Lana Del Rey’s last album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, is just a few months old, but she’s already beginning the rollout of her next project, Blue Banisters. Today she shared the project’s title track, as well as the songs “Text Book” and “Wildflower Wildfire.” Production is handled by MIKE DEAN and Gabe Simon.
The chorus of “Text Book” references the Black Lives Matter movement. Lana has previously faced some criticism for her commentary on race issues:
You’ve got a Thunderbird, my daddy had one too
Let’s rewrite history, I’ll do this dance with you
You know I’m not that girl
You know I’ll never be
Maybe just the way we’re different could set me free
And there we were, screamin' “Black Lives Matter” in a crowd
Like an open river, and I saw you saw who I am
God I wish I was with my father, he could see us in all our splendor
All the things I couldn’t want for him
I screamed for them
Meanwhile, “Wildflower Wildfire” hints at an estranged relationship with her mother, Patricia Grant:
My father never stepped in
When his wife would rage at me
So I ended up awkward but sweet
Later than hospitals and still on my feet
Comfortably numb but with lithium came poetry
Blue Banisters is set for release on July 4, 2021, although this is a Sunday rather than the traditional Friday rollout that is standard in the music industry. It would be the first time she release two albums in the same year since 2012, when she dropped both Born to Die and Paradise.
Read all the lyrics to Lana Del Rey’s new singles “Blue Banisters,” “Text Book,” and “Wildflower Wildfire” on Genius now.
