Amateurs can gain millions of views and maybe even turn a profit, despite possible infringement. Many YouTubers, aiming to collect views, clicks, and subscribers to their channel, will skirt around intellectual property standards by separating audio from a video, slightly editing the audio, and slapping on lyrics and other images to make a new, unofficial video. Compare the official video (above) with this rip-off:ĭoes this seem like a waste of time? It's not (always). 'Here's a lyric video.'įans are already busily creating rip-offs that look nearly as terrible as the original does.

The 'Honeymoon' video is unusually composed mostly of a static image of the song's pre-released lyrics, which are so small they're nearly impossible to read.Īfter being bullied to release Honeymoon, Lana puts together a video from an old picnic and a picture of the lyrics. The video for honeymoon looks like it was filmed on a nokia The video is so low-budget, it could be mistaken for a fake.

It appears cheap art is, well, imitating real life imitating cheap art. First, watch the official music video for 'Honeymoon,' her latest song (Lizzie Plaugic called the work 'six minutes of meandering bliss'). Something funny is happening with Lana Del Rey's work on YouTube.

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