Take a look back at LanaDelRey's 10 best music videos
The images Del Rey has created are inextricably bound to her music; in many ways, she is first and foremost a visual artist."She's the most involved artist I've ever worked with," Kinga Burza, director of Del Rey's"Music to Watch Boys To" video,10."Music to Watch Boys To"is as lush and leisurely as the song itself.
, moves at a deliberately narcotic pace. Singer-songwriter Father John Misty stars as a Jim Morrison-style figure who presides over a hippie cabal while Del Rey portrays his alternately despondent and love-struck bride. When she delicately drops a tab of acid on Misty's tongue, he's instantly surrounded by a harem of adoring, flaxen-haired women .
, reimagines John F. Kennedy as a cigar-puffing playboy and Del Rey as a Jackie O/Marilyn Monroe hybrid for the 21st century. In the video - which is shot in a grainy, Super-8 style - she watches in horror as both her star-crossed romance and the American Dream come to an expected but nevertheless devastating conclusion. Inserting herself into the tragic tale of Camelot was a bold move, but we'd expect nothing less from pop's queen of nostalgia.