The best song of 2011? It had to be by Lana Del Rey

Alexis Petridis explains the appeal of Video Games by Lana Del Rey – voted song of the year by our criticsFirst, the case for the prosecution. It would be nice if Lana Del Rey really was the mysterious polymath auteur she briefly appeared to be when the vaguely Adam Curtis-like clip for Video Games started doing the rounds on the internet, rather than a female singer who's worked – like Adele, Duffy, Florence Welch and Katie Melua – with blue-chip songwriters-for-hire Eg White and Guy Cham...

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