Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd's Version of La La Land Is Glamorously Bleak

Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd—two artists who revel in singing about death—are starry-eyed macabre lovers in her blurry VHS-filtered “Lust for Life” video, the majority of which is spent on top of a Hollywood sign under a bright fake moon. Fate has brought them here, with all their crazy, fatalistic dreams on a song that glamorizes young love and old Hollywood. All these dead-eyed lovers want is a temporary rush—“Till we run out of breath/ Gotta dance till we die.” The video does well at hinting at how that type of romance coexists with unknowable destruction.