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This album is going to be so misunderstood omg 

The guardian at this point are giving Lana a 3 every time because they know we will get angry and march over there.  Whatever you do don’t click on there site or give them attention 

i mean the guardian gave the same score to fucking NFR! we're lucky it wasn't lower

My ears are deaf to quality issues unless it's really, really noticeable   

Old Man River keeps on rollin'....
With or without him....
 
Summer comes, winter goes
Spring, I skip, God knows
Summer comes, winter goes
Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows
 
The outros to Text Book and Blue Banisters are career highlights 

u brought the chaos to thread when were starving for some news, so thanks for that, by the way... i'll pray for ya 

jack's influence is still so clear when:
 

Behind the Iron Gates next PLEASE.
Then covers album
Then LDR9.
 
...all within the next year. 

xoxo

In a better timeline Lana is America's sweetheart 

Omg i didnt mean to get everyone off topic hehe, i was just noticing it seems like theres been another shift against NFR now that BB came out. Personally, I like NFR because of how polished and clean it is, which is the same reason im gathering other people ARENT so fond of it. I just felt like the chaos and Lana-ness of BB, has pushed some people even further against NFR, which is lacking that chaos.
 
And after reading everyones responses, I can see that very few people actually think is “bad”— as in low quality, they just found the delivery to be too bland or safe?
 
Anyways, i think for my taste NFR wins, but i have also really been loving BB. Excited for us all to *officially* hear it in less than a day!
 
Much Love ❤️❤️

I hope Lana does a cute interview moment on Stephen Colbert's show tomorrow night but even if she doesn't I'm happy we're getting a performance- so excited to see what she sings (and I hope it's not pre-recorded like LMLYLAW Live but even if it is, oh well) 💖💖

Omg i didnt mean to get everyone off topic hehe, i was just noticing it seems like theres been another shift against NFR now that BB came out. Personally, I like NFR because of how polished and clean it is, which is the same reason im gathering other people ARENT so fond of it. I just felt like the chaos and Lana-ness of BB, has pushed some people even further against NFR, which is lacking that chaos.
 
And after reading everyones responses, I can see that very few people actually think is “bad”— as in low quality, they just found the delivery to be too bland or safe?
 
Anyways, i think for my taste NFR wins, but i have also really been loving BB. Excited for us all to *officially* hear it in less than a day!
 
Much Love ❤️❤️

Hating on popular things is a personality trait, they're not like the other girls 

Everyone in this thread writing think pieces on NFR
 

Bye, NFR is not bad at all and it is (one of) her best. How can you say that when that album has Venice Bitch ,The Greatest and California amongst other career highlights?
 
I love both COCC and BB, but in my opinion none of the tracks there are as strong as the NFR highlights.

Hopefully I uploaded this correctly 
 

Outside of here I have always heard most people say it is her best album(fans not just causal listeners). It was even voted the 17th best album of the last 25 years by pitchfork readers recently. I didn’t even know people disliked NFR until I came on here, so it’s really interesting to hear opinions from people who dislike it. 

I could be wrong but I remember her saying something like "it's just cool so what's not to like" which does not mean that it's safe. It is cool but it's also very complex, and Lana definitely seemed very proud of it. I don't get mainstream pop from NFR. 
 
But anyways this is the wrong thread for this topic. Blue Banisters is upon us 

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.
 

I love Blue Banisters even more after seeing the video for it; I keep replaying it. I’m curious about the one with Clay….but this one was like watching a calm before the storm. The shots of the weathervane were gorgeous. Her best video of this era so far. Also adds a nice idea to the visual concept of the album as a whole. 

well i wasn't expecting this 

My favorite from this song is
 

maybe she already sacrificed her in that swimming pool  

I’m not SUPER active on here all the time, but when did everyone start to hate NFR? Last I checked, it was the general consensus (from like everyone in the world) that it was her greatest album? Did that change now that BB is out (well, now that weve heard it)