Blue Banisters - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[lets ride 799]

10 minutes ago, Jessica Apple Bottom Jean said:

Tidal has BB in masters (highest) quality. The sound is amazing, even on those 5 older songs!

Unfortunately, there’s clipping on Tidal as well. I listened last night with my headphone amp/dac setup and Beautiful and Sweet Carolina were noticeably bad. 
 

Further disappointing is that Apple Music doesn’t have it in master quality, just regular lossless. I didn’t hear clipping on theirs at all but the quality was generally less crisp than Tidal. 

[IanadeIrey 60,515]

Just now, GrenadineGrass said:

not lana forcing us to buy it in onder to profit

Using my username privilege to earn Miss Del Rey her coins! 

[Ocean Boulevard 38,878]

If You Lie Down With Me is stunning!! But I wanna appreciate the intro real quick, the piano & her vocals giving me goosebumps everytime

Also I get somehow Honeymoon vibes from this song because it sounds kinda romantic & dreamy 

[prettywhenimhigh 48,271]

  

Just now, Urbanney said:

 

I don’t like the album, and I don’t want Lana to get her long-sought “approval” from the critics for songs that, imo, give up a lot of the qualities that made her music unique.

 

A reason I’ve always loved Lana and her music is that she experimented and made something completely unique. There are some aspects/moments that are unique on this album, but overall, this feels like an album that could be sang by anyone who’s known as a singer. It’s just an album of classic/standard ballads.

 

Compare this to AKA, BTD, UV, HM, NFR, her unreleased music, or, hell, even Sirens, which sound like nothing else around, still, to this day. Both Blue Banisters and Chemtrails are just so dull for me for this reason. There are a few songs I really connect to off of each,, and that’s it. 

 

okay you don't like it and that's on you but she definitely  doesn't deserve a 60 for this project

it ain't any honeymoon or ultraviolence but wishing her to fail like this... idk seems really unfair just because you're not connecting 

 

[Blackestday x CN 5,001]

2 minutes ago, Dealer Boulevard said:

If You Lie Down With Me is stunning!! But I wanna appreciate the intro real quick, the piano & her vocals giving me goosebumps everytime

Also I get somehow Honeymoon vibes from this song because it sounds kinda romantic & dreamy 

 

absolutely correct. i love honeymoon and this song is a present for every honeymoon lover. I could just listen to this song for hours. barrie has to come back

[CmonDownToFL 6,680]

Black bathing suit is a fuckinf masterpiece!!!!! What’s not clicking??? 

[Blackestday x CN 5,001]

Today I noticed something, Lana has a few songs that have a unique atmosphere and their mood is unmatched.  Four songs that come to mind at the moment  

 

If you lie down with me  

Thunder

 Yosemite

 Salvatore

[Honeyyoung 16,969]

 

[prettywhenimhigh 48,271]

can't believe I'm actually stanning living legend  

[dungdung 485]

black bathing sit reminds me of hallelujah

[Surf Noir 188,206]

i'm going to keep it very real... this may be my least favorite ldr album... at least for now... but i still want to see the album succeed & do well, get great reviews, etc. especially since i can tell my opinion is certainly the minority  

[Trash Magic 26,692]

DEALER!!!!

 

It was so cool to hear the song title in the context of the lyric. The lyrics to the verses are so clever and fun. And it goes without saying her vocal is such a fun switch up from the usual stuff. Perfect track 

[godsmonster 13,764]

honestly, take COCC and BB and condense them into this

Wild At Heart

1. White Dress

2. Blue Banisters

3. Chemtrails Over The Country Club

4. White Hot Forever (Tulsa Jesus Freak)

5. Black Bathing Suit

6. Wild at Heart

7. Arcadia

8. Dark But Just A Game

9. Yosemite

10. Breaking Up Slowly

11. Violets for Roses

12. Dealer

13. Beautiful

14. Sweet Carolina

15. For Free

 

is she long? yes. but is she good? also yes.

