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Omg thank you!! That thread truly was iconic.

I have a feeling Lana wanted to lay extra low with Blue Banisters because it's such a personal record, but soon she'll be coming back to change the music industry once again

omg rock candy sweet

Omg thank you for this recommendation!! I had never heard of this movie before but watched tonight and loved it so much

This album is comically underrated and misunderstood. A chaotic goodbye to the world of pop music and an entrance to a folkier sound, this album is an exploration of all her sounds as she settles into what's clearly true to her heart.

It's so true!

Her caption breaks my heart. Sending love to Lana and her whole family <3 Her grandma must have been a really amazing person given the beautiful things that Lana has said about her.

As infuriating as the media's response to Lana is, I am so happy that this masterpiece clicked for people and will forever be regarded as one of the greatest albums to end the decade right before the world fell apart.

Video Games vs Blue Banisters

Thank you!

Is it true that the director of LDR Village said this?

Exactly

Slant Magazine chose Chemtrails over the Country Club as the #1 best song of the year and the album at #4, right behind Blue Banisters at #3. What they said about the track: On the title track to Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Lana Del Rey settles down near Brentwood, an affluent Los Angeles suburb, where she begins to feel torn between pedestrian normalcy and the pop-star stratosphere. In her restlessness, she seeks thrills in street racing and finds meaning in astrology; likewise, the song’s production gradually grows more ethereal and mesmerizing. Often in pop songs, unconventional turns of phrase represent awkward efforts to fit lyrics to a rhyme scheme; here, though, Del Rey’s experiments with syntax deepen the song’s themes. (What does it mean, exactly to live “under…country clubs”?) She applies the writerly instincts she honed in her poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, to bridge pop aphorisms (“It’s never too late, baby/So don’t give up”) with diaristic specificity. Like “Text Book,” the opening track of Blue Banisters, the other album she released this year, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” clarifies how Del Rey wants to be seen: as both a grounded person and an otherworldly talent.

Slant Magazine put Blue Banisters at #3 on their 50 best albums of the year list, and Chemtrails at #4, and chose Lana as the image for the whole article From their article intro: Even major label darlings like Lana Del Rey, who have built loyal fanbases but don’t fit easily into mainstream radio playlists, have thrown out the rulebook: The already-prolific singer-songwriter dropped two new albums this year and, to be perfectly honest, we had trouble agreeing on which one was better. What they said about Blue Banisters: “Let’s keep it simple, babe/Don’t make it complicated,” Lana Del Rey purrs at the start of “Beautiful,” a track from her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters. The lyric serves as a statement of purpose, reflecting the album’s pared-down arrangements. The decision to keep the music sparse draws focus to the lyrical content, which is some of the most razor-sharp and bitingly funny of Del Rey’s career. A fascination with color, a recurring thread that’s ever-shifting in its meaning, is weaved throughout Blue Banisters. When, on “Beautiful,” Del Rey quips, “What if someone had asked/Picasso not to be sad…there would be no blue period,” we understand “blue” to represent not just a state of depression, but one that yields inspiration. Del Rey’s vocals are as cherubic and distant as ever, stuck in a daydream but exactingly so. Sure, there’s an odd bit at the end of “Living Legend” where Del Rey’s trilling is processed through a wah-wah pedal, and there are several, perhaps inevitable, instances of thematic retreads from past albums. But by stripping back the sonic density of her previous work and taking its sweet time to unfold, Blue Banisters further fleshes out Del Rey’s increasingly vivid personal world. What they said about Chemtrails: The way Lana Del Rey connects different songs to one another, even across different albums (like Lust for Life’s “Cherry” and Norman Fucking Rockwell’s “Venice Bitch”), is peerless—perhaps rivaled only by Taylor Swift—and partly what makes her work so enveloping. On Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey delights in dropping breadcrumbs: Her discussions of jewels on the title track links with mentions of the same on a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free,” and she sings fondly of her ranch near Coldwater Canyon, which “sometimes…feels like [her] only friend,” on “Tulsa Jesus Freak” and “Dance Till We Die.” These thoughtfully connected threads make the album feel as if it’s in dialogue with itself and the rest of Del Rey’s catalog. And while it doesn’t engage with our current moment or hot-button issues as urgently as Norman Fucking Rockwell does, it’s also part of a larger pop-cultural conversation—or at least, it has some hilarious and apt references to astrology, Kings of Leon, and How Green Was My Valley.

Yay for White Dress! How is Chemtrails not also on this list? (or a ton of other songs from Chemtrails and Blue Banisters if we're being real ) And Bunny is a Rider song of the year??? LOL it's fun but like...

They would make such amazing music together

I think the sound of this album is going to be totally unexpected. Now that she's really told her personal story in Blue Banisters, I think she's going to let loose and become a little unhinged in the best way

Lana calling NFR her best album when some of you like to pretend that she doesn't care for it that much

That's a pretty limited idea of what flow means. It doesn't mean every sound needs to match the previous song. An album can be all over the place and still have a good flow to it. It's all about twisting the story, vibe, and emotion at the right moment to deliver an experience that resonates in all its ups and downs, which this album very much does. Dealer comes at literally the perfect time

Don't say that, the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer

Lana truly gifted us this year with two thoughtful and complex gems and yet the tasteless are still trying to pretend that one or the other was a weak project Some of you don't deserve nice things

The Trio honestly fits so well I can't believe people are still acting like it doesn't It's a perfect little gut punch after announcing her pained departure in Arcadia before the deep dive she takes in Black Bathing Suit.

A month later this song remains a highlight of Blue Banisters and an absolutely monumental track in her discography

I just streamed the whole album and it really is too classy for the Grammys

Everybody stream Chemtrails in protest