After months of teasing online, Lana Del Rey released her short film for "Tropico" at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, and now you can watch the whole thing. The 27-minute passion project is just that: a work of overflowing, era-traversing passion. Ultimately it's a love story. Del Rey's new "Tropico" works, more or less, as a glossy but bugged-out extended-length music video, a pretentious but sensationalistic dive into her center-free aesthetic. As the virgin mother, hints "Tropico" film will send Del Rey's career to heaven.
Del Rey lives to provoke. From her suburban bad girl gangsta pose to explicit lyrics that give us way too much information about which part of her tastes like Pepsi, the singer with the sad eyes lives up to her reputation in a short film accompanying her new EP, "Tropico." The three-song album features the songs "Body Electric," "Gods & Monsters" and "Bel Air," comes with a super trippy mini-movie of the same name in which Del Rey plays Eve to model Shaun Ross' Adam as the pair glide their way from the Garden of Eden to a brazen stick up and outer space.
"Tropico" is the word kind of lends itself to a paradise and a paradise lost. Del Rey had always had it in her head as the title. The film, directed by veteran Anthony Mandler, puts a contemporary spin on stories from the Bible and opens with the singer and Ross portraying Adam and Even, dancing seductively to Del Rey's "Body Electric" around the Garden of Eden as the aforementioned quartet of Wayne, Elvis, Monroe and Jesus hangs out on the sidelines. Following the inevitable eating of the apple from the forbidden tree of knowledge, the couple are transported to modern day Los Angeles, where Del Rey finds herself transformed into a stripper with a heart of gold, while Ross becomes a bored convenience store clerk.
With life not offering much, the two enter a life of pure debauchery to the tune of "Gods and Monsters," and unsurprisingly, all the guns and boozing lead to an inevitable breaking point. Following the heist and suitably ridiculous celebration, the couple steal away for a nice romantic romp through a field at sunset while Del Rey sings "Bel Air." Ostensibly reborn and cleansed of their sins, the couple put on some white clothes to prove it and then ascend to heaven in each other's arms. The ambition in this extended morality play about love, lust and loss of innocence is hard to deny, as it invokes multiple religious and pop culture figures in exploring the extremes of human experience.
Del Rey lives to provoke. From her suburban bad girl gangsta pose to explicit lyrics that give us way too much information about which part of her tastes like Pepsi, the singer with the sad eyes lives up to her reputation in a short film accompanying her new EP, "Tropico." The three-song album features the songs "Body Electric," "Gods & Monsters" and "Bel Air," comes with a super trippy mini-movie of the same name in which Del Rey plays Eve to model Shaun Ross' Adam as the pair glide their way from the Garden of Eden to a brazen stick up and outer space.
"Tropico" is the word kind of lends itself to a paradise and a paradise lost. Del Rey had always had it in her head as the title. The film, directed by veteran Anthony Mandler, puts a contemporary spin on stories from the Bible and opens with the singer and Ross portraying Adam and Even, dancing seductively to Del Rey's "Body Electric" around the Garden of Eden as the aforementioned quartet of Wayne, Elvis, Monroe and Jesus hangs out on the sidelines. Following the inevitable eating of the apple from the forbidden tree of knowledge, the couple are transported to modern day Los Angeles, where Del Rey finds herself transformed into a stripper with a heart of gold, while Ross becomes a bored convenience store clerk.
With life not offering much, the two enter a life of pure debauchery to the tune of "Gods and Monsters," and unsurprisingly, all the guns and boozing lead to an inevitable breaking point. Following the heist and suitably ridiculous celebration, the couple steal away for a nice romantic romp through a field at sunset while Del Rey sings "Bel Air." Ostensibly reborn and cleansed of their sins, the couple put on some white clothes to prove it and then ascend to heaven in each other's arms. The ambition in this extended morality play about love, lust and loss of innocence is hard to deny, as it invokes multiple religious and pop culture figures in exploring the extremes of human experience.
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