"The song’s passivity and pretense come through in the music, too. Listened to once, “Video Games” is a catchy lullaby, but the production and performance is built around a host of small artifices, all backing up the big one. The backing swells when it’s called onto but mostly rests on woozy splices and cuts, synth washes, and chintzy plucking. Del Rey hits us with a studied, torchy voice that’s dropped for the record’s best, creepiest hook, slipping into faux-naïf Marilyn style when asking, “Is that true?” In other words, “Video Games” sounds classicist at first, “retro” in a vague way. But the closer it gets, the more obvious its theatrics become, even before you take Del Rey’s image-building into account. It’s uncanny valley pop about an uncanny valley love affair—almost convincing, but just wrong enough to chill and fascinate."
— Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet
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