I’d strongly recommend Wildflower Wildfire from the same album. It’s complex and deals with her relationship with her mother as a child, and how that informs her current day relationships.

@ruinswithin

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@deibsonpaulinofernandes4450

Жыл бұрын

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@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

It’s absolutely next

@Paulamdz

Жыл бұрын

It's my favorite song from Blue Banisters 💘

@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395

Жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorite songs of hers. The lyricism is unmatched. So underrated.

“This is sad. It feels very tragic.” As a long time Lana fan this made me laugh because it’s so true and yet we love her so much

@k.d.5603

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to Lana's discography lol

This song is filled with incredible imagery and meaning. In the beginning she describes her relationship with a man. One whom she trusted and felt secure in. A man who made promises about the future, promising that he’ll always be there. Banisters are sturdy devices used to provide support and stability so you don’t lose your balance. By saying he’d always coming back to paint them it’s saying he’ll always be there, supporting her so she doesn’t fall. In the second verse it’s implied he left. Now she’s bruised (blue) and heartbroken. She sings of her girlfriends who are there to try attempt to help her heal even though that hole he left is still there, aching. When bruises begin to heal they go from being blue to a greenish grey color. I think It’s signifying that the mark he left is still there, but it’s slowly beginning to heal. The color of the bannisters has changed explaining that her friends have replaced the color and have taken his place supporting her even though it won’t be the same as it was when he was there. The heartache lingers and stings, but she has her friends there to get her through it and provide a new kind of support and stability in her life while she heals.

@Camir0215

Жыл бұрын

Also her ex is from Tulsa so that explains her repetition of Oklahoma :)

@MichaelToscano

Жыл бұрын

You absolutely nailed my interpretation of the song. The line, “you can’t blacken the pages with Russian poetry, and be happy.” resonates with me big time.

@Vmieee

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful analysis.

@Matthew-ij3zm

Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention that that's just an interpretation, an idea a few fans came up with, and hasn't been confirmed by Lana in the slightest. It's amazing how you guys write these comments like you're spitting facts when really it's nothing more than fan-fiction.

@scanman97

Жыл бұрын

@@Matthew-ij3zm Dude, In my closing remarks that summarize these thoughts I said “I think that…” which clarifies that this is just how I see it. I’m aware that this is just my interpretation. No need for the passive aggressive hostility.

The blue, green, and grey is definitely talking about a bruise. It’s like she’s still hurt, but slowly healing with her friends and family. Also, in the music video for “ride” she talks about winter being a dark time in her life and summer being a brighter time. May weather could symbolize getting out of the darkness but still not being fully in the light. She seems stuck in the middle in this song. But right after May is June, so maybe brighter days are on the horizon :)

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes!!!

@jaiiqqo3790

11 ай бұрын

I don't think this is what the song is about

Also- the kids running around, the baby on the way- is sweet imagery of spring time, but also a heartbreaking reminder that he didn’t fulfill that promise to give her children. She’s Happy and blessed with her sisters children yet sad because their lives are moving on in ways she hoped and dreamed for herself.

Blue banisters is my favorite song off the album especially towards the end of the song😫it just does something to me the way she sing it

@pauline6092

Жыл бұрын

same!!! the end of the song i cry every damn time

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

Babes, SAME. I’m not a crier & it makes me ball bc it’s so beautiful & emotion evoking 🥹😭

@k.d.5603

Жыл бұрын

It's my favorite, too. Her delivery is so crisp and clear. At the end she skips Spring because he promised he'd be there to paint the banisters blue. She'd rather just sleep away that season. I feel the same about the Fall. The ending piano notes sound like a heart monitor❤

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

@@k.d.5603 fr, it’s such a good metaphor to those of us with seasonal depression or those of us who have experienced death of loved ones immediately understand. Those anniversary months are always hard. The body certainly does keep the score, doesn’t it? 💙

