Lana Del Rey: Video Games Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Video Games Lyrics
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name
Open up a beer
And you say get over here
And play a video game
I'm in his favorite sun dress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown
I say you the...
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#1 top rated interpretation:In a video interview with the Dutch website 3VOOR12, Del Rey talks a bit about the story behind the song. In the interview, she makes it sound more straightforward than it actually is. According to Del Rey, it’s actually literally about watching her boyfriend play video games, and it’s about being content and discontent at the same time. Also, she says she wrote it during “a time when I had sort of let go all my personal career ambitions.”
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#2 top rated interpretation:Do you sometimes have a feeling that song seems to be simple, with simple lyrics and melody, but there's something in its atmosphere and maybe in the way it is sung that you can't stop thinking that it is about much much more? About something important, amazing, more than life and etc, but you can't figure out what it can be? Well, Video Games is for me that kind of song, though it's simple and it seems to be about stupid love. I just fall into Video Games every time I hear it and I never found an interpretation that would satisfy me. I know that maybe even Lana Del Rey claims this is ordinary song about the ordimary thing, but... God, I just can't stop feeling that behind it stands something bigger, great and ubelivable. Sense of life or something. I know that it isn't interpretation and sorry for my English, but I just had to share my thoughts with somebody
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#3 top rated interpretation:Video Games, despite it's melancholy tone and refinement, is a happy song about love and the potential high it can give a person. She uses video games as a way to describe the feeling of fun, relaxation, and nonchalantness that she feels in her relationship with this man.
The song is all about a woman devoting her life to the one man she knows she'll forever and that "heaven is a place on earth where you tell me all things you want to do."
"It's better than I ever even knew..." Lana explains her excitement at how she realizes now that love is beautiful and amazing.
The song consists of very deep lyrics that refer to Lana directly, which is what truly catches the attention of the listener.
Although the title can be a tad bit misleading, "Video Games" is truly just another slow and comprehensively original and, at times, relatable love song. Not that there is anything wrong with that. -
This amazing track, with the video created by Lana herself, has haunted me ever since I first heard/saw it on youtube back in late 2011.
It reminded me of A Day in the Life on Sgt Peppers. It is that nonchalance in the face of the emptiness and peril of modern life, but also a foreboding, an almost subliminal dread, as if we are balancing on the edge of a cliff but nobody wants to openly acknowledge the danger, so we play 'video games,' the title also being a self-reference to the video accompanying the music as we listen. Like all great tragic art, it takes, in this case, the dread of the unknown (and unknowable) future and turns it into a beautiful, haunting, redeeming experience. In A Day in the Life we are taken to the top and then dropped into an existential abyss, only to be crushed by the deepest, loudest sound imaginable, the chord from hell, which ends the track and the album.
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I feel like this song is about being happy of the simple times but she can't help herself from wanting more than that...
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All I know is it somehow makes me feel uncomfortable when I listen to it, uneasy somehow.
I interpret the song as maybe a small town girl doing everything she can to please her love but being taken for granted....love him but hate him kind of thing. -
He doesn't do anything for her to 'move' or inspire her. She's so much more ... he objectifies her and she expresses this with cynicism. love? yeah right! In epidemic
proportions there exists a class of men who, in effect, rely on their partner; girlfriend, significant other; a woman ... to satisfy and serve as an extension of their alter ego ... while he holds onto the unrealistic and whimsical belief that 'life is good'. He's not capable of thinking past self (false self as it is) so its only and always 'all about him' - " it's you, it's you, it's all for you ...everything I do, I tell you all the time" ... reassure, reassure ... "honey is that true? It's better than I ever even knew" (does it get any better that this?! Oh yeah, it just keeps on getting better #&%&!) ... "Tell me all the things YOU want to do". ... Only worth living is somebody is loving you: I hate you don't leave me, .. BPD, skewed perceptions, etc., ...
The old adage; emotionally detached men who cannot relate well, esp. in intimate relationships; connections (he plays games) literally and otherwise.
She escapes into his world, momentarily... so that she can 'find' herself once again/ -
He doesn't do anything for her to 'move' or inspire her. She's so much more ... he objectifies her and she expresses this with cynicism. love? yeah right! In epidemic
proportions there exists a class of men who, in effect, rely on their partner; girlfriend, significant other; a woman ... to satisfy and serve as an extension of their alter ego ... while he holds onto the unrealistic and whimsical belief that 'life is good'. He's not capable of thinking past self (false self as it is)so it's only and always 'all about him' - " it's you, it's you, it's all for you ...everything I do, I tell you all the time" ... reassure, reassure ... "honey is that true? It's better than I ever even knew" (does it get any better that this?! Oh yeah, it just keeps on getting better ... "Tell me all the things YOU want to do". ... Only worth living is somebody is loving you: I hate you don't leave me, or .. BPD,
skewed perceptions and It's t
he old adage; emotionally detached men who cannot relate to the object of their desires; a woman; intimate realtionship or sustain a genuine and hold intimate and mature relationships, connections (he plays games) literally and otherwise.
She escapes into his simple world so that she can 'find' herself once again/ she endures his mindless wondering making connections to digital data but in know way to her. She understands this and is willing to make that 'sacrifice' and play along, as if she could actually be fulfilled by his oblivious -
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The whole song is about a past
relationship.the chorus is what
she wanted the relationship
to be like. And the other bits are
what the relationship actually
was.
Resource: online interview with
Lana del Rey herself, hope this
helped x -
I think videogames are a metaphor for escaping to a better place. She sings about how the guy is everything to her, and I think that he is her videogame, he makes her forget about all the bad things.
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The first time I heard this song, I got the idea of being stuck in poisonous you can't seem to escape. You know it's bad for you, but you just can't leave. It's more comfortable to be taken advantage of by someone you "love" then to stand up for yourself to some people.
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I find anonymous @ March 3rd to be an idiot who doesn't know what on earth he is talking about. It's really sad to think that society allows those to (mature men?) to ever consider this having anything to do with love. Especially not stalkers who could only wish, yet know deep within their existence that it simply is not true. THAT is what bothers you the most.
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