Doin’ Time

Doin’ Time is a music video that was released on August 29th, 2019. The music video started Lana Del Rey, an American singer, songwriter, poet, model and music video director, as a giant version of herself strolling through Los Angeles. The video plays clear homage to the cult classic film “Attack of the 50ft Woman”.

You may view the music video here: https://youtu.be/qolmz4FlnZ0

Summary (with spoilers)
The music video starts with a giant Lana Del Rey resting in a empty channel of the Los Angeles River, slowly getting up from her slumber. Lana then stands up to her full height with the city of Los Angeles seen in the background. She rips a palm tree off the ground before she starts her stroll through Downtown Los Angeles.

In the middle of her stroll, she discards the palm tree in the middle of an intersection and approaches a water tower. Then, she takes the container full of water and drinks out of it before she continues her stroll. Her stroll through Downtown Los Angeles ends as she arrives at Santa Monica Beach. She moves the water around with her giant hands as the camera zooms out and shows a drive in movie theater, where the patrons have been watching the giant Lana Del Rey as a film.

The camera then pans to a couple who have been watching the film. The girlfriend (who’s also played by Lana Del Rey) asks her boyfriend to get her a refill for her drink as the cuts back to Lana enjoying her time on the beach. As the boyfriend goes to the concession stand, he spots another girl, with the girl exchanging glances with him before they take off together. Cutting back to the girlfriend, she starts to get impatient, as her boyfriend hasn’t come back with her drink yet. Getting tired of waiting, she gets up and starts searching for him. She asks another patron if she’s seen her boyfriend and the patron looks at a certain direction, together they go looking for the boyfriend. The pair find the boyfriend as he’s in the car of the girl he was looking at earlier, making out unknowing that his girlfriend is watching him. Disgusted, the girlfriend and the other patron walk away.

We cut back to the giant Lana, as she lays on the sandy beach. Then a montage occurs as the giant Lana plays with the sand, followed by getting up and dancing around, before pausing and blowing air towards the audience, which the audience actually feels as a strong gust of wind comes out of the screen. Then the giant Lana approaches the screen, entering the real world from her world. The patrons of the drive in theater flee in fear as the giant Lana towers over them. She then focus on the car where the cheating boyfriend and girl (who have stopped kissing because then noticed her emerging from the screen), bending down and grabbing the car they are in. After picking them up, she shakes the car several times before dropping the car. The music video ends with the girlfriend looking at the giant Lana, the two of them exchanging looks before the giant Lana returns back to her world.

Trivia

 * "Doin’ Time" was a song originally recorded by Sublime, an American band. It was released on November 25, 1997. You can listen to the original version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGh6VGxuw0
 * The music video makes a brief reference towards the Attack of the 50ft Woman movie poster when the giant Lana Del Rey steps over a freeway, facing towards the camera before turning back towards the direction she’s walking: