Tracklist 🤎: 3:21 Textbook 11:18 Blue Banisters 19:28 Arcadia 25:27 Interlude - The Trio 26:41 Black Bathing Suit 32:54 If You Lie Down With Me 36:27 Beautiful 40:47 Violets for Roses 44:22 Dealer 48:56 Thunder 52:18 Wildflower Wildfire 58:39 Nectar of the Gods 1:02:41 Living Legend 1:05:57 Cherry Blossom 1:08:34 Sweet Carolina 1:13:31 Ranking
Lana said, "So, Blue Banisters was more of an explanatory album, more of a defensive album, which is why I didn't promote it, period, at all. I didn't want anyone to listen to it. I just wanted it to be there in case anyone was ever curious for any information."
You will learn in tunnel about her relationship with her mother and why she doesn’t want to call her by that title. A truly emotional and stunning album.
Cherry Blossom isn’t about a man, it’s about “her future daughter” or maybe a baby she lost in the past. We don’t know exactly. 🥺 And Sweet Carolina it’s about her sister Carolina, also known as Chuck. She was about to have her baby in the time Lana released this album, Lana and their dad wrote this for Chuck. ♥️
Lana didn't promote this album on purpose because she felt was very personal. She said something along the lines of those who want to listen to it will find it. It was kind of around the time where she was getting a lot of backlash during Covid so that might play into it a bit as well
@@Bjr11243ocean blvd had one billboard in the middle of nowhere and one music video that’s 10 minutes long 😭 like yea it got promoted more than BB but it’s nowhere near as much as NFR for example
Some fun facts: Thunder, Nectar of the Gods, Living Legend and Cherry Blossom were actually unreleased songs but she officially released them here for the first time. Living Legend was recorded in 2013, Thunder in 2017 while Nectar of the Gods and Cherry Blossom were recorded in 2014 and originally meant to be in the "Ultraviolence" album. About "Living Legend": Lana means Jane Powers. She's Lana's long-time friend and mentor. Also, the "why, why, why, why" in the end was truly Lana trying to mimic a saxophone!
Sweet Carolina is a song written for her sister Caroline Grant. Her sister was pregnant at the time and she references the baby blues (post partum depression).
Sweet Carolina is a love letter to Lana’s sister Caroline "Chuck/Chucky" Grant who gave birth to her first daughter. It reassures her that lana will be there for her if she goes through post-partum depression. Other fun fact: it was written by Lana, her dad and sister. Her dad is playing the piano on the track as well.
Blue banisters is a grower however the interlude is the best interlude we have ever gotten before. Also, during this time she received major backlash to her “question for the culture” 😅 it gives me ptsd to this day.
'Blue Banisters' is essentially about motherhood, sisterhood and womanhood in general. The album deals with topics such as having a bad relationship with her mother, taking a motherly role with her girlfriends in order to protect them and also letting herself be protected by them; she sings about her sister and her baby (and her desire to have her own baby) and also letting men go instead of getting stuck with them She celebrates and embraces her body. It's such a statement about her life as a woman in her 30s and choosing a calmer, peaceful life close to friends and family instead of men and strangers. Expect more of these topics much more fully developed on the next LP. Love your reactions!
Fun facts -- If You Lie Down With Me and Living Legend are Ultraviolence outtakes; Dealer was originally from Chemtrails; Thunder was meant for Norman Fucking Rockwell!; Cherry Blossom for Lust for Life and Nectar of the Gods I think it was for Honeymoon.
I think that blue banisters and ocean are key to understand her previous born to die ultraviolence persona, her need to create this world and these albums give us the mother issues narrative
blue banisters is so underrated, i think it fits so well her discography (some might disagree) as well as being the successor of cotcc since we ended that album with her talking about how people will sing for money while there's other people that sing just bc they like it! and that's exactly the vibe since she literally did no promoting whatsoever for blue banisters and said "well, if you want you can listen" (or something similar)
Cass honey, I need you to understand that from now on (Blue banisters/ocean blvd) is all personal, and for once not about a man. She's essentially revealing some of her most personal memories about herself and her family. Her mom being an enemy and her having trouble with her father not coming in to help her as a child/teen. At this point we've moved past boyfriends. She's healing from her karmic lineage.
From your love of Lolita on BTD to tearing up to If You Lie Down With Me…YUP absolutely!! Also since Carolina is about her sister, I was almost always tear up thinking about my own siblings and family to that song.
Blue bannisters is probably one of the most personal too! I lvoe this album so much. Can’t wait to get my lana del rey tattoo recreating this album artwork but with my own two German shepherd kiddos next to her!
