I’ve just covered Lana on my podcast! ✨✨✨ My episode with @FernStone goes down a surprising (and political) rabbit hole 👀listen to the episode here: linktr.ee/CriminallyUnderratedPod 🥰
BLUE BANISTERS TIMESTAMPS: 1:39 Text Book 5:22 Blue Banisters 9:02 Arcadia 12:52 Interlude - The Trio 13:40 Black Bathing Suit 16:55 If You Lie Down With Me 18:50 Beautiful 21:45 Violets for Roses 24:13 Dealer 26:10 Thunder 28:51 Wildflower Wildfire 32:23 Nectar of the Gods 35:05 Living Legend 38:02 Cherry Blossom 40:39 Sweet Carolina
I honestly think that the black bathing suit represents literally just that, a black bathing suit. Many of us gained some weight during quarantine, so did our Lana. I remembered seeing pictures of her during this time and thinking “shit, her “fans” and press sure are gonna have a lot to say about this.” But seeing it only made me happy honestly, my body sure changed a bit too. So yeah, I think she’s literally talking about how her bathing suit seemed to be the only thing still fitting her, and the frustration that goes with it, but that her body still is her temple, no matter what it looks like. But I could be wrong.
I really liked this reaction but I wanted to clarify Lana is not a mother. Sweet Carolina is a song for her sister’s daughter (some people say it’s just for her sister). And cherry blossom is a song to a future child that Lana may have.
Cherry blossom is indeed a lullaby but it’s not about a baby. It’s about her old self. Tall and tan with lemonade tea. It’s all Lizzie Grant’s aesthetic
as for the peaking on the mic, she acknowledged it in her live: she does things in one take, and doesn't go back to fix things like that, if it peaks it peaks. I like it because it keeps it real and intimate
she fuckin did it again. The funniest part is that I aint even surprise with that, she's just that! So pure, so strong, so beautiful!! It feels amazing to see her uniting her pastself with her present version (old unreleaseds songs + the new ones) and coming in terms with, a amazig jorney. I was really excited to see your reaction 'cause I knew you'd pick up the lyricism very well
I feel like the title track is talking about Lana realising the fact that she is ageing and she doesn’t have much youth left for another new love. She said "Most men don't want a woman with a legacy, it's of age" and she’s scared cause she’s been waiting for the man to paint her banisters blue, and her banisters are now grey. That literally means she’s still waiting for the Mr. Right but now she’s getting older she’s not sure if he would love her when she’s no longer young and beautiful.😭😭😭
I mean the song is very literal so the meaning of it is very obvious. She has a void that she tries to fill with her relationships with men but she's trying to focus on the love she gets from her best friends and her family instead - except the void never truly leaves (hence the second verse)
Mm no. She already met the man who helped her painting her banisters blue but now hes gone and in order to forget him she paints banisters green (Wich turn gray?)
@@sadfish1208 it’s to mimic a bruise, starts off a blue/purple color, fades to a yellow/green color, and is just a faint grey before it disappears completely, this man appears and leaves a mark, and now her sisters and friends come to help heal and fade that mark
Sweet Carolina it's for her sister Chuck (her name is Caroline) that was pregnant at the time and for her daughter Phoenix that was born not much longer after they recorded it. At the piano on this track is Lana's father Robert Grant, writing credits are shared with their friend Alana who shared that her chats with Chuck having the blues inspired the song
Didn't expect album to be that great. Had lots of Honeymoon and UV vibes in half of songs and a i loved it. I loved the intimacy songs have, the lyrics, the melody. Definitely one of strongest Lana's works
Sweet Carolina was written for Lana's pregnant sister by Lana, Lana's Dad; Rob, Lana's Sister; Caroline aka Chuck (hence the song name Sweet Carolina), and Lana's friend; Alana. Her dad is playing piano on the song and the voice at the beginning. They said they wrote the song in around 30 minutes and recorded it in one take. It's basically a love letter from Lana to her sister if she ever experiences Postpartum Depression aka the baby blues. There's some inside jokes in there like in the first verse, but it's really just a sweet, cheerful, and extremely personal song. Without a doubt my favorite song on the album
The one thing that kinda takes away from other reactions is that a lot of them have heard so many of the songs already, so I really appreciate the fact that you waited! 😊
Thunder and Dealer were written in 2017 with The last shadow puppets for an album they wrote together. The male voice in Dealer is miles kane. Thunder leaked in 2020 and it used to have a production without piano. If you lie down with me, chery blossom, nectar of the gods and living legend were written with her ex boyfrend barrie for ultraviolence. If you lie down with me has never been heard before but the other three leaked some time ago.
Also, in Living Legend I think she is singing about Lizzy Grant, which is one of the stage names she used before being Lana del Rey. You shoul listen to Lana del Rey aka Lizzy grant, which is her first album, but you can only find it on youtube since soon after it’s release she wanted to relaunch herself as lana and took it out.
