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It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

Blue Banisters
 
what I expected:
what I got:
 

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

maybe the real trio is the friends we made along the way

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

i feel like we got over arcadia way too quickly.. like the melodies on that song are other worldly 

Arcadia - The Greatest - Thunder medley...

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

It's gotta be Arcadia, but I would like a 2-song medley that segues into The Greatest. It kills me that THE quintessential 2020 song was not performed in 2020.

honestly she would be very dumb to not make thunder a single. especially when this album's singles underperformed when there are hit potential songs in it

After finding out that 3 is the crucial number of BB, how crazy would it be to release three singles again together with the album?

Revisiting the STUNNING alternate Arcadia video now with the whole album in mind. 
 
It's such a glorious statement of honesty, openness, reflection, surrender, transcendence. Golden sunlight evoking truth and clarity, magic hour evoking an ending or transition, as she floats in the clouds over her beloved Topanga mountains, in all white like a high priestess, an ascended deity. The emotions in her face dancing from sentimental reflection to penetrating wisdom to pure joy and irreverence.
 
Always present, straight to the camera, inviting you in, asking you to accept her exactly as she is. She is in her power, released by singing her truth. This describes the album as well. The video embodies it perfectly.

Arcadia gives me strong Hey Jupiter and Putting the Damage On vibes

Agree - Boys For Pele is the masterpiece. You could go into that one and not come out for years.

In regards to the polarized reactions to Blue Banisters that echo the mixed initial reviews of Ultraviolence and Honeymoon, maybe she was onto something here
 

ladies? Beautiful as a single? these look wildly different on my phone and computer so idk. im sorry I can't let this format die and I'm sorry I'm addicted to making ugly diy album arts.. like lana like stan <3
 

I just wanted to say this, and I have nowhere else to say it:
 
For me, Lana's music - especially Born to Die, Ultraviolence, and Honeymoon - is so nostalgic, and so evocative of my teenage years. It triggers those memories and those sensations for me in a way that nothing else does. I first discovered Lana in 2011, with the Video Games MV; I was 13 years old. I'm 23 years old now. I literally grew up with Lana and her music. 
 
I remember riding in my best friend's car when I sixteen years old, screaming the lyrics to Born to Die and Off to the Races, not really understanding what they meant back then, but, simultaneously, understanding exactly what they meant. I remember being sprawled out on my bed, drunk, listening to West Coast, feeling every inch of it in the marrow of my bones. I remember Honeymoon, and Art Deco, and The Blackest Day, and all of the things those songs made me feel.
 
Lana was an integral part of my childhood. An integral part of my formative years. And Blue Banisters feels like the ultimate cumulation of that; it feels, in a way, like we've grown and matured together. Here I am, ten years later, an adult who's seen so much and been so through so much in the last ten years. And I just feel like Blue Banisters reflects those feelings, and that maturation, so well.
 
I don't know. I'm drunk, and I'm probably being over-sentimental. But I can already tell that this album is going to be significant, and sentimental, to me.