And, it still sounds cohesive and brilliant. Soon, she’s in a falsetto, climaxing into a “you’re on fire / you’re on fire.” “Thunder” is a perfect example of how Lana works, fitting old songs into a new narrative. The song captures beautiful harmonies and layering as she puts the love on her boyfriend, though she wants the relationship over before he hurts her. Strings wind down on her repetition, “Just do it, don’t wait,” as she rolls from light guitar to more lackadaisical drum and steady maracas. “Thunder”, a previously unreleased track, is straight from her Paradise-era. Again, Lana gleams into her relationships, “ So I’m not friends with my mother, but I still love my dad / Untraditional lover, can you handle that?” Soon, she’s screaming, fighting through the instrumental and backing vocals, tackling her naysayers, “Your interest really made stacks,” over and over again. However, this track also takes off in many directions. “ He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do / Cause no one does it better,” Lana presses in the chorus as the lazy beat adds sibyls and more steady drums. Here, the singer contemplates a relationship during quarantine, wanting them to look at her soul rather than her black bathing suit– the only thing that fits her. “Black Bathing Suit” is probably the defining track of “Blue Banisters”. It’s honest.Ĭrows open the track, rushing off. And, when the upturned chords chime at the end, it not hard to guess why.
During her IG live, Lana said it’s her favorite song from the record. Her voice hits a new peak each time the strings and piano swells. It’s a starry ballad for Lana, with a solemn piano leading into a cinematic and atmospheric chorus.
“ They built me up three-hundred feet tall just to tear me down / So I’m leavin’ with nothing but laughter, and this town /Arcadia,” she sings. “Arcadia” sees the 36-year-old artist scorn the industry that built her up only to destroy her. Although she quivers for most of the track, the chorus, for how much she wails towards the end, finally sees Lana raising the blinds. “Text Book” is literally a textbook into her past and how she applies it to current love, going as far as to change her hair to rekindle romance. Soon, she connects the dots between her new lover and dad, “You’ve got a Thunderbird, my daddy had one, too.” It becomes clear that her familial connections were never strong. The sonic difference helps with digestion and clarity. The transition between verse and chorus becomes evident and intentional with a tempo and rhythm change. The album opener, “Text Book,” finds Lana longing for connection with her father against coolly plucked stringers. Let’s go through some highlights: Text Book It’s Lana Del Rey’s second album of 2021, and its quite literally a page-turner. Although this album is aesthetically simple, there’s the right amount of flare, like trumpet endings, voice-modified electric guitar outros, and distortion. Again it’s direct as if looking into LDR’s eyes. We learn of her past on songs like “Text Book” and “Wildflower Wildfire.” Then, we return to today with the title track “Blue Banisters,’ “Arcadia,” and “Sweet Carolina.” Through this album, we take a ride, starting from Lana’s past into her present and ending with where she’s going. With a mixture of new and previously unreleased songs, this album sets to paint Lana how she sees fit.
Whether she’s screaming on “Dealer” or flaunting how bad press still gets her cash on “Black Bathing Suit,” Lana doesn’t shy away from any hard conversations. Vocally, Lana reaches new heights on this record. The instrumentation is lush and quaint, pushed further back as Lana steps to the forefront to tell her story. It makes sense that “Chemtrails Over The Country Club” was the predecessor to “Blue Banisters” because now the sound is sharper. Originally named “Rock Candy Sweet,” this album sees Lana Del Rey at her most direct. Del Rey, and yet she still remains so ambiguous. To date, this is the most we ever knew of Ms. Though, this revelation shook fans given how personal each song was. Actually, there are only two albums she didn’t record for herself, adding that “Lust For Life” was for her fans.
The songstress revealed lots about her album, like how this record aims at her critics. There, she talked to fans via IG live for two straight hours, answering every question about her latest release, “Blue Banisters.” However, she couldn’t attend because she felt hounded by the paparazzi and escaped to a Marriot Hotel. Last Friday, to promote her latest album, Lana had a pop-up shop on the Santa Monica Pier.
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