The hype machine has run its course, and the good news is that “Video Games” now seems like it will more likely be the first act of a long, impressive career rather than the product of a one-hit wonder. That she rebounded with 2014’s critically-acclaimed Ultraviolence is a testament to Del Rey’s talent and toughness. Her shaky performance took a beating on social media, and the possibility that Del Rey would be swallowed up by the backlash seemed very real. When Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live in January of 2012 to perform the song and promote her debut album Born To Die, she found out about the downside of hype. It’s like a lot of things that have happened in my life during the last seven years, another personal milestone. “I played it for a lot of people (in the industry) when I first wrote it and no one responded. “I know that it’s a beautiful song and I sing it really low, which might set it apart,” she said. In an interview with Q Magazine, Del Rey tried to put a fine point on the appeal of the song. The haunting atmosphere in the music seconds that notion, that this love affair, rhapsodized by the lyrics, is actually built on fragile ground and doomed to expire. There is an undeniable hint of desperation in her voice when she sings the chorus, as if this bliss she’s describing can’t possibly last much longer. With his strong arms, fast car and sexy patter, he seems more like an action-movie screenwriter’s construct than a living, breathing human. These seemingly trivial pursuits are given meaning by the presence of the man in her life. “This is my idea of fun,” she sings at the end of the verse in a voice somewhere between deadpan and narcotized. Her days and nights are filled with beer, darts, billiards and, of course, video games. Lana Del Rey is making news with some recent Instagram posts In a lengthy text post last Thursday, and now in a new video post released this morning, Lana expressed her frustrations at how she’s been treated within the music industry since she came on the scene with Born To Die.She also called for a place for fragile women within feminism. In the verses, Del Rey paints scenes of domestic tranquility and socializing with friends, 21 st-century style. “The verse was about the way things were with one person, and the chorus was the way that I wished things had really been with another person, who I thought about for a long time,” she said. When it came to the lyrics, the singer-songwriter looked to a pair of recent relationships, as she told the website. Lana Del Rey experienced both sides of that coin with her 2011 song “Video Games.” With her career flailing a bit at the time, she uploaded the song to her YouTube page, where it gained a following, helped her gather a record deal and eventually became an indie-rock sensation.ĭel Rey wrote the song with Justin Parker, who came up with the eerie, seesawing piano chords at the heart of the instrumental backing. It can propel you to the heights one minute and then weigh you down so much that you crash and burn the next.