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Thanks for sharing this!! It’s always soo interesting to learn more about her early career, is the Sony bit new information? 

sorry if this is the wrong topic thread, please move it mods... 
Larry Jackson speaks about getting Lana Del Rey on SNL & signing her to Interscope! 
 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7F3Xomh64jZibxbLuOhXuw?si=ca2f46102e8c4f75
 
Larry speaks about A&R and how amazing Lana Del Rey is! he helped sign her to Interscope and get her the SNL deal. calls her initially as "ah Lizzy" 
Larry and his pal John Ehmann were fired from SONY Music. John Ehmann said Larry should listen to a demo called "Diet Mtn Dew" by an artist named Lana, who Sony just passed on.  
Larry loved it! 
says he met Lana 2 months after he himself moved to Los Angeles. she came in looking like she had walked off the set of the BTD album cover! Lol. he was enthralled by her. 
Says the night before she signed w/Interscope, she got a deal from SONY UK for 2 times as much money, and she said No! and signed the next day with Interscope !!!! (our queen) 
Larrys says lana means so much to him and Interscope. He says at that point he was willing to help her do anything to help her artistic vision come to life (especially understanding that 2 times amount Sony offered was a big deal to a artist trying to make ends meet) 
He says she told him she wanted to be "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra" and he was sold! Ed/Ben/Lana signed officially and INterescope helped them make BTD with Emile Haynie and Justin Parker. 
BTD cost only $183,000. 
says he got an idea to write a letter to Jimmy Iovine to send to Lorne Michael of SNL about getting Lana on. 
Discussed how being an A&R is about believing in the vision when no one else does. Says the Brian Williams article was very hurtful to him and to lana (bc at the time Brian Williams was a respected journalist - which is funny now because he got fired and lost journalistic integrity for fabricating a story about jumping out of a plane in the Iraq war in 2003 _ LOL did "did anyone else die for you") 
 
Larry talks a bit more about how she and Chief Keef at such important musical figures who have shaped music and provided a breath of fresh air to a time of stagnant music. 
 
Larry says he felt extremely motivated after SNL and so did Lana. 
 

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i think the best way to celebrate this news is w a new single we all agree no? 

well I think the release day is going to be postponed the same way blue banister was... like remember rock candy sweet, she just posted a cover and a release day and called it a day. Usually when it is a confirmed release day it is also confirmed by her label at the same time and there's a merch..... well also the fact that 21st of may is wednesday

He isn't going to release that outtakes book now out of spite 

Neil Krug commented “congratulations buddy” gives the vibe he had nothing to do with it 💔

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STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE COVER THO PEOPLE, THIS ALBUM IS ABOUT TO BE HER MAGNUM OPUS I CAN FEEL IT

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I do love this title though…especially for the first album to follow her marriage . 

he's alive

Ppl already complaining 😭💀

not this happening on a random monday evening i was NOT ready omg

Welcome to the The Right Person Will Stay Pre- Release Thread
Annual Discussion & Meltdown!
To be released on May 21st, 2025
 
November 25th: Lana Del Rey has announced via her Honeymoon Instagram that the title of her newest record will be "The Right Person Will Stay" with 13 tracks including production by Luke Laird, Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, Drew Erickson, and others. The lead single is set to be "Henry, Come On"

 
 
What we know so far:
- In a journal entry dated March 28th, 2023 posted on Instagram, Jack Antonoff wrote that "Lana refuses to leave [the studio]"
-  Lana Del Rey has revealed to a fan while at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama that she is "working on a new recording" in July 2023. Later that month, she visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama where she recorded 3-4 songs.
- In November 2023, Lana Del Rey hung out with Luke Laird, a country music producer/songwriter, in Nashville. They later visited again in January.
- In January 2024, Lana Del Rey stated she was working on new songs with Jack Antonoff in an Instagram story post.
- In January 2024, Lana Del Rey originally announced the title of the record to be 'Lasso' with a release date of September 2024, though this did not come to fruition.
- In August 2024, Lana Del Rey said, “We have two more [songs] coming out by the end of the year!” in an interview with Vogue. It is unclear if she meant songs with Quavo or solo songs.
 
Potential tracks (unconfirmed):
- Henry, Come On (created with Luke Laird, snippet uploaded to Lana's Instagram on January 18th, 2024)
- Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver cover originally released on December 1st, 2023)
- Tough (w/ Quavo) (country/hip-hop collaboration originally released on July 3rd, 2024)
- The Right Person Will Stay (hypothetical title track)
- Lasso (hypothetical original title track)
- Prettiest Girl in Country Music (country song written with Nikki Lane performed on January 24th, 2022)
- Hey Blue Baby (country song performed at Jack Antonoff's Ally Coalition on December 5th, 2018)
- I Must Be Stupid For Being So Happy (country song performed at Jack Antonoff's Ally Coalition on December 5th, 2018)
- In God's Time (registered in July 2024)
- Fenway Park Intro Song ("Past, Present, Future" intro song debuted at her Fenway Park concert in June 2