Vertimus

I think we've been lassoed. Again. 
 
Whatever results, it seems will be another compromised LDR album. Except for Honeymoon and perhaps NFR!, hasn't every LDR been compromised, ending up as a sort of jumble of the original conception? 
 
We know she didn't have full control over BTD, we know Paradise resulted from the abandoned Tropico, we know UV was considerably reworked and reconceived, as was LFL to an even greater extent. So was what became Blue Banisters, which was announced under another title, and then 4-6 songs were reportedly abandoned, with the older already-leaked material replacing it.
 
I'm not sure about COTCC, but I know Lana was hesitant about releasing it as it was in terms of production and arrangements.   
 
So that leaves Honeymoon and Ocean Boulevard, and now Lasso is also going through a reconception, likely with an unknown number of songs dropped. 
 
Of course, I want Lana to be happy with whatever she releases, but it's the constant announcing of dates, conceptions, and album titles and then all the delays and changes that bites for Stans and fans.
 
It's redundant to have to say so. I think it alienates and exhausts fans in the long run. All she and her team have to do is keep mum until the details and facts about the forthcoming album are absolutely confirmed--until vinyl is being pressed. 
 

I think we've been lassoed. Again. 
 
Whatever results, it seems will be another compromised LDR album. Except for Honeymoon and perhaps NFR!, hasn't every LDR been compromised, ending up as a sort of jumble of the original conception? 
 
We know she didn't have full control over BTD, we know Paradise resulted from the abandoned Tropico, we know UV was considerably reworked and reconceived, as was LFL to an even greater extent. So was what became Blue Banisters, which was announced under another title, and then 4-6 songs were reportedly abandoned, with the older already-leaked material replacing it.
 
I'm not sure about COTCC, but I know Lana was hesitant about releasing it as it was in terms of production and arrangements.   
 
So that leaves Honeymoon and Ocean Boulevard, and now Lasso is also going through a reconception, likely with an unknown number of songs dropped. 
 
Of course, I want Lana to be happy with whatever she releases, but it's the constant announcing of dates, conceptions, and album titles and then all the delays and changes that bites for Stans and fans.
 
It's redundant to have to say so. I think it alienates and exhausts fans in the long run. All she and her team have to do is keep mum until the details and facts about the forthcoming album are absolutely confirmed--until vinyl is being pressed. 
 

That article is a total mishmash and doesn't tell us anything we didn't know. Just because she's claiming Lasso is coming in the future doesn't mean she won't change her mind again. If she's going to release another album of some kind--compilation of outtakes, unreleased, etc.-- before Lasso, then that's only going to push Lasso back that much farther. 
 
I continue to wait calmly and to emotionally anticipate nothing. Then when something actually drops I'll get excited.  

I think we've been lassoed. Again. 
 
Whatever results, it seems will be another compromised LDR album. Except for Honeymoon and perhaps NFR!, hasn't every LDR been compromised, ending up as a sort of jumble of the original conception? 
 
We know she didn't have full control over BTD, we know Paradise resulted from the abandoned Tropico, we know UV was considerably reworked and reconceived, as was LFL to an even greater extent. So was what became Blue Banisters, which was announced under another title, and then 4-6 songs were reportedly abandoned, with the older already-leaked material replacing it.
 
I'm not sure about COTCC, but I know Lana was hesitant about releasing it as it was in terms of production and arrangements.   
 
So that leaves Honeymoon and Ocean Boulevard, and now Lasso is also going through a reconception, likely with an unknown number of songs dropped. 
 
Of course, I want Lana to be happy with whatever she releases, but it's the constant announcing of dates, conceptions, and album titles and then all the delays and changes that bites for Stans and fans.
 
It's redundant to have to say so. I think it alienates and exhausts fans in the long run. All she and her team have to do is keep mum until the details and facts about the forthcoming album are absolutely confirmed--until vinyl is being pressed. 
 

I think we've been lassoed. Again. 
 
Whatever results, it seems will be another compromised LDR album. Except for Honeymoon and perhaps NFR!, hasn't every LDR been compromised, ending up as a sort of jumble of the original conception? 
 
We know she didn't have full control over BTD, we know Paradise resulted from the abandoned Tropico, we know UV was considerably reworked and reconceived, as was LFL to an even greater extent. So was what became Blue Banisters, which was announced under another title, and then 4-6 songs were reportedly abandoned, with the older already-leaked material replacing it.
 
I'm not sure about COTCC, but I know Lana was hesitant about releasing it as it was in terms of production and arrangements.   
 
So that leaves Honeymoon and Ocean Boulevard, and now Lasso is also going through a reconception, likely with an unknown number of songs dropped. 
 
Of course, I want Lana to be happy with whatever she releases, but it's the constant announcing of dates, conceptions, and album titles and then all the delays and changes that bites for Stans and fans.
 
It's redundant to have to say so. I think it alienates and exhausts fans in the long run. All she and her team have to do is keep mum until the details and facts about the forthcoming album are absolutely confirmed--until vinyl is being pressed. 
 

She looks great! 

Nothing wrong with that. Who people date, have sex with, live with, or marry, or why, is no one else's business but their own. America has gotten so unsophisticated in this regard, it's as if we're back in the 50s again. 
 
I hear it on tv all the time—he's 26 but she's 31, it's an outrage!   

We have to trust that she knows what she's doing. It's her private life, and, ultimately, none of our business. 

I remember when I was young and Kurt Cobain committed suicide, and then it seemed every downtowner here in NYC had an opinion on whether or not Courtney Love was abusing or mistreating Frances Bean Cobain. Everyone was an expert, everyone knew the true story, even though very few knew anything solid or factual. No one knew Love or had known Cobain. It was just overwrought conjecture and speculation. 

She looks great! 