In terms of why the world 'turned on her', basically the media was criticising her for gaining weight, and a lot of people were criticising her for this twitter post she made called 'question for the culture' (qftc) - people said she was racist in it (she wasn't). Also, there were some other minor controversies, like her wearing a mesh mask at a book signing and in the cotcc music video
Cherry Blossom makes me cry everyyy time. Its not about a man, she hasnt spoke on it but theres some theories on what its about. Some say its a lullaby shes written for children or a song she is going to dedicate to her daughter once she has children (Angelina being one of her potential baby names). Others say its a song she wished she couldve gotten from her own mother, like what she wishes her mother wouldve said to her as a child. Theres also another theory which i dont like to talk about too much since it is just a theory but honestly it makes the most sense to me since theres a lot of lines that hint at it and i connect with this theory the most personally. I dont want to say it explicitly but think about the lines 'little ghost' 'Angelina' (angel), 'swing it high like Jesus' 'mommy is there' and The Sycamore Centre is an organisation which you can google and yeah. Idk if its just me self projecting onto the meaning of the song lol but I've seen quite a few people theorise that is what the song is about
@@DaveFineWhine yeah one of the lines i forget to mention was 'your very brave and very free'. Again could mean lots of different things but makes me think of passing and heaven (personally im not religious but ik Lana is). I just feel a bit icky talking about this interpretation since its not something I'd like to speculate about someone but i feel like its important for Cass to know this song is not about a romantic partner lol
I don't have words to describe what Ocean Boulevard did to me emotionally - it's one of her most personal projects but also extremely poetic. I think I had it on repeat for 3 or 4 months straight
When I first heard this album I was not a fan but seeing how she didn’t promote it at all made me more curious about it took me two years to fully fall in love and appreciate this album and now everytime i hear it.. it makes me so happy
i feel like album definitely signals a shift that got explored more deeply and in a more grand way in Ocean Boulevard. It's her most personal by far and kind of angry and Ocean Boulevard definitely continues with those ideas but has some more full production and whatnot. This album is definitely more raw and messy than her others but it feels necessary for her artistic development! Her next one might be my favorite and is without a doubt top 3 Lana :))
Okay, I'm gonna do the track by track of MY interpretation of the songs and what we know about it: 1. Text Book: it's about her daddy issues. I think when she says:"the issue of her", that she's talking about her mom and how she didn't like the life she was living with her family. Also she did go into the Black Lives Matter protest and posted videos on her Instagram and received backlash because it showed the faces of some people breaking windows and stores. Also some people complained online when she released this song saying that she was a white woman profiting with the cause when she sings about it 🙄 I love she says "I scream for them" cuz I think she really cares. Blue Banisters: it's about a guy she met that promised the quiet life she wants so bad and it didn't fulfill and now her girls help her past thru the low she's feeling after breaking up. Since he promised things in may and spring, for now shes skipping spring. 3. Arcadia: She released this song on the 10th year anniversary of Video Games, the song that made her famous and on her Instagram page she posted and said that she wanted us to listen to it like we did with video games. Your interpretation was spot on. 4. Interlude - The Trio: The Trio is an old song from the movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly which Lana put some beat in it and it's lit 6. Black Bathing Suit: in this song she's talking about a person that she's in a relationship with but doesn't know anything about her, as much as we do. "You don't know me any better than they do baby". Probably thinks she's someone else, the Lana Del Rey and not Elizabeth Grant. Also, she talks about how the only thing that fits her is the black Bathing Suit and I think it's literal. She received many negative comments online about her body that year cuz she put on some weight (who didn't?). Also in the end she's directly talking about what been hating on the media did to her (stacks lol). Also if you wanna know more about Lana's cancelation on the internet, search for "Question for the Culture" letter that Lana wrote and posted on her Instagram. She named dropped some artist and people called her racist cuz some of them where black women. It's pretty traumatic to the fan base lol 7. If You Lie Down With Me: it's pretty literal, I don't think I have anything to add 8. Beautiful: she may be talking about a person that wanted her to change but also might be talking about the media and the fans cuz she was very criticized in her early career, specially after the "I wish I was dead already" interview, about being sad and depressed and how young people would see her message. 8. Violets For Roses: YEAH DUMP HIM QUEEN 9. Dealer: this song Lana wrote and sang with Miles Kane, the ex-guitarist from The Last Shadow Puppets. Actually they did write an entire album together but this project never saw the light of the day. Except for the Dealer which I'm grateful for everyday. 10. Thunder: an unreleased song known by fans because it leaked (like another 200 songs from her) and she decided to release it on this album. Known to be written and recorded in the Ultraviolence sessions. 11. Wildflower Wildfire: in this song she opened up for the first time about her relationship with her mother in a way she never did before. Her mother sent her away to a boarding school in Spain because of Lana's alcohol addiction when she was 15, to never come back home. After boarding school she was sent to live with her uncle in London and he taught her how to play guitar and that's when she starts to writing music. Amazing song, I relate a lot, my fav of this album 12. Nectar Of The Gods: another unreleased song, previously known as Color Blue or Wild One 13. Living Legend: another unreleased song from Ultraviolence Sessions. It's about Jane Powers, Lana's friend and mentor who never cared about Lana being famous and just loved her by her. The (why) part wasn't an electric guitar (which I also agree that sounds like it) it's actually Lana's vocals distorted to sound like a saxophone. 14. Cherry Blossom: another unreleased song, from the Honeymoon sessions. It's speculated to be about a younger version of Lana that never got to have the sweet and loving care by a mother in the way that she sings about in the song but also (and my theory) could be about a baby she never had or lost and how she would care for her. The parts: little gost, there's much to learn and see and the name Angelina could refer to that child. Pretty sad but I loved it, it's the perfect lullaby. 15. Sweet Carolina: Caroline (chuck) Grant it's Lana sister. In 2021 Chuck got pregnant with Lana's first niece Phoenix (no, it's not actually Lilac Heaven), and apparently Lana's sister was afraid to get baby blues (post parthum depression). So Lana, her brother and her dad (who's playing the piano), wrote this song for her. Super cute.
About cherry blossom I’m pretty sure she wrote it from the perspective of her singing to her own child if she had one, I think she mentioned in an interview she’d name her first daughter Angelina or something. And Caroline grant aka Chuck is Lana’s sister and sweet Carolina is to Carolines newborn baby that was mentioned in blue banisters hence the ‘there’s a baby on the way’ line :)
I love this album so much!!! One of my favorites from her. Beautiful, Thunder and Wildflower Wildfire are my favorite songs, but really love all of them.
Also Cass, for Ocean Blvd, youre gonna need the next names: Chuck/Chucky/Caroline is her sister, Charlie is her brother, and her dad, uncle, grandma and grandpa also are important in that album, her mother gets metioned but is censored
So some topics you asked about: • Black Bathing Suit was about when people saw a pic of her in a bathing suit and called her fat, and made a big scene about it. Obviously, she was like WHYYYYY • Living Legend is to a friend of her who she's very inspired about • Cherry Blossom is for a child, like she's singing for her future kid, a letter of love • Sweet Carolina is for her sister who gave birth at the time of the release of the album, is a song to gave all the love of the world for Chucky and how the Grants family loves her so much
I just wanna say i love these videos and so happy you uploaded them for us. Getting to experience these albums for the first time with you is so special. Thanks for taking us along on your Lana journey ❤❤
God this is my fave album of Lana I love it so much, it is the first album I listened of her it's so underrated, but I hope some day people like it more ❤✨
I definitely ended up liking this more than Chemtrails in the end, but both are good albums. I mean in her discography there exists no bad album but these two definitely don't feel as urgent as most of the others. Ocean Boulevard is a complete victory and can't wait for the reaction!
