Lana Del Rey returns to her Super 8 roots with the video for ‘Summertime Sadness.’
Lana Del Rey is joined by doppleganger Jaime King for the lovelorn ballad’s clip. Dramatizing a lesbian love affair that ends in a double suicide, the video is quintessential Del Rey: faux-vintage film, hazy silhouettes, four-finger rings and some serious Christ imagery.
The video resembles her earliest efforts, albeit with a higher production value. Still, it’s not as absurd as her postcard to Camelot ‘National Anthem.’ ‘Summertime Sadness,’ off Born to Die, was released as a single last month, with remixes by Todd Terry and Hannes Fischer.