Ariel

Jack Antonoff is seething

I really want to spam Lana’s management and streaming services about NOTG, LL and CB quality. It drives me crazy, they have to replace them with lossless files, it’s unacceptable that no one from the team hasn’t suggested this already.

is the television performance still standing? do we have any info or clue on what she’ll be performing? (im guessing title track and/or arcadia)

beautiful soty

Is she still performing on Colbert/ why did they not post about her?

i'm writing an official review, it's almost done. it will be the review she deserves. 
 
would also like to add that the album sounds INCREDIBLE on apple music, so much better than the leak. 

Compared to her latest work ( NFR , COCC) I like BB the most. It sounds like a classic. I missed her deeper vocals , the versatility in instrumentation and the experimentation with the sound and her voice. It seems to me more ambitious compared to her latest projects . All of the songs are really catchy melody-wise . The only songs that are not clicking for me still are BB and Arcadia. 

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

This album is amazing, I didn’t think I would get so emotional listening to it since we already knew most songs, but by the time I was listening to beautiful I was sobbing. She’s amazing, Everything is very her, nothing sounds off. Truly a zero skips album. I hope someday I can become half the artist she is. 

A lot of noise and “cracks” (I don’t know how to call them) in the vocals 

Been a lovely release evening with all of y’all  signing off catch you in the post release thread lovelies 
also is it better to stream the album on repeat or a playlist with all the songs added? 

is this her final interscope album? does anyone know what number of albums she's signed on with them for?

I could be wrong, but its possible she said that because she knows they were leaked and many people already have them but idk
The video did seem really out of nowhere though, like she was posting so much lately and seemed really happy about releasing Arcadia and the album and stuff, plus that tweet earlier today about the covers album didn't really give me the feeling she wanted to deactivate so I hope everything is okay 

yeaaaaaas exactly 

I think it’s interesting to note how she made a point to say that Blue Banisters is a “compilation of older songs and a few newer songs” - while that is true, as we know, the fact that she framed it like that within the context of the video seems important. I guess we’ll see why soon. 

I haven’t really stopped thinking about her deactivating, and I’m sure that will actually positively affect my listening of the new songs in a contextual way because it almost enhances their true meaning.
 
Her social media withdrawal is the most visible outcome of the events she discusses in the songs that we, as fans, are privy to. I sound like a broken record, but I really feel for her and understand where she’s coming from — and I hope this decision brings her some peace and the personal accountability that she described in the video.
 
This is bittersweet for fans, undoubtedly, but I think this also marks the beginning of Lana going even deeper in the music and poetry. Because there’s no other way to be personable with her audience (as she was through IG), the music and poetry will now become that outlet and allow for some rawer, more authentic writing than ever before. 
 
and that’s okay - boundaries are a beautiful thing and I’m sure it’s great for her that she can take back control over her place as a famous person through only being accessible through the actual art she puts out (and nothing more).

I'm sure this has already been discussed in detail so sorry if I missed it and I'm being redundant, but just wondering if people think her deactivation of her socials was sudden or if she was planning it after giving details about BB release? I mean I can see if it was something she wanted to do for a while giving album news, but it does seem a little random. She seemed to be far more active in posting about BB than she was with COCC, plus she was doing other stuff like that post of her passport/visa pics and the pic outside Capitol. Either way, I'm happy to see her stepping back to prioritize her personal life and her projects. I personally don't think an artist's social media is super important unless to announce projects/spread awareness for important causes. Selena's social's (apart from Tik Tok) are run by her assistant plus Lorde has still managed to stay relevant in her album cycle w/o any social media of her own. Even with Reputation,  Taylor did like zero promotion and it still managed to be one of her strongest and most distinctive eras. Plus I doubt Lana will deactivate her Honeymoon account which will always be a cool archive for fans to look back at. As always, the music is the most important part and I'm so looking forward to this album 

Wait cus seeing all the albums arranged like that seems like we're in a second cycle ,and if lust for life was the antithesis of born to die, does that mean BB is gonna be the antithesis of HM?!?!!? Instead of being this mysterious persona she's gonna clear things up and be telling?

The only problem with this album is that 'Melodrama' exists. Same thing that happened with 'Chemtrails' following a record as good as 'Norman'. I truly like 'Solar Power', tho. It's a good record. The bonus tracks should be on the standard album to shake the pace on the middle section a bit, in my opinion.
 
Btw, the new translations give the songs a whole new range of layers about the meaning behind them. Love them.
 

This is an amazing project I love the new translations/interpretations especially on The Path, but all of it <3 

This is an amazing project I love the new translations/interpretations especially on The Path, but all of it <3 

This is an amazing project I love the new translations/interpretations especially on The Path, but all of it <3 

wow, The Path sounds gooorgeous

I LOVE them. It's such a rad idea