While there was a lot of controversy and criticism surrounding Lana in 2020-2021 there also has been her entire career with a lot of questions surrounding the things she has sung about and artistic decisions she has made. This album really speaks on a lot of that. For me, I don’t always see a song as being about a specific relationship even if it’s written that way - for example, I think the song ‘Beautiful’ makes a lot of sense with the context of Lana being criticized for ‘glamourizing’ tragedy and sadness and in that song is answering to her intentions behind what she expresses to the general public. Even in Text Book, beginning with “I guess you can call it text book”, is kind of an answer of sorts to the daddy issue themes, providing a more literal scenario where she does reference her actual father and in Wildflower Wildfire, she says “since I know you want to talk about it” “you say there’s gaps to fill in, so here” is referencing how many people have assumed that she only writes as a character and that there are inconsistencies with her life vs her art or even just general things that people don’t know about her so she’s finally providing further context, opening doors to sharing her full story such as detailing family trauma. She’s saying ‘here’s the actual story.’ And this along with mentioning her family is something that opens the doors for the conversations that are also had on the next album too. I don’t really see this as a world of music or a solidified story like her previous releases, instead I imagine it’s the same timeline with Chemtrails, which really put a period of sorts to the end of this career-long story, where she now has the moment to look back at previous moments in her life as well as answer to her critics. I do get the sense of it feeling confusing especially given the track list - I’ve organized my listening experience a particular way where I feel as though there is a beginning and end with a lot of the more contemplations (and specifically, older songs) in the middle.
lana said that she was very lowkey with blue banisters and didnt promote it much on purpose, like she only wanted those who find it to hear it (and her instagram was still private then)
"Comfortably number but with Lithium came poetry" is also a fun play on words calling out Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd and Lithium by Nirvana which Lana as said were some of her favorite bands growing up
I found your Lana videos a couple days ago and binge-watched them over the course of three days lol. Its so fun to watch someone experience Lana for the first time - you bring back the feelings I had when listening to her for the first time. I love how you actually take the time to read lyrics and pick them apart. I’ve been listening to Lana for almost a decade, and you’ve made me notice things I never have before. I can’t wait for you to react to Ocean Blvd as it is my favorite album of all time. Not every song is one of my favorites on its own, but the album as a whole just comes together to make a masterpiece.
A couple of thoughts: ∆ Thunder is my favourite from this album. The meaning of the song is that Lana is asking the guy to leave her already because she knows he'll leave her like the men in her past. "just do it, don't wait". It's so sad honestly. ∆ Cherry blossom is about Lana singing to her imaginary daughter. Giving her the mother that Lana never had. Some people interpret this as Lana singing to her child self. Becoming her own mother in a sense. It's beautiful but damn heartbreaking. ∆ Blue banisters the song is super underrated. The poetry here is insane. ∆ People call this album all over the place but idk I find it very consistent. There's theme of a breakup and finding joy in the world around you especially around your family. Now for Ocean blvd it does everything better than Blue banisters. Lana spills soooo much tea on her past so all the gaps she wanted to fill in Wildfire Wildflower get filled in Ocean blvd. Sonically speaking I'm not going to spoil anything but it's similar to NFR in a sense that's it's "all encompassing", a lot of variety in the sound but very strong sense of a theme.
Btw that album has A LOT OF UNRELAESDED SONGS: thunder and dealer from collab with last shadow puppets(has Alex turner from arctic monkeys, which California was from that era too) and if you lie down with me, cherry blossom, living legend and nectar of the gods from ultraviolence era.
I'm back for one of my rewatches... don't mind me... LOL your videos are SO SO SO SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!! Your rhetoric is so perfect. I appreciate your viewpoints so much !!!! 🫶
This is not my favorite Lana album but it's still so special... it was so good to have this at the end of the pandemic, is so personal to her yet some songs are so relatable. I think Sweet Caroline is my favorite, Lana sings to her sister Chuck this song. Chuck had a baby and was afraid of having postpartum depression and Lana wrote the song to her. Is so beautiful. I also love Wildflower Wildfire, it's one of the songs in her discography that explains a lot of who Lana is and why is like that. I think you will love Ocean Blvd. I hope you make a final video with an overall ranking or maybe overall thoughts... I don't want this journey to finish :( it's been great, you are the best reactor 🥹
omg blue banisters is my favorite album of all time 😭😭😭 I would love to see you react to violets bent backwards over the grass. It’s her poetry book and she also has it as a audio book with background music
as a huge lana fan since like 2013 i remember not really vibing with chemtrails for the first few months and now i’ve learnt to love it a lot more! blue banisters tho i was immediately captivated by the singles she released and i knew i would love this album dearly and i very much correct! it just brings me so many memories during the covid lockdown and it got me through so much, i will always have a special place in my heart for it
This one is such a great album from Queen Mother. Actually in Living Legend on the bridge is Lana's voice tuned to sound like an electric guitar when she sings why. Love your reaction ❤
I love watching reaction videos of her albums because it's almost like a re-listen and I always end up loving the art even more, seeing other people's thoughts and takes on each song. your videos are perfect examples of this! thanks also I'm sad there's only one more ;( kisses from Brazil 🇧🇷
I love this album so much. It's my comfort album. I love the poetry in the lyrics and the rawness of the production. This album is more related to the pandemic and Lana seems less confident in it because it was written during the pandemic and during a time when Lana suffered a lot of criticism for gaining weight and for giving her opinion on things, like for example, she has always been criticized for narrating toxic relationships in her songs, but other singers were at number 1 on the Billboard top 100 with songs about sex. She received a lot of criticism for saying that. Chemtrails was written in 2019 when Lana was at her peak and was supposed to come out in 2020 but as vinyl production was delayed due to lockdown, it was constantly delayed until 2021. Lana needed (for her mental health) to release this album, to let these lyrics out of her to get rid of these feelings and move on to something new and beautiful like Ocean Blvd. This is an "end of cycle" album and I think it serves its purpose very well. By the way, in Living Legend it's not an electric guitar screaming "why", it's Lana with her voice imitating an electric guitar. Sweet Carolina is for her sister who had a baby, Cherry Blossom for her unborn daughter and Living Legend for her friend who died. As you said, in each one she gives us something different with her voice and I love that in this one she explored that a lot. Top 5 Lana Albums, for me. It's not music, it's poetry. It's like a hug everytime it plays on my record player.
