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the piano is gorgeous but the melody is not that appealing for me

Got chills reading this 

i've been off for a bit because i didn't listen to the leak and wanted to process the album on my own... all i can say is this album is truly incredible. 

I've gone back and forth on if the "lie la lie"s in IYLDWM are a reference to Simon & Garfunkel "The Boxer." I always think of it. I can't see a thematic connection between the songs, but it's such a well-known chorus, I'm sure she would've had it in mind.

Honestly I keep going back the beautiful over and over i love how she’s gone from “out of the black into the blue” and now she’s “turning the blue into something beautiful” 

Yes it is 

Dealer, Black Bathing Suit and Thunder being the most streamed non-singles as they should be 

Spotify streams from day 2 after the album release. So which new songs make the running? (* released earlier this year)
 1. Blue Banisters*             11.095.791
 2. Arcadia*                     8.944.744
 3. Text Book*                   8.357.880
 4. Wildflower Wildfire*         7.093.912
 5. If You Lie Down With Me      1.026.846
 6. Dealer                         655.407
 7. Black Bathing Suit             610.473
 8. Thunder                        554.321
 9. Interlude - The Trio           491.436
10. Beautiful                      482.539
11. Violets For Roses              466.017
12. Nectar of the Gods             400.437
13. Living Legend                  400.412
14. Cherry Blossom                 392.869
15. Sweet Carolina                 366.860
 
IYLDWM was promoted on some "new music" lists I think, so it got a special boost.

woohoo! If You Lie Down With Me is the next single   
 

Random question but is your username a reference to Tori Amos’ 1000 Oceans? 🤓

DELETE
 

the first lines of Nectar of the Gods may just be some of the best in her career

The "Bartender" of Blue Banisters. That wandering, meandering melody is infectious 

Violets for Roses is THAT bitch, I've listened to it 437837597 times already and I will not stop

4 stars from Rolling Stone!
 
Lana Del Rey Goes Deeper Than Ever on ‘Blue Banisters’
Her second album of the year is dense and abstract, turning inward and finding solace in sisterhood
 
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-rey-blue-banisters-1245616/

Me when the outro of IYLDWM starts
 

“Hospitals” on wildfire has always stood out to me. What does she mean 😮

Sweet Carolina conjures up a very very specific image for me. It sounds like a song that soundtracks the end of a series or movie where it’s played in its entirety to a montage of long shots of a sentimental moment of a dysfunctional family eating dinner on Christmas or Thanksgiving. Something like The Sopranos or Goodfellas ⚰️ It’s so tender 

Happy saturday beautiful people of LB 
 
That moment during the ig live when she said that the wawawas in living legend where supposed to mimic a SAX and not an electric guitar  

she references nirvana's lithium and pink floyd's comfortably numb in WFWF

OMG
Rolling Stone gives her another 8/10
 
Damn, this era is giving 8/10 energy
 

dealer really is the hit potential song of the album surprisingly or not 

going viral on tiktok

Lana reworks a song and everyone has a meltdown over changed lyrics and production choices they aren't happy with

Lana doesn't rework a song and she should have changed it up a bit 
 

Reacting to Lana BEFORE Billie. YES queen Ajayii.
I know i stan her for a reason. Happy season of the witch, bitch.
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