Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread

[Poor Stacy]

Honestly, if a Dua stan hates the album, that just means I'm going to love it.  Bring it, Lana.

[Tulsa Devil]

anything new?

 

[CinnamonGay]

It's kinda annoying how these NON-INSIDERS on ATRL behave.

 

They could literally ask so many questions about the album....

But no. They act all high and mighty and go around saying "heueueueue the twinks at analboards are debating whehsheheu" 

Or else they ask the dumbest useless questions ever. 

And sometimes they act "nooooooo we wont ask any questions. We are better than that. Lana will release when she wants xoxo. Dont trouble our precious insiders"

 

...

Imagine. You can ask

The producers.

Number of tracks.

Collabs 

Genre

Duration of album

A possible tease of a lyric or an acronym.

Possible leaked songs appearing.

Possible music videos..

 

You can just ask it as a yes/no question. That way , the surprise still remains..but we atleast get a bit of info instead of dying in uncertainty. 

And insiders can choose not to answer questions which reveal too much info.

 

Pls let me sign up on ATRL and I will do all this. Stupid website closed registrations.

 

END of rant.

 

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Now Arcadia drops this or next week probably. With BOz saying "give her a few more weeks"

 

[yayoop]

in lana i trust

[COCC]

Four days! 

[Alison by Slowdive]

suddenly the bb album cover art makes even MORE sense! the vibes as we near the holiday season... give me... the void at the centre of commercialism, sitting on the porch alone, slipping out of family parties without saying goodbye  

[Alison by Slowdive]

11 hours ago, Terrence Loves Me said:

its not people just love to be oh so offended by everything nowadays

oh shit, a serve  

[lanascarlitos]

There goes my hopes of an r&b/hip-hop rock candy sweet revenge album. I need songs like groupie love and freak. If i get another COCC I’m going to have to take some time away. 

[StillOnMyMind]

BOZ taste is basically tragic. Don’t take him too seriously. He is an extreme Dula stan that has praised every single thing she has released after FN (standard edition) which generally has been a major choice.

He hated COCC, suddenly he praised the three new songs and suddenly he does not like it because she has scrapped the song or songs he liked. Then he comes hyping Kacey up like tomorrow does not exist and the title track turned out to be a weird thing. And I could provide more examples of his taste because 95% of the times he loves things I do not. Besides, he is not a Lana stan since who knows. 
 

Here it comes another praised album I fear.

[COCC]

18 minutes ago, life is beautiful said:

There goes my hopes of an r&b/hip-hop rock candy sweet revenge album. I need songs like groupie love and freak. If i get another COCC I’m going to have to take some time away. 

 

You still had hope for a revenge hip-hop / r&b album after the three singles? 

[NME040920]

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

[COCC]

4 minutes ago, NME040920 said:

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

 

Did you hear it 

[Pico Ocean Boulevard]

So there is either a lot of piano on the album or a lot of other instruments. I really would like to hear a lot of other instruments.I love BB,WFWF, Arcadia snippet sounds good & I like CB (it's cute) but I think a whole album of piano ballads would be too much piano for me and I need some variety. I wouldn't mind if we have a piano on  a lot of tracks if it's accompanied by other instruments like e-guitar, strings, harps, drums , flutes, horns and so on. Anyways I'm not that hyped right now for this album bc this era is basically dry as the Sahara & I'm still not happy with Blue Banisters being the title.

Thunder & Text Book (Zach Dawes) are giving me hope. According to BOZ the album is definetly coming this year & that's some good news finally

I can't wait to see the tracklist

 

[Bonita]

17 minutes ago, NME040920 said:

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

 

proof of ur credibility ur honor 

[SalvaWHORE]

17 hours ago, NME040920 said:

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

wait are u NME magazine staff writer? she sent u the album? omg

[COCC]

26 minutes ago, Tropico Angel said:

wait are u NME magazine staff writer? she sent u the album? omg

 

NME rates almost everything with 100, so it's more likely that that user works for Sputnik Music who rated COCC 2.8 and NFR 3.7 

[Evergreen]

49 minutes ago, NME040920 said:

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

Stop pretending to be an insider. You're always wrong anyways.

[daphnedinkley]

Video Games is my fav song of all time, Bel Air is one of my fave Lana tracks, I'm a Hope Is A Dangerous Thing stan and I'm a fan of the stripped back May Jailer stuff, so it's not that I can't handle piano or stripped back production but.... idk, I feel like sometimes these slower more ballad-y tracks get lost and lose their value if they're in an album full of them. Making good music is a talent and a skill, but you know what else is a talent and a skill? Arranging and pacing an album well.

 

I also wanna point out that although some fan faves are technically piano ballads (Old Money, Video Games, Black Beauty, etc etc) those songs usually have additional instruments (harps and strings in VG, drums in BB, etc) and strong melodies. There's a fullness to them. The apprehension regarding lots of piano on this album, for me, comes from the fear that there might not be that same fullness on these new tracks and that the album won't be paced or arranged very well and the amount of slow piano tracks could be overkill so I won't care to go back to it v much.

 

That being said - personally I like Blue Banisters and Text Book but I absolutely ADORE WFWF, and that's because there's a strong vocal melody in the performance, those synths/organs and some cool drums in the track, as well as an overall empowering message that just ticks all the right boxes for me!!

[CinnamonGay]

1 hour ago, NME040920 said:

That insider didn’t lie. This album is a boring mess.

 

U have become boring repeating the same thing every era bye

[Deadly Nightshade]

7 minutes ago, daphnedinkley said:

Video Games is my fav song of all time, Bel Air is one of my fave Lana tracks, I'm a Hope Is A Dangerous Thing stan and I'm a fan of the stripped back May Jailer stuff, so it's not that I can't handle piano or stripped back production but.... idk, I feel like sometimes these slower more ballad-y tracks get lost and lose their value if they're in an album full of them. Making good music is a talent and a skill, but you know what else is a talent and a skill? Arranging and pacing an album well.

 

I also wanna point out that although some fan faves are technically piano ballads (Old Money, Video Games, Black Beauty, etc etc) those songs usually have additional instruments (harps and strings in VG, drums in BB, etc) and strong melodies. There's a fullness to them. The apprehension regarding lots of piano on this album, for me, comes from the fear that there might not be that same fullness on these new tracks and that the album won't be paced or arranged very well and the amount of slow piano tracks could be overkill so I won't care to go back to it v much.

 

That being said - personally I like Blue Banisters and Text Book but I absolutely ADORE WFWF, and that's because there's a strong vocal melody in the performance, those synths/organs and some cool drums in the track, as well as an overall empowering message that just ticks all the right boxes for me!!

Totally agree with everything you said . I really hope there is a variety of instrumentation with this album along with piano . Literally all of the songs you mentioned are my favorite and are piano driven now that i come to think of it .

On another note I can’t wait to listen to Arcadia for the first time the wait is killing me 

*also i would love it if she used harps again