Her dad is still married to her mother, so in Wildflower Wildfire she is refering to her. Cherry Clossom is a lullaby that Lana wroted in 2013, that can be interpreted as one for her future daughter (being Angelina like the name she´d choose) or on the perspective of the the mother she never have, being Angelina a pseudonym for Lana herself. And Sweet Carolina is for her sister, Caroline. She had a baby and baby blues a kind of sadness that a woman may have after having a baby, also the song is cowritten by her and their father Rob Grant, who is playing the piano. They all four (including her brother Charlie) have a very close relationship.
This album is an all time favorite of mine. It paints a summertime and spring nostalgia that reminds me of my childhood for some reason and it is so special to me 😭
Background on sweet carolina, the song is for her sister chuck grant at that time lanas sister was pregnant(the first baby in their family) its a girl and her name is pheonix grant, lana wrote this song for her sister "baby blues" being postpartum depression, and fun fact it was her father who was also playing the piano in the song
there’s many theories about what cherry blossom is about. some people say she went through a miscarriage and hence the lines “little ghost” “mommy is there”. don’t know if it’s true but that’s been theorized
i loved so much your reaction, i felt that we do relate to the same feelings, and the way you interpret and explain was delightful, pls do more albums and another artist too
Thunder / if you lie down with me (the outrooooo tho) / violets of roses are really of her best songs and the album is soo uderrated its literally one of my comfort albums of her 🥹
Black Bathing Suit is really mostly about the hate she got in 2020-2021(2022) for gaining weight. Especially Azealia Banks (it actually all started in 2018 I think; you'll find smt on YT about their whole beef), who mocked Lana for gaining weight with paparazzi pics. The whole public as well. And then we have "question for the culture" (to answer you the question why lana was so hated) which is kind of a statement lana posted back in 2020 explaining that she felt extremely misunderstood. people took it the wrong way because lana mentioned some other women by name and said that she was racist (I still dont understand why and HOW poeple come up with that shit)... but usually the fake news and negative stuff goes more viral than the real and good things so yeah it's been a rough time for lana stand in that time period and lana really tried to make her points clear but poeple are very ... u know hahah there is a live lana did (it's on YT from 2021 I think to the release of BB) where she talks a little bit about that and teases ocean Blvd, it's an hour long but it's the most rawr I have seen lana ever // or any celebrity, so I recommend to check it up ❤❤❤❤ love your reactions
Ahhh i love this album so much. I think the guy who shes talking about in this album is Sean Larkin. He was a police officer in tulsa (tulsa jesus freak, Oklahoma in BB, the guy in text book). I think she really thought he'd give her this kind of perfect, stable life, a marriage, kids, family. Of course he didnt. He never came to help her "paint those banisters" in the metaphorical house they were building together building. Sort of like false promises and dreaming of a life, hopes and dreams that deep down they know will never be met. "Getting lost in the purple rain." In text book, she says she saw that he saw who she was. I think she thought the ways they were different would set her free and give her that life she kind of romanticized as she ages. They dated during the pandemic too
Tracklist 🤎:
3:21 Textbook
11:18 Blue Banisters
19:28 Arcadia
25:27 Interlude - The Trio
26:41 Black Bathing Suit
32:54 If You Lie Down With Me
36:27 Beautiful
40:47 Violets for Roses
44:22 Dealer
48:56 Thunder
52:18 Wildflower Wildfire
58:39 Nectar of the Gods
1:02:41 Living Legend
1:05:57 Cherry Blossom
1:08:34 Sweet Carolina
1:13:31 Ranking
Lana: I DON'T WANNA LIVE!!!!
Cass: ☺️☺️☺️
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Definitely she didn’t understand the meaning of the song
@@natinatonatuwatching all her other Lana reacts she definitely knew what the song meant
Lana said, "So, Blue Banisters was more of an explanatory album, more of a defensive album, which is why I didn't promote it, period, at all. I didn't want anyone to listen to it. I just wanted it to be there in case anyone was ever curious for any information."
I love Blue Banisters but it makes me cry in my bed☹️
Samee @@lanaxbillie614
if lana didn’t want it to get promoted she wouldn’t create 3 singles for it.
@@Rosellethyst she meant no promote it excessively like all other albums for sale.
Her crying to that specific outro is ME
I cried too when I first heard it…:(
Blue banisters is extremely underrated , and it’s my favourite with ultraviolence😭
I totally agree
This makes sense! Blue Bannisters is basically the ultraviolence bsides.
@@mandoz353 exactly
Blue banisters is totally the sister record to ultraviolence with 4 outtakes so makes sense
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You will learn in tunnel about her relationship with her mother and why she doesn’t want to call her by that title. A truly emotional and stunning album.
Cherry Blossom isn’t about a man, it’s about “her future daughter” or maybe a baby she lost in the past. We don’t know exactly. 🥺 And Sweet Carolina it’s about her sister Carolina, also known as Chuck. She was about to have her baby in the time Lana released this album, Lana and their dad wrote this for Chuck. ♥️
Cant wait for the Ocean Blvd reaction. I really think you’ll find your answers about Lana’s past there!!
definitely. this feels like part one where she starts to address some of her past, and ocean boulevard is the part two where she fully dives in.
especially with fingertips
@@JazielVarela-lt7hsOh god, yes.
Lana didn't promote this album on purpose because she felt was very personal. She said something along the lines of those who want to listen to it will find it. It was kind of around the time where she was getting a lot of backlash during Covid so that might play into it a bit as well
I never understood that because ocean blvd was promoted a lot and it’s 10 times more personal
@@Bjr11243ocean blvd had one billboard in the middle of nowhere and one music video that’s 10 minutes long 😭 like yea it got promoted more than BB but it’s nowhere near as much as NFR for example
Yeah she should of not had that book signing or worn an actual mask for it
Ocean bullevard doesn't have any promotion @@Bjr11243
@@maybehere_Not the middle of nowhere. The home town of one of her ex boyfriends.
Some fun facts:
Thunder, Nectar of the Gods, Living Legend and Cherry Blossom were actually unreleased songs but she officially released them here for the first time. Living Legend was recorded in 2013, Thunder in 2017 while Nectar of the Gods and Cherry Blossom were recorded in 2014 and originally meant to be in the "Ultraviolence" album.