You’re right about it sounding like a western, the trio interlude is a remixed version of the trio from the good the bad and the ugly during the final standoff scene, also the chime sound effects in black bathing suit are from the same soundtrack, which ties it into the previous song.
the trap Interdule evokes the Honeymoon era. this album is kind of a patchwork actually, there’s a very few old demos on it that she re-produced to release, we can also feel a lot of vibes from previous and different eras on it and, of course, something super new. Lana never misses a trick ;-)
Living legend was unreleased song in long time. Songs about Lana’s long-time friends, Jane Powers. She said on her IG live that she was first mentor of her. Lana thanked Jane directly in a Facebook.
Sweet Carolina is my favorite track, reminds me a lot of beautiful moments with my family and friends, what true love means, just living the moment with your people, it makes me so emotional to think that Lana is in a better place right now because after all of her ups and downs she’s finally in peace with her life and the people around her, the true love, so well deserved ❤️🩹
the way you analyze each song and sort of pull apart the song and create an idea on what the song may be about is truly amazing. This just shows that you are defiantly a songwriter.
Your reactions are UNDOUBTEDLY the best out there. I absolutely adore the way you analyse the music and manage to connect with the songs and lyrics, with the emotions and vulnerability Lana shows on BB ☺️❤️ (your reaction to Living Legend actually made me tear up 😅)
Lana has described this album as what it was like, what happened, and where she is. This album is ruled by threes, the first three songs sort of roadmap the album and then the interlude, ‘the trio’ segues into the rest of the album!! Sweet Carolina was done in one take and Dealer features Miles Kane! Nectar of the gods is my fav because it’s sort of existential, that first verse is one of the most beautiful things she’s ever written. Arcadia is this idea of a sanctuary, but as a song I think the deeper meaning lies within her accepting her body, she’s always been heavily criticized weirdly and especially in 2015-16. But I think a lot of the comparisons she makes of her body to natural formations and such lead to that
@@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r no that’s her actual best friend Jennifer, this Jen in living legend was her first mentor back in the day, I would say around 2008.
The banisters are a metaphor for bruises (the stages of bruising) first blue which is when shes in pain and heart broken and the bruises are fresh then green "all my sisters come to paint my banisters green" (half way through healing) and then grey "green and grey" which is the remnants of the bruise so it is practically healed when her friends and family come to support her, you can also see the bruising metaphor on the three single covers with the bruises on her collarbone being edited to be more and more prominent each song
Honestly this album is growing on me. I loved it on my first listen but the more I listen to it the more I love it. It’s clear that she put her heart and soul into it and this album might be her best album lyrics wise (imo)
So glad you picked up the intention with the production on Wildflower Wildflower! It's so creative and unique how they made the drums sound like flames and the snares like fire. So cool, like the song is catching fire.
Textbook I feel like it’s her trying to recreate all the things she didn’t get from her father. While being pleased by the similarities her man does have to him. At first I thought the “and then there was the issue of her” was that he had a woman. But then I realized she could be addressing the way her mom made her feel “didn’t like myself or the life I had”. I feel like she switches back and forth between talking to her dad and this man. “If i go blonde we could get our old love back” Like asking her dad if she went back to blonde like when she was younger, could we rewrite history,? but she’s talking to this man, because In her head she sees her dad. Kind of like in a movie when it flickers from one person to an old memory. CHILLS
Her voice being louder than the background actually was her original style. Her very first album was "SIRENS". Her name then was May Jailer, and if you listen to the songs on that album (you can find it on youtube) you'll notice her kind of coming back to that older style of hers.
39:26 maybe when she sings "you feel afraid, mommy is there" she reffers to her fans or people who see her music and her lyrics as a safety place to reflect their emotions. Her art embrace us and she knows it. Is just that protective cancerian side of her for the people she loves the most. And when they're feeling afraid, she will be there showing them that there's new begginings, cherry blossoms after the dark and sadness they're passing through...
I love this album so much 💙 It's an autobiography for anyone who wants to know her story. I love the emphasis she put on self-love, as well as family and friends. 🥺
I've been obsessed with Lana's music for years, Ultraviolence was my favorite album, but now with Blue Banisters I got a new favorite. She never ceases to surprise me with her talent, sensibility, poetry, soothing voice. This album takes me to another place, it's just so beautiful
It makes me so happy you truly understand this album! Whenever I read all of the reviews it seems like not one of them understood Textbook and I think the reason why is bc it was a single. It was really cool seeing your instant connection to it and not being prejudice towards the lyrics.
