That was phenomenal.
She could be sitting on the toilet, and I'm just gonna clap.
- I would need a week with her music to really analyze it,
'cause I feel like she thinks it's really deep,
but I don't really think it is. - I have every Lana album.
I know every Lana song.
It's something that I can't get away from even if I wanted to.
- I love how unique they are
and how different from pretty much everything else we see.
I love Lana Del Rey. I really can't pick out a negative thing,
which is impossible for me.
- (FBE) Well, Lana Del Rey burst onto the scene in 2005
when the release of the second video we showed you, Video Games,
went viral online. After listening to Lana today,
what do you think it is about her that makes her so unique
that her videos could viral? - She has this softness that's hard.
- It's a niche, you know? Her music, it's Lana music.
It's her music, you know?
You could identify it as soon as you hear it.
You're like, "Oh, is this Lana?"
- She's created something for herself.
It's her brand, it's her aesthetic, you know, all of that stuff.
So she paved her own way, and everyone loves it.
- She's not just a pretty face that, you know, can do autotune
and that kind of thing. This is her voice.
It's not like a lullaby, but it's very soothing.
- You cannot listen to a Lana Del Rey song
without finishing-- just leaving kind of calmer.
- It's mostly just her existing and being herself.
She's kind of this femme fatale. Almost all of her videos
involve some guy, who you can't really tell
if she loves him or wants to kill him.
- (FBE) Well, some have said that Lana's music
falls into a subgenre called sadcore.
- Sadcore? Ooh. That's a thing nowadays.
Being emo is tight.
- It is sad, but I think we kind of like that.
- (FBE) Music that's characterized by often bleak lyrics
and downbeat melodies. - Sure?
I just think it's good music. It's a reflective style of music.
It's not sadcore.
They don't all have to be like these pithy catch phrases.
- (FBE) But others have said that Lana's music
falls more into pop, and she's even touched hip-hop,
where's she's collaborated with various rappers over time.
- Hm, interesting. - When I heard about that,
I was kind of sad, 'cause it's like, ah,
it's Lana Del Rey. Why are you doing this?
But then I listened to the song. It's like, actually,
this isn't too bad. - (FBE) And Lana herself
has said she's really influenced by a lot of '50s and '60s Americana,
and when asked about this, she said, "I wasn't even born in the '50s,
but I feel like I was there." What do you think about the fact
that Lana's able to make themes from the past feel relevant today?
- I feel like in our generation we love the past.
I feel like everything always come back.
We're all dressing like we're in the '90s right now.
She's able to do that with her music,
bring back the old times. People just love that.
It has a sense of nostalgia.
- It doesn't seem forced, which is why I think it's so appealing.
It just feels so natural to her.
- She's touching on something we kind of know as in a memory,
but not really, so she's bringing it to the younger kids.
Now it's vintage, now it's pinup, that kind of thing.
- I think it's great. I mean,
that's what an artist is supposed to do.
And if her story is to tell, is to kind of niche
into that '50s kind of nostaglia, even though that's not '50s,
that's Lana Del Rey's version of '50s from what she's seen
through pop culture, her pop culture lens,
I still think that's great storytelling.
- There's some history that needs to be learned
from the '50s or '60s or any generation.
To be able to introduce kind of a look and a feel
to a new generation that was really even my mom and dad's generation,
I think that's a really good thing.
Now, if you take the '50s and the '60s, and incorporate
some diversity into it, unlike what we had,
then it would be perfect.
- A lot of people have that feeling.
They're like, if I had been born in this decade...
Having a time in life when you feel connected to
that you aren't even a part of
gives her a totally unique perspective
on the culture and it reinvents it for everyone like us
who definitely wasn't alive in the '50s.
- (FBE) Finally, after listening to Lana today, what do you think
the future holds for her and her career?
- I think the sky's the limit.
You know, I'm glad I listened to this.
I wouldn't say I'm a fan, but I am definitely not as--
I won't roll my eyes
at the mention of her name like I used to,
but if she just tweaks her stuff, just take it to the next level.
That's all she's missing. I mean, who am I, right?
- She's gonna continue to succeed, man.
She has a strong fan base. Everybody likes her.
Everybody loves her. - Especially with Lust for Life,
she's shifted in terms of this whole sadcore thing.
Her music is a lot more positive now.
It's just gonna, you know, touch on things
that are more positive. I hope so, at least,
because I would love to see that from her,
but she can do anything.
- I think she's gonna be a name that sticks.
She's got a unique voice, a unique sound.
You're gonna see probably some other folks coming
that have a similar sound to her.
If she's adapting from backyard wine music
to hip-hop, that's staying power. - I think that she's still
a little bit of an underrated artist.
People kind of underestimate her a little bit or they think that,
you know, only hipster girls listen to her music.
I hope she continues to rise, 'cause I will listen to her,
like I said, all day, so I want more music all the time.
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