She's publicly said more than once that she wants to have a child, and she's approaching middle age. Fertility declines after the age of 35 and pregnancy risks escalate. It makes perfect sense. 

I'd only buy this if it were also a digital release and contained officially released outtakes of songs we haven't heard and haven't leaked. It's nice for the Stans, however, the diehards. 

That article is a total mishmash and doesn't tell us anything we didn't know. Just because she's claiming Lasso is coming in the future doesn't mean she won't change her mind again. If she's going to release another album of some kind--compilation of outtakes, unreleased, etc.-- before Lasso, then that's only going to push Lasso back that much farther. 
 
I continue to wait calmly and to emotionally anticipate nothing. Then when something actually drops I'll get excited.  

I'd only buy this if it were also a digital release and contained officially released outtakes of songs we haven't heard and haven't leaked. It's nice for the Stans, however, the diehards. 

I'd only buy this if it were also a digital release and contained officially released outtakes of songs we haven't heard and haven't leaked. It's nice for the Stans, however, the diehards. 

It's its confessional,  pretention-deprived nature what does it for me I think. Not that I dislike her more ominous sounding albums  (all the opposite), yet this one record is just Lana talking from the deepest place and music being just a channel. I mean, there's definitely a beautiful, defined aesthethic behind it, but it doesnt overshadow the strong narrative but strengthens it. And both the sound and the stories are fully developed and work on their own and as a whole, something that was heavily missing from the praised NFR, IMO.
 
About OB, I find it to be maybe her most relevant album as it showcases in one way or another her whole artistic proposal. I mean, it works somehow as a Lana retrospective exposition while adding some interesting new features as well. I definitely find it to be a bit overbloated though, with too many songs and some of them that don't happen to add a lot. It was my most listened to album last year though, so I think the balance is positive in the end.

Things seem so off it's as if, out in the ether, there is no Lasso. Maybe there was, but it feels as if there isn't anymore. It's interesting that so many of us are intuiting this at the same time. I said here a few weeks ago that I had lost all interest in Lasso. That's about when it started for me. 

Beautifully stated. Funny that so many don't get BB, or actively dislike it--for me, it's her purest record, one hundred times better in every way than OB, which I find clumsy, concocted, poorly produced in places, and repetitious.
 
She seems at peace throughout BB, even on WFWF, because she's releasing that demon and freeing herself of it in the process.
 
Two of my Top Five of Lana's songs are on BB--IYLDWM and Violets For Roses. 
 
To my ears, BB still sounds as fresh as the first day I listened to it. 

I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since BB dropped but I have to say the nostalgia is so strong today. I still remember when it dropped, I was freshly 23 and found myself in the middle of a skilled nursing turned Covid unit in the wee hours of the night, again. I was in such a weird, not so great place in my life. I was finally free from a bad relationship but stuck trying to find freedom within myself which felt impossible being trapped in all the plastic and under the respirators for 12 hours and forced to watch so many people get sick and pass away so astonishingly quick. I couldn’t love the way I wanted to, speak the way I wanted to, live the way I wanted to. It was awful for all of us but more so the patients. The themes and tones of this album saved a part of me I didn’t know at the time needed it and created a part of me I didn’t see coming. Especially being that the people around me refused to let me be me. Do the things I wanted, say the things I wanted… Everyone in my life built me up 300 feet tall just to tear me down.. I watched the leaves fall while my tears did too as I finally was able to get outside and breathe the fresh air and not the n95. I felt so much peace and love from this album and somehow I served as a vessel to spread the love and comfort to the people who needed it the most in these times. The memories I made to this album, the great things I did. The way it made me stand tall in the light of such intense criticism and transformation. How all those fall days passed and the chords still played.
I remember the people from my past still trying to put what I had going on together in my head and all the ways I was topic of conversation after all those years, black bathing suit hit home for me. My soul was tired yes but I was more tired of the false criticisms and accusations of people who used to know me or not even at all. It made sense for me in that moment. Their interest really made stacks out of it for me, and it all helped me deliver the biggest fuck you to the people who were going up against me. 
I remember years later (May 2023 I believe) the pandemic was finally over for the healthcare workers (mostly). We had watched the world run free while we still suffered. But finally we were finally told by the government and corporations that we could take our masks off. It felt so free and wholesome to see everyone’s smiles and for our patients to see ours. Violets for Roses came on my AirPods and it all made sense in that moment. There truly was something in the air while we all ran free with our masks off and it made me so happy. It’s just funny how god puts us exactly where we need to be in the right moments. Thoughts of the day ☁️📝

i love this album and i hate everyone who hates it  happy bday blue banisters my baby

I'll always love this album for what it is  Dealer, If You Lie Down With Me, Black Bathing Suit, Thunder will always be stand-outs 

Still my personal favourite record from Lana. And that's a lot to say.
 
Maybe the most authentic portrayal of what life's about for her and for everyone in some way: being courageous enough to live wholly; confronting the trauma that comes as well with it; being honest enough to search the ways to heal afterwards.
 
Happy birthday, Blue Banisters. You are such an artistic treasure.

This album means more to me than when I have my first child blue banisters is my muse, lifestyle and musical lover that I’ll grow old with till the day I die

Love this record. Such a great listening experience and it got do much shit because some people have such one-track minds.

Things seem so off it's as if, out in the ether, there is no Lasso. Maybe there was, but it feels as if there isn't anymore. It's interesting that so many of us are intuiting this at the same time. I said here a few weeks ago that I had lost all interest in Lasso. That's about when it started for me. 

Things seem so off it's as if, out in the ether, there is no Lasso. Maybe there was, but it feels as if there isn't anymore. It's interesting that so many of us are intuiting this at the same time. I said here a few weeks ago that I had lost all interest in Lasso. That's about when it started for me.