Fun fact : lana wrote living legend back in 2013 about her mentor and her friend where she believes she is her spiritual mother , when she said “I never meant to be bad or unwell I was just living on the edge” she was talking about her alcohol struggles and that jane powers was always there helping her no matter how she would get frustrated and kind of apologizing to jane
I wish you would sometimes pause the songs when talking about your interpretations because for example in Arcadia you completely missed the whole second portion of the song which was her (main point) talking about how LA, Hollywood, and America failed her (you’ll need a miracle). She says “they built me up 300 hundred feet tall just to tear me down - so I’m leaving them as I was five foot eight western bound” This song is one of my favorites. We have seen her go from achieving her dream to be in LA (Radio) and her fighting to make it (Gods and Monsters) to her finally realizing how toxic LA is and leaving (Arcadia) I keep editing cuz that’s just how good the lyrics are. Arcadia is a town in California but it’s also a place of calmness serenity and perfection. That’s why the references to angels and LA. She also says she wants to be in Arcadia (in Cali) but since LA is destroying her she’s moving on to finding Arcadia. She’s “a lost little girl in this town”.
i think black bathing suit is the opposite of white dress. white dress was the good days when she felt on top of the world and like a god and the black bathing suit is during the pandemic when she's feeling older and more unsure
Loved this reaction! Also, maybe you should react to grimes? :) I think you will find her music/artistry interesting! Especially her album "Miss Anthropocene"..what can i say..its a dimension of its own..its such a gem!✨
I believe the song Black Bathing Suit is about body shaming. She has been the target of criticism about her body since she gained weight for some time now. Some parts of the lyrics seem to reflect the subject better: The only thing that still fits me is this black bathing suit I wish you could see to my soul through this black bathing suit My black bathing suit (Oh, let 'em talk about me) They're just yesterday's news
People have said the color theme of of clue banisters is the stages of a bruise healing … I think it’s true She uses the same colors of cinnamon girl violet blue green red(blood)
“Just do it don’t wait” can just be whatever you want it to be. It can be your own interpretation, for me if I have to complete something I just have to do it and to stop procrastinating :) Also she is OUR mom✨
it's so interesting (in a good way) watching someone react to lyrics without knowing *way* too much about lana, and deciphering them. Hardcore lana fans know exactly who stuff is about usually, like the Oklahoma guy being the cop guy she dated from Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Also same guy as tulsa jesus freak).
Sweet Carolina is about her sister ( usually referred as Chuck by Lana in some previous song) giving birth. The song was written by Lana with her brother and father and it is about reassuring her sister that they’ll be there for her after the birth of her baby. Baby blue here refers to post-partum depression
fun fact that dealer was written in 2017 with the last shadow puppets and the guys voice in the song is miles kane (in 2017 they were about to make a collab album but ı don't know what happened cuz this is the only song released from collab)
Lana said the album was fun but was way too messy overall to actually be released to the public lmao. I mean we did get Dealer, Thunder and Cali from it so couldn’t have been that bad IMO
They scrapped the album, but California and Dealer are from her time with The Last Shadow Puppets, too! California is on NFR, Dealer and Thunder are on BB
I'm convinced arcadia is a love story with America. The references to land rovers, how the heart of her is america, and all roads lead to you, and being in hilton hotels when she's not home.
"This is Dealer...so...might not be as chill" LOL understatement 😅 I already knew it was gonna be her yelling because it was meant to be on Chemtrails and she said it would be her "yelling her head off" and then it got scrapped and put on this album. So I sorta knew what to expect going in but it still shook me to the core lmao. I still don't understand how the hell she screamed so musically??? Also, she sang in all the sections except the verses. The verses were Miles Kane who is in a band called The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Miles and Alex both worked with Lana on Thunder too.
@@Luscent No problem! Also LOL don't worry, on first listen I briefly though it was Nikki Lane who had featured on Breaking Up Slowly 😂🙈 Then I was like...wait a minute...Who actually is this??? 🤣
Blue banisters I feel like implies the man wants her to change, and she’s unwilling. She realizes the only way he will come around is if she changes to what he wants. Her girls who accept her and love her, they have each other. But she recognizes they’ll never be able to provide the “rain” to her fire that yearns for the love of a man. However she’s ok with this pain, she’ll learn to live. I feel like that’s a reality a lot of people feel! That they will never be loved as they are, so they settle on being alone. Not to be funny, but that’s my grandma lol That’s just how I took it!
arcadia is a type of utopia: a vision of pastoralism and *harmony with nature* it's also a city outside of LA, i think the song can be about both at the same time
hilmir 1 second ago my thoughts on the "simplicity" - most of these songs have been in her roster for years. recorded, rearranged and remixed. so they might just sound too done to her ears, which is why they seem simplistic and under-developed now, because after years of tinkering with them, she stripped them back down. but true fans, probably own all versions of everything, so we know her true genius
One thing I know for sure is Lana loves her some trap lol you grew up on punk rock, she grew to on hip hop…. and I did too. It’s one of the reasons FREAK is one of my fav songs. The chill trap/rock songs she dies are a whole vybe.
"just do it" is just leave her, just be done with the relationship. she doesn't need the tumult of it all in her life. "if hello just means goodbye then baby better walk away"
@@k.d.5603 If you havent heard any of the theories of she having a baby, you should do a deeper research, it was a 2014 thing, when she cancel her tour, and then the liked videos in her yt channel where videos for babies, and some hints in her songs aswell.
