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Lana Del Rey just wants to get high by the beach, though someone won't let her.

Someone is watching Lana Del Rey in her "High by the Beach" video. She's at a beach house, trying to take in the view, though she can't help but watch the helicopter hovering nearby, and for good reason—he's a paparazzo.

When Del Rey premiered "High by the Beach" on Monday, the song read as if she was telling off an ex-flame with lyrics like "You could be a bad motherfucker, but that don't make you a man." But the Jake Nava-directed video highlights another layer of meaning. When she goes "Lights, camera, action / I'll do it on my own," she now seems to be taking a shot at the press—the same people who once tore her apart for being inauthentic, only to be swept away by that same fantasy world she created for herself, once 2014's Ultraviolence arrived.

 Watch Lana Del Rey's "High by the Beach" video, the first for her third album Honeymoon, below.

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