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BLUE BANISTERS - blood red splatter and powder blue split vinyl concept.

Ellie Benuska! @/elliebenuska https://www.instagram.com/elliebenuska/?hl=en

After all the commotion about the Chemtrails cover, she must have known that posting this photo was going to incite just as severe of a reaction. At the risk of over-analyzing, maybe it’s some sort of performance art! It wouldn’t be all that far-fetched if she’s going to address the controversies of last year and seek “revenge” on the media.

Well, now that we have a new date to look forward to I guess we can also start looking forward to the first single, the tracklist, and the pre-order! We are basically getting all of those things in the next 2 months if everything goes according to plan - pretty surreal to think when we just got a new album a little over a month ago.

I also find it interesting that there are quotation marks on either side of her in that photo. It could just be a fun little border she overlaid on the photo, but I wonder if that’s meant to mimic “Lana Del Rey...” as it would appear in headlines by the media?

She posted to her Twitter too - she didn’t do that for Rock Candy Sweet’s announcement so I’m taking this as an official album announcement. I’m very intrigued lol, there is a lot of mystery and ambiguity surrounding this album..

Blue Banisters is the album title now? July 4th is a Sunday? That’s the album cover? So many questions! But I’m excited - at least it’s news!

I remember when Norman came out, I knew it would be loved upon first listen by so many people. It feels very comfortable for Lana and stays true to that early 70s SoCal sound she has mastered while showing a lighter side of her lyrically. So many songs on the album have a certain production or other elements that made them feel like instant-classics in Lana’s universe when they were newly released - I think I can make that case for myself with every single song on the album! I know a lot of people’s issues with the record on here lie within the production, the rollout, and how it feels “safe” - and don’t get me wrong, they’re completely valid in those feelings - but those are actually the reasons why I love Norman. It’s a mood record that’s very easy for me to listen to day-to-day (it’s perfect driving music, especially when you’re driving along the coast or when you’re driving in a beachtown) and I just love that sound in general. These are just my thoughts so, again, in no way am I trying to challenge anyone’s differing opinions on the album! <3 just thought I’d throw in that disclaimer because I know this album is a very divisive topic on the site lol.

Manifesting two picture disc vinyl variants like the ones from the Ultraviolence boxset -

With LDR Village, I feel like she could make some really cool merch for Rock Candy Sweet! 1. I would love if she made crystal-themed merch for each song on the album, since actual rock candy bears a striking resemblance to crystals. Maybe a necklace with a crystal pendant using an amethyst or something like that, or the actual crystals themselves. 2. And I don’t vape or smoke or anything like that, but I feel like it would totally be up her alley if she sold crystallized/bejewelled vapes in collaboration with Mi-Pod (since she owns so many of their chunky square vapes) and each variant came with a different flavoured pod, all with candied flavours (like cotton candy, for example). 3. Since there’s a beauty salon at LDR Village, I would love if her rumoured collaboration with Gucci Beauty also led to a full line of makeup sold exclusively online at LDR Village and select retailers like Sephora or Ulta. She could do an eyeshadow palette and name each shade after a song on the album, and make lipsticks named after various lyrical motifs from the album. It’s about time we have false-eyelashes and lip-liner sold by Lana. I also feel like she could sell a really cool highlighter using very on-the-nose/meta imagery for Rock Candy Sweet. so many ideas! I might have to do some mock-ups just for fun lol <3

Excuse me, but what "lack of photoshop skills" are you talking about?! This is amazing!!! <3 and YES - we can DEFINITELY manifest this colour scheme. These pinks + blues are a dream and the way you edited this really reminds me of Neil's pictures for Honeymoon. Absolutely gorgeous and I hope she goes in this direction visually! I also love how you did the font for the album title - it looks like those neon LED signs and I love it so much. Please share more of your artworks because I have a feeling that with enough of our collective pining after this vibe, it will come to fruition!

This is probably so random coming from me, but suddenly the whole revenge-plot of Rock Candy Sweet is reminding me of: And just her delivery of those lyrics, mixed with how chaotic that song is, is truly iconic it’s really giving Dealer/Noir comparisons from last year but on a serious note and all jokes aside - I really am excited to hear how she’s going to seek revenge on this album. Brooklyn Baby, Money Power Glory, and Fucked My Way Up to The Top really explored her more vengeful sentiments regarding her place in the music industry perfectly. I cannot wait.

