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unmanifesting this 
 
hoping the album doesn't leak and we hear it the way it's meant to be heard. 

I didn't listen to Thunder on YT much because I instantly fell in love with it and downloaded it, but I vaguely remember one of the first videos I listened to had this picture:
 

 
And I think it perfectly encapsulates the vibe of Thunder. The whole shoot does tbh:
 

 
Sweet '70s rock Lana is best Lana.

where did you read that?
 
Well - inviting someone to lie down with her? The Cola/Freak/Cherry/TJF of this album perhaps?

well we’re in the drought, I think. I’ll just be crying to wfwf and pretending yes to heaven and your girl are on the album until oct 22, if anyone wants to join me 

I guess kind of close to the officials ahahah, I remember people thinking HIAB was just gonna be another piano ballad (lol), but that still didn't ruin the album did it? NFR ended up critically acclaimed and regardless of that opinion, NFR was still amazing. Honestly CoCC was just as good but no one's ready for that conversation yet 

I remember people doing this with NFR! snippets and listening to the fanmade HIAB all release week  except in this case we had heard so much of the songs beforehand in the snippets the fanmade versions were identical to the official 

Update: Here is the Chemtrails variant that will be on sale for Record Store Day on 11/26. There will be 15k of them for sale

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/14527
 
 
 

I can't wait to blast Blue Banisters in lossless Hi-Fi FLAC Dolby Atmos 3D 5.1 Surround Sound Charli XCX Vinyl-Rip quality!

but i want my first time with an album at the most of its performance - which is highest / lossless quality.  Imagine the MAGIC of that:

"hear the way it's meant to be heard" means listening to the album in HIGH QUALITY - that's the way it's meant to be heard!
 
You can take those 84kbps-128kbps for your sake if ur starving to death, but we dont want OUR FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE this beautiful body of work to be those LQ/MQ half-assed CD/Cassette rip like those horrible leaks back in NFR era - which still haunts me till this day & i wish nothing more that i'd never heard that horrible LQ leaks before actual release date. It was such a beautiful album.

Here's the deal:
#JusticeforWildflowerWildfire 

Sweet Carolina will be her top3 closer 

Only 847 hours and 46 minutes to go! So amazing.  

Idk, I think the title track of this record is one of her more abstract and contemplative songs to date. At the end of the song, we see the blue banisters changing colors, possibly representing the place she is today or the place she wants to be, where the women and friends in her life uplift her from the state of sadness she was once in. 
 
Yeah, pretty much what @Super Movie said.

Blue Banisters being the album title makes a lot of sense when you listen to the song and the lyrics. They feel very representative of Lana's life/the place she's in right now. Plus, there's references to her family and friends in the song, which seems to make it special to her.

I actually agree
NFR makes more sonical? (lol) sense whereas CoCC is more conceptually sound. They're both the anti-christs of each other
 
I honestly have no doubt that BB is gonna top both of those albums. The concept is there and the production is gonna be just as powerful. I have faith that BB will truly smack us in the face
 
LDR8 = BB, AHS8 = Apocalypse. The joint end is near

i think nfr is better than chemtrails as a whole but chemtrails has better individual songs. however it’s too short and has a wide range of songs better than nfr and worse than nfr
 
blue banisters coming to end both though 

Not me being excited about getting a Lana record next week just to realize I'm a dumb bitch who confused together September and October together 

These are just a couple of vaguely related thoughts I've had recently regarding BB. These are obviously just my opinions and I'm not trying to tell anyone what to think.
The interlude and the inclusion of unreleased songs like Living Legend in the tracklist has got me really excited for BB. Her progression of gradually more confessional lyrics makes for beautiful songs but it loses something along the way. Don't get me wrong, I love the 3 singles, it's just that they have very little replay value imo. When a track like BB is so lyrically driven, it feels much more like a story or a diary entry. After a few listens and you've appreciated the story, there's not much left to make you want to carry on listening.
I'm tired of seeing people praising her recent work and slating everything pre-2019 because of minor lyrical differences. Arcadia as a song isn't inherently superior to her earlier ones. Take PWYC for example. There's definitely ways I think Arcadia is better but you could also argue that PWYC has a more consistent rhyme scheme with more evocative imagery. The lyrics are just more artistic than introspective. Not necessarily any better or worse... just different.
It's definitely promising to see that BB has so much variety

Thank you 
I hope that all of it is true. It sounds so interesting & makes me super excited for the album ..October 22nd hurry up 

Blue Banisters coming to snap our necks with it's sheer excellence on October 22nd

I don’t HAVE it right now lol (sorry, tired, might be misunderstanding your question). I found it on the universal store and bought it for a seemingly higher price (over-seas; I’m in the US). Can’t wait for it to get here, hopefully soon after release date! 

Welp I bought every variant except the standard black vinyl and the Target cd. Very glad I was able to get my hands on the Target vinyl before it sold out!! The Target cd is now sold out so I’m just waiting to get that in person on release day. 
 
I had to go to the universal store to find the gorgeous yellow vinyl with her side profile, as that one was sold out on pre-order day on her site and I chose the white vinyl. And I got the cassettes & cds. Excessive, I guess. My poor bank account tbh. ? I just want/need the Chemtrails RSD blue vinyl. It looks soooo pretty! 

Those songs would fit perfectly on the track list! ❤️

in my mind, bonus tracks are: Fine China & Wild One lol