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i will miss this thread so much.
 
and the pre pre release thread.
 
so many emotions! so much chaos! so many friends made and so many laughs and so much love shared. 
 
it's been a long long journey!!! i joined here when lana got ahead of herself and announced RCS. So many things have happened since then!!!!!! so much sleuthing and illegal downloading and shit posting. 
 
We created our own culture and our own fun and we'll always remember it! A part of Lana stan history! I love you all so much. 

i'm listening to bb now thinking of u guys 

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

Wow I really needed to hear this extremely beautiful message

This is beautiful. I agree with a lot of what you wrote - it's deliberately a complicated album, but there's a definite bittersweet resilience to it that I'm really struck by. She's basically saying "This is me, in all of my frustrating messiness and brilliance. Take it or leave it." It's Lana (or Elizabeth) taking inventory of who's still here, 10 years on, revisiting the past, evaluating the present, and making space for the future.

My favorite from this song is
 

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.
 

everyone is talking about how

my plan now is to go to my local record store friday morning to look for BB, but im getting so nervous that they won't have it i'm debating on calling them tommorow to ask if they have it? im like a super anxious person lol so phone calls are hard for me 
my anxiety is so bad my nose literally starting bleeding when I submitted this

Guys..I feel lame because whenever I write on here I'm like "I'm so excited!" because I can't put into words how much Lana's music means to me. We're so lucky to have not one but two albums this year. I have other favorite artists but none of them even come close to how Lana's music makes me feel. She just can't do no wrong in my opinion. 
 
Can't wait to sing along to TB, BB, Arcadia, WFWF again and listen to the newer unheard songs plus the unreleased that have finally found a home! I've listened to Thunder + Cherry Blossom but I didn't listen much, I don't know all the words and I honestly can't remember how Thunder sounds so I'm excited to hear those two. Living Legend + Nectar of the Gods I've never heard so it'll be exciting to hear those since they'll feel new to me. I try not to listen to a lot of her unreleased in case she does eventually put them on an album, and that kinda worked out for me 
 
Anyways I always end up writing the same thing over and over whenever I post here but I feel so excited..life has been sucky lately especially this year but Chemtrails and Blue Banisters (the singles we've heard) has been so comforting for me. Can't wait to discuss the album either Thursday night or Friday 
 

i absolutely cannot wait to go to target on friday morning and pick-up a copy of that beautiful alt cover. album release day is always such an amazing day for me. 

lana is dropping a fucking album tommorow
 
 
we have all at most said this like 8 times in our life

9 hours until midnight here in NZ, I am not ready for this album 

she sacrifices a friend per record to get universal acclaim. rumor has it that Nikki Lane is next if BB hits 7.5 on metacritic

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year

I honestly don't think NFR is a safe album at all and I'll never understand why people think so. A slightly softer sound on the surface does not make it safe, it's a deeply complex project and absolutely as brilliant as people say. 

Anyways, Blue Banisters is also brilliantIt further explains her as an artist and a person and I really hope people take the time to absorb it fully 

People were over Alex because during NFR! era she kept on constantly staring at the camera like she was making a Faustian bargain and needed to make sure she was maintaining eye contact or the ritual would fail.
She isn't doing it this time and she looks nice. We stan a redemption arc. 

still not over the EPIC serve of that sister pic  photo of the year