Liz Taylor Blues

Ageee!!! Jack really did iconic work with her. I don’t get the jack hate however I think what suits Lana best is switching  up producers often, since she is very dynamic.

Jared is having a mental breakdown as we speak  In all seriousness, though, I can't say I don't enjoy songs that Jack has produced because that would be a lie. But there's such a clear difference in quality of instrumentals from Chemtrails to Blue Banisters. Everything feels so much more alive on BB 

All you naysayers SHUT UP IT’S HER DAY 
 

It's not to say that I think a certain someone is the worst producer out there, but I find that on his work with Lana he used piano in such a basic, tinny and understated kinda way that I was just turned off by those piano driven songs. Whereas on 'Blue Banisters' the piano songs they just sound so different, they're rich, lush and intricate. I am really enjoying those piano driven songs in a way I had not on the past two albums. 

this album made me notice something, lana piano songs stopped making me feel sexy in the antonoffian era.. but now they do again

Its all i ever wanted, and now i want more of it more than i want surfrock.

Its all i ever wanted, and now i want more of it more than i want surfrock.

Its all i ever wanted, and now i want more of it more than i want surfrock.

Its all i ever wanted, and now i want more of it more than i want surfrock.

Taylor: Hey zach dawes, get in the van.

I am obsessed with the IYLDWM outro—those vintage horns!!! 

I just want to say I love Lana Del Rey, and I hope she has a fantastic release day and lots of sales this week. She really deserves it 

Let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness 
 

 
 

Okay wow this is a beautiful, deep, personal and perfectly dense and detailed album. I love how she really told her story, her way, like she said she would. And life is messy, beautiful, complex, just like this perfect album. So much to digest and definitely want to do a handful of listens to unpack this story of hers before I make final statements. 
 
First listen favs:
BBS (wild!), if you lie down, beautiful, dealer, living legend was an unexpected fav, Sweet Carolina. And I think WW Is one of the best most poetic songs of her career, Arcadia as well. Wow can’t wait to keep listening. Also after seeing BB video I have a new appreciation for the song. 
 
also,
loved her use of if you lie down with me, I feel it was not only a collab with Barrie , but to use it now was a interesting little message to him I’d say…

So don't write me a letter
I'll always be right here
Closer to you than your next breath, my dear
 
What an absolutely gorgeous line to end the album on. This is not just for Chuck, it is spoken directly to us.
 
 

Don't forget all of these things that you love are the same things I hate

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facts

give me deranged jazz, deranged electric guitars she really needs a concept album filled with those

Why did no one tell me that If You Lie Down With Me was the jazzy country cutesy softcore blues Lizzy marching band On Our away sequel Pixar movie crying in the backseat bussy princess bop that it is!! What a highlight!

Thoughts: 
 
My favorites, equally, are IYLDWM and VFR, easily. Both are so subtly melodic, and their 'hooks' are incredible. 
 
Personally, I liked the original version of 'Thunder' a lot better, though in time, I may come to like it as much as the first version. 
 
BB is one of her best albums, as most here seem to agree. The horns on IYLDWM are my favorite part of the entire project. Brilliant. 
 
I loved COCC, but it was, overall, a little passive. It didn't have a song with an 'edge,' like IYLDWM, though it had (at least) three LDR classics: COCC, 'White Dress' and 'Yosemite.' However, I think VFR, 'Thunder,' and 'Cherry Blossom' would fit perfectly on COCC. 
 
I would like to have seen COCC and BB released as a double album, that is, one album title for both. 
 
I think BB proves that she doesn't need Jack Antonoff; I would have liked to have seen what the BB producers would have done with the COCC material. 
 
I've only read one review, and it was largely political, not musical, in nature, and seemed to want to misread LDR's lyrics, and to cast her as a masochist. What's new? I expect more of this. The critics just don't get LDR and don't want to. BB has some of her most 'human' and vulnerable lyrics, and it's funny how we all understand and relate to her lyrics and songs, but the critics don't at all--I can't imagine what their romantic and inner lives are like. 
 
Lana, great job. Right now, BB is at the top of my list as her best album, even though I don't find the title track very compelling. It's my least favorite. 
 
Enjoy, friends. 

Taylor: Hey zach dawes, get in the van.

Jack, Taylor, Ella in therapy CRYING and SHAKING

It just makes me even more desparate for a full jazz record

Taylor: Hey zach dawes, get in the van.

It just makes me even more desparate for a full jazz record