@k.d.5603

Жыл бұрын

@@chronicalIyoffline Ahhh... yes, exactly...I just cannot forget those dates where everything changed💙

i love how descriptive her lyrics are, i feel like she's telling me a history in a random day

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

It’s my FAV type of music 😍 that’s why I love Taylor so much too. Phoebe Bridgers is another story telling type lyricist as well. Drop your fav story telling artist rec’s if your reading this! ☺️

Tex and Mex are her dogs in case you were wondering. I love that she mentions them because dogs are amazing companion animals. Lana has talked about them as great companion dogs who always cheer her up in the past on an ig live once around 2021 “Chuckys making birthday cake, chickens running, barefoot, there’s a baby on the way and now my blue banisters are green and grey” that to me is where I feel that she’s seeing that there is life all around her beyond the sadness. Green and grey symbolizing the healing of a bruise cycle. She’s so amazing I love her sm

The references to Oklahoma are probably allusions to her ex boyfriend - the TV cop who, unbeknownst to Lana, was engaged at the time (the same guy from Part 1 of "A&W" where Lana's a sidepiece at 33). Lana recently said she hoped no one would listen to Blue Banisters (the album) but released it just in case people wanted "information". It's a deep, understated gem with so many layers to unpeel. "Dealer", "Wildflower Wildfire", and "Sweet Carolina" are also especially great. Thanks so much for another great reaction!🥰❤

@koutureworld8326

Жыл бұрын

HE WAS ENGAGED ??!! I did not know that’s why they broke up 😭😭 what in the hell

Also, if you think about the utility of a banister, is the support that you have when you're going up and down some stairs. And I truly think it is a metaphor when she's singing about them, the man that she talks about lied and gave her no support, saying that he will come back to help her paint her banisters blue, and fix the weathervane, and take her pain away, Lana was hoping for him to be the support that she needed (wich he wasn't) but her sisters are there painting the banisters green and gray, so, they are giving her the support that she needs

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes!!

This song puts me in another world... its her most ethereal song, IMO.. with the background music & her gorgeous voice, I feel like I'm in a dimension all alone. I just love this song. Alot of ppl slept on this album but its really good, one of her best. She always tops her last project which is hard to do bc they're all SO AMAZING!!

@motucker44

Жыл бұрын

If you lie down with me if my fav fav 💗💗💗

@carriethompson84

Жыл бұрын

@@motucker44 I have a video where I sing it acapella on my channel but it's not that great... I'm teaching myself to use my voice. I love it also!!

Imo this is one of Lana's most complex/abstract yet most beautiful songs. So rich with symbolism and is almost a precursor to Kintsugi/Fingertips from Ocean Blvd

i truly do believe that this is maybe her most poem-like song. like the lyrics are truly a poem. it it's complex, it is deep, every single line. and also, beautiful. i wish the fandom could recognize it, too. blue banisters is a masterpiece. she really became a beautiful poet.

can you please do black beauty 🙏🏻🙏🏻

i really recommend violets for roses!! its on the same album as Blue Banisters and it’s very deep, it has to be my favorite on the album!!

Blue banisters is a wonderful album ❤

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to listen to more of it!

urghhh Blue Banisters is absolutely stunning ✨. Highly recommend "Violets Into Roses" from the same album

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s a great one for metaphors/analysis!!!! Lovely song 💜🥀

I love in the 2nd verse “There’s a man that’s in my past There’s a man that’s still right here He’s real enough to touch and In my darkest nights he’s shining” At 1st listen it’s like wait… he’s still there? He’s lighting up your dark nights? But no, shes saying the presence of him weighing on her thoughts is still so real. He’s “shining” on those dark nights as in he’s so noticeable, he’s the cause. I just love how she uses those common metaphorical phrases that we here in other songs to typically describe love but flips them on their head. It’s misleading in a fun way. She challenges the listeners to rlly go through a few times & think deeply & question things. It’s fun hehe 💙