Great reaction! I binged all your Lana reactions last week 😂 really love the songwriting perspective. Too simple? Nah. I prefer simpler to overly complicated. Substance over style any day for me. Really like your new single too, I checked out some of your music on Spotify! You can absolutely have your own song be song of the week hahaha I'm gonna watch your Fiona Apple album reaction next... I adore her, probably even more than Lana lol... I'm actually nervous that you started with Fetch the Bolt Cutters and worried you won't like her based on that album. It's a great album but she's kind of an acquired taste... Her first couple of albums are a little easier to get into haha Anyway sorry for rambling, thanks for the breakdown and looking forward to more Lana and Adele and hopefully others! ✌🏼
Thanks for the comment! I think my opinion of the album in the end was that there was a lot of beauty in the simplicity ✨ and thanks for checking out my music too!!
I think Wildflower Wildfire is less about the love she wants but more about the person she wants to be in a relationship. When people are raised by aggressive people who rage at them, they learn that behaviour and go forth with it themselves. I think she’s saying she wants to be let hot headed and more delicate (can’t think of a more appropriate word soz)
Arcadia is a poetic shaped space associated with bountiful natural splendor and harmony. The 'Garden' is often inhabited by shepherds. The concept also figures in Renaissance mythology. ... Furthermore, it is seen as a lost, Edenic form of life, contrasting to the progressive nature of Utopian desires.
I’ve just covered Lana on my podcast! ✨✨✨ My episode with @FernStone goes down a surprising (and political) rabbit hole 👀listen to the episode here: linktr.ee/CriminallyUnderratedPod 🥰
Dealer has a feature!! That was miles kane in the verses
LMFAO I WAS LIKE THATS NOT LANA💀
@@sugaemen same
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* Miles Kane singing * "She sounds very different here".. 🤣
🤣 omgggg
Oh good, I was like... why does everybody automatically think that's Lana? x) Got me questioning. Haha
Lololol
@@09ledm lol I know
Most people haven’t really heard of miles Kane
Plus the album doesn’t show a feature
Lmao i laughed so hard.
BLUE BANISTERS TIMESTAMPS:
1:39 Text Book
5:22 Blue Banisters
9:02 Arcadia
12:52 Interlude - The Trio
13:40 Black Bathing Suit
16:55 If You Lie Down With Me
18:50 Beautiful
21:45 Violets for Roses
24:13 Dealer
26:10 Thunder
28:51 Wildflower Wildfire
32:23 Nectar of the Gods
35:05 Living Legend
38:02 Cherry Blossom
40:39 Sweet Carolina
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I honestly think that the black bathing suit represents literally just that, a black bathing suit. Many of us gained some weight during quarantine, so did our Lana. I remembered seeing pictures of her during this time and thinking “shit, her “fans” and press sure are gonna have a lot to say about this.” But seeing it only made me happy honestly, my body sure changed a bit too. So yeah, I think she’s literally talking about how her bathing suit seemed to be the only thing still fitting her, and the frustration that goes with it, but that her body still is her temple, no matter what it looks like. But I could be wrong.
I like that interpretation and that would fit with the rest of the album too
in Arcadia she also talks about her weight gain and i just love how she puts this experience into her music in such a beautiful way of self acceptance
I really liked this reaction but I wanted to clarify Lana is not a mother. Sweet Carolina is a song for her sister’s daughter (some people say it’s just for her sister). And cherry blossom is a song to a future child that Lana may have.
Sweet Carolina is actually to her sister 🌹
Lana is a mother shes queen mother
i think cherry blossom is about her younger self
An Arianator that loves Lana!!!!
U need to be taken care of!!♡
Cherry blossom is indeed a lullaby but it’s not about a baby. It’s about her old self. Tall and tan with lemonade tea. It’s all Lizzie Grant’s aesthetic
as for the peaking on the mic, she acknowledged it in her live: she does things in one take, and doesn't go back to fix things like that, if it peaks it peaks. I like it because it keeps it real and intimate
yeah but my ears tho-
I understand that to an extent but there was some really bad mixing went I went back through it! A lot seems to be fixed now so that's good
she fuckin did it again. The funniest part is that I aint even surprise with that, she's just that! So pure, so strong, so beautiful!! It feels amazing to see her uniting her pastself with her present version (old unreleaseds songs + the new ones) and coming in terms with, a amazig jorney. I was really excited to see your reaction 'cause I knew you'd pick up the lyricism very well
Nobody cares bro
@@garethsanchez303 Jesus, who hurt you? lmao
@@evandersolis5528 You should be the one who's hurt. Crying to lame sad songs.
@@garethsanchez303 Atleast you should stop posting lame comments
@@anuragbhattacharya2940 hiu guhsoi mafosali yinda terpona!
I feel like the title track is talking about Lana realising the fact that she is ageing and she doesn’t have much youth left for another new love. She said "Most men don't want a woman with a legacy, it's of age" and she’s scared cause she’s been waiting for the man to paint her banisters blue, and her banisters are now grey. That literally means she’s still waiting for the Mr. Right but now she’s getting older she’s not sure if he would love her when she’s no longer young and beautiful.😭😭😭
I mean the song is very literal so the meaning of it is very obvious. She has a void that she tries to fill with her relationships with men but she's trying to focus on the love she gets from her best friends and her family instead - except the void never truly leaves (hence the second verse)
Naur 😭
Mm no. She already met the man who helped her painting her banisters blue but now hes gone and in order to forget him she paints banisters green (Wich turn gray?)
