King jumps off the bridge, and when Lana learns of Jamie’s death, she jumps from a cliff, joining her in the afterlife.
Throughout the video, King drives to a bridge, as visions of Lana appear to her in the passenger seat. The video opens with a flash forward of Lana jumping to her death from a cliff. Lana conceived the idea for the “Summertime Sadness” video with actress Jaime King, who co-stars in the video. (Unaware of how successful the song would later prove to be, Interscope Records did not provide a budget for the song’s accompanying visual, according to director Spencer Susser.)
6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking Lana’s first entry into the top 10, and still her highest charting song to date. The biggest hit from the album – and perhaps one of the most memorable songs of this era – was “Summertime Sadness.” While the album version remains one of Lana’s signature songs, a remixed version of the song by Cedric Gervais didn’t take off until over a year after the original’s release. She knew she had to embody a character – one that is desperate for love and all the beauty that comes with it.” ‘Blue Jeans,’ was, in some way, the prequel to ‘Born to Die.’ She approached the filming as an actor would. “She had worked with on ‘Born to Die’ prior to this, so there was a certain level of comfort.
“Lana was quite present and wonderfully real in her process with us on this video,” Mouaness says. To this day, the video’s producer Oualid Mouaness says it is his most beautiful work, one he was determined to execute without compromise. In the pool, joined by two alligators, Soileau and Lana enjoy a swim, before meeting their implied demise by drowning – Lana, in the arms of Soileau. Soileau also appears in this video, reuniting with Lana for another ill-fated love story – this time, poolside in a 1950s Hollywood home. Albeit not as dark as the title track, “Blue Jeans” tells the story of a woman lamenting a lover who walks out of her life in pursuit of “chasing paper” and getting “caught up in the game.” Also directed by Lemoine, the song’s visual is a brooding ode to film noir, shot in black and white. Star-crossed love is a recurring theme on Born to Die. “We would do several takes, but Lana was never close to the tigers.”Īdditional clips see Lana and her lover, played by model Bradley Soileau, driving in a car, making out and taking a fateful trip, in the end of which, Soileau is seen carrying Lana’s bloodied corpse. Lana and the tigers were filmed separately, and with the tigers, the crew “used this crane to replicate moves,” Chemetoff says. Portions of the video were shot in the Palace of Fontainebleau’s Trinity Chapel, where Lana is seated on a throne between two tigers. Directed by Yoann Lemoin (better known as Woodkid), alongside Andre Chemetoff, who served as the director of photography, “Born to Die” was filmed at the Palace of Fontainebleau in France, in which Chemetoff and crew helped recreate a Romanian castle. In the music video for the album’s title track “Born to Die,” the first to receive a proper budget and video treatment, we get a glimpse of Lana’s idea of heaven. Songs That Defined the Decade: Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die'
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