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I thought about this for a while but sometimes I feel like all the drama is part of the way she promotes her music. I'm not saying this in any shady way I fucking love her (obviously or I wouldn't be here) but every time she drops an album there is always so much controversy leading up to it. Maybe sharing her music with the world is actually very hard for her and she's been misunderstood for so long and she feels like she always has to fight back but I can't help but feel like it's... not calculated, it's the wrong word, but there's clearly a pattern.

Ugh, fuck it, here's my review:
 

WHAT THE FUCK im so excited!!!!! didn't expect this today GOOD GOD. 

I really really really really (really) want a track by track review. ANYONE UP FOR TO TASK ?
 
Also, if UV is my fav album, will I be in love with this one? THE HYPE IS FUCKING REAL YALL 

WHAT THE FUCK im so excited!!!!! didn't expect this today GOOD GOD. 

I really really really really (really) want a track by track review. ANYONE UP FOR TO TASK ?
 
Also, if UV is my fav album, will I be in love with this one? THE HYPE IS FUCKING REAL YALL 

resident UV slut here. I don't know if you'll necessarily be IN LOVE with it - it's not a direct continuation of UV by any means. But to me, it's closer soundwise to UV than the last few albums have been. Particularly Dealer, BBS, IYLDWM

I'm sooooo excited to listen omg 

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

meaning If You Lay Down With Me ? Is it upbeat or like slow sexy ? guitar driven a la sad girl/PWIC vibes ?

Also track 6 is so sexy elegant and spicyyyy  

sorry but only the ladies get to listen to blue banisters by lana del rey, the fellas get to paint our banisters blue instead.  i don't make the rules, god does. 

i honestly really like the "blue banisters" album title, since it seems like it's very symbolic & meaningful, even if it doesn't seem like it if you haven't heard the title track, although i will say, i think "arcadia" would've been a fabulous album title as well  

Forgive me for rambling my thoughts, but I've had a lot about the album.
 
First off, this is probably solidifying alongside Chemtrails as another Lizzy Grant album. I've always disliked differentiating the two as outside a singular person, but she's very much been present about that through those albums and her Violet. One of the singles has already mentioned going "back to blonde" to get an "old love back" - and I don't find that impossible to be filled with multiple readings. So she's giving me that idea that she's reverting back to Lizzy sounds and intimacy that we only saw deeper on her unreleased stuff. So for that, what a perfect way to introduce some leaked material into the equation. 
 
The Last Shadow Puppets are a talented group (although, their albums are so meh to me), and they take a lot inspiration from spaghetti western scores in their own releases, so no surprise to hear the Ennio Morricone sample on here - and not surprising for Lana since she established an affinity for Morricone sounds when she did "Big Eyes". Seriously, that final refrain with the drums and brass are purely cut from the same cloth. The trap beats on "The Trio" do make me wonder, though, if that section of the record might detour a bit to those sounds with "Violets for Roses" the breather before the screaming/feature of "Dealer". I do think trap noise/downtempo pulses are a thing to stay with her for now. Although, I don't really know what to expect. I just know that "Text Book", "Blue Banisters", "Arcadia" have very subtle spaghetti western sounds, and the record is opening up on a bass note that's very much evocative of the style. 
 
"Nectar of the Gods" is one of her strongest songs, and one of my personal favorites. I stumbled on it via YouTube rec years ago, but it's so simply, purely, a beautiful song. I can't talk it off enough. I'm so happy for it to be here. Are the unreleased songs here changed at all? For me, I don't think it matters either way, since she could incorporate more spaghetti elements, or she could keep them bare, and either way it would feel cohesive to this idea. The banisters aren't painted, after all. As they've been heard, almost all of them are great songs, and I think critics will take to them, too. I honestly don't see this getting NFR level acclaim - duh - but, like, it might be second. Critics love them quality singer-songwriter, and she's a quality one, and they especially like when they fuck with genre. She's doing a lot of the things they take to, but her 'reputation' the past year is something I'm worried can seep into the responses. I don't think she'll have a problem, though. 
 
There are so many consistencies in themes and her imagery based on what we have heard so far, and the titles of the ones we haven't. This is gonna be such a great record, and probably another step closer to Lizzy Grant aesthetics. Maybe a final salute along with the social media absence? Girl can't stop working, and she knows that, so she won't be gone longer than a year or two if she sticks to her guns, but she doesn't delay these things like her release dates. 
 
EDIT: also love that this album has multiple signals of tempo changes between verses and choruses, because her doing that on "West Coast" was one of the most mind-blowing and influential things to me, so feed me mama. 

My ex just texted me he got into a Vogue internship which interview I got for him when we were dating. We had a little bonding moment between the two of us, which was heartbreaking for me because even though I know we’re both madly in love with each other, we want different things… or maybe we’re in different timings. It’s like we used to be in the same wave for a period in time but now the sea has driven us apart and we’re at different points in the ocean; still able to feel our connection permeating between us but not close enough for an embrace.
 
He misses me and he told me that. I said I couldn’t possibly express what I feel through words (spoken or written) but a song perhaps could. 
So I sent him Thunder. He saw my reply but hasn’t answered yet. I can almost feel him spinning the song on an endless loop, drinking all the emotion off of it. As I’m doing right now as well - both connected through four and a half minutes of a bittersweet journey.
 
Sorry for the random post but I feel like I wanted to share this with my LB family. My heart aches but there’s something about Thunder, in the midst of all the nostalgia and resignation that keeps me going. I can’t wait to be able to listen to it in our queen’s new album. What a time to be alive.
 
Just do it… just do it, don’t wait.

Well well well... after lurking on LB for over 2 years I've finally decided to create an account lmao 
I guess I've kinda been a part of this community for quite some time now already... but now I FINALLY get to be a part of the discussions (and the meltdowns)!!!

Anyways, I'm as excited for BB as y'all are - and I'm SO glad Text Book is the opener since it's really become one of my favorite Lana songs over the past few months 

Idk. I might get dragged for this, but COCC is definitely my least favorite album of hers. It just doesn't have the same replay value for me as her other albums.  That's not to say it's not a beautiful or cohesive record, because it absolutely is. It's just...not my cup of tea, I guess. It's the only album of Lana's that I don't have the lyrics memorized to, which is saying something.
 
LFL definitely had consistency issues, in my eyes, but the individual tracks were solid and it's a beautiful record. I definitely wouldn't call it "lazy".
 
To me, UV, HM, & NFR are the highlights of her career. I'm a big fan of all her work (I still absolutely adore BTD/Paradise), but those are her most fundamental records to me.

Man...I’m really going to miss her.
 
I think everyone feels a bit emotional about it because she prefaced it with that video message, which I think she very strategically put out to get some closure on her level of visibility and to communicate that this decision means something more for her. 
 
I wish her nothing but the best! We love you, Lana! 

I know this is a first world problem, but releasing an album with 25 different covers that are all good is genuinely distressing as a consumer.

NFR was the end of the world as we know it, Chemtrails was the quiet uncertainty that comes after that as you pick up the pieces and try to figure out what comes next, and BB is the assembly of those pieces as you start to understand your place in the world and the story you want to tell. 
 
 

And I’m so sick of y’all shitting on Chemtrails just because she’s releasing another album now, cocc was much needed in her journey and although it’s not her best it’s still a solid album