Blue Banisters - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[honeybadger 40,622]

i've been off for a bit because i didn't listen to the leak and wanted to process the album on my own... all i can say is this album is truly incredible. 

[fishtails 13,831]

7 hours ago, IanadeIrey said:

In regards to what the 'one word' is, Lana said it was one that affected the rest of the album. I immediately thought it was "mother" (which she says on BBS).

The matriarchal theme has never been a present theme on any album of Lana's before, yet it underlies and informs many of the experiences she sings about on this record. Our familial upbringing – particularly our relationships with our parents – undoubtedly has the most impact on the way we move through the world. 

I like this theory a lot, and I agree that this is the first time she's used a matriarchal theme in her music

But if it really is a word that she's never used in a song before, then it can't be "mother" since she has used that in Body Electric:

"Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn's my mother"

 

Unless she just forgot about that line haha

Edit: and Old Money too

[bluechemtrails 27,265]

18 minutes ago, alittleparty said:

 

I've gone back and forth on if the "lie la lie"s in IYLDWM are a reference to Simon & Garfunkel "The Boxer." I always think of it. I can't see a thematic connection between the songs, but it's such a well-known chorus, I'm sure she would've had it in mind.

I like to think so, since she's in her folk phase right now. And her work is full of such references that we may not have uncovered all yet.

[Fingertips 72,051]

22 minutes ago, honeybadger said:

i've been off for a bit because i didn't listen to the leak and wanted to process the album on my own... all i can say is this album is truly incredible. 

exactly exactly 

 

what are your faves?

[bluechemtrails 27,265]

4 hours ago, sunchase said:

Guys please tell me who Kevin is in Sweet Carolina  losing my shit

Someone on ig said it could be the californian politician Kevin McCarthy , but I don't know how much is behind it.

[Solar Fields 4,163]

36 minutes ago, Brooklynbaby said:

Honestly I keep going back the beautiful over and over i love how she’s gone from “out of the black into the blue” and now she’s “turning the blue into something beautiful” 

Got chills reading this 

[alittleparty 2,282]

8 hours ago, littleredpartydress said:

Lineage 

Brilliant! Another variation on this could be "legacy"

 

• a thing handed down by a predecessor

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

yeah i don't care about beautiful at all. should've been scrapped and replaced with a better ballad

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fine china perhaps 

 

[Solar Fields 4,163]

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yeah i don't care about beautiful at all. should've been scrapped and replaced with a better ballad

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fine china perhaps 

 

Okay yes Fine China is far superior but the vocals and the piano on Beautiful 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,352]

Just now, Honeyyoung said:

yeah i don't care about beautiful at all. should've been scrapped and replaced with a better ballad

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fine china perhaps 

 

Are you BOZ? 

i Love Fine China, but Beautiful is a stellar track to me… I just wish she had put the string version on streaming. 

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

1 minute ago, Solar Fields said:

Okay yes Fine China is far superior but the vocals and the piano on Beautiful 

the piano is gorgeous but the melody is not that appealing for me

[daddyauerbach 2,168]

4 minutes ago, Honeyyoung said:

yeah i don't care about beautiful at all. should've been scrapped and replaced with a better ballad

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fine china perhaps 

 

beautiful is the only skip for me. its kinda repetitive

 

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

1. Black Bathing Suit
2. Thunder
3. Dealer
4. Sweet Carolina
5. If You Lie Down With Me
6. Wildflower Wildfire
7. Violets For Roses
8. Blue Banisters
9. Arcadia
10. Living Legend
11. Cherry Blossom
12. Text Book
13. Nectar Of The Gods
14. Beautiful
15. Interlude - The Trio

 

[Taco Truck x VB 3,613]

i was scrolling through the thread from yesterday where people were comparing UV and BB and i’d like to think of UV as a moody teenager and BB is the mature adult version who’s been through the pain but is healing?

[strange weather 1,954]

2 hours ago, Thoth said:

 

Yes I immediately thought about the word "mother" too but she mentioned it before in Old Money.

True, but in a completely different context. This is the first time in her released music that she's clued us in on the troubled relationship she has with her mom.

[Solar Fields 4,163]

1. Dealer

2. Thunder

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3. Text Book

4. Blue Banisters

5. Arcadia

6. WFWF

7. Sweet Carolina

8. Beautiful

9. If You Lie Down with Me

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10. Cherry Blossom

11. Nectar of the Gods

12. Violets for Roses

13. BBS

14. Living Legend

15. The Trio

 

 

[CinnamonGay 10,527]

Beautiful is so sad and stellar..pls

 

 

[ByDayAnother 1,920]

22 minutes ago, Solar Fields said:

Got chills reading this 

Random question but is your username a reference to Tori Amos’ 1000 Oceans? 🤓

[5Rick 2,925]

My ears are burning but I simply can’t stop send help 

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

so according to her no blue banisters tour?