Blue Banisters - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[takemybreath 7,466]

happy bday Blue Banisters 

[venice biotch 7,559]

happy birthday my favourite album!! <33 

[Embach 45,092]

On 10/21/2024 at 12:32 PM, Embach said:

Happy 3rd Birthday, dear Blue Banisters! I will always be the biggest stan of Black Bathing Suit, what a chaotic bop, the prequel to A&W!

Retweet, today is the day!

[Vertimus 9,673]

Just now, Embach said:

Retweet, today is the day!

The period when it dropped was a wonderful period of my life, which helped me appreciate it but I would have loved it at any time. 

[Cult Leader 5,647]

Happy Birthday BB! This album is perfect for introspective quiet mornings!

From my BB Pinterest board:

[lmdr 10,903]

i hate this youtube playlist!

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 9,496]

Wow three years has flown by. I remember being SO happy with the cover art after the trauma Chemtrails caused. The title track has definitely earned a spot in my top 10 Lana songs. It took a minute for it to fully hit me, but once it did - wow  The storytelling, the subtle production, and those delicate piano notes during "green and grey" get me every time. I love how the piano sounds like a faint siren or plane going down—so subtle, yet so haunting.

 

For me, I return to Text Book, Blue Banisters, Arcadia, Black Bathing Suit, Wildflower Wildfire, and Sweet Carolina the most. I'm not counting the unreleased tracks - I played them to hell and back before the album dropped.

This album also has some of my least favorite Lana songs - Beautiful and Violets for Roses are....something. And there is something so corny about If You Lie Down With Me which is sad because it's an outtakes from my favorite Lana album. I want to like it. I've tried. But it makes me feel like a train robber when I listen to it. I would love to hear the UV version.

 

To me, I see this album as more of a mixtape. It makes for a great fall playlist when the season starts changing and I want some cozy background vibes. 

[thiskidstorm 93]

I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since BB dropped but I have to say the nostalgia is so strong today. I still remember when it dropped, I was freshly 23 and found myself in the middle of a skilled nursing turned Covid unit in the wee hours of the night, again. I was in such a weird, not so great place in my life. I was finally free from a bad relationship but stuck trying to find freedom within myself which felt impossible being trapped in all the plastic and under the respirators for 12 hours and forced to watch so many people get sick and pass away so astonishingly quick. I couldn’t love the way I wanted to, speak the way I wanted to, live the way I wanted to. It was awful for all of us but more so the patients. The themes and tones of this album saved a part of me I didn’t know at the time needed it and created a part of me I didn’t see coming. Especially being that the people around me refused to let me be me. Do the things I wanted, say the things I wanted… Everyone in my life built me up 300 feet tall just to tear me down.. I watched the leaves fall while my tears did too as I finally was able to get outside and breathe the fresh air and not the n95. I felt so much peace and love from this album and somehow I served as a vessel to spread the love and comfort to the people who needed it the most in these times. The memories I made to this album, the great things I did. The way it made me stand tall in the light of such intense criticism and transformation. How all those fall days passed and the chords still played.

I remember the people from my past still trying to put what I had going on together in my head and all the ways I was topic of conversation after all those years, black bathing suit hit home for me. My soul was tired yes but I was more tired of the false criticisms and accusations of people who used to know me or not even at all. It made sense for me in that moment. Their interest really made stacks out of it for me, and it all helped me deliver the biggest fuck you to the people who were going up against me. 

I remember years later (May 2023 I believe) the pandemic was finally over for the healthcare workers (mostly). We had watched the world run free while we still suffered. But finally we were finally told by the government and corporations that we could take our masks off. It felt so free and wholesome to see everyone’s smiles and for our patients to see ours. Violets for Roses came on my AirPods and it all made sense in that moment. There truly was something in the air while we all ran free with our masks off and it made me so happy. It’s just funny how god puts us exactly where we need to be in the right moments. Thoughts of the day ☁️📝

[honeymoon is alive 22,088]

i love this album and i hate everyone who hates it  happy bday blue banisters my baby

[X8deletedUserX 4,726]

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[Lindsay Lohan 10,779]

The only real flaw to Question For The Culture is that is spawned this terrible compilation album

[Candy Necklace 8,176]

I'll always love this album for what it is  Dealer, If You Lie Down With Me, Black Bathing Suit, Thunder will always be stand-outs 

[sjatib 5,174]

Still my personal favourite record from Lana. And that's a lot to say.

 

Maybe the most authentic portrayal of what life's about for her and for everyone in some way: being courageous enough to live wholly; confronting the trauma that comes as well with it; being honest enough to search the ways to heal afterwards.

 

Happy birthday, Blue Banisters. You are such an artistic treasure.

[barttttender 5,247]

17 hours ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

The only real flaw to Question For The Culture is that is spawned this terrible compilation album

 

This.

 

The only songs I ever give a spin to are Black Bathing Suit, If You Lie Down with Me (which legit has a great melody), and Wildflower when I'm being a sad boy. I'll play Thunder, like, once a year. But I can't get over the fact that she put a 10 year old song on a record.

 

Do not understand the love for Dealer either. That song has outtake written all over it. The only thing that's good about it is the title lol.

 

I still believe Interscope made her put out another album since they were in a crisis during covid. Or she needed the cash.

 

But happy it has its fans. Happy birthday

 

 

 

 

 

[Vertimus 9,673]

14 hours ago, sjatib said:

Still my personal favourite record from Lana. And that's a lot to say.

 

Maybe the most authentic portrayal of what life's about for her and for everyone in some way: being courageous enough to live wholly; confronting the trauma that comes as well with it; being honest enough to search the ways to heal afterwards.

 

Happy birthday, Blue Banisters. You are such an artistic treasure.