Candy necklace next please 🙏

Yayy!!! I am so happy you reacted to this song. The whole album is amazing. Lana’s voice is absolutely amazing on this album. Thank you Meredith 🙏😌

I CAN NEVER STRESS HOW MUCH THIS ALBUM MEANS TO ME- THIS ALBUM IS A LITERAL POETIC AND LYRICAL MASTERPIECE!!!! People tend to neglect it sooo much bur there is such an incredible lingering notion of freedom and pain and relief within this album it's my absolute favourite, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING TO IT! YOU SHOULD DEF LISTEN TO VIOLETS FOR ROSES, WILDFLOWER WILDFIRE, ARCADIA AND ALL OF THEM AND YOU EXPLAIN IT ALL SO WELL I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 💞 PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN TO THEM!! P.s- I low-key you're my new favourite person right now🤭

@nymphey

Жыл бұрын

I feel you 100%. Blue Banisters means so much to me, too

@theotherwomen8248

Жыл бұрын

@@nymphey blur banisters is the most beautiful album

This is my favorite album by Lana, hope u react to the whole album 'cause i'ts really amazing (it's so personal to her, and kinda is so personal to me to because i can relate so much)

I was shocked to learn that Blue Banisters is the most underrated or even disliked album by a huge part of Lana's fanbase. I just came here to share my passion for this album. I absolutely adore it not only because it relates so much to my personal life experience, but also since it's a universally relatable, emotional work of art. Her lyrics are at her most personal and most powerful. I feared that a poet would run out of rhymes one day, but not Lana. I have listened to her for over 10 years and she still manages to surprise me. I thought that you cannot top NFR, but she exceeded herself. Lana + piano is a match made in heaven. She entered the realm of high art. Lana is my modern John Lennon. In her stripped-back productions, her vocals and lyrics sound so powerful. Deep, meaningful. So raw and vulnerable, you can feel every nuance of the pain, and the light. The melodies are beautiful and haunting. Her piano ballads are a controversial topic among the fans, some find them weaker than the lavish productions on Born to Die or Ultraviolence, but I think the opposite. She is the strongest in her quieter ballads, I knew that when we first got a taste of her future development with Change and the live performance of How to Disappear. This reminded me so much of her days as Lizzy Grant. For me, songs like Pawn Shop Blues and Yayo remained unmatched for a long time, until Blue Banisters. Don't get me wrong, I love all eras of Lana Del Rey including her fun, catchy songs, but she takes it to a whole other level with albums like NFR and Blue Banisters. Lana faced so much negativity in 2020/21, got cancelled basically, yet she truely did turn blue into something beautiful. I feel like songs like Arcadia, BB, Black Bathing Suit, Beautiful are an answer to all the criticism she received. I am still amazed at her capacity to create art. I believe that Blue Banisters is a timeless classic, and I will continue to love and praise this album hopefully til the day I die.

This is prob the most personal album she has done.

@darioan1676

10 ай бұрын

Until 'Ocean Blvd'

Please do “Beautiful” and “Violets for Roses”!! You’ll love them.

This song makes me think of “Fishtail” as well, when she sings “you wanted me sadder”. It’s like if this man in this song promised everything she wanted to, but in return she’d have to be sad so she would always depend and wait on him. That’s why he would paint her bannisters blue, like painting her life sad as a condition for staying with her. At the same time, I think that when she sings about her sisters coming over and doing simple stuff like swimming, and writing, and doing birthday cake and walking barefeet, it’s as if she could find peace and recovery on the simple and daily things. I hope it makes any sense! I love your videos and hope you’re enjoying to do them!!!

@shilohgoes5544

Жыл бұрын

Listen to “Black Beauty” if you’ve never heard it! You’re right, this is an idea Lana has played around with for a very long time.

