Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for Girls Like Us

Just as my parents remember where they were when we landed on the moon, I remember where I was when I first saw the music video for Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games.” Osama bin Laden had just been killed, my peers were Occupying Wall Street, and I was high as a kite in my Berkeley studio apartment, watching Lana sing “Heaven is a place on Earth with you” through artificially puffy lips.