[Video] Lana Del Rey’s Disney Song Gets Trippy Remix Treatment

Lana Del Rey’s song “Once Upon a Dream,” from the soundtrack to the Disney film Maleficent was recently remixed into a new and eerie experience. The artist Young Ruffian gave Lana Del Rey’s already-haunting song some psychedelic treatment, revamping it into a totally new sonic soundscape. To accompany the Del Rey remix is an equally creepy music video, which you can watch at the top of the page.

Lana Del Rey’s Young Ruffian remix video cuts together clips from Maleficent to accompany the reworked single, but not in the traditional way that amateur YouTubers re-cut major motion pictures to move seamlessly with the music. The Del Rey track is blended with eerie sounds and visualized with jarring, choppy edits from the film, generating a surreal and sometimes nauseated experience.

Jezebel reported on the Lana Del Rey remix, claiming that the original version of Del Rey’s song was spooky on its own, particularly with Lana’s low and smoky vocals placed over images of Angelina Jolie portraying one of Disney’s most sinister villains. But not only does the Young Ruffian remix make the song even spookier, Jezebel celebrates the new Del Rey video’s freedom from typical Disney marketing nonsense.

What do you think of the altered Lana Del Ray track? Is the Young Ruffian version an improvement from Del Rey’s original? Is the new trailer better than the Disney version?

Despite Paper Mag’s claim that the internet can never have too much Lana Del Rey, the indie artist has been struggling to impress fans and critics lately. Del Rey’s newest album Ultraviolence has been receiving mixed reviews. And, as always, Lana Del Rey is not free from the heavy criticism of music fans that she is something of a phony artist, manufactured by record companies into a star–while still pretending to be indie. Which makes for an interesting mix between Lana Del Rey and Maleficent, since many film critics have slammed the film as well. According to io9, the Disney film remixed the character of Maleficent herself, distorting into something she never should have been, based on the original Sleeping Beauty film.

“So after Maleficent was robbed of her wings — the thing that made her powerful, and special (according to the live action origin tale) — she is then robbed of the very thing that made us all remember her 56 years later: She doesn’t turn into a dragon.”

Have you seen Maleficent or heard Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence? What do you think about them?