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new zealand  disappeared when we needed them the most... the album is THAT good 

new zealand, mayday! do you copy? 

Yes it is

Stunning.
(idk why i didn't take the photo like this yesterday)

That's what she wants you to think 
 
 

The string arrangements on this album are on par with what Dan Heath does. Love this album more and more with each listen. 

I still have hope she will perform Thunder or BBS this friday 

even if it’s a midnight local release, i won’t do the first listen at midnight because it doesn’t have those vibes. gonna wait till next day after school so i can properly blast it in my speakers with candles

born to die 10th anniversary 

aka blue banisters

so... do you guys think if she still remembers her 25 favourite unreleased songs album that she mentioned in 2017?

YOUR POST
 
but specifically this!! I’m prepping for the album tomorrow by re-listening to all of her work in chronological order and it makes me feel a certain way when I get to Paradise and “Yayo” saying “let me put on a show for you daddy” versus how BB opens????
 
”I guess you can call it text book
I was searching for the father I wanted back”
 
ITS REFLECTIVE AND EVOCATIVE OF HER PREVIOUS BODY OF WORK. I keep finding parallels between the released songs of BB and her previous albums and it’s just so much

well i wasn't expecting this 

y’all i am so fucking excited to watch Ajayll react to this album. i hope she cries and freaks tf out as per usual 

My favorite from this song is
 

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

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

because they're jealous twinks who could never be best friends with Lana and they want to be. i mean, in a way, i get it because you could also be afraid they could influence her music and make her music sound weird or bad, but maybe they're what she needs to make a completely new, even better album. who knows lol

I love Nikki, she seems like such a genuine and true friend  — love seeing some positive talk about her!!!

Nikki seems like the girl at a bar who would talk to you about your problems and then share a drink with you. She reminds me of a lot of women I grew up around, actually. Not liking country music isn't a valid reason to straight up hate Nikki (although, I will admit that a few of the jokes here and there are funny)

people do the exact same thing with nikki lane and honestly it's really gross, you may not like their collaborations together or her music personally but she hasn't done anything wrong, i've read some really rude things about her here  

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

Lana probably read a horoscope on the back of a cereal box that gave her a bad vibe and cut her OFF

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