I think it's greatly fitting that he used Barbie imagery for the "Lana Del Ray" character in the video. The real "Lana Del Ray" is about as full of life and smart as a lump of molded polyurethane.

She. I know... I know, it so easy to assume anything geeky is done by a guy..*sigh*

I stand corrected. But the moral of the story is: "Lana Del Ray" sucks, Video Games is a terrible song, and though I am doing my part to perpetuate it in many ways I wish the "Lana Del Ray" backlash would stop because it gets her more publicity then her music ever could.

I'd never heard of "chiptune" so I thought this must be some tie-in to the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise, a la "Chipwrecked."

I like Lana Del Rey.

What was the objective criteria used to determine that "Video Games" is a terrible song?

Terrible song by a rich white girl whose daddy has subsidized her nascent career. The song is terrible, but mostly it's sad that she was booked on SNL after releasing TWO SONGS ON THE INTERNET.

Clearly we vet the family financial backgrounds of all the musicians we listen to so as not to support any subsidized careers.

I won't try to claim that my criteria for calling it a terrible song is objective. But the chord progression is boring and predictable. The instrumentation boring and the vocal melody is uninspired. As tepid as the vocal lines are, it's clear that she is trying to sing outside of her natural range and it's painfully uncomfortable hearing it. It's a contrived attempt at a sort of Julee Cruise-esque druggy vamp that elicits nothing but meh from me.

The lyrics are stupid, simply put. The sort of asinine crap that a 16 year old goth girl would write in her journal on which she drew a black rose with blood dripping from the thorns. And even as such, it's still a cynical play at getting random listens from the title alone since the song has nothing to do with video games.

And as an aside, typically I am not much of one to use someones image be it meticulously crafted by highly paid consultant or perfectly natural. But her absurd lip transformation would just be funny if she didn't outright deny that she had anything done. Well, I shouldn't say that I suppose. She denies surgery, but collagen injections aren't surgery so I suppose you could say she is semantically correct. But in one particular interview when the writer brings up the subject of her gross duckbilled lips she asserts that "I have kissed girls with fake lips and.." goes on to defend her own perfectly natural lips. She had absolutely no reason to assert that she had kissed a girl, fake lips or no. She could have said "I have met girls with fake lips", or hundreds of other ways to defend her own clownishly altered visage. But she, for no other reason then to titillate brings up that she has kissed girls with fake lips. Whether or not this is even true is unimportant, whether or not you can even tell if a girls lips are fake from kissing them is unimportant. She just wanted to get this bit in there so she could get across some sort of sexiness, like Katy Perry did with her first hit single. It's a crass, obvious, and thinly veiled grab at the crotches of people too blinded by the thought of her kissing a girl with those patently ridiculous lips to realize that there was no logical reason for her to state the fact.

Oh, and also the song as a whole is just.. well.. if I were a girl I'd be insulted in the way she is begging, begging for the attention of a man as though she fully defines herself based on it. But it is the legit nature of Lana Del Ray I suppose, without the vapid attention of sex starved men she wouldn't exist.