@@sadfish1208 it’s to mimic a bruise, starts off a blue/purple color, fades to a yellow/green color, and is just a faint grey before it disappears completely, this man appears and leaves a mark, and now her sisters and friends come to help heal and fade that mark
😭😭😭😭😭😭 I feel that.
Sweet Carolina it's for her sister Chuck (her name is Caroline) that was pregnant at the time and for her daughter Phoenix that was born not much longer after they recorded it. At the piano on this track is Lana's father Robert Grant, writing credits are shared with their friend Alana who shared that her chats with Chuck having the blues inspired the song
it’s about her sisters postpartum depression
Living legend is such a mix of sad and beautiful song
It really is
@@Luscent love your channel💜💜💜😍
The way you thought Lana was singing at the beginning of Dealer sent me out of space lmao
“She’s singing different here” 😭
LMFAOAOA IKR
Hahahahaha honestly it a bit annoying how little he knows when the tracks tell him everything 😂
Neat fact Lana revealed today: the last track (Sweet Carolina) was recorded in one take!
Didn't expect album to be that great. Had lots of Honeymoon and UV vibes in half of songs and a i loved it. I loved the intimacy songs have, the lyrics, the melody.
Definitely one of strongest Lana's works
If You Lie Down With Me was definitely giving off Honeymoon vibes in the best way possible
A lot of the songs were written around the ultraviolence time and just reworked for this one
One of her weakest in my opinion.
@@whentheworldwasatwar8717 i would not agree, it’s so personal and soft but not soft for some songs at the same time. perfection
This one may have beaten out NFR as my favorite Lana album. It's simple but it's so intimate and so powerful, and so so timeless.
Sweet Carolina was written for Lana's pregnant sister by Lana, Lana's Dad; Rob, Lana's Sister; Caroline aka Chuck (hence the song name Sweet Carolina), and Lana's friend; Alana. Her dad is playing piano on the song and the voice at the beginning. They said they wrote the song in around 30 minutes and recorded it in one take. It's basically a love letter from Lana to her sister if she ever experiences Postpartum Depression aka the baby blues. There's some inside jokes in there like in the first verse, but it's really just a sweet, cheerful, and extremely personal song. Without a doubt my favorite song on the album
The one thing that kinda takes away from other reactions is that a lot of them have heard so many of the songs already, so I really appreciate the fact that you waited! 😊
Thunder and Dealer were written in 2017 with The last shadow puppets for an album they wrote together. The male voice in Dealer is miles kane. Thunder leaked in 2020 and it used to have a production without piano. If you lie down with me, chery blossom, nectar of the gods and living legend were written with her ex boyfrend barrie for ultraviolence. If you lie down with me has never been heard before but the other three leaked some time ago.
Also, in Living Legend I think she is singing about Lizzy Grant, which is one of the stage names she used before being Lana del Rey. You shoul listen to Lana del Rey aka Lizzy grant, which is her first album, but you can only find it on youtube since soon after it’s release she wanted to relaunch herself as lana and took it out.
Ah cool! Thanks for the info!
@@anaursaciuc2268 nope she's singing about her first mentor in Living Legend
It's so nice to see other people appreciating Lana.
And you seem like a really cool and kind person. Nice review
Aw thanks!
You’re right about it sounding like a western, the trio interlude is a remixed version of the trio from the good the bad and the ugly during the final standoff scene, also the chime sound effects in black bathing suit are from the same soundtrack, which ties it into the previous song.
the trap Interdule evokes the Honeymoon era. this album is kind of a patchwork actually, there’s a very few old demos on it that she re-produced to release, we can also feel a lot of vibes from previous and different eras on it and, of course, something super new. Lana never misses a trick ;-)
Yeah maybe that was the whole point in her head you know?
In dealer Lana is singing with Miles Kane
Living legend was unreleased song in long time.
Songs about Lana’s long-time friends, Jane Powers.
She said on her IG live that she was first mentor of her.
Lana thanked Jane directly in a Facebook.
Also thunder and nectar of the gods been out for a while
A lot of Lana’s songs have hip hop influences so I thought the Interlude was sooo Lana actually
Fair ahhaa
Sweet Carolina is my favorite track, reminds me a lot of beautiful moments with my family and friends, what true love means, just living the moment with your people, it makes me so emotional to think that Lana is in a better place right now because after all of her ups and downs she’s finally in peace with her life and the people around her, the true love, so well deserved ❤️🩹
the way you analyze each song and sort of pull apart the song and create an idea on what the song may be about is truly amazing. This just shows that you are defiantly a songwriter.
Aw thanks!
Your reactions are UNDOUBTEDLY the best out there. I absolutely adore the way you analyse the music and manage to connect with the songs and lyrics, with the emotions and vulnerability Lana shows on BB ☺️❤️ (your reaction to Living Legend actually made me tear up 😅)
Oh wow thank you!!!