About "Living Legend": Lana means Jane Powers. She's Lana's long-time friend and mentor. Also, the "why, why, why, why" in the end was truly Lana trying to mimic a saxophone!
if you lie down with me is a 2013 track too and meant for the same UV
I’m a Lana fan too but how do u guys know so much 😭
@@notliamsamson We search too deep 😭. You can read info about her songs in Genius if you like.
@@nicoletalamprou 😭
@@notliamsamsonGenius and Lana Del Rey Fandom are GREAT sources! especially Fandom imo
GUYS TUNNEL IS NEXT SHE IS NOT READY WE ARE NOT READY
Sweet Carolina is a song written for her sister Caroline Grant. Her sister was pregnant at the time and she references the baby blues (post partum depression).
Sweet Carolina is a love letter to Lana’s sister Caroline "Chuck/Chucky" Grant who gave birth to her first daughter. It reassures her that lana will be there for her if she goes through post-partum depression.
Other fun fact: it was written by Lana, her dad and sister. Her dad is playing the piano on the track as well.
omg that means so much to me, thank you for sharing
Iphone XI is also an anagram for Phoenix, which is the name of Caroline's daughter!
omg thats genius@@abcdefghijessyk
I thought it was a song for her niece even though it was named after her sister
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Blue banisters is a grower however the interlude is the best interlude we have ever gotten before. Also, during this time she received major backlash to her “question for the culture” 😅 it gives me ptsd to this day.
i get why ppl call this a grower but i loved this right away after first listen😭
Wildflower Wildfire is probably my favorite song of Lana, I cry every time
'Blue Banisters' is essentially about motherhood, sisterhood and womanhood in general. The album deals with topics such as having a bad relationship with her mother, taking a motherly role with her girlfriends in order to protect them and also letting herself be protected by them; she sings about her sister and her baby (and her desire to have her own baby) and also letting men go instead of getting stuck with them She celebrates and embraces her body. It's such a statement about her life as a woman in her 30s and choosing a calmer, peaceful life close to friends and family instead of men and strangers. Expect more of these topics much more fully developed on the next LP.
Love your reactions!
Fun facts -- If You Lie Down With Me and Living Legend are Ultraviolence outtakes; Dealer was originally from Chemtrails; Thunder was meant for Norman Fucking Rockwell!; Cherry Blossom for Lust for Life and Nectar of the Gods I think it was for Honeymoon.
Oh finally.. my all time favourite album by Lana
I think that blue banisters and ocean are key to understand her previous born to die ultraviolence persona, her need to create this world and these albums give us the mother issues narrative
Unintentionally so early blue banisters is so underrated
blue banisters is so underrated, i think it fits so well her discography (some might disagree) as well as being the successor of cotcc since we ended that album with her talking about how people will sing for money while there's other people that sing just bc they like it! and that's exactly the vibe since she literally did no promoting whatsoever for blue banisters and said "well, if you want you can listen" (or something similar)
BLUE BANISTERS IS MY FAV ALBUM FROM LANA. I LOVE IT SO MUCH
The end of if you lie down with me making her emotional is soooo relatable this part is just so nostalgic and beautiful
In born to die she sings "lost, but now im found"
And in nectar of the gods she ends with "once i was found, but now im lost"
Cass honey, I need you to understand that from now on (Blue banisters/ocean blvd) is all personal, and for once not about a man. She's essentially revealing some of her most personal memories about herself and her family. Her mom being an enemy and her having trouble with her father not coming in to help her as a child/teen. At this point we've moved past boyfriends. She's healing from her karmic lineage.
blue banisters vibe to me is 2:30 AM in my luxury wood cabin in the middle of a snowy forest sitting by my fire place listening to this album on vinyl
this is my all time favourite lana album. such a safe place, i'm in love with it❤
From your love of Lolita on BTD to tearing up to If You Lie Down With Me…YUP absolutely!!
Also since Carolina is about her sister, I was almost always tear up thinking about my own siblings and family to that song.
Blue bannisters is probably one of the most personal too! I lvoe this album so much. Can’t wait to get my lana del rey tattoo recreating this album artwork but with my own two German shepherd kiddos next to her!
Tex and mex from blue bannisters being her dogs!
In terms of why the world 'turned on her', basically the media was criticising her for gaining weight, and a lot of people were criticising her for this twitter post she made called 'question for the culture' (qftc) - people said she was racist in it (she wasn't). Also, there were some other minor controversies, like her wearing a mesh mask at a book signing and in the cotcc music video
Blue Banisters is sooo underrated! definitely one of my favourite Lana albums!
Cherry Blossom makes me cry everyyy time. Its not about a man, she hasnt spoke on it but theres some theories on what its about. Some say its a lullaby shes written for children or a song she is going to dedicate to her daughter once she has children (Angelina being one of her potential baby names). Others say its a song she wished she couldve gotten from her own mother, like what she wishes her mother wouldve said to her as a child. Theres also another theory which i dont like to talk about too much since it is just a theory but honestly it makes the most sense to me since theres a lot of lines that hint at it and i connect with this theory the most personally. I dont want to say it explicitly but think about the lines 'little ghost' 'Angelina' (angel), 'swing it high like Jesus' 'mommy is there' and The Sycamore Centre is an organisation which you can google and yeah. Idk if its just me self projecting onto the meaning of the song lol but I've seen quite a few people theorise that is what the song is about
You're not wrong - if you know about that interpretation, every line in it makes sense as being about either a hoped for, or a lost baby girl.
100%. Commenting to boost so she sees this!! It’s such a raw beautiful song.
@@DaveFineWhine yeah one of the lines i forget to mention was 'your very brave and very free'. Again could mean lots of different things but makes me think of passing and heaven (personally im not religious but ik Lana is). I just feel a bit icky talking about this interpretation since its not something I'd like to speculate about someone but i feel like its important for Cass to know this song is not about a romantic partner lol
bb has a special place in my heart, it’s actually my second favorite Lana album after NFR!
if you lied down with me is one of my favorites lana songs, the entire album is so underrated!
One last step to the ocean blvd ❤️
Blue banisters is so underrated
Lana actually screamed WHY WHY WHY on living legends it was her intention to sound like an electric guitar
Lana said on a livestream it was supposed to be a saxophone lol sis needs her ears checked
Haahha came here to say the same
@@slentilus7439I remember when she said that and I was like lol what
People weren't ready for Blue Banisters. It's such an underrated album.
