Blue Banisters - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[Terrence Loves Me 72,645]

this album is timeless

[wildheart 904]

30 minutes ago, uvbabe said:

 

It hurts me that Honeymoon is always at the bottom 

 

having taste is a rare thing nowadays

[Platinum Greenwich 13,841]

33 minutes ago, yourolllikethunder said:

all I can do is walk around the house singing “your interest really made StAcKs out of iiiiitttt for meeeee” 

 

s a m e

 

i was deadass walking around at work today just whispering this to myself under my breath

[Fingertips 72,034]

yeah, i've listened to it enough times by now to say this is officially my favorite LDR record, with too many reasons to write out at the moment. Sorry, Honeymoon  

[IanadeIrey 61,917]

Text Book, Blue Banisters, and Wildflower Wildfire  – being a first look into this record – alone were among the best songs she's ever written. I am so excited to hear how she's going to endeavour on this sound and calibre of writing moving forward. 

[In My Feelings 985]

What happened to Beautiful string version (3:54)? Is it fake? Or an early mix on vinyls/CDs?

[Dark Angel 201,027]

@IanadeIrey i can't wait to read your essay about the album!  

[Poor Stacy 11,994]

3 minutes ago, IanadeIrey said:

Text Book, Blue Banisters, and Wildflower Wildfire  – being a first look into this record – alone were among the best songs she's ever written. I am so excited to hear how she's going to endeavour on this sound and calibre of writing moving forward. 

 

Same! I love this album because it's her vision, explaining her story, a very important transitional album... But I'm also very excited at the thought of her tapping into this deeper form of writing for her next fully 'modern day Lana' album. 

[IanadeIrey 61,917]

4 minutes ago, Poor Stacy said:

 

Same! I love this album because it's her vision, explaining her story, a very important transitional album... But I'm also very excited at the thought of her tapping into this deeper form of writing for her next fully 'modern day Lana' album. 

Ugh, yes! I actually feel quite lucky when I think about how I've been able to experience every album in real time and see her go progressively deeper within her self with each record's narrative. I have always loved what she says about how there is a 'real merit to turning all the way inward' – what a principle to let guide you through life. 

 

It's so amazing, I'm really, really touched by this record and I am even more excited for her to divulge what she's committed to on future projects (Behind the Iron Gates, especially!)

[Rust Dress 40,121]

8 minutes ago, In My Feelings said:

What happened to Beautiful string version (3:54)? Is it fake? Or an early mix on vinyls/CDs?

an early mix

[littleseashell 2,499]

Me trying to explain how much I love this album

[CmonDownToFL 6,680]

I wish she had added some vocals to the trio 

[Rust Dress 40,121]

1 minute ago, CmonDownToFL said:

I wish she had added some vocals to the trio 

i wish she replaced the trio with fine china 

[Fingertips 72,034]

Random, unhinged, long musings about Cherry Blossom that I may or may not delete...

 Musing about Cherry Blossom for a bit..I think this is a really special song for many reasons, but now that I've been thinking about its presence on the album, it seems that it possesses a two-fold perspective, and has been opened to deeper meanings over the years since we first heard it. 

When she posted that instagram video singing it, it was easily dismissed as merely a lullaby that she came up with. However, being part of her 2021 album was a careful and precise decision. Not a thoughtless one.

In many ways, she seems to be opening her arms in an embrace to her past self, providing that sense of maternal protection and love that she may not have gotten, given that her "father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me." If we are to take what Lana has told us about this aspect of her life at face value, without questioning its authenticity, being met with a cold or detached mother can be troubling for it can often be the stem for later struggles of narcissism.

I do not say this in a malicious or "armchair psychologist" way, but as more of a reflection towards this track, and album in general. It provides more symbolic legitimacy to the Black Bathing Suit functioning as a sort of psychological self-protection from the intrusive, invasive and abusive nature of fame.  When she sings, "what you don't tell no one, you can tell me," she is both speaking towards her past self and her present self, aiming towards maybe not a breakage, but certainly a healing of her karmic lineage, and breaking the cycle of past traumas, for the possible chance at motherhood in the future.

[gatadelrey 4,616]

1 minute ago, Thunder said:

Random, unhinged, long musings about Cherry Blossom that I may or may not delete...

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 Musing about Cherry Blossom for a bit..I think this is a really special song for many reasons, but now that I've been thinking about its presence on the album, it seems that it possesses a two-fold perspective, and has been opened to deeper meanings over the years since we first heard it. 

When she posted that instagram video singing it, it was easily dismissed as merely a lullaby that she came up with. However, being part of her 2021 album was a careful and precise decision. Not a thoughtless one.

In many ways, she seems to be opening her arms in an embrace to her past self, providing that sense of maternal protection and love that she may not have gotten, given that her "father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me." If we are to take what Lana has told us about this aspect of her life at face value, without questioning its authenticity, being met with a cold or detached mother can be troubling for it can often be the stem for later struggles of narcissism.

I do not say this in a malicious or "armchair psychologist" way, but as more of a reflection towards this track, and album in general. It provides more symbolic legitimacy to the Black Bathing Suit functioning as a sort of psychological self-protection from the intrusive, invasive and abusive nature of fame.  When she sings, "what you don't tell no one, you can tell me," she is both speaking towards her past self and her present self, aiming towards maybe not a breakage, but certainly a healing of her karmic lineage, and breaking the cycle of past traumas, for the possible chance at motherhood in the future.

 

Holy shit. This. 

[lustforlife 19,008]

Just bought 3 copies to american friends of Blue Banisters.... 

 

 

[cherrysadwine 383]

8 minutes ago, CmonDownToFL said:

I wish she had added some vocals to the trio 

YES. Something like the Summer Bummer's outro. It's so twisteeeed I love it

[Make me your Dream Life 87,459]

5 minutes ago, Thunder said:

Random, unhinged, long musings about Cherry Blossom that I may or may not delete...

  Hide contents

 Musing about Cherry Blossom for a bit..I think this is a really special song for many reasons, but now that I've been thinking about its presence on the album, it seems that it possesses a two-fold perspective, and has been opened to deeper meanings over the years since we first heard it. 

When she posted that instagram video singing it, it was easily dismissed as merely a lullaby that she came up with. However, being part of her 2021 album was a careful and precise decision. Not a thoughtless one.

In many ways, she seems to be opening her arms in an embrace to her past self, providing that sense of maternal protection and love that she may not have gotten, given that her "father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me." If we are to take what Lana has told us about this aspect of her life at face value, without questioning its authenticity, being met with a cold or detached mother can be troubling for it can often be the stem for later struggles of narcissism.

I do not say this in a malicious or "armchair psychologist" way, but as more of a reflection towards this track, and album in general. It provides more symbolic legitimacy to the Black Bathing Suit functioning as a sort of psychological self-protection from the intrusive, invasive and abusive nature of fame.  When she sings, "what you don't tell no one, you can tell me," she is both speaking towards her past self and her present self, aiming towards maybe not a breakage, but certainly a healing of her karmic lineage, and breaking the cycle of past traumas, for the possible chance at motherhood in the future.

 

YES exactly. it just gets like better n more meaningful

[CinnamonGay 10,527]

STREAM DEALER.

 

Let's get them streams !! 

[uhauIjoe 252]

This really is the first album to make me CRY...  it's really the way that I would be completely fine with not getting another album out of her after this