Lana Del Rey, a singer and songwriter is known for her exquisite metaphors as well as imagery and sense of an old time feel in her songs. She specializes in romance, glamour, and contemporary styles. Her new album, Blue Banister, has the following songs:

• Text Book
• Blue Banisters
• Arcadia
• Interlude- The Trio
• Black Bathing Suit
• If You Lie Down With Me
• Beautiful
• Violets for Roses
• Dealer
• Thunder
• Wildflower Wildfire
• Nectar of the Gods
• Living Legend
• Cherry Blossom
• Sweet Carolina

Dealer, one of the essentials in her album, tells the story of a young girl wishing to die and spend her life’s worth on drugs to find a sense of happiness. “I check it, I wreck it, I turn it around” is one of the lines from the song, portraying self-destructive behavior and trying to reconstruct your life when everything continues to go downhill. Another way to see this song is a toxic relationship, someone always giving, in this instance money used as a metaphor to demonstrate love, getting nothing in return and feeling sorrowful and burnt out from constantly giving your all to someone who never returns the feeling.

Nectar of the Gods, shows a young girl finding a sense of high from another person and when that stops it causes destruction and false perception of what used to be. “I’m on the freeway racing at a million and I just can’t stop” portrays the feeling of trying to find that same feeling once had when in a relationship. “School kid dreams come true then passed in the night” shows achieving what was once dreamed of a sweet and wild relationship but then getting it stripped away in the blink of an eye.

Lana Del Rey spoke about the album saying, “I must say I’ve enjoyed moving through the world beautifully- as a woman with grace and dignity.”

Blue Banister reached eight on the Billboard 200 with 18.6 million on-demand streams. Lana Del Rey is well known and idolized by thousands of teens. Her music is like old time poetry with crystals and shimmer on the edges. It’s pure and idyllic, strong yet peaceful. Beautiful to the ears and enchanting to those who relate to her lyrics.