Beautifully stated. Funny that so many don't get BB, or actively dislike it--for me, it's her purest record, one hundred times better in every way than OB, which I find clumsy, concocted, poorly produced in places, and repetitious.

 

She seems at peace throughout BB, even on WFWF, because she's releasing that demon and freeing herself of it in the process.

 

Two of my Top Five of Lana's songs are on BB--IYLDWM and Violets For Roses. 

 

To my ears, BB still sounds as fresh as the first day I listened to it. 

[Nectar Of The Puss 1,103]

This album means more to me than when I have my first child blue banisters is my muse, lifestyle and musical lover that I’ll grow old with till the day I die

[Thunder Revenant 20,977]

Love this record. Such a great listening experience and it got do much shit because some people have such one-track minds.

[sjatib 5,174]

On 10/23/2024 at 12:54 PM, Vertimus said:

Beautifully stated. Funny that so many don't get BB, or actively dislike it--for me, it's her purest record, one hundred times better in every way than OB, which I find clumsy, concocted, poorly produced in places, and repetitious.

 

She seems at peace throughout BB, even on WFWF, because she's releasing that demon and freeing herself of it in the process.

 

Two of my Top Five of Lana's songs are on BB--IYLDWM and Violets For Roses. 

 

To my ears, BB still sounds as fresh as the first day I listened to it. 

It's its confessional,  pretention-deprived nature what does it for me I think. Not that I dislike her more ominous sounding albums  (all the opposite), yet this one record is just Lana talking from the deepest place and music being just a channel. I mean, there's definitely a beautiful, defined aesthethic behind it, but it doesnt overshadow the strong narrative but strengthens it. And both the sound and the stories are fully developed and work on their own and as a whole, something that was heavily missing from the praised NFR, IMO.

 

About OB, I find it to be maybe her most relevant album as it showcases in one way or another her whole artistic proposal. I mean, it works somehow as a Lana retrospective exposition while adding some interesting new features as well. I definitely find it to be a bit overbloated though, with too many songs and some of them that don't happen to add a lot. It was my most listened to album last year though, so I think the balance is positive in the end.

[Vertimus 9,673]

9 hours ago, sjatib said:

It's its confessional,  pretention-deprived nature what does it for me I think. Not that I dislike her more ominous sounding albums  (all the opposite), yet this one record is just Lana talking from the deepest place and music being just a channel. I mean, there's definitely a beautiful, defined aesthethic behind it, but it doesnt overshadow the strong narrative but strengthens it. And both the sound and the stories are fully developed and work on their own and as a whole, something that was heavily missing from the praised NFR, IMO.

 

About OB, I find it to be maybe her most relevant album as it showcases in one way or another her whole artistic proposal. I mean, it works somehow as a Lana retrospective exposition while adding some interesting new features as well. I definitely find it to be a bit overbloated though, with too many songs and some of them that don't happen to add a lot. It was my most listened to album last year though, so I think the balance is positive in the end.

 

She seems and sounds healthy on BB, does she not? Happy, mature, at peace in her "deepest place," as you say? Even on Arcadia and Violets For Roses, the negatives are balanced by a calm inner strength. And so are Beautiful and Text Book. In Black Bathing Suit, she's rather politely but cleverly telling off the critics and others who mocked and ridiculed her. And while If You Lay Down With Me might be an older song, it's also a show of quiet control and strength. 

 

That's why I dislike A&W, which I don't find credible. After the more mature, approaching middle-age, Carly Simon-esque sound and lyrics of BB, I see A&W as a failed attempt to come across as edgy again, and in the coarsest way possible, claiming for herself the same image so many critics had of her to begin with. I also see the fuck me to death line in the title track as pathetic—and beneath her. The You fucked me so good I said I love you from NFR! I find just as bad. 

 

I agree about NFR! Much of it is ho-hum and unchallenging. I greatly prefer songs like Heroin, 13 Beaches, and WTWWATWKOD, where she stepped outside of her comfort zone and succeeded in being creative and world-building, to use one of her terms. I do like The Greatest very much—it's world-building and world-destroying in the same track. 

 

Even Venice Bitch, let's be honest, is 98% Jack Antonoff and 2% Lana Del Rey. He took a slight lyric and expanded it into a world of his own. 

 

Viva Blue Banisters. Peace. 

[Candy Necklace 8,176]

16 minutes ago, Vertimus said:

 

She seems and sounds healthy on BB, does she not? Happy, mature, at peace in her "deepest place," as you say? Even on Arcadia and Violets For Roses, the negatives are balanced by a calm inner strength. And so are Beautiful and Text Book. In Black Bathing Suit, she's rather politely but cleverly telling off the critics and others who mocked and ridiculed her. And while If You Lay Down With Me might be an older song, it's also a show of quiet control and strength. 

 

That's why I dislike A&W, which I don't find credible. After the more mature, approaching middle-age, Carly Simon-esque sound and lyrics of BB, I see A&W as a failed attempt to come across as edgy again, and in the coarsest way possible, claiming for herself the same image so many critics had of her to begin with. I also see the fuck me to death line in the title track as pathetic—and beneath her. The You fucked me so good I said I love you from NFR! I find just as bad. 

 

I agree about NFR! Much of it is ho-hum and unchallenging. I greatly prefer songs like Heroin, 13 Beaches, and WTWWATWKOD, where she stepped outside of her comfort zone and succeeded in being creative and world-building, to use one of her terms. I do like The Greatest very much—it's world-building and world-destroying in the same track. 

 

Even Venice Bitch, let's be honest, is 98% Jack Antonoff and 2% Lana Del Rey. He took a slight lyric and expanded it into a world of his own. 

 

Viva Blue Banisters. Peace. 

If middle age means you lose all the edge you have and you can only make piano ballads then I don't want it