I was binge watching all your reactions to lana and you just posted this I feel like you read my mind 😭♥️♥️ thank you I'm loving your analysis

I adore this album and your videos! I always thought about it in the context of a bruise healing also. The end of the song feels like she is healing a bit to me. Tex and Mex are her dogs and Chucky, her sister, was going to have a baby. I'd love to see you react to the vpr finale. Thanks for all you do, Mere :)

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can see the literal story of those parts play out in the music video! It’s very cute & cottagecore hehe. I hope you watch it, Mere! Also, she did live in Oklahoma on a ranch w her ex. She’s lived in a few rural places in the US, including a trailer park in Jersey haha. It’s another HUGE reason I adore Lana. She glamorizes simplicity’s of small town life & every day lower/middle class things in such a beautiful way. It’s relatable to me & makes me feel like my life matters a lot more than listening to a song that talks about flying all over the world & having riches/fame. Even though I know she’s a millionaire it makes me feel like she looks at us “little people” as no more important than herself… I mean it could be pandering lol who knows, but it’s a nice sentiment (not to mention smart tactic) 🥰

Even if you don’t react to it, you should listen to Sweet Carolina. It’s a song for her sister and this one line of it is so beautiful. She says “we love you like god loves you. We love ever freckle you have.” And that makes me cry every time. Who would think that her best love song is about her sister and not a man? That song just hits me.

@chronicalIyoffline

Жыл бұрын

BB, SC & Violets for Roses are literally my wishlist 3 that I’ve had for this channel! 😩😩😍🙏🏼

The production on this song is just ethereal! I just wish Lana would make more songs with production like this. It's mesmerising.

I would absolutely love a reaction to her song Beautiful, which is on the same album, Blue Banisters. It's an such a beautiful and complex song that deals with topics on depression. It's fantastic

React to Get Free! and Wildflower Wildfire! Love your Lana reactions!! You actually analyze the writing.

I can't believe I'm only seeing this now omg This is one of my favorite Lana songs, the symbolism and complex songwriting mesmerizes me, she's a genius, you can only fully understand what's the ideia of the song as you go, she paints the picture slowly. Even though it's tragic and sad, I try to see it as the process of healing, and recognizing there's other forms of love around you. Thanks for your reactions, can't wait for you to listen to Wildflower Wildfire and Textbook ❤

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤

I absolutely love watching your reactions to Lana - I already deep dive into her songs on my own but you always give me a new perspective on something :) Can't wait for your reaction to Wildflower Wildfire, I have a tattoo for that song because it means so much to me

This is totally unrelated to the song and video, but I just gotta say that the way you reacted to your child coming into the room brought me to tears. My mother was a narcissist and I'm healing from that rn. It's so beautiful to see the instant love in your eyes and the gentle way you greeted your kiddo ❤❤ That aside, it was a great video as always 🎉

Blue Banisters is a really good album! Actually Blue Banisters is the reason why I started listening to lana😌

Thank you for your content💙

you need to do "get free" you'll love it

Great review. This song helped me along quite a lot in realizing I have gender issues worth confronting. I couldn’t ignore the lyrics “said he’s fix my weathervane, give me children, take away my pain” and why that and the concepts of sisterhood made me cry so hard.

Thank you for doing this for us❤

This song 🎶 reminds me of my first love, never leaves your mind, always has an impact causes pain every year and fades at times but stays deep within you your heart your whole life. Her descriptions are so geniuses & poetic then layer all that with her beautiful voice & your transported to that very place in your own life back when. PS on a side note the wallpaper behind you is stunning!!!

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Love your comment so much

I absolutely love your insights and how deeply you connect things in Lana's music. Please don't stop!

Thank you for your fantastic reactions! Always love hearing your insight ❤️💖 Lana’s songs are always so complex and beautiful in their own ways. I look forward to your videos all the time!

I've been loving the reactions and your channel, your thoughts on the lyrics are always so interesting, thanks for that 😊

I loved this song from the first time I heard it!!! Thank you for your insight on this! I don't think i ever understood what the song meant till today. I'll definitely be looking for that book you recommended.

