The short film Tropico is not subtle, exaggerating Del Rey’s fascination with the darker side of Americana. In it, she quotes both Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” reimagines herself as both Eve in the Garden of Eden and a stripper, while Marilyn Monroe, Jesus, Elvis, and John Wayne watch on.
Burger/Interview, 2019
Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City
Never was there ever a girl so pretty
Do you think we’ll be in love forever?
Do you think we’ll be in love?
Lana Del Rey/Diet Mountain Dew
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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