Ramin Djawadi struck gold again with his cover of Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' in the premiere of Westworld Season 4.
Editor's note: The below article contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of Westworld.With its fourth season premiere, Westworld once again reinvents itself. With a seven-year time jump and several new characters, Season 4 shakes up what audiences have come to know from the show and requires viewers to reorient themselves to new locations and mysteries. No element of the premiere requires more reorientation than adjusting to Evan Rachel Wood’s new character, Christina.
Most noticeably, the song’s title references Christina’s career as a video game writer. The choice to pair the scene with this cover presents an immediate association between the scene and the song based on title alone. Far more significantly, though, are the ways Christina’s monologue and “Video Games” work together thematically.
Del Rey’s song also helps to emphasize Christina’s humanness, assisting in viewers’ reorientation to Wood’s new role. On the surface, “Video Games” is a romantic ballad. However, the romance highlighted in the song does not mimic the grand gestures so often belted about in big ballads. Rather, the song foregrounds the everyday acts of romance that create a love story. From playing pool to, well, video games, Del Rey croons about the intimacy of the ordinary.
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