YESSS just got out of my cosmo class and now i have another amazing video to watch!! thx for the great content always!!

I recently discovered your channel and I'm loving all your videos, I'm a psychology student and I really like making that connection with the songs. I have an amazing recommendation, CAMDEN by Gracie Abrams. it's pretty deep and addresses mental health issues. I wish you all the best!! ❤🥰

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Henrique and thank you for this! That song has been requested before so I’ll be sure to do it!!

Oh im so glad to have discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago😱 There’re lots of reaction channels out there but there’s something so special about yours❤

I love your channel!! The way you take into consideration every single lyric . Love u keep going !❤

For me this song is so beatiful because of the sisterhood in the sadness, the female bond, it makes it so heart warming

Mere you should for sure make a patron or membership on youtube! I love your channel. You're one of the realest persons ive seen on youtube for a while.

I love your videos and interpretations of the songs you react to! There's another KZread channel named summersentiment that has an hour and a half literary analysis of the song Blue Banisters, it's really worth seeing, it uncovers all the layers on this song as if it was literature. And I do think the whole album Blue Banisters can be read as if it was a literary work, it's so complex lyrically. Definitely one of my favorite works from Lana.

Love so much your videos! You're a person with a beautiful heart, and as a person who've been in therapy for years with wrong diagnosis as major depression, anxiety, OCPD, wrong meds and finally a correct diagnosis for ADHD, therapists that never understood what I was saying and made me think I was a little bit out of my mind, your patients are very lucky to have you ❤ Btw, I really understand what's she's saying that she skips springs. Meds can bring you so down on this time of year.

I genuinely love your channel I look forward to these, so thank you, your amazing🥹

@maserman55

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

I don’t know if anyone have pointed this out, but the weathervane thing is a parrallel to violet bent backwards over the grass ‘sportcruiser’ “Never run the ship into irons. That’s nautical terms for not sailing the boat directly into the wind. In order to do that though you have to know where the wind is coming from. And you might not have time to look to the mast or up farther to the weather vane so you have to feel where the wind is coming from- on your cheeks, and by the tips of the white waves- from which direction they’re rolling. To do this, he gave me an exercise. He told me to close my eyes and asked me to feel on my neck which way the wind was blowing. I already knew I was going to get it wrong. “The wind is coming from everywhere- I feel it all over.” I told him. “No,” he said. “The wind is coming from the left. The port side.” I sat waiting for him to tell me, “you don’t trust yourself.” But he didn’t, so I said it for him.”

I have seen already a several of your videos. And you`re so comfy! Really like your thoughts! Wanna listen to it again and again. Thank you.

Blue banisters could be literal but also metaphorical, banisters its her support, when its blue she was asking him to be right there when she was sad but he never did, thats why she skipped May, when her friends and sisters come its green represents that she is healing, and I associate the color gray with being calm and neutral somehow like in peace. This song it's about that how her friends and sister are really her support system. 🥰🥰💛

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Perfection. ❤

you're my favorite reactor now, thanks for this! i really enjoy your videos.

❤ Thank you for reacting to this one! Man, what you said at the end about the bruise is so deep! Love this song.

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

It’s so good, so complex. Thank you for the 🤍

Every time I hear "green and grey", I personally have mixed feelings of sadness, nostalgia, gratitude... but I know I am healing for sure.

You not only give a lot of insight into psychology but you are very knowledgeable in stuff that most of us forgot from school and just general knowledge, its really great to watch your videos.

you're my favorite person to watch reacting to Lana, it's like listening the song with a friend

Omg, I just love you so much. Great video!!!

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS AAAHHH

hi, I absolutely love your videos (escpecially the ones with lana) and you have easily become my comfort youtube. I've had quite a hard time lately, and I don't really understand it since for aot of people they only feel like this during the winter, so to hear you mention it, was very nice. Your vibe and everything about you just makes me calm and smile.