I don't have words to describe what Ocean Boulevard did to me emotionally - it's one of her most personal projects but also extremely poetic. I think I had it on repeat for 3 or 4 months straight
When I first heard this album I was not a fan but seeing how she didn’t promote it at all made me more curious about it took me two years to fully fall in love and appreciate this album and now everytime i hear it.. it makes me so happy
i feel like album definitely signals a shift that got explored more deeply and in a more grand way in Ocean Boulevard. It's her most personal by far and kind of angry and Ocean Boulevard definitely continues with those ideas but has some more full production and whatnot. This album is definitely more raw and messy than her others but it feels necessary for her artistic development! Her next one might be my favorite and is without a doubt top 3 Lana :))
Blue Banisters is my second fav Lana album. The song writing on this album is amazing!🩶
Okay, I'm gonna do the track by track of MY interpretation of the songs and what we know about it:
1. Text Book: it's about her daddy issues. I think when she says:"the issue of her", that she's talking about her mom and how she didn't like the life she was living with her family. Also she did go into the Black Lives Matter protest and posted videos on her Instagram and received backlash because it showed the faces of some people breaking windows and stores. Also some people complained online when she released this song saying that she was a white woman profiting with the cause when she sings about it 🙄 I love she says "I scream for them" cuz I think she really cares.
Blue Banisters: it's about a guy she met that promised the quiet life she wants so bad and it didn't fulfill and now her girls help her past thru the low she's feeling after breaking up. Since he promised things in may and spring, for now shes skipping spring.
3. Arcadia: She released this song on the 10th year anniversary of Video Games, the song that made her famous and on her Instagram page she posted and said that she wanted us to listen to it like we did with video games. Your interpretation was spot on.
4. Interlude - The Trio: The Trio is an old song from the movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly which Lana put some beat in it and it's lit
6. Black Bathing Suit: in this song she's talking about a person that she's in a relationship with but doesn't know anything about her, as much as we do. "You don't know me any better than they do baby". Probably thinks she's someone else, the Lana Del Rey and not Elizabeth Grant. Also, she talks about how the only thing that fits her is the black Bathing Suit and I think it's literal. She received many negative comments online about her body that year cuz she put on some weight (who didn't?). Also in the end she's directly talking about what been hating on the media did to her (stacks lol). Also if you wanna know more about Lana's cancelation on the internet, search for "Question for the Culture" letter that Lana wrote and posted on her Instagram. She named dropped some artist and people called her racist cuz some of them where black women. It's pretty traumatic to the fan base lol
7. If You Lie Down With Me: it's pretty literal, I don't think I have anything to add
8. Beautiful: she may be talking about a person that wanted her to change but also might be talking about the media and the fans cuz she was very criticized in her early career, specially after the "I wish I was dead already" interview, about being sad and depressed and how young people would see her message.
8. Violets For Roses: YEAH DUMP HIM QUEEN
9. Dealer: this song Lana wrote and sang with Miles Kane, the ex-guitarist from The Last Shadow Puppets. Actually they did write an entire album together but this project never saw the light of the day. Except for the Dealer which I'm grateful for everyday.
10. Thunder: an unreleased song known by fans because it leaked (like another 200 songs from her) and she decided to release it on this album. Known to be written and recorded in the Ultraviolence sessions.
11. Wildflower Wildfire: in this song she opened up for the first time about her relationship with her mother in a way she never did before. Her mother sent her away to a boarding school in Spain because of Lana's alcohol addiction when she was 15, to never come back home. After boarding school she was sent to live with her uncle in London and he taught her how to play guitar and that's when she starts to writing music. Amazing song, I relate a lot, my fav of this album
12. Nectar Of The Gods: another unreleased song, previously known as Color Blue or Wild One
13. Living Legend: another unreleased song from Ultraviolence Sessions. It's about Jane Powers, Lana's friend and mentor who never cared about Lana being famous and just loved her by her. The (why) part wasn't an electric guitar (which I also agree that sounds like it) it's actually Lana's vocals distorted to sound like a saxophone.
14. Cherry Blossom: another unreleased song, from the Honeymoon sessions. It's speculated to be about a younger version of Lana that never got to have the sweet and loving care by a mother in the way that she sings about in the song but also (and my theory) could be about a baby she never had or lost and how she would care for her. The parts: little gost, there's much to learn and see and the name Angelina could refer to that child. Pretty sad but I loved it, it's the perfect lullaby.
15. Sweet Carolina: Caroline (chuck) Grant it's Lana sister. In 2021 Chuck got pregnant with Lana's first niece Phoenix (no, it's not actually Lilac Heaven), and apparently Lana's sister was afraid to get baby blues (post parthum depression). So Lana, her brother and her dad (who's playing the piano), wrote this song for her. Super cute.
About cherry blossom I’m pretty sure she wrote it from the perspective of her singing to her own child if she had one, I think she mentioned in an interview she’d name her first daughter Angelina or something. And Caroline grant aka Chuck is Lana’s sister and sweet Carolina is to Carolines newborn baby that was mentioned in blue banisters hence the ‘there’s a baby on the way’ line :)
I love this album so much!!! One of my favorites from her. Beautiful, Thunder and Wildflower Wildfire are my favorite songs, but really love all of them.
Also Cass, for Ocean Blvd, youre gonna need the next names: Chuck/Chucky/Caroline is her sister, Charlie is her brother, and her dad, uncle, grandma and grandpa also are important in that album, her mother gets metioned but is censored
She is singing to her unborn daughter. It's like an ode to a child she hopes to have
So some topics you asked about:
• Black Bathing Suit was about when people saw a pic of her in a bathing suit and called her fat, and made a big scene about it. Obviously, she was like WHYYYYY
• Living Legend is to a friend of her who she's very inspired about
• Cherry Blossom is for a child, like she's singing for her future kid, a letter of love
• Sweet Carolina is for her sister who gave birth at the time of the release of the album, is a song to gave all the love of the world for Chucky and how the Grants family loves her so much
Lmao the ads did me dirty. At 6:05 it cut from Cass saying “she’s-“ to the ad going “tasty chicken cheese”
I LOVE BLUE BANISTERS, it was a personal album for Lana and for me too cuz a lot of the things she's been throught, ive been through so... Incredible
Norman Rockwell, Blue Bannisters and Ocean Blvd are my holy trio (with an honourable mention to Honeymoon)
I just wanna say i love these videos and so happy you uploaded them for us. Getting to experience these albums for the first time with you is so special. Thanks for taking us along on your Lana journey ❤❤
LOVED your interpretation of blue bannisters!! with the green grass e grey skies. I’m a huge fan of you reactions, kisses from Brazil 🫶🏼🇧🇷
God this is my fave album of Lana I love it so much, it is the first album I listened of her it's so underrated, but I hope some day people like it more ❤✨
I definitely ended up liking this more than Chemtrails in the end, but both are good albums. I mean in her discography there exists no bad album but these two definitely don't feel as urgent as most of the others. Ocean Boulevard is a complete victory and can't wait for the reaction!
While there was a lot of controversy and criticism surrounding Lana in 2020-2021 there also has been her entire career with a lot of questions surrounding the things she has sung about and artistic decisions she has made. This album really speaks on a lot of that. For me, I don’t always see a song as being about a specific relationship even if it’s written that way - for example, I think the song ‘Beautiful’ makes a lot of sense with the context of Lana being criticized for ‘glamourizing’ tragedy and sadness and in that song is answering to her intentions behind what she expresses to the general public. Even in Text Book, beginning with “I guess you can call it text book”, is kind of an answer of sorts to the daddy issue themes, providing a more literal scenario where she does reference her actual father and in Wildflower Wildfire, she says “since I know you want to talk about it” “you say there’s gaps to fill in, so here” is referencing how many people have assumed that she only writes as a character and that there are inconsistencies with her life vs her art or even just general things that people don’t know about her so she’s finally providing further context, opening doors to sharing her full story such as detailing family trauma. She’s saying ‘here’s the actual story.’ And this along with mentioning her family is something that opens the doors for the conversations that are also had on the next album too. I don’t really see this as a world of music or a solidified story like her previous releases, instead I imagine it’s the same timeline with Chemtrails, which really put a period of sorts to the end of this career-long story, where she now has the moment to look back at previous moments in her life as well as answer to her critics. I do get the sense of it feeling confusing especially given the track list - I’ve organized my listening experience a particular way where I feel as though there is a beginning and end with a lot of the more contemplations (and specifically, older songs) in the middle.
lana said that she was very lowkey with blue banisters and didnt promote it much on purpose, like she only wanted those who find it to hear it (and her instagram was still private then)
My fave song is Cherry Blossom. I read someone speculate that it was for her daughther named angelina. Some sort of lullaby
"Comfortably number but with Lithium came poetry" is also a fun play on words calling out Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd and Lithium by Nirvana which Lana as said were some of her favorite bands growing up
I found your Lana videos a couple days ago and binge-watched them over the course of three days lol. Its so fun to watch someone experience Lana for the first time - you bring back the feelings I had when listening to her for the first time. I love how you actually take the time to read lyrics and pick them apart. I’ve been listening to Lana for almost a decade, and you’ve made me notice things I never have before. I can’t wait for you to react to Ocean Blvd as it is my favorite album of all time. Not every song is one of my favorites on its own, but the album as a whole just comes together to make a masterpiece.
OMGG YAYAYAY, btw I loveeee ur reactionsss!
A couple of thoughts:
∆ Thunder is my favourite from this album. The meaning of the song is that Lana is asking the guy to leave her already because she knows he'll leave her like the men in her past. "just do it, don't wait". It's so sad honestly.
∆ Cherry blossom is about Lana singing to her imaginary daughter. Giving her the mother that Lana never had. Some people interpret this as Lana singing to her child self. Becoming her own mother in a sense. It's beautiful but damn heartbreaking.
∆ Blue banisters the song is super underrated. The poetry here is insane.
∆ People call this album all over the place but idk I find it very consistent. There's theme of a breakup and finding joy in the world around you especially around your family.
Now for Ocean blvd it does everything better than Blue banisters. Lana spills soooo much tea on her past so all the gaps she wanted to fill in Wildfire Wildflower get filled in Ocean blvd. Sonically speaking I'm not going to spoil anything but it's similar to NFR in a sense that's it's "all encompassing", a lot of variety in the sound but very strong sense of a theme.
So EXCITED for you to hear fingertips off of "Did you know..." if you wanna know lanas story
i was waiting for this one queen !!!!!! nectar of the gods is my anthem
in living legend, that's actually lana's voice , she's THAT good, she made it sound like a guitar/saxophone!!
thank you so much for another reaction
Btw that album has A LOT OF UNRELAESDED SONGS: thunder and dealer from collab with last shadow puppets(has Alex turner from arctic monkeys, which California was from that era too) and if you lie down with me, cherry blossom, living legend and nectar of the gods from ultraviolence era.
And yeah that’s why guns in the summertime was in living legend it’s the same era
I'm back for one of my rewatches... don't mind me... LOL your videos are SO SO SO SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!! Your rhetoric is so perfect. I appreciate your viewpoints so much !!!! 🫶
Yess I have always thought Arcadia reminds me of “I hope you dance”. This album is so underrated in her discography. Definitely in my top 3 😊
This is not my favorite Lana album but it's still so special... it was so good to have this at the end of the pandemic, is so personal to her yet some songs are so relatable.
I think Sweet Caroline is my favorite, Lana sings to her sister Chuck this song. Chuck had a baby and was afraid of having postpartum depression and Lana wrote the song to her. Is so beautiful.
I also love Wildflower Wildfire, it's one of the songs in her discography that explains a lot of who Lana is and why is like that.
I think you will love Ocean Blvd. I hope you make a final video with an overall ranking or maybe overall thoughts... I don't want this journey to finish :( it's been great, you are the best reactor 🥹
omg blue banisters is my favorite album of all time 😭😭😭 I would love to see you react to violets bent backwards over the grass. It’s her poetry book and she also has it as a audio book with background music
Caroline Grant is her sister, she wrote that song for her and their dad Robert plays the piano on that song :)
my favorite album in the whole world, loved seeing u react
Gurl same, I teared up after hearing If You Lie Down With Me
as a huge lana fan since like 2013 i remember not really vibing with chemtrails for the first few months and now i’ve learnt to love it a lot more! blue banisters tho i was immediately captivated by the singles she released and i knew i would love this album dearly and i very much correct! it just brings me so many memories during the covid lockdown and it got me through so much, i will always have a special place in my heart for it
this album is one of my favorites just because of its sheer melancholic honesty. its equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful
my favvvvv albumm. even after 2 years it is still getting better every listen
not you crying with the instrumentals at the end of 'if you lie down with me' because SAMEE 😭🤍
cass… i just love you and your reactionsss🫶🏻🫶🏻 this video made my dayy
After you listen to ocean Blvd this album makes so much sense
This one is such a great album from Queen Mother. Actually in Living Legend on the bridge is Lana's voice tuned to sound like an electric guitar when she sings why. Love your reaction ❤
YESS IM SO EXCITED I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AT LEAST ANOTHER WEEK!!!!
I love watching reaction videos of her albums because it's almost like a re-listen and I always end up loving the art even more, seeing other people's thoughts and takes on each song. your videos are perfect examples of this! thanks also I'm sad there's only one more ;( kisses from Brazil 🇧🇷
I love this album so much. It's my comfort album. I love the poetry in the lyrics and the rawness of the production.
This album is more related to the pandemic and Lana seems less confident in it because it was written during the pandemic and during a time when Lana suffered a lot of criticism for gaining weight and for giving her opinion on things, like for example, she has always been criticized for narrating toxic relationships in her songs, but other singers were at number 1 on the Billboard top 100 with songs about sex. She received a lot of criticism for saying that.
Chemtrails was written in 2019 when Lana was at her peak and was supposed to come out in 2020 but as vinyl production was delayed due to lockdown, it was constantly delayed until 2021.
Lana needed (for her mental health) to release this album, to let these lyrics out of her to get rid of these feelings and move on to something new and beautiful like Ocean Blvd. This is an "end of cycle" album and I think it serves its purpose very well.
By the way, in Living Legend it's not an electric guitar screaming "why", it's Lana with her voice imitating an electric guitar. Sweet Carolina is for her sister who had a baby, Cherry Blossom for her unborn daughter and Living Legend for her friend who died.
As you said, in each one she gives us something different with her voice and I love that in this one she explored that a lot.
Top 5 Lana Albums, for me. It's not music, it's poetry. It's like a hug everytime it plays on my record player.
This album grew so much on me. Even though is very personal to lana I can relate to so many of the things she sings about. Can't wait for ocean blvd ❤
Her dad is still married to her mother, so in Wildflower Wildfire she is refering to her. Cherry Clossom is a lullaby that Lana wroted in 2013, that can be interpreted as one for her future daughter (being Angelina like the name she´d choose) or on the perspective of the the mother she never have, being Angelina a pseudonym for Lana herself. And Sweet Carolina is for her sister, Caroline. She had a baby and baby blues a kind of sadness that a woman may have after having a baby, also the song is cowritten by her and their father Rob Grant, who is playing the piano. They all four (including her brother Charlie) have a very close relationship.
clearly my fav album of her and severely underrated
After ocean blvd you should definitely listen to her first album A.K.A lizzy grant and some ofbher unreleased songs for each album she has a bunch
Blue banisters is def on my top 3 fav albums along with NFR and Honeymoon
Blue banisters is such a good album. Thunder is my favourite song and is a top 5 Lana song for me.
This album is an all time favorite of mine. It paints a summertime and spring nostalgia that reminds me of my childhood for some reason and it is so special to me 😭
“Greeeeen and greyyyyy” “ah-ah” with the piano and background makes me weak 😭😭 blue banisters so good
Background on sweet carolina, the song is for her sister chuck grant at that time lanas sister was pregnant(the first baby in their family) its a girl and her name is pheonix grant, lana wrote this song for her sister "baby blues" being postpartum depression, and fun fact it was her father who was also playing the piano in the song
there’s many theories about what cherry blossom is about. some people say she went through a miscarriage and hence the lines “little ghost” “mommy is there”. don’t know if it’s true but that’s been theorized
haii cassie I WAS WAITING FOR BLUE BANISTERS FOR SO LONG YASS IT MY FAV LANA ALBUM
Blue banisters is such an underrated masterpiece from Lana its my personal favourite album
MY FAVOURITE LANA ALBUM OMG
Angelina is a lullaby for the daughter or herself as kid she wanted as another and Carolina for her sister
i loved so much your reaction, i felt that we do relate to the same feelings, and the way you interpret and explain was delightful, pls do more albums and another artist too
Thunder / if you lie down with me (the outrooooo tho) / violets of roses are really of her best songs
and the album is soo uderrated its literally one of my comfort albums of her 🥹
Black Bathing Suit is really mostly about the hate she got in 2020-2021(2022) for gaining weight. Especially Azealia Banks (it actually all started in 2018 I think; you'll find smt on YT about their whole beef), who mocked Lana for gaining weight with paparazzi pics. The whole public as well. And then we have "question for the culture" (to answer you the question why lana was so hated) which is kind of a statement lana posted back in 2020 explaining that she felt extremely misunderstood. people took it the wrong way because lana mentioned some other women by name and said that she was racist (I still dont understand why and HOW poeple come up with that shit)... but usually the fake news and negative stuff goes more viral than the real and good things so yeah
it's been a rough time for lana stand in that time period and lana really tried to make her points clear but poeple are very ... u know hahah
there is a live lana did (it's on YT from 2021 I think to the release of BB) where she talks a little bit about that and teases ocean Blvd, it's an hour long but it's the most rawr I have seen lana ever // or any celebrity, so I recommend to check it up ❤❤❤❤ love your reactions
Ahhh i love this album so much.
I think the guy who shes talking about in this album is Sean Larkin. He was a police officer in tulsa (tulsa jesus freak, Oklahoma in BB, the guy in text book).
I think she really thought he'd give her this kind of perfect, stable life, a marriage, kids, family. Of course he didnt. He never came to help her "paint those banisters" in the metaphorical house they were building together building. Sort of like false promises and dreaming of a life, hopes and dreams that deep down they know will never be met. "Getting lost in the purple rain."
In text book, she says she saw that he saw who she was. I think she thought the ways they were different would set her free and give her that life she kind of romanticized as she ages. They dated during the pandemic too