Blue Banisters - Pre-Release Thread: OUT October 22nd, 2021

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20 minutes ago, HoneymoonDaddy said:

Maam....https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-beautiful-lyrics

 

Omg  that's embarrassing

 

This is the post I was talking about, a lot of people (including me, I guess) didn't recognise the lyrics. 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, The Siren said:

that's a quote from sylvia plath's the bell jar  

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friendly reminder: genius is NOT accurate! anybody can edit it! 

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

life sucks

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I've said this before, but Genius is a super unreliable source. Anyone can edit it (and they do), so unless the song is already out, the lyrics shouldn't be trusted. It's like the Wikipedia of a pre-release 

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I need someone to paint my banisters….Or just spill some tea about "If you lie Down with Me" 

[StillOnMyMind 2,059]

My ranking of my most anticipated new tracks: 
Black Bathing Suit > If You Lie Down With Me > Violets for Roses > Beautiful > Sweet Carolina

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Genius is not always a reliable source, and yeah anyone could have edited the lyrics, but having Lana recite some Sylvia Plath as an album interlude feels entirely plausible. The word "beautiful" is in the first sentence of the lyrics, Lana has already recited T.S. Elliot for the Burnt Norton Interlude, and we know Lana idolizes Plath and has already referenced her in Hope and in her poetry, and Lana likes to repeat the same themes and motifs in her music so this just seems like something she would do. I am really hoping Beautiful is not a poetry interlude, because the album already has the Trio Interlude and there are so few songs on the album that I haven't already heard.

But also, the Blue Bannisters Wikipedia page lists the writing credits for each of the songs, and Sylvia Plath is not listed as a writer for Beautiful, so that would suggest that the Sylvia Plath lyrics are fake. Does anyone know where those writing credits came from, and if we can trust them? I was also wondering if there is going to be a cover song on the album, or if Sweet Carolina is possibly a cover of Sweet Caroline (please no). But if those writing credits are true, it seems like Sweet Carolina is an original song and there are no cover songs on the album.

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Just now, StillOnMyMind said:

My ranking of my most anticipated new tracks: 
Black Bathing Suit > If You Lie Down With Me > Violets for Roses > Beautiful > Sweet Carolina

the opposite will be true when it comes to quality 

[5Rick 2,925]

Nerd alert! Why do I prefer to listen to Arcadia on Spotify even if Apple Music has  looseness quality which is way better than Spotify’s? WHERE will you listen to Blue Banisters? Spotify or Apple Music and why?

 

ALSO, Rob is so cute to hype us up while Lana is gone 

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Who would’ve thought that UV outtakes would be officially released after all these years  

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Idk who needs to hear this but it’s Blue Banisters not Blue Bannisters 

[Future Jazz 9,194]

I have to say it's really exciting not knowing what any of the remaining 5 tracks sounds like. We have no production credits, we have no insider information, we have none of the information Lana herself usually gives in interviews, we have no snippets from her Instagram account. We don't even have lengths. And I don't think statements like "a collection of beautiful ballads" or "probably mostly piano" are good indicators, because the direction of the album was changed since they were made and they were really vague to begin with.

 

Several elements make me think that quite anything is possible. Text Book had a Honeymoon-like production, in the sense that it was meticulously crafted, slightly mysterious, it actually had density. It also had a somewhat catchy beat. I was surprised when I heard it, because it was nothing like a piano ballad, and nothing like Chemtrails either. But the interlude is what really makes me think that something upbeat might be coming afterwards, which is reinforced by Black Bathing Suits being explicit. The following titles give no indication as to the sound of the songs they correspond to, in my opinion, but I think there might be a pattern of slow songs then upbeat songs from track 5 to track 7-8 like on Lust For Life or Honeymoon, so they could be that, building up some energy and transitioning into the rockier part of the record (Dealer/Thunder), ending with acoustic songs which might have been reworked, and mysterious Sweet Carolina.

 

All those songs could also be country as far as we know. They could be upbeat songs, or jazzy songs. Maybe even rock songs, as some of them were done with Dawes. There's literally no telling, because any of those genres could work with her telling her own story. I think that's the first time we have so much mystery surrounding the unknown songs 

 

Despite all the songs we know about, there are also more songs whose existence got revealed by the tracklist than usually (5 on Chemtrails including For Free, 2 on NFR, 4 on LFL). Actually Honeymoon had 9-10 songs we didn't know about, and Ultraviolence a lot too, but that was long ago.

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9 minutes ago, Future Jazz said:

All those songs could also be country as far as we know. They could be upbeat songs, or jazzy songs. Maybe even rock songs, as some of them were done with Dawes.

All we‘re asking for are electric guitars 

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19 minutes ago, The Stargirl Pinky said:

Idk who needs to hear this but it’s Blue Banisters not Blue Bannisters 

 

Isn't it also Sweet Carolina?

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Color Vinyls are back

 

 

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Shs changed the date of vinyls btw

 

No longer 29th now its coming in the same day that the album drops

 

 

https://store.universalmusic.com/lanadelrey/*/*/BLUE-BANISTERS-VINYL-BUNDLE/757T0000000

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ever since we got the tracklist and I've seen Sweet Carolina mentioned my mind instantly starts to play Sweet Caroline. at first it was annoying but I've blasted the song for some days and now I actually want Lana to cover it 

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Another element that makes me think that tracks 5 to 8, or at least some of them, are upbeat, is the diversity that there usually is in her long records.

 

Ultraviolence (standard version) and Chemtrails are, in my opinion, her most homogenous albums (the first one has dominant electric guitars and slow drums, the second one has dominant piano and country twangs). They're also her shortest. On the contrary, Lust For Life, Norman Fucking Rockwell and Honeymoon, which are considerably longer, each encompass a wider range of genres.

 

That's why I think Lana is going for an album with diversity this time as well. I can't see the 15 songs being ballads, especially if she wants to explore the depths and the complexities of what her own story is made of. And given how the unreleased songs she picked are either acoustic or rock-sounding - she didn't pick any of her hundreds of unreleased bops, although she could have, even though they're not deemed as legitimate as most of her work - I'm thinking they might also be there to balance the upbeat songs that might be there between Arcadia and Dealer.