Thank you for another amazing video

LOVE YOUR REACTIONS QUEEN

Rewatching every single one of your Lana reactions just to say that you are amazing and I love you

hey Mere, so glad you're covering lana's songs. i LOVE these videos-- they're so incredibly healing. would you mind reacting to pink champagne (an unreleased song), pretty when you cry, and HONEYMOON! thank you so much-- you absolutely have to experience pink champagne if anything, though. it's easily my new all time favorite of hers. ☺💕💕💙💙

Great pick today as always mere❤❤

beautiful! i loved your interpretation of “summer comes winter goes…” this also reminds me of swinging between extreme seasons, but skipping or sleeping through the inbetweens. she’s either hot or cold, never having time to dethaw. from wildfire wildflower with the mention of lithium, i always resonated with these lyrics as someone with bipolar disorder and bpd. it could also be seen as she only feels alive and real while depressed or euphoric, never comfortable with the peace or comfort of spring due to trauma making chaos familiar thus safer. its fun how many layers her poetry expresses. thanks for your videos!

To me, the last part is kinda giving me seasonal depression and its so heartbreaking cuz she's sleeping to recover by herself 😢

Love your vids, I would recommend happiness is a butterfly and pretty when you cry they are PURE HEARTBREAK

This song always reminds me of her song Get Free that says she wants to move out of the black and into the blue. Here she's going from blue to gray. I love how she uses color imagery to capture moods

Bro I have seen like every one of ur Lana reactions, wow you r just so wise I, I love hearing your interpretations sometimes you bring new sides I never even considered. If you feel like it you should definitely do full Lana del Rey album analysis’s/reactions! She makes albums that exemplify the messages of each song and come together to paint a picture and an experience. Also do the song! white dress it’s so personal to Lana. Love what you’re doing!

That person who said he’d fix her weathervane is jimmy!

I love your reactions sooooo much!!

Love you mere 🤧💕💕💕

i'm loving all your videos ❤

I love your emotional depth.

Hi mere! This is one of my faves of the album❤

8:15 excellent insight, she herself talked about it so, but i forgot, but you picked it up yourself and then reminded me, so cool! 💞💞🌌

This is the first time that i watch one of ur videos and i loved it immensely, you’re excellent at analyzing lyrics for real, i hope you will react to the entire blue banisters album and i cant wait to see your “fingertips” reaction and interpretation as well. I think fingertips is one of the most complex songs lyrically and it really tells her story

@Ale-by1mq

Жыл бұрын

Oh i noticed you already reacted to fingertips and kintsugi, sorry, i’m going to watch them right now ❣️

you should read his poetry book you would love it

The blue, green, to grey reference the process of how bruises heal. She’s saying that her sisters come to paint her banisters and not the man.

@mendwithmere

Жыл бұрын

Love this

Such an underrated track. I took the reference to painting more literal and that I'm she just chose a different colour opposite to what the man said he would do. Love love love this song. It's very powerful and tells an amazing story.

Lana is just magical,expressing her feelings.💜

It is my favorite Lana's song. A masterpiece can't make you feel sad. On the contrary, I am so happy listening to this music and analyzing this amazing lyrics. Thank you for you analysis, it was very interesting!

Saludos desde Latinoamérica ❤

A lot of people have also theorized and connected with the idea of the transition from blue to green and gray being a healing transformation, like a bruise, as you brought up

can u do the greatest soon? she expressed her nostalgia, burnout, and the death of the culture / world. her best song in my opinion, cause she’s talking not just abt herself but also the world

As always, thank you for you time

Love your makeup

Thank you for this

I’d love to see your reactions/opinions on carmen, off to the races, and million dollar man off of born to die

loveee your videos ❤

Boy, this song almost always makes me tear up something awful and following along with you... yep, here we are. What a melancholic masterpiece.

that second where you looked at (i think) your child... oh god🥺❤️

You are doing a great job! Greetings from Poland ❤

The video is amazing!!!! ❤️