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Wonderfully put. Found the words that I feel, but could never express eloquently.

I wasn't completely won over by Blue Banisters upon first listen, but I've listened to it in its entirety several times now- on one long 400km stretch of a highway from 11pm to 3am, by the river under the setting sun walking on top of yellowing leaves, in hot baths until the water turned cool, in the morning as background music to watering my plants and taking care of my bird and just doing silly little mundane things... Somewhere along the way, something clicked. This album is something very special. I will admit it doesn't have the raw, lustful passion of UV, dripping in anger and sex and cheeky recklessness, AKA's drugged out, suicidal haze, or the carefully crafted ever-blue dramatic orchestration of Honeymoon (my favourite Lana albums), but it feels so subtly powerful. It feels like an exhausted and lived woman's recollection of her life. It feels like catharsis, like accepting the baggage and pain of the past and the grace and peace of shedding the anger of the cruelty against her and finally understanding why things are the way they are and one's place in the world. It's not a "happy" album- it's Lana accepting that some parts of her will always be broken, there will always be the stain of her mother's disdain, she will always yearn for horrible lovers and for an idealistic world she can never quite reach, and yet finding happiness despite all of that, in her little home, her little family, in the temporary experiences with every new lover, and her art. In living life as a decent person and just doing what makes her happy.
 
I don't know- it just feels like her truest work (other than Violets), her first truly autobiographical piece of art from start to finish. I love Born to Die so much, but I think any longtime fan can agree it was mostly a dreamed up world as most of Lana's massive unreleased catalogue is, and every album after that started to shed more and more of the fantasy and instead reflect the intricacies of her true world, and BB is the pinnacle of that. This whole release cycle, along with the beautiful BB video (no storyline and yet so incredibly revealing and shockingly personal) and her withdrawing from the public as well as her Honeymoon posts (signing off as L/E made me shit myself)... again, we're witnessing something really special. It just feels so human, when Lana and her world for so long felt so otherworldly and alien. This is an incredibly honest and vulnerable moment in her discography, and I'm not sure we'll reach a place like this with her for another long while.
 
Overall, certainly one of my favourite Lana albums. I'm very proud of her and feeling very sentimental.
 

Oh you're in for a ride on a John Deere better have some tissues ready 
I'm so jelous of those who have not heard the unreleased + Thunder + Dealer! Such a mindblowing first listen all at once 

Lana entering her Stephen Colbert performance by crashing a John Deere through the walls and onto the stage

Its obvious IYLDWM is the Cinammon/Tulsa of BB
 
it even has the outro

Sis she would’ve ripped from YouTube using youtube2mp3 at 32kbps

It’s a interesting grower, it does sound very disjointed the first listen

It’s a interesting grower, it does sound very disjointed the first listen

It’s a interesting grower, it does sound very disjointed the first listen

Its obvious IYLDWM is the Cinammon/Tulsa of BB
 
it even has the outro

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

I can’t believe how nice this album is.
 
I’m genuinely enjoying it so much, I didn’t felt this way with COCC, unconsciously trying hard to like it.
 
Nothing shook me as hard as the song Chemtrails in this album IMO, but it is consistently a strong album from beginning to end as unlike to the many low points of COCC.

I can’t believe how nice this album is.
 
I’m genuinely enjoying it so much, I didn’t felt this way with COCC, unconsciously trying hard to like it.
 
Nothing shook me as hard as the song Chemtrails in this album IMO, but it is consistently a strong album from beginning to end as unlike to the many low points of COCC.

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Its obvious IYLDWM is the Cinammon/Tulsa of BB
 
it even has the outro

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Its obvious IYLDWM is the Cinammon/Tulsa of BB
 
it even has the outro

Arcadia is the white dress of this album, unashamedly vulnerable

Sis she would’ve ripped from YouTube using youtube2mp3 at 32kbps

Sis she would’ve ripped from YouTube using youtube2mp3 at 32kbps