What can we expect from Lana Del Rey's next album?
After announcing her next album, 'The Right Person Will Stay', fans are left wondering what Lana Del Rey's next move will sound like ahead of its release.
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Thu 30 January 2025 23:00, UK
Lana Del Rey has always been unpredictable. Even when she first emerged as an artist, her debut album Born To Die proved instantly that she wouldn’t be boxed in or easily categorised as she unleashed an incredibly bold cinematic opening record that melds genres, references, literary influences and her own unique sound and aesthetic into one. From then on, her career has unfolded through a number of twists, turns and changes. So when it comes to The Right Person Will Stay, it’s tough to guess what will arrive.
Or who knows if it even will. The first thing to say when trying to predict anything Del Rey does is that she seems to work with no schedule, no deadline and no guidelines. In the artist’s history, there have been a few completely scrapped releases, like the rumours of an album called Tropico back in 2013 or Rock Candy Sweet in 2021 and the countless songs that exist in her unreleased archive from abandoned projects. But even more so than that, Del Rey’s work often comes later than she promises. The Right Person Will Stay is currently billed for May 21st, 2025, but both Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters came months after her initial release date.
Any discussion of The Right Person Will Stay also has to begin with a discussion of Lasso, the country album she announced back on January 31st, 2024, stating it would arrive in September of that same year. It didn’t – but it could well be that the artist’s comments that she and producer Jack Antonoff were “going country” for her next release may well ring true.
That seems somewhat likely, or at least that the ideas she claimed to have been working on “in an Americana vein” might find a home here. Since the release of her last record, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Del Rey has proved her interest in this classic American sound time and time again. A video emerged of her crushing a rendition of ‘Stand By Your Man’ at karaoke. She covered ‘Unchained Melody’ at Elvis Presley’s Graceland home, which is surely about the most Americana thing a person can do. She also released a version of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’.
What genre will Lana Del Rey’s new album be?It’s clear that Del Rey has been leaning into this sound throughout the last year, telling Vogue that her next project would be a “classic country, American, or southern gothic production”.
While country feels like a relatively new thing for the artist, beyond a slight twang of it on Chemtrails Over The Country Club, the southern gothic aesthetic has always gone hand in hand with her own. The somewhat character of Del Rey has morphed from album to album, but a slight Southern Belle energy has remained as she sings songs of glamour and longing, referencing classic American works of literature and often leaning into the American beauty image for her artworks and videos.
But perhaps on The Right Person Will Stay, the aesthetic and interest in that artistic world will match up with the music. Maybe that will result in a kind of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Tammy Wynette style country-crooning, or perhaps it will still exist in her most cinematic world, taking reference from the likes of Ethel Cain’s world of Preacher’s Daughter.
(Credits: Raph Pour-Hashemi)…and who is she working with?In terms of the people on the album, it seems that Del Rey is sticking true to her favourite cast of collaborators. Jack Antonoff and Drew Erickson are billed on the project. By now, Del Rey and Antonoff’s working relationship is a tried and tested greatness-producing machine. Looking back at her last album, Erickson’s production and co-writing offers definitely sat on the more country or southern gothic leaning songs, like ‘The Grants’ or her Cash-and-Carter-esque duet with Father John Misty on ‘Let The Light In’. But The Right Person Will Stay also brings a new name into the team as she’s enlisted Luke Laird, a country producer through and through who’s worked with the likes of Tim McCraw, Kacey Musgraves, Rascal Flatts and many more, so perhaps that confirms the direction she’s going in.
So let’s do the maths. In the mix here, the album has alt-pop mega-producer Antonoff, Erickson bringing the indie edge, and Laird as the country king. There’s also Del Rey, who, while having an absolute myriad of inspirations and influences as proved by her encyclopedic scope of references, also comes with both a strict dedication to her own artistic air and a total disregard for public expectations, meaning that really anything could happen with her. The result is, unfortunately, one giant question mark but certainly an exciting one and one that almost definitely promises greatness.
So, how will Lana Del Rey’s marriage affect her new album?There’s also the clue of Del Rey’s personal life, which, while seemingly like a wishy-washy to try and understand an artist’s next move, truly seems to be the only thing she’s governed by. Through all her delays, disregarded records, swift and sudden announcements and surprise releases, it’s clear that what we have here is an artist who moves with her heart and follows her passions. The announcement of The Right Person Will Stay, replacing the title of Lasso, came only days after the news of Del Rey’s marriage came out. It seemed to her fans to be her confirmation of her recent nuptials, changing the title to reflect her happy new outlook on love.
She’s since spoken joyfully about married life in speeches and interviews, seemingly glowing with happiness as her struggle to find lasting love that’s been well documented across her records reached a fairytale ending. Announced with a classically romantic image of Del Rey looking like a woman that would exist in some soldier’s locket or the love interest in a period piece – it seems like this new album is the passionate response to how life has moved her since her last release, and so it will sound like however, she heard it in her heart.
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