Jeanne Dielman

So her team is pushing IYLDWM but she's performing Arcadia despite the fact that she released a MV for Blue Banisters yesterday.

Streaming and radio smash hit incoming. I hope we get a surprise MV along with the Colbert performance tomorrow. I mean, she released the MV for Venice bitch a couple of days after the Mariners MV so why not? And Thunder MV in December.

The David Lynch reference gave me goosebumps. Which are the most Lynchian songs on the album?

Except for the Stereogum "premature evaluation" and The Times UK review, I couldn't find another one except for this very positive review: https://www.theinterns.net/2021/10/22/the-first-listen-lana-del-rey-blue-banisters/ They vastly prefer BB to COCC. Best tracks: Blue Banisters, Black Bathing Suit, If You Lie Down With Me, Thunder, Sweet Carolina Skips: Interlude - The Trio, Wildflower Wildfire, Cherry Blossom 8.5/10

This is exactly what I thought of too! And the booklet only has the lyrics of Arcadia, BB and IYLDWM so I guess this might be the third single after all? I wonder if this is the track she'll be singing at Colbert's show tomorrow.

Nothing makes sense at this point lol. Piano and guitar are credited on NOTG and CB respectively but they're nowhere to be found. Boz said the final Beautiful mix has strings but apparently she kept the earlier piano version. Vinyls are delayed. She deletes all SM and posts on the Honeymoon account. This is one of the messiest Lana releases. And I'm kinda...living for it?

Yeah it's a very silly comparison. I guess making consecutive reflective albums = sameness according to them. By the way I just reread their review and it's very positive until the last paragraph lol. They literally admire Lana's experimentations with her voice and sound, praise several tracks (Dealer, Thunder, Wildflower Wildfire, Text Book, Black Bathing Suit), say that there are "sublime stretches" on the album and only seem to have qualms with a couple of lyrics and the "slowness" of the last quarter of the album. They say that "in the context of comparing the album to NFR, it may be considered a disappointment" in terms of style and sound. But the review ends on a more positive note than, say, their premature evaluation of COCC when they kinda said that "For Free" is the strongest moment on the album but that might not be enough to save the rest of it from being too slight and too low-key so...I guess that's a win lol. EDIT: Basically what @Gothicula said.

Thankfully they haven't dragged any of the singles so far and put Text Book on their Spotify playlist so I hope it'll get (at least) a 7ish score from them. I mean, they shat on every single Lorde released this year and still gave a 6.8 score to Solar Power so I guess we're...good?

The review read mostly (very) positive until they said that the last couple of songs are too slow and kinda dragged Sweet Carolina's lyrics. Also LOL at the terrible criticism that both Lana and Taylor should have combined COCC+BB / Folklore+Evermore into one project because they're basically just nice background music for the pandemic.

She drowned in the pool. There are many things in common between the Arcadia MVs (both of them) and the Blue Banisters one. So I guess we should take the subtle visual hints at a Thunder MV a bit more seriously.

This is one of her simplest and most poignant MVs to date. When I first listened to the song, I immediately fell in love with it. Its ambient spacey soundscape; the diaristic lyrics; the deeply emotional outro...everything just clicked. It's so ethereal and poetic, and this MV perfectly encapsulates the themes and the album's thesis. We should pay more attention to the little fleeting moments, and we should find the people who support and love us. Sadness lingers - there are many quick shots of Lana looking very contemplative and melancholy, particularly during the storm scenes and in the closing shot - and we have to live with it, but it's okay as long as we feel safe with the people - and in the places! - we love and care for. I loved the John Deere; the ambiguous bluish gray color; the weathervane; Tex's cameo; the birthday cakes; the modesty.

She's totally singing Blue Banisters this Friday. I wonder if the alternate BB cover with the emerald dress was shot during the filming of a third MV. I'd love one long MV for two songs just like the one she made for FIILY/The Greatest.

It'll be hilarious if she uses the footage with Clay for the first half of the MV. Dragging at its finest.

Clay found dead in a ditch.

I'm genuinely surprised by the fact that they haven't reviewed a single track so far. They did review LMLYLAW when it was released last year. At least they put Text Book on their Pitchfork Selects Spotify Playlist I guess. But I'm expecting yet another rating between 7.0 and 7.8 anyway lol.

Not her signing "u little fuckers"!

I really don't know what to expect from the critics but a positive review by Pitchfork will certainly help in terms of exposure and promotion. Anyone interested in detective work? Have they posted something similar for an upcoming album before? I hope this won't backfire and we end up with a negative review lol.

If someone posted defamatory shit against me and I got the receipts, the least I would do would be to publicly call them out. End of story.