Blue Banisters - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[Fingertips 72,034]

 

The comments all loving this song...let me become a YouTube Lana stan, because VfR is one of my favorite tracks off of BB but everyone here hates it

 

 

[lanasbottom 23,694]

12 minutes ago, Venice Peach said:

 

I don't know why this happened or what even that chart is but well, good for Lana !

 

trending where ? at the oklahoma retirement home ? 

[The Grants 13,469]

that chart is literally JUST k pop and there is lana at fuckin number ONE with VIOLETS FOR ROSES THIS IS THE MOST RANDOM THING TO EVER HAPPEN LIKE WTF IS GOING ON 😭

[Venice Peach 54,289]

Apparently it is about songs that get talked about on social media but it makes no sense... like I would expect SS or Dealer or whatever is popular on tiktok at a given moment, not VFR of all songs 

[PatentLeatherDoOver 25,780]

Unrelated but the triple singles are still my favorites…

 

the lyrics, the gorgeous outros…

[The Grants 13,469]

4 minutes ago, Venice Peach said:

Apparently it is about songs that get talked about on social media but it makes no sense... like I would expect SS or Dealer or whatever is popular on tiktok at a given moment, not VFR of all songs 

there is literally no one talking about VFR not even on tiktok 😭

[the ocean 67,597]

i'm sorry i don't really understand the hate for violets for roses when beautiful is right there on the same album

like let an ACTUALLY beautiful song get her moment

[Yameena Khatri 3,201]

This is how I felt when Other Woman started trending 

[Vertimus 9,547]

1 hour ago, Fingertips said:

 

The comments all loving this song...let me become a YouTube Lana stan, because VfR is one of my favorite tracks off of BB but everyone here hates it

 

 

No, it's one of my Top 5 all-time Lana favorites. So glad it's doing well. 

[Fingertips 72,034]

11 minutes ago, Vertimus said:

No, it's one of my Top 5 all-time Lana favorites. So glad it's doing well. 

I knew I liked you for a reason. It's one of my favorites as well, probably in my top ten or fifteen at this point. Taste!

[Vertimus 9,547]

6 minutes ago, Fingertips said:

I knew I liked you for a reason. It's one of my favorites as well, probably in my top ten or fifteen at this point. Taste!

Thank you. And the funny thing is I just came in from a long winter walk and the last song I listened to before getting back to the house was 'Violets For Roses.' It's stunning and subtle, especially the "hhh...hhhhmmmms" that anchor the song towards the end and drive home everything that came before. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Fingertips said:

 

The comments all loving this song...let me become a YouTube Lana stan, because VfR is one of my favorite tracks off of BB but everyone here hates it

 

 

That's my fav track from the album 

[rightofjupiter 16,493]

3 hours ago, Fingertips said:

 

The comments all loving this song...let me become a YouTube Lana stan, because VfR is one of my favorite tracks off of BB but everyone here hates it

 

 

 

2 hours ago, the ocean said:

i'm sorry i don't really understand the hate for violets for roses when beautiful is right there on the same album

like let an ACTUALLY beautiful song get her moment

 

thank y'all let VFR live her lovely life! i don't get why this song is so hated but cest la vie i guess, i hate beautiful but plenty of people love it.

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2 hours ago, the ocean said:

i'm sorry i don't really understand the hate for violets for roses when beautiful is right there on the same album

like let an ACTUALLY beautiful song get her moment

 

THIS 

[Lake Placid 3,273]

3 hours ago, Venice Peach said:

like I would expect SS or Dealer or whatever is popular on tiktok at a given moment, not VFR of all songs

Violets for Roses got semi trend on tiktok a few months ago (17k videos with a few over 100k likes)  but at least its a good song from the album to trend, Sweet Carolina got a cute trend about the lilac iphone but for sweet carolina to trend doesnt make sense, violets for roses trending does make sense tho

[Fingertips 72,034]

1 hour ago, Vertimus said:

Thank you. And the funny thing is I just came in from a long winter walk and the last song I listened to before getting back to the house was 'Violets For Roses.' It's stunning and subtle, especially the "hhh...hhhhmmmms" that anchor the song towards the end and drive home everything that came before. 

