All We Know About Lana Del Rey’s Country Album, Y’all

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Lana Del Rey has been teasing her nation pivot for a very long time. So long as a summer time’s day on a gator boat tour, so long as a rattlesnake who simply bought a spinal adjustment, so long as rap sheet. On April 11, Lana dropped the primary official single for The Proper Particular person Will Keep. How huge of a departure will the album be for the already yeehaw-inflected Del Rey? Will her track with Quavo be on there? What number of covers of songs from the nation and western canon can be included? Right here’s the whole lot we find out about The Proper Particular person Will Keep.

In 2024, Lana Del Rey mentioned her subsequent album can be the hella country-fried Lasso. “If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country. We’re going country. It’s happening,” she said on the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards. “That’s why Jack [Antonoff] has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.” On the time, Del Rey mentioned the album can be referred to as Lasso, and would drop that September.

That summer time, Lana launched her collab with Quavo, “Tough.” The track blended nation with Lana’s earlier area of hip-hop/people/pop. Extra slashes, we are saying! Lana additionally began residing the lifetime of a rustic track, marrying gator boat tour captain Jeremy Dufrene. Multiphyphenate till Lana Del Rey encompasses all types of music. Lasso appeared a go. But it surely was really a no.

In November of 2024, a couple of months previous Lasso’s said launch date, Lana Del Rey introduced her subsequent album can be titled The Proper Particular person Will Keep, and would really drop Might 2025.

Lana dropped her newest single, “Henry, come on” April 11. The only cowl was giving bridal portrait, which is sensible provided that Del Rey is a latest bride. The track builds right into a rock-country heat, one thing within the realm of “Shallow” plus Nashville sound strings. And a harp? Certain, why not.

What different songs may seem on The Proper Particular person Will Keep? Within the would-be lead-up to Lasso, LDR lined a variety of nation requirements. Lana lined “Stand by Your Man,” “Unchained Melody,” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in that interval. Will any of them make it to the album? Solely Jack Antonoff is aware of.

The Proper Particular person Will Keep will drop Might 21, on the very finish of Taurus season. Classic cusper habits, Lana.