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Inb4 Blue Banisters is just Born to Die but reimagined. Same instrumentals (remade/produced by Mike) but with different lyrics. Hence why title track is the "Video Games" of the album

I'll wait for you, Lana, that's all I do, Lana
Don't come through, Lana, you never do
Cause ur giving us fake dates 
Ur giving us fake dAaAates

 

I kind of wonder if she plans to release the album itself on digital on or around July 4th and then wait to do the physicals. If she's planning on doing everything all at once, there's no way in hell the album is coming on the original date she said it'd be. I think what she does a lot of the time is estimate the day she thinks the album is gonna come out, posts or says something about it, and then forgets about it. 

july 4th is iconic and i still firmly believe it'll come out then  if not... i can process that when i come to it

Why does Lana do this? Why does she give out unrealistic dates? I'm genuinely curious what her thought process when she types out her captions. Surely she must already know how long the vinyl processing is. This puta getting on my damn nerves

i have a theory. see this:
 
  
and this
 
 
and this
 
 
so, as someone said already, maybe this is a UV type of situation. Maybe around this time, ROCK CANDY SWEET was finished and produced by Jack and Zach (?) and it was coming out June 1st. But, in the meantime, she decided that the production was not what she was looking forward to. She contacted Mike and he is reworking it and the album is now called BLUE BANISTERS. That's why she changed the release date, probably because she knew it would delay.
She thought it was gonna delay just a month (the same way UV took 2 weeks to be reworked) but it is taking a little more she thought it was gonna take.
Maybe it will delay, but something is about to come.

This makes me so excited for the album
 
That would honestly make a lot of sense, maybe she just wants to keep the details about the album private now too

Agree, Mike could have just been referring to how he wants to mesh her sound with his, generally. Not specifically messing strings with his sound

OMFG IS THIS A DREAM IS THIS A FANTA SEA
 

 

I think the whole 'using strings' thing seems vague actually. It could mean anything. I'm pretty sure some strings were used in COCC and it barely scraped the surface of what BTD sounded like. I hate to be a debbie downer but 

i think it's ready. she also said to Annie she didn't had 4 songs ready for the next album and then... BOOM, she announced it. 
Also, her managers said she was with 2 album in the works and that fan who talked to her said she said the album was ready and she was working on new music. 
Maybe she does not want people to know it's ready because of leaks. Even if the insiders have the album, she can change it last minute and the album insiders have would be a demo version, that's why they don't leak it

Here's a transcription I did of the Lana bit from the interview, as I haven't seen anyone else try to type it out yet:
 
Mike: Lana Del Rey, we’re working on her stuff.
 
Fantano: Yeah, how’s – I’ve gotten a lot of questions about that specifically. Would you be able to give an idea as to how some of that is turning out?
 
Mike: It was just cool. I can’t give any details because it’s not done yet. We don’t know what it’s, you know, I don’t want to jinx it talking about it too much.
 
Fantano: I know she has that next record that’s dropping very soon this year. The work that you’re doing with her, is it specifically for that record or is it for an even further down the road project?
 
Mike: It’s for that record.
 
Fantano: Okay. 
 
Mike: We’re pulling stuff for future projects. I’m planning on working with her a lot.
 
Fantano: How exactly did that connection happen, and when it did, how familiar were you with Lana’s back catalogue?
 
Mike: Oh, very. A lot of my friends produce a lot of her stuff. Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, and you know, all those guys.
 
Fantano: I guess when approaching it, I mean not to spoil too much I guess, when approaching a project like hers is it sort of your goal to continue to deliver those aesthetics that fans are sort of familiar with whether it be the piano, the strings, sort of like that almost like orchestral elegance, or are you bringing like synths to the table and everything and kind of changing it up a little bit instrumentally?
 
Mike: I would mesh them both I think. You got to stay true to the original, but you can definitely do your twist on it, you know?

you can’t really compare them tho. st vincent plays her instruments and productions, lana doesn’t, at least not on the same level 

He actually said this????? (Sorry I've been out of the loop)
 
I'm ready for the Revenge of Lana Del Rey yes ma'am!

the st vincent argument is so tired tho... she’s a fabulous guitar player and producer + plays all the electric guitars by herself ofc that alone will already sound good. her production is so full because of her, not because of jack. 

i just wanna say there’s a lot of fake bitches on here cause i know DAMN well not a month ago some people were insulting anyone who praised btd’s/uv’s sound and saying "blabla when will they leave so only those who appreciate nfr/cocc are left" but now that we’re facing the long awaited return to the lana basics people SWITCH... nicki was right they switch like fa- 

I remember that interview too. Jack said it was Lana who removed layers and layers of music until she was happy with the stripped-back sound 
 
edit: Not sure if it was that interview or another one

I'm really glad she's doing this cause she's been in her comfort zone (jack) for a while now, so it's INCREDIBLY exciting seeing her work with mike dean, i know they won't disappoint! 
hopefully bb will be if her (upbeat) unrelessed and her released tracks had a baby
WE TRULY WON 
YOU DID GOOD GIRLIES 

Lana and BTD sound?
I don't believe it.

her revenge is her art 

I also remember, in her Interview magazine, that she wanted more stripped back on the songs. She probably wanted both, knowing her lol. I really believe she is the one in command when it comes to the final sound of an album. Isn’t Jack the main producer on St.Vincent album? Which has a very « big sound ». 
What if, by Wanting Jack to go bigger, she was mistaken with the project she is working on right now and not Chemtrails?!? that would be so her. 

that got me sooo excited  i hope the result meets our expectations because everything you guys said sounds so promising 
 

no, she said she wanted jack to go wilder and he said he kept stripping it back to make the music honest

I put on my earbuds, turned the volume up and now I could hear what Mike said about his work with Lana lol, it wasn't easy. xP

mike taking the lead.. synths.. strings.. classic bombastic sound........my legs are quite literally shaking and my uterus is aching oh my god I'm actually so READY