Lana Del Rey has been a significant music star for over a decade again in 2011 she launched a music video for her hit born to die this was an enormous deal Not solely was this Lana’s first high-budget music video it was additionally the primary one to be
Filmed within the Palace of Fontainebleau an iconic Royal Chateau in France oh and did we point out there have been Tigers Lana needed to go all out for the Born to Die music video she wrote the idea herself in a remedy she titled the lonely Queen within the video Lana sits on a
Throne in heaven metaphorically represented by a citadel as she sings the video would flash again to recollections of her being together with her lover video director Yuan lumwan helped take Lana’s thought and switch it right into a actuality for the scenes within the so-called Romanian Fortress Lana and her staff used the Palace of
Fontainebleau a royal Chateau simply outdoors of Paris that is the primary time a music video was ever filmed in photon blue which performed an enormous half in French historical past because it was constructed within the medieval occasions dozens of well-known French leaders have referred to as it residence together with Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte
Now it is a museum that is open to the general public on this video Lana is seen sitting on a throne within the palace’s Trinity Chapel she wears an Angelic white costume and Crown the Palace of Fontainebleau is the proper setting for Lana’s video given the darkish Moody Vibes
Of the music and the singer’s love of luxurious over-the-top visuals the scenes of her kissing her lover had been filmed within the grand partera of the palace and the heaven retailer is Sal de calunt the Francois Gallery can be seen in addition to the chapel Saint
Saturnin one method to make a palace even fancier wanting add some tigers to both aspect of Lana’s Throne truly make that tiger that is proper there was just one large cat manufacturing truly mere imaged the tiger so it appeared like there have been two music video magic on the
Time Lana advised MTV Information that she at all times feels uncomfortable spending anybody else’s cash however she actually needed the Tigers simply due to what they symbolized to me and simply visually they’re so hanging she added I at all times just like the imaginative and prescient of a woman in a white nightgown with two Majestic tigers in
One scene I used to be sitting on the throne first after which I needed to depart the room after which the tiger was filmed proper by the throne after which spliced in Lana additionally identified that ladies and tigers cannot be in the identical room due to the pheromones so for security causes Lana
Was filmed within the chapel individually from the Tigers then there’s this love curiosity within the video Lana’s boyfriend is performed by mannequin Bradley swallow they’re seen getting intimate driving in a automotive the video ends with a tattooed mannequin carrying Lana’s lifeless physique Lana picked Bradley to play her lover as a result of
He reminded her of her earlier boyfriend about whom she wrote Born to Die about Bradley says they hit my agent up and mentioned yeah we wish to forged him however they moved it to Paris and had a casting for it as a substitute after which Lana truly noticed photos and picked me Bradley says
That within the video the viewer can see two sides of their relationship the Romantic aspect and the violent aspect he explains it is a relationship that’s so horrible however neither of them wish to that is why when she’s within the automotive and he or she wipes the glass she’s wanting mad unhappy distant and
Considerate however I am nonetheless making an attempt to get her consideration that is sort of the story for it it would not be the final time Lana and Bradley work collectively they reunited for an additional ill-fated love story for the video for blue denims that video would not have tigers nevertheless it does have alligators
The movies producer whereas Lee Moines mentioned Atlanta was fairly current and splendidly actual in her course of with us on this video it helped that she’d work with Bradley earlier than as a result of there was a sure stage of consolation he provides that in some methods blue denims was the prequel to
Born to Die Bradley and Lana labored collectively once more in 2014 for the music video for West Coast the music video for born to die was finest pop video Worldwide on the UK Music Video Awards and was nominated for finest artwork Path on the MTV Video Music Awards
The video ushered in an entire Cinematic Universe for the singer and helped her trademark type that will develop over the following decade born to die was an enormous hit for Lana and have become her second high 10 Single
