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  1. 1. What are your favourite tracks from Blue Banisters?

    • Text Book
      232
    • Blue Banisters
      269
    • Arcadia
      252
    • Interlude - The Trio
      134
    • Black Bathing Suit
      478
    • If You Lie Down With Me
      414
    • Beautiful
      175
    • Violets for Roses
      271
    • Dealer
      455
    • Thunder
      465
    • Wildflower Wildfire
      316
    • Nectar of the Gods
      268
    • Living Legend
      308
    • Cherry Blossom
      221
    • Sweet Carolina
      253


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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. :poordat:

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

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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.

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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 :oprah:

 

what are your faves?


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"You can't be a muse and be happy, too.

You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry and be happy." - Blue Banisters

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I asked Asmodeus (the demon of lust) to make Miley Cyrus suffer. I am not happy with these new developments. After Miley rips off Lana's aesthetic, she bullies Lana into changing her release date. It is infuriating. 

 

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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” :cryney2:

Got chills reading this :excited:

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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 :oopna:

 

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

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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 :oopna:

 

Are you BOZ? :assad:

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

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1 minute ago, Solar Fields said:

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

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

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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 :oopna:

 

beautiful is the only skip for me. its kinda repetitive

 


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  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

 

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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.


  let me be who i'm meant to be

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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

 

 

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