Move aside, Daniels. There’s a brand-new king( or queen )of postmodern movie theater, and it’s the YouTube channel Lana Del Radio. This modifying wizard has, for the previous a number of years, been splicing together LDR tunes with a few of cinema’s … some of cinema. The options for source product are unusual. Who still thinks about Observe and Report, or the American Death Keep in mind film? Lana Del Radio, that’s who. Courtney Love recently said while guesting on WTF that the only two true geniuses she’s ever understood are Kurt Cobain and Lana Del Rey. However, to the very best of my understanding, Love hasn’t fulfilled the genius behind Lana Del Radio. The channel has actually been inactive for a minute, but with a new Lana album dropping this March, one can only hope Lana Del Radio will come out of retirement for one last task. Possibly a mashup of Heat with “Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard?” In the meantime, please invest an afternoon viewing what may be the cultural zenith of western civilization: a confidential YouTuber cutting scenes from The Wolf of Wall Street with Lana Del Rey’s “National Anthem.”
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=” clay-paragraph” data-editable=” text” data-uri=” www.vulture.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/clco8dxiy00233b70ptsryb48@published” data-word-count=” 89″ >” We both understand it’s not trendy to love me.” She actually said it all right there, didn’t she? Each video Lana Del Radio makes creates more connections between LDR and the terrific heroes of our age. There’s a James Bond one, a Jay Gatsby one, and this essential 20th century hero: Austin “Risk” Powers. Austin Powers and Lana Del Rey are both swinging fans unstuck from time. Jumbles of contradictions about political accuracy, love, longing, feminism, eros and thanatos. “Swingin’ 60’s here I come, infant, yeah!” -Lana Del Rey
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