Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread

[lamms 11,605]

30 minutes ago, shady said:

Nah, it doesn't affect my life and I like seeing talented people getting recognition even if I'm not a huge fan. It just seems disingenuous. When Taylor, Beyonce, Gaga, Riri etc. praise someone new it seems genuine because it looks like an older sister giving an advice. Good that Elton's hyping it helps those artists but, like I said, I find it hard to believe that a man in his 70s can be a fan of a music by a late teen and someone in her 20s. 

Bruce Springsteen loves Lana and has called her the songwriter of the generation. So that would make his statement disingenuous because of the age difference?  
Maybe touch some grass to lose some of that closed-mindedness

[lanasbottom 23,694]

1 hour ago, mansfield ringer said:

Sher's breakdown/analysis of the lyrical content definitely gave me new insight on the songs, and TB & BB are a little less boring to me... but i still cannot stand WW. Its just an objective mess, and the piano at the beginning sounds so weird and cheap to me. 

Cher’s a lana stan? QUEEN 

[maysparkle 2,419]

55 minutes ago, mansfield ringer said:

The pacing is all over the place, the production is hollow and broken sounding, and the lyrics are as boring as the surface of water. I think the only part i like from the song is the stardust part .. everything else seems so..... meh

Wow it’s so weird how people’s tastes can differ. I found WW to be the most powerful song of the three, especially in regards to lyrics. I was floored when I first heard it.  to me, it’s anything BUT boring!

[lanasbottom 23,694]

34 minutes ago, mansfield ringer said:

But tony bennet liked lady gaga

Joan baez likes lana del rey

aretha frankin liked ariana grande

and grace jones and whitney DRAGGED gaga as if she stole from them

courtney used to hate lana too 

madge’s a lipster now which is…unexpected but a serve

aretha hated taylor and i love her for that. 

idk what my point is but it’s amusing so there’s that 

[COCC 29,553]

We should all learn not to turn into a wildfire 

[Alison by Slowdive 26,134]

2 minutes ago, maysparkle said:

Wow it’s so weird how people’s tastes can differ. I found WW to be the most powerful song of the three, especially in regards to lyrics. I was floored when I first heard it.  to me, it’s anything BUT boring!

Completely agree w this. WW's lyrics, compared to the other two, were so jarring and unsettling to me (probably because I could relate lol ) and for Lana to be so vulnerable and generous enough to share with people that she struggles or did struggle with emotion regulation was huge. I guess it almost doesn't matter to me what the production then sounds like if the songwriting is as brutally honest as in WW 

 

(though I think it actually all works brilliantly together: the lyrics paint a story of learning how to navigate emotional extremes and the production mirrors it - and i see the production towards the end as obviously chaotic and "on fire" but, probably through the steady drum pattern, it still feels like there is an attempt to keep it balanced and controlled) 

[anwdelrey 9,268]

The verses in Blue Banisters remind me of Walk On the Wild Side lyrically. 

[menslayer 18,826]

out for 2 weeks and nothing happened... well, she's just.... herself....

[Furor Poeticus 16,246]

Only 3 weeks until absolutely nothing! So excited I could piss myself

 

[Lavender Sunshine 4,239]

I was just listening to WW today and thinking how it's the best from the batch to me. I love the melody and how it builds up, and the lyrics are so powerful too.  It's also the one that I genuinely resonate the most with, as I can kind of relate to the whole metaphor of the wildfire associated to strong and almost destructive feelings (or at least that's how I interpret it) 

Anyways, pre-order coming in 2 seconds 

[Frangipani 11,611]

I stg Neil cares more about Lana's work than she does at this point

[Deadly Nightshade 12,804]

34 minutes ago, Frangipani said:

I stg Neil cares more about Lana's work than she does at this point

For real these photos he posted are amazing and they are making me emotional 

[NikoGo 60,609]

Her whole discography, minus the three singles, have all been upgraded to lossless on AM, so the new album better be!

[Cherry Blossom 21,472]

ugh i love neil a lot, i’m studying him for my gcse art identity course and am hoping to do some photography/editing and physical art inspired by the uv photoshoots

 

also i’m crying at the two and a half pages of elton john discourse 

 

and also again i wanna add to the wildfire wildflower convo, it’s my least fave of the three i like it but the low quality ending just really isn’t nice to listen to imo

[palemoonbaby 14,997]

28 minutes ago, Deadly Nightshade said:

For real like these photos he posted are amazing and they are making me emotional 

His photoshoots are amazing, he never fails

[COCC 29,553]

4 minutes ago, Nikogo said:

Her whole discography, minus the three singles, have all been upgraded to lossless on AM, so the new album better be!

But I want Atmos or whatever it is called 

[Churchome Rep 3,380]

If you were an insider and heard Blue Banisters (the song) ahead of time, how would you describe it to others? Like what existing Lana song is most similar to it

 

BoZ said Yosemite & I Don’t Wanna Go. Maybe rhythmically similar in Yosemite but not sonically I feel

[lanasbottom 23,694]

10 minutes ago, Nikogo said:

Her whole discography, minus the three singles, have all been upgraded to lossless on AM, so the new album better be!

but dolby atmos WHEN??? who do we need to harass for us to finally be able to listen to uv and godlymoon in their immersive psychedelic 3D perfection ???? honeymoon always looses SOMETHING ITS JUST SICK 

[palemoonbaby 14,997]

1 minute ago, NewportBitch said:

If you were an insider and heard Blue Banisters (the song) ahead of time, how would you describe it to others? Like what existing Lana song is most similar to it

 

BoZ said Yosemite & I Don’t Wanna Go. Maybe rhythmically similar in Yosemite but not sonically I feel

Ambienty, really minimalistic, space-y. Mix of Hope Is... and Burnt Norton.

[Dominikx4 25,399]

2 minutes ago, NewportBitch said:

If you were an insider and heard Blue Banisters (the song) ahead of time, how would you describe it to others? Like what existing Lana song is most similar to it

 

BoZ said Yosemite & I Don’t Wanna Go. Maybe rhythmically similar in Yosemite but not sonically I feel

tbh id also say Yosemite cuz the "and that scared me" line from BB has the same melody as "for the right reasons" from Yosemite

i wouldnt know any other song id compare it to