Eleven-time Grammy nominee Lana Del Rey reveals her newest offering to fans will be released on May 21, 2025, titled “The Right Person Will Stay.” The cover of her highly anticipated tenth album was unveiled in an Instagram post alongside an inside scoop mentioning she will be performing songs off the new record at an upcoming Stagecoach performance.
The newly shared project will follow up on her ninth studio album, “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.” Famously named after the abandoned Long Beach tunnel, the album debuted with 115,000 unit sales in its debut week, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. As for accolades, it went on to earn her an Album of the Year nomination at the 66th annual Grammys.
A stacked line-up of new and old music collaborators will be in the crosshairs of the new album, including Bleachers lead vocalist and longtime colleague Jack Antonoff. The musical duo is commonly praised for their work on Lana’s modern classic “NFR!” a highly conceived body of work that Pitchfork ranked as number 1 on their end-of-year album list for 2019. Former visionaries Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes also return for the album, along with a new face in Luke Laird.
Lana had already begun teasing the album in the first quarter of this year, uploading a cryptic video onto her Instagram which embarked the journey of a forty-eight-second snippet of the track “Henry, come on.” Two weeks after this post sent fans ablaze, Lana attended the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards in Los Angeles on January 31, 2024. At the private ceremony, she unofficially announced an entirely different album in the middle of her honorary acceptance speech, titled “Lasso.”
Formerly intending for a release date in September 2024, in the heat of the moment she spilled that the album would’ve been entirely country, “The music business is gone…going…we’re going country! I knew it, I said it, ‘It’s happening!’” It is highly speculated that the musical endeavor she was working on at the time (“Lasso”) has been canceled and reworked into the official album announcement we have today (“The Right Person Will Stay”), but fans still reminisce on what could’ve been.
“Honestly I was really excited about ‘Lasso’ when I first heard about it. I know Lana would have sounded amazing in a country album,” said COMPASS senior Yathai Pina.
Lana is set to headline a sold-out European stadium tour in 2025, stopping at iconic venues such as the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium in London. Despite the fact that the album won’t be in our hands for another five months, it is evident that the right people will stay by the songstress’ side.
Liana Lopez • Jan 14, 2025 at 8:50 pm
Dear Corydon editor,
On January 14th, 2025, Ian Henriquez wrote an article titled, “Lana Del Rey Announces New Album: “The Right Person Will Stay.” Ian opens the article with a brief description of Lana Del Rey, including that she is an eleven-time Grammy nominee who will be releasing her tenth album later this year, as well as performing at Stagecoach. Ian also includes an impressive background to Lana’s most recent album, “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,” stating that it debuted with 115,000 unit sales in its debut week, followed by reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Moreover, the article touches on a line-up of new and old music collaborators that will be a part of Lana’s new album. The article covers one of Lana’s unofficially announced future albums titled “Lasso” that was said to be a country based album, until fans believed the album had been ‘cancelled’ and possibly reworked into her new album, “The Right Person Will Stay.” Ian concludes his article by expressing how Lana is set to headline a sold-out European stadium tour in 2025, while reminding the audience of the album dropping in 5 months.
Sincerely,
Liana Lopez
Haley Reyna • Jan 14, 2025 at 3:32 pm
Henriquez effectively details the process on how Lana Del Rey came to announce her long awaited album. It is evident that he is well versed in this topic through his details on both Del Rey’s past works as well as her current endeavor. He concisely gives background on the singer, helping his audience understand this elusive musical figure if they are not already familiar with her and her music. His inclusion of the former title, “Lasso”, also exemplifies the true essence of Lana Del Rey: unpredictability. In his final paragraph, he sets up the audience for excitement, leaving the readers feeling hopeful for the new album and her upcoming performances. Overall, Henriquez’s article is filled with facts and insight that establish clear and comprehensible information on such an infamous musical legend.
Danielle Haskell • Jan 14, 2025 at 3:31 pm
On January 14, 2025, Ian Henriquez wrote an article titled “Lana Del Rey Announced New Album: The Right Person Will Stay”. Henriquez does an excellent job in encapsulating Del Rey’s musical background including some of her best-selling albums. He provides the proper amount of insight into her accomplishments as well as her goals in the future as an artist for those who follow her to appreciate and those who do not have a clear window of understanding into what makes her such an iconic figure in today’s pop music culture. In addition to including some of Del Rey’s creations, Henriquez likewise contributes to her career with her Grammy nominations and her collaborations with other well-known artists.
Henriquez further clarifies a confusing piece in Del Rey’s recent activity in the music world by describing the conflict with her album “Lasso” and its apparent combination with the upcoming and highly-awaited album “The Right Person Will Stay”. His analysis of the change in genre for Del Rey by her ambitious move towards country highlights the risks that she is willing to take despite what her fans usually anticipate from her.