A video featuring Lana Del Rey and director Eli Roth acting out a sexual assault leaked online today, reportedly from a scrapped Marilyn Manson video shoot. In an interview with Larry King last year, Eli Roth said that he'd shot the footage and it was "so sick, it's been locked in a vault for over a year." But as reported by Pitchfork, Manson's people completely deny his involvement: "This is not an upcoming Marilyn Manson video of any kind. It must be a fan video splicing up old Manson video footage with someone else's Lana Del Rey footage." The version below has been soundtracked by Del Rey's "Pretty When You Cry," although that pairing is not part of the original clip (which has since been taken down).Gawker points out that the original clip was put online as part of a reel for Los Angeles–based digital-art group, Sturmgruppe, and...
- 11/20/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
Lana Del Rey has come a long way from her debut “Born to Die.” New “Ultraviolence” is legions more cohesive, conceptually stronger and packaged better than her scarlet starlets of 2011. The improvements are still in want. Del Rey is wearing, again, the troubled, beautiful and bored persona for this experiential album, which upfront demands a certain suspension of reality. From psyche-lilting opener “Cruel World” to dead-eyed cover “The Other Woman,” “Ultraviolence” doesn’t so much get exhausted as it exhausts you on this lethargic fantasy. She and producer Auerbach need for you to go there, even as you side-eye the payoff. Del Rey battles some of the tiresome tropes of fame (“Money Power Glory”) or the bitter backbiting (“Fucked My Way To The Top”) that have nipped at her heels during the last couple of years, during her rise to pop prominence, co-writing every song. But she does it in...
- 6/17/2014
- Hitfix
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