Triple single release: Blue Banisters, Text Book, & Wildflower Wildfire - OUT NOW

[too fast too young]

  On 5/22/2021 at 7:01 AM, FallingCherry said:

WW debuted with 100k less streams than BB and almost 80k less than TB on Spotify, that really surprises me. I thought it was the song fans loved the most among the three because it was produced by Mike Dean

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This can be explained by the spotify playlists. Like my release radar only had Text Book on it.

[bluefiona]

  On 5/22/2021 at 7:35 AM, FallingCherry said:

It’s true that only BB was shown as a newest release, but still, TB only debuted with 25k less streams than BB so I don’t think it has to do with  that

BB: 271 703

TB: 246 285

WW: 169 635

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Wow are you serious? WW is my favorite. It seems that BB is the one most people like.

[bluefiona]

  On 5/22/2021 at 7:49 AM, CinnamonGay said:

 

What pitiful numbers omg  ??????

 

LMLYAW itself debuted with 1.6M...

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She didn't promote it, of course it bombed. She promoted LMLYLAW and released an awful music video for it. Even so it did well.

[Ultra Violet]

Wildflower Wildfire is definitely in my top 10, and I think it'll climb higher. My chest hurts and I'm nearly crying because of the way it's compressing into me. 

[GeminiLanaFan]

I am not really surprised by the low numbers of the three singles. The songs are excellent, but to release three songs at once with zero promo, the songs need to be bombastic to speak on their own and to appeal to the masses. The three are so introspective, and I guess the « casual BTD listener » doesn’t click with them?!?

[BluebirdXO]

Maybe the numbers are low because the songs are heavy? I only listened to them 2 times on Thursday and I'm still impact by them

[huxter]

These new songs remind me so much of Florence Welch music. 

[ChaoticLipster]

Text Book really does keep getting better with each listen

[NikoGo]

I think the numbers are very appropriate for how deep the songs are and how little promo she gave them. 
 

LMLYLAW was announced, had a video, and released at midnight...Not to mention it’s more accessible to the GP. 

also I hope you all aren’t expecting bops still, that’s clearly not the direction she’s going 

[Rorman Nockwell]

Listened again and drums (and to a lesser extent, guitar) would've made these songs, especially Wildflower. You can feel in your SOUL where the drums should come in and they're missing. 

I don't have a problem with piano per se, but there's not enough variation in the melodies for a piano to carry these songs instrumentally. This is particularly true of Blue Banisters which is like four notes and her singing the same short melody over and over. 

The only interesting aspect for me is her lyricism and there's no need to replay now that I know them. 

[necessary sacrifice]

I feel like Lana released the three singles individually specifically so Blue Banisters would be the only one on display, showing up as a new release. While all three songs are very personal and intimate, that one has the least “juicy” lyrics. Not really sure how to word it, but it’s the least likely to be misunderstood. I wouldn’t be surprised if Lana wanted the other two songs to get less attention from the general public because they have grittier lyrics and she’s used to being burned. I feel like that’s why she didn’t promote the songs at all either.

[Rorman Nockwell]

  On 5/22/2021 at 10:28 AM, huxter said:

These new songs remind me so much of Florence Welch music. 

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The start of Blue Banisters reminded me of the start of HBHBHB so I went and listened to the latter to contrast and compare and realised that  that was where the similarity ended because Florence's song has actual instrumentation and builds into something instead of the same thing for 5 minutes

I fucking WISH Lana would do a Delilah at this point and HBHBHB isn't even my favourite Florence album

 

[ChaoticLipster]

  On 5/22/2021 at 12:13 PM, Rorman Nockwell said:

 

The start of Blue Banisters reminded me of the start of HBHBHB so I went and listened to the latter to contrast and compare and realised that  that was where the similarity ended because Florence's song has actual instrumentation and builds into something instead of the same thing for 5 minutes

I fucking WISH Lana would do a Delilah at this point and HBHBHB isn't even my favourite Florence album

 

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Yes I really hope she speeds things up on the rest of the songs, Delilah type songs would be all bops. 

[Crys10]

  On 5/22/2021 at 11:31 AM, ChaoticLipster said:

Text Book really does keep getting better with each listen

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It is such a sultry and sexy song. 
Oh wait, my daddy issues are acting up again. 

[Fart Deco]

I love COCC but there’s something about WW that keeps me replaying it like no other song on COCC does… 

[The Greatest]

I'm sorry these songs blow cocc out of the water both production wise and lyrically. And the single covers are obviously a publicity stunt. tiktok blows up every time she uses that selfie

[5Rick]

  On 5/22/2021 at 2:39 PM, The Greatest said:

I'm sorry these songs blow cocc out of the water both production wise and lyrically. And the single covers are obviously a publicity stunt. tiktok blows up every time she uses that selfie

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her power though! Only icons 

[Venice Peach]

The more I listen to Text Book the more I love it 

That chorus is really classic Lana with a new twist.

[American Whore]

just a heads up, whoever it was I think it was @Mer the lyrics are now on apple music

[Lustrouslines]

The quality of these songs with good headphones is mind blowing, something about her vocals on BB sound so good and ugf these tracks have taken some time to grow on me but they are hitting really hard now.