Lana Del Rey cuts video for 'Gatsby's' single 'Young and Beautiful'

By August Brown

May 10, 2013 12 AM PT

Baz Luhrmann’s gilded “The Great Gatsby” may beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into film-critic disapproval. But that hasn’t stopped its soundtrack artists from capitalizing on its imagery of seductive wealth and youth.

Lana Del Rey, who has long enjoyed a similar vintage-decadence aesthetic, has cut a video for her contribution to the film, the regal single “Young & Beautiful.”

Fans of her more involved visual fare may find this clean, classy clip of her performing before an orchestra to be a little restrained. No courtly tigers or swoon-able neck-tattooed beaus here.

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But directors Chris Sweeney and Sophie Muller wring every last drop of era-hopping glamour and menace from her, pairing Lil Wayne-style teardrop tattoos with an art-deco allure straight out of Cocoanut Grove.

“Gatsby’s” indie and hip-hop heavy soundtrack was a major feature for the film’s intended young audience, and it looks as if the soundtrack’s artists (especially Del Rey) are happy to inhabit its universe a little longer.

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