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

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Lana Del Rey has been teasing her country pivot for a long time. As long as a summer’s day on a gator boat tour, as long as a rattlesnake who just got a spinal adjustment, as long as a rap sheet. On April 11, Del Rey dropped the first official single for her upcoming album, The Right Person Will Stay. Then, she shared that it would be delayed with a new name, too. Classic. How big of a departure will the album be for the already yeehaw-inflected Del Rey? Will her song with Quavo be on there? How many covers of songs from the country-and-western canon will be included? Everything we know about Del Rey’s next album.

So long, Lasso

In 2024, Del Rey said her next album would 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 at the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards. “That’s why Jack [Antonoff] has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.” At the time, Del Rey said the album would be called Lasso and would drop that September.

That summer, Del Rey released her collab with Quavo, “Tough.” The song blended country with Del Rey’s previous domain of hip-hop/folk/pop. More slashes, we say! She also started living the life of a country song, marrying gator boat-tour captain Jeremy Dufrene. Multi-hyphenate until Lana Del Rey encompasses all forms of music. Lasso seemed a go. But it was actually a no.

In November 2024, a few months past Lasso’s stated release date, Del Rey announced her next album would be titled The Right Person Will Stay, and would actually drop in May 2025. But after releasing the single, “Henry, come on,” Del Rey revealed in an Instagram video that, well, some things had changed. “I do have a lot more to say, that — I mean, you know it’s not gonna come on time, right?” she said. “Like, should I even tell you that the name changed again? Should I tell you that now while you’re so happy that you even have a song? Yeah. Maybe I’ll wait.”

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Come through, “Henry, come on”

Del Rey dropped her latest single, “Henry, come on,” on April 11. The single cover was giving bridal portrait, which makes sense given that Del Rey is a recent bride. The song builds into a rock-country warmth, something in the realm of “Shallow” plus Nashville-sound strings. And a harp? Sure, why not.

What other songs could appear on The Right Person Will Stay? Del Rey also shared in her post-“Henry” video update that she plans to release a song called “Blue Bird” “next week.” In the would-be lead-up to Lasso, LDR covered a lot of country standards. She covered “Stand by Your Man,” “Unchained Melody,” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in that period. Will any of them make it to the album? Ask Luke Laird, her country Jack Antonoff for this new era.

When will the album hit shelves?

Back when it was called The Right Person Will Stay, Del Rey planned to drop it on May 21. Now, it’s anybody’s guess.