Lana has described this album as what it was like, what happened, and where she is. This album is ruled by threes, the first three songs sort of roadmap the album and then the interlude, ‘the trio’ segues into the rest of the album!! Sweet Carolina was done in one take and Dealer features Miles Kane! Nectar of the gods is my fav because it’s sort of existential, that first verse is one of the most beautiful things she’s ever written. Arcadia is this idea of a sanctuary, but as a song I think the deeper meaning lies within her accepting her body, she’s always been heavily criticized weirdly and especially in 2015-16. But I think a lot of the comparisons she makes of her body to natural formations and such lead to that
She says she dose all her songs in one take
Living legend is about an old friend called Jen! She helped her to chase her dream to sing, there’s a post in her old Facebook about it
Oh beautiful!
@@Luscent ua-cam.com/video/Lowsy4jMs8Q/v-deo.html
Go to 1:55!!!!!!! She said it today
Jen as in, “Jenny was smokin by the pool”?
@@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r yes
@@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r no that’s her actual best friend Jennifer, this Jen in living legend was her first mentor back in the day, I would say around 2008.
The banisters are a metaphor for bruises (the stages of bruising) first blue which is when shes in pain and heart broken and the bruises are fresh then green "all my sisters come to paint my banisters green" (half way through healing) and then grey "green and grey" which is the remnants of the bruise so it is practically healed when her friends and family come to support her, you can also see the bruising metaphor on the three single covers with the bruises on her collarbone being edited to be more and more prominent each song
Honestly this album is growing on me. I loved it on my first listen but the more I listen to it the more I love it. It’s clear that she put her heart and soul into it and this album might be her best album lyrics wise (imo)
Yeah me too actually!
Definitely! For me, it's in the top 3 Lana albuns, along with Honeymoon and NFR!
She doesn't have a child. She said in one of her insta captions that she's a mother to her friends and pets 💗
So glad you picked up the intention with the production on Wildflower Wildflower! It's so creative and unique how they made the drums sound like flames and the snares like fire. So cool, like the song is catching fire.
It's it the coolest??
Textbook I feel like it’s her trying to recreate all the things she didn’t get from her father. While being pleased by the similarities her man does have to him. At first I thought the “and then there was the issue of her” was that he had a woman. But then I realized she could be addressing the way her mom made her feel “didn’t like myself or the life I had”. I feel like she switches back and forth between talking to her dad and this man. “If i go blonde we could get our old love back” Like asking her dad if she went back to blonde like when she was younger, could we rewrite history,? but she’s talking to this man, because In her head she sees her dad. Kind of like in a movie when it flickers from one person to an old memory. CHILLS
That's such a good analysis of that song wow!!
I’m sorry but I just can’t when he talks over the best parts of the songs 😭😭😭😭🔌
THIS
Arcadia 😭 and Textbook
9:48 The delicate way that he says "delicate" just love it lol ✨💕
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Her voice being louder than the background actually was her original style. Her very first album was "SIRENS". Her name then was May Jailer, and if you listen to the songs on that album (you can find it on youtube) you'll notice her kind of coming back to that older style of hers.
Oh that's really cool!
39:26 maybe when she sings "you feel afraid, mommy is there" she reffers to her fans or people who see her music and her lyrics as a safety place to reflect their emotions. Her art embrace us and she knows it.
Is just that protective cancerian side of her for the people she loves the most. And when they're feeling afraid, she will be there showing them that there's new begginings, cherry blossoms after the dark and sadness they're passing through...
I love this album so much 💙 It's an autobiography for anyone who wants to know her story. I love the emphasis she put on self-love, as well as family and friends. 🥺
Yeah definitely a positive message 💙
@@Luscent Fore sure 💙
We stand living legend, I feel exactly what you say 🥺
I've been obsessed with Lana's music for years, Ultraviolence was my favorite album, but now with Blue Banisters I got a new favorite. She never ceases to surprise me with her talent, sensibility, poetry, soothing voice. This album takes me to another place, it's just so beautiful
It makes me so happy you truly understand this album! Whenever I read all of the reviews it seems like not one of them understood Textbook and I think the reason why is bc it was a single. It was really cool seeing your instant connection to it and not being prejudice towards the lyrics.
Fitting that you’re saving the best for last. NFR IS THAT BITCH. I adore that album 🙌
I'm so excited after all you guys hyping it up so much!
Fun fact : lana wrote living legend back in 2013 about her mentor and her friend where she believes she is her spiritual mother , when she said “I never meant to be bad or unwell
I was just living on the edge” she was talking about her alcohol struggles and that jane powers was always there helping her no matter how she would get frustrated and kind of apologizing to jane
I wish you would sometimes pause the songs when talking about your interpretations because for example in Arcadia you completely missed the whole second portion of the song which was her (main point) talking about how LA, Hollywood, and America failed her (you’ll need a miracle). She says “they built me up 300 hundred feet tall just to tear me down - so I’m leaving them as I was five foot eight western bound”
This song is one of my favorites. We have seen her go from achieving her dream to be in LA (Radio) and her fighting to make it (Gods and Monsters) to her finally realizing how toxic LA is and leaving (Arcadia)
I keep editing cuz that’s just how good the lyrics are. Arcadia is a town in California but it’s also a place of calmness serenity and perfection. That’s why the references to angels and LA. She also says she wants to be in Arcadia (in Cali) but since LA is destroying her she’s moving on to finding Arcadia. She’s “a lost little girl in this town”.