It really reminds me of an east coast beach in the early summer morning, when the sky still has a slight haze over it and everything seems sort of washed out. The air is really gentle but has this fragrance to it. I get a really strong baby blue and cream vibe from it. Some tracks on the album also remind me of the feeling of a warm blanket. I also like to imagine what Lana’s life looked like at the time. I think of New York in the early 2000s and how early adulthood sees people hustling a bit, how they’re on the brink of a huge change.

Covid really has me blurring all the days together too, I feel you And I know, him and Lana really do look good together

Those were from November 24th, and I remember thinking at the time that it was on set for LMLYLAW live on Fallon (which it was). The pics in question are these: https://www.instagram.com/p/CM_LzF7Bf3l/?igshid=1pkjw3n46qe44

Haha yes! As queen @bel air rose said: 1. Lana posted that selfie of her in the orange/teal-striped top on March 26th. (Unrelated, but that was also the day we found out Chemtrails went to #1 in the UK and that selfie of her holding her accolade went up). and then 2. On the evening of March 28th, Clay posted those pictures to IG where a video director named Connor Gould (who was involved with Don’t Call Me Angel) commented “no photos on set please,” to which Clay replied “?” So I definitely think it’s possible she filmed something around that time. I don’t necessarily think that beautiful selfie she blessed us with was for a video, because the makeup looked very day-to-day for Lana and we know she usually glams it up a bit more for her videos and usually Etienne or Sheridan will post the set to their IG stories, but given the fact that selfies have been used as promo lately, I definitely could see that selfie being taken amidst other photos that we’ll see eventually! Especially since what we think is the Blue Banisters single cover is a selfie!

Some thoughts about producers for Rock Candy Sweet: Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I wonder if Blake and Byron are involved with this record? They have credits on Summertime the Gershwin Version and have been in LA for a while. We know that Jack is involved again, as per that tweet from that fan who met Lana in Texas, but I also think it’s likely that Lana laid a lot of the material down in the fall of 2020 when she was working on her cover albums, which we know she did with Zach and some of her musician friends/bandmates. And then the wild card is Mike Dean, who liked Lana’s IG post announcing Blue Banisters. I think that was the only post he liked of hers, and of course, they recently followed each other so that must hint at some sort of collaboration (namely Blue Banisters). TL;DR: based purely on speculation, an album produced by Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, and Mike Dean with additional production/instrumentalist credits by Blake Stranathan, Byron Thomas, and others could very well mean a fiery sound with lots of electric guitar, and maybe a few synths here and there. Probably a subtle country influence with the guitars being steel-pedals but almost Hendrix-inspired in nature, riff-wise, if Blake is playing. And then maybe a harsher beat with some slight hip-hop/percussive influences if Mike Dean is involved.

To me, White Dress has a staying power and is truly up there with West Coast, Venice Bitch, Shades of Cool, Mariners Apartment Complex, and Hope is a Dangerous Thing as Lana songs that remain untouchable. Wow. This whole record is just outstanding and gets even better with each listen (as if that’s even possible)!

Thinking about how Mike Dean could potentially have producing credits on Rock Candy Sweet. Really got me thinking about something colourful, vivid, and electric. Inspired me to make this - manifesting!

Well, that selfie from today is absolutely gorgeous. And you guys already know how I am about Lana and her nails...last time she had baby blue acrylics was when she did that beautiful shoot for Interview Magazine. Lana + baby blue nails are always a win, so something must be coming soon!

Seems like they had a premonition about who to approach to help announce LDR Village! you truly do channel Miss Del Rey to the fullest

Also this new theme matches the design of LDR Village perfectly you guys totally nailed this one!

The Mystery Surrounding @IanadeIrey can finally be put to rest after all these years....

This is stunning! Amazing job and thank you so much to everyone who worked so hard on it - I love it so much the pastels are to die for <3 I’m also such a fan of some of the headings being in a serif font thank you!!

Yes! I’m sorry, I’m so late to this but yes, Kali Uchis released Sin Miedo on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 10 AM PST which I thought was unusual, since albums are generally released on Friday, and she also released that record under Interscope. But since she did it, I don’t see why Lana - an artist who really can do whatever she wants without worrying too much about it - couldn’t! Also haven’t been on here lately but I just wanna say I’m so excited for Blue Banisters! I really do think it’s a song, the lead single from Rock Candy Sweet. The format was the same as White Dress’s teasers and I think if she were to tease a poem, she would just post her typewritten page-scans or post a spoken-word visual. Since she posted it on the 10th, I feel like it’s going to come on April 30th or sometime next month! Can’t wait!