[CmonDownToFL 6,680]

I’m truly screeching black bathing suit is dragging me by the wig. 
 

mail me when you get the blues caught me off guard though 

[SalvaWHORE 32,625]

will she make it to next week's number 1 spot on billboard 200 girlies?  I'm really scared of Elton John & she hasnt even set her socials public again 

 

 

Damn he is literally blocking Blue Banisters on iTunes 

[CinnamonGay 10,513]

1 hour ago, Fart Deco said:

I love Halsey’s vocals in the BBS intro.

Sorry ...those are crows..not rats..

Beautiful album from start to finish 😭😭😭😭

I'm so happy I didnt listen to the leaks!!!

 

Wowwww..BBS MADE ME GO ??!?!?!?!?!?#?$[+(÷*$>@[(×2[[××[#[$>÷[

 

😭😭😭

[arcadialovesong2018 674]

Thank you @lanadelrey for your very sweet message and many others that wrote messages like ' say what you want about @arcadialovesong02018 BUT ...'. Know that I love you all. 

 

Anyway, who is excited for the Colbert performance? (is it even happening? I see no promotion :o 

 

also anyone who lives in America, she said there would be something special today? Did you go? What was it!! So lucky! I wish I was American

 

[Let the Light In 15,133]

18 minutes ago, Honeyyoung said:

 

 

 

I love his interpretation of black bathing suit, saying it could be metaphorical for depression. 

[FallingCherry 7,731]

NFR and BB are on their thrones as my favourite LDR records, and HM and COTCC are fighting for the third spot… I think it’s impossible for me to like an album more than NFR, because it’s literally my favourite album of all time, but BB is insanely good, I knew from the title track that the album was going to wreak me emotionally and I was right

[triangles19 2,378]

Finally heard the album, and I'm not 100% into it. Here's some of my raw feelings :

the - s :

- One thing I like very much about Lana's music is that she had very distinctive artistic directions for every album she made, but with Blue Banisters it's not that clear, it's the first time I'll agree with people saying she repeats herself (Beautiful and Violets for Roses are the main exemples). I'm sure most of the songs are more-or-less old unreleased tracks so there's a strong feeling of déjà-vu for me.

Plus, this album misses a strong lead track (like OTTR, WC, HBTB, SB, VB, DBJAG) imo.

- Beautiful is pretty boring (strings or not), but I love the lyrics.

- I heard If you lie down with me 2 times and it doesn't really works on me for now. The song reminds me California btw.

the + s :

- That being said, the album is pretty cohesive. It's a ballad album, and some of them are incredible like the 3 lead singles (BB, TB, WFWF) that are among the strongest tracks she ever made imo.

- One funny thing is that I had more fun discovering the already-knew-tracks as being part of an official record than the new ones. The super new version of Thunder, Nectar, Living legend and Cherry Blossom, here mastered together, is perfect and Living Legend is def one of my fave songs from her, it's infinitely deep. 

+ I hear two completely different songs with the two Thunder versions we have now. I love them both, but differently.

- I'm mixed about Black Bathing Suit, I don't like the line "They're fucking broke and we're laughin' about them", but I like the rest of the lyrics, and I like the Beatlesesque production.

- Dealer is an incredible song, I'm really happy I never listened to the leak so I had a virgin point of view (the fake (?) synth on the leaked version is an artistic sabotage, glad I haven't discovered the track this way).

- Even if it feels like an already-heard track I really like Violet for Roses.

- Sweet Caroline is such a sweet and beautiful track - and a strong feminist song.

So,

I don't know where to rank Blue Banisters with the others. After my first listen of COCC, I instantly knew it was my fave LDR record, but I'm not that impressed with this one. There's no surprise into it. I like it, it's a cute album, a vast record but I have no idea of its replay value for me now.

+ Excuse my english, I'm french