 

 

It has such a memorable tune, I can't help but thinking about it when I'm not listening to it

[daddyishere 284]

I just want to say that to the 95% of people that didn’t include Cherry Blossom among their favorites…god is ALWAYS watching. And she’s not pleased with your choices…

 

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i just mentioned this in the pre-release thread, but even though I don’t really like Blue Banisters sonically, I’ll never understand why people criticize her recent lyricism. it’s by far her best; it seems like almost all of the songs on that album were originally poems that she turned into songs, and they read exactly like that when you take away the parts that are clearly just there to make it flow better as a song. i wanted to give a few examples… read them like poetry, not like you’re singing along in your head

 

Wildflower Wildfire

Spoiler

Here's the deal, because I know you want to talk about it:

I promise you a million tomorrows

I promise I'll lie down like a bed of wildflowers

And I'll always make the sheets smell like gardenias wild at your feet

And I nourish you hazily

 

I've been running on stardust alone for so long

I wouldn't know what hot fire was

I'm better with you, it’s strange, but it's true, darling

Not to turn into a wildfire

To light up your night

With only my smile and nothing that burns

I'll be like a wildflower

I live on sheer willpower

I'll do my best never to turn into something

That burns like the others

 

You say there's gaps to fill in, so here the deal:

My father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me

So I ended up awkward but sweet

Then later hospitals, but still on my feet

Comfortably numb

And with lithium came poetry

 

And I've been running on star drip IV's for so long

I wouldn't know how cruel the world was

I learned it from you;

Not to turn into a wildfire

To light up your night

With only my smile and nothing that hurts

I run like a wildflower

I live on sheer willpower

I promise that nothing will burn you

It's you from whom I learn

 

Blue Banisters

Spoiler

There's a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere

Jenny handed me a beer and said, "How the hell did you get there?"

—Oklahoma.

 

There were flowers that were dry sitting on the dresser

She asked me where they're from,

I said, "A place I don't remember"

—Oklahoma.

 

Then she jumped into the pool, she was swimming with Nikki Lane

She said,

"Most men don't want a woman with a legacy,

It’s of age

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

You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry

And be happy"

And that scared me

 

Because I met a man who said he'd come back every May

Just to help me if I'd paint my banisters blue

He said he'd fix my weathervane

He’d give me children, take away my pain

And paint my banisters blue

 

There's a hole that's in my heart all my women try to heal

They're doing a good job convincing me that it's not real

It's heat lightning

Because there's a man that's in my past

There’s a man that's still right here

He's real enough to touch

And in my darkest nights, he's shining

 

Jenny was smoking by the pool

We were writing with Nikki Lane

I said, “I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires,

I wish that it would rain”

The power of us three can bring absolutely anything

Except that one thing

The diamonds, the rust, and the rain

The thing that washes away the pain

 

But that's okay, because

Now when weather turns to May

All my sisters come to paint my banisters green

My blue banisters grey

Tex and Mex are in the Bay

Chuck is making birthday cake

Chickens running

Bare feet

There’s a baby on the way

And now my blue banisters are green and grey

 

Summer comes, winter goes

Spring, I skip, God knows

Summer comes, winter goes

Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows

Every time it turns to May

All my sisters fly to me

 

Text Book

Spoiler

I guess you could call it textbook;

I was looking for the father I wanted back

And I thought I found it in Brentwood

It seemed only appropriate you'd easily have my back

 

And then there was the issue of her

I didn't even like myself, or love the life I had

And there you were with shining stars

Standing blue with open arms

You touched the detriment most of the friends I knew already had

 

You've got a Thunderbird, my daddy had one, too

Let's rewrite history

I'll do this dance with you

You know I'm not that girl, you know I'll never be

Maybe just the way we're different could set me free

 

And there we were, screaming, “Black Lives Matter" in the crowd

By the Old Man River, and I saw you saw who I am

God, I wish I was with my father

He could see us in all our splendor

All the things I couldn't want for him

I screamed for them

 

Could we do this dance again?

Do you think if I go blonde, we could get our old love back?

I guess this is really the end

I never felt jealous before this year, but I'm jealous now

 

People say we're too much alike

But maybe, finally, that'll make it right

In the end of all these sleepless nights

Other men I met felt right

But they would smile at you,

then stick a knife in your back

Finally, I met you so I'm not wondering why

 

And there we were, screaming, “Black Lives Matter" in the crowd

By the Old Man River, and I saw you saw who I am

God, I wish I was with my father

He could see us in all our splendor

All the things I couldn't want for him

I screamed for them

 

Old Man River keeps rolling

With or without him

 

i think reading the lyrics like this will give people who aren’t necessarily fans of the songs a newfound appreciation. it sure did for me

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ALSO on top of that, I haven’t seen people talk about how Sweet Carolina is about Chuck experiencing/being afraid to experience postpartum depression, and it’s a love letter to her get through that. that’s a topic i’ve never really heard covered in a song before, it’s so beautiful

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6 minutes ago, lilac heaven said:

ALSO on top of that, I haven’t seen people talk about how Sweet Carolina is about Chuck experiencing/being afraid to experience postpartum depression, and it’s a love letter to her get through that. that’s a topic i’ve never really heard covered in a song before, it’s so beautiful

 

I'm pretty sure we talked about it when the album was ou

 

edit: yes it's a very sweet song, chuck is so lucky