Sweet Carolina is about her sister chuck, short for carolina. She had a baby, and they wrote this song together with her father.
sweet carolina is a song written about her and her family. her sister and dad also helped writing the song
i think black bathing suit is the opposite of white dress. white dress was the good days when she felt on top of the world and like a god and the black bathing suit is during the pandemic when she's feeling older and more unsure
Oh I love that comparison good spot!!
"shes singing very differently here"
we all got shook when we heard the feature on dealer lmao
Hahahahahahaha she really should've listed that one 🤣
I thought it was her voice slowed / screwed for a moment. Then I thought it was Sean Lennon 😂
If you lie down with me she wrote the song with her Ex Barrie ! It’s so crazy. Low key I actually enjoy that song.
Loved this reaction!
Also, maybe you should react to grimes? :) I think you will find her music/artistry interesting! Especially her album "Miss Anthropocene"..what can i say..its a dimension of its own..its such a gem!✨
Yeah I'd like to do Grimes at some point!
I believe the song Black Bathing Suit is about body shaming. She has been the target of criticism about her body since she gained weight for some time now. Some parts of the lyrics seem to reflect the subject better:
The only thing that still fits me is this black bathing suit
I wish you could see to my soul through this black bathing suit
My black bathing suit
(Oh, let 'em talk about me)
They're just yesterday's news
Whatsup Arthur
@@athaosand hey
Lana said Wildflower Wildfire is about her home life growing up
I love to see how you interpret and especially feel Lana's depth in this very honest and cute way. Definetly suscribed to your channel 🥺
People have said the color theme of of clue banisters is the stages of a bruise healing … I think it’s true
She uses the same colors of cinnamon girl violet blue green red(blood)
Oh I love that theory
Interesting, I always thought the colors were different types of pills in cinnamon girl!
As always, lana makes impressive albums, but this one in particular exceeded any expectations I had of her, it is simply transcendental
Glad you liked it I did too!!
Lana del Rey is truly a legend. This was a beautiful reaction and I loved your thoughts on her songs 💗
Bless 🙏✨
Glad you enjoyed the vid!
“Just do it don’t wait” can just be whatever you want it to be. It can be your own interpretation, for me if I have to complete something I just have to do it and to stop procrastinating :)
Also she is OUR mom✨
it's so interesting (in a good way) watching someone react to lyrics without knowing *way* too much about lana, and deciphering them. Hardcore lana fans know exactly who stuff is about usually, like the Oklahoma guy being the cop guy she dated from Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Also same guy as tulsa jesus freak).
Sweet Carolina is about her sister ( usually referred as Chuck by Lana in some previous song) giving birth. The song was written by Lana with her brother and father and it is about reassuring her sister that they’ll be there for her after the birth of her baby. Baby blue here refers to post-partum depression
fun fact that dealer was written in 2017 with the last shadow puppets and the guys voice in the song is miles kane
(in 2017 they were about to make a collab album but ı don't know what happened cuz this is the only song released from collab)
Thunder is also a collab. You can definitely hear those Last Shadow Puppets instrumentals
omg i didn’t know that thanks
California from NFR is also from that album
Lana said the album was fun but was way too messy overall to actually be released to the public lmao. I mean we did get Dealer, Thunder and Cali from it so couldn’t have been that bad IMO
They scrapped the album, but California and Dealer are from her time with The Last Shadow Puppets, too! California is on NFR, Dealer and Thunder are on BB
I'm convinced arcadia is a love story with America. The references to land rovers, how the heart of her is america, and all roads lead to you, and being in hilton hotels when she's not home.
Your voice is so soft, that I was at my bed with my eyes closed, and I felt asleep for 5 hours. I loved your channel ♥️🇧🇷
Aw hahaa thanks ☺️
"This is Dealer...so...might not be as chill" LOL understatement 😅 I already knew it was gonna be her yelling because it was meant to be on Chemtrails and she said it would be her "yelling her head off" and then it got scrapped and put on this album. So I sorta knew what to expect going in but it still shook me to the core lmao. I still don't understand how the hell she screamed so musically??? Also, she sang in all the sections except the verses. The verses were Miles Kane who is in a band called The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Miles and Alex both worked with Lana on Thunder too.
Ah thanks for the info! Yeah so many people have commented being like omg how could you not tell that was a guy singing in dealer 🤣🤣🤣
@@Luscent No problem! Also LOL don't worry, on first listen I briefly though it was Nikki Lane who had featured on Breaking Up Slowly 😂🙈 Then I was like...wait a minute...Who actually is this??? 🤣
Blue banisters I feel like implies the man wants her to change, and she’s unwilling. She realizes the only way he will come around is if she changes to what he wants. Her girls who accept her and love her, they have each other. But she recognizes they’ll never be able to provide the “rain” to her fire that yearns for the love of a man. However she’s ok with this pain, she’ll learn to live. I feel like that’s a reality a lot of people feel! That they will never be loved as they are, so they settle on being alone. Not to be funny, but that’s my grandma lol That’s just how I took it!
Living Legend is actually about one of her best friends not about a relationship:)
That's so sweet actually
@@Luscent i knooow, thanks for answer
arcadia is a type of utopia: a vision of pastoralism and *harmony with nature*
it's also a city outside of LA, i think the song can be about both at the same time
Very cool
One of my fav albums
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my thoughts on the "simplicity" - most of these songs have been in her roster for years. recorded, rearranged and remixed. so they might just sound too done to her ears, which is why they seem simplistic and under-developed now, because after years of tinkering with them, she stripped them back down. but true fans, probably own all versions of everything, so we know her true genius
Yeah maybe she just wanted to get them out so kept the production minimal
blue banisters is easily one of her best albums, got into my top 3
Blue banisters, NFR, Ultraviolence 🙌
One thing I know for sure is Lana loves her some trap lol you grew up on punk rock, she grew to on hip hop…. and I did too. It’s one of the reasons FREAK is one of my fav songs. The chill trap/rock songs she dies are a whole vybe.
You should give Wildflower Wildfire another listen. The song is incredible and there's a lot in the lyrics if you listen closely.
Thunder... OH MY GOD THUNDER!!!!!!
Am I the only one that loves if you lie down next to me. Man it’s my favorite one!
"just do it" is just leave her, just be done with the relationship. she doesn't need the tumult of it all in her life. "if hello just means goodbye then baby better walk away"
Yeah cool
I particularly read the black bathing suit thing like she was referencing her body change throughout the last year or so
Oh interesting!
lol I’m the beginning of dealer it’s Mike’s Kane not her lmao
I think the last two songs are lullabies for Phoenix, Chuck’s (sister of lana) daughter. But we all think she has a secret baby
I think Cherry Blossom is for Chuck, just like Sweet Caroline
No we don't lol I don't know anyone in the fandom that thinks that and I have an insta fan page and know one hundred more.
@@k.d.5603 If you havent heard any of the theories of she having a baby, you should do a deeper research, it was a 2014 thing, when she cancel her tour, and then the liked videos in her yt channel where videos for babies, and some hints in her songs aswell.
Great reaction! I binged all your Lana reactions last week 😂 really love the songwriting perspective. Too simple? Nah. I prefer simpler to overly complicated. Substance over style any day for me.
Really like your new single too, I checked out some of your music on Spotify! You can absolutely have your own song be song of the week hahaha
I'm gonna watch your Fiona Apple album reaction next... I adore her, probably even more than Lana lol... I'm actually nervous that you started with Fetch the Bolt Cutters and worried you won't like her based on that album. It's a great album but she's kind of an acquired taste... Her first couple of albums are a little easier to get into haha
Anyway sorry for rambling, thanks for the breakdown and looking forward to more Lana and Adele and hopefully others! ✌🏼
Thanks for the comment! I think my opinion of the album in the end was that there was a lot of beauty in the simplicity ✨ and thanks for checking out my music too!!
HAHAH THE CROWS HAVE EYES we love schitt's creek
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I was genuinely ready to fight you after looking at the thumbnail lol
Dealer has a feature it’s a guy singing the verses named Miles Kane
Omg!! Can't wait for the NFR reaction ✨❤️
Me toooooo
I think Wildflower Wildfire is less about the love she wants but more about the person she wants to be in a relationship. When people are raised by aggressive people who rage at them, they learn that behaviour and go forth with it themselves. I think she’s saying she wants to be let hot headed and more delicate (can’t think of a more appropriate word soz)
Arcadia is a poetic shaped space associated with bountiful natural splendor and harmony. The 'Garden' is often inhabited by shepherds. The concept also figures in Renaissance mythology. ... Furthermore, it is seen as a lost, Edenic form of life, contrasting to the progressive nature of Utopian desires.
so cute, you speak so peacefully reminds me Florence Welch speaking, i loved the react
Yessssssss I'll take that!
lana stans love you
And I love them!!! 😭
I think, if I remember well, living legend is more about a friend of her
We need a revisit for this album 🌺🌺
I like it 😂 please keep doing this 🙏
When she says "just do it" is about breaking up.
I’m thinking maybe cherry blossom on your sycomore tee means
Even the ordinary things in life can be so beautiful as a cherry blossom?
Arcadia is like heaven ^^
Sweet carolina is for her sister and her new baby and it was a gift for her
My favorite album.
sweet carolina is to her sister who just had a baby
Ahh I thought it would be something like that
Can't wait for watching your reaction of ''lust for life ''
but your voice is so smooth
I see High as Hope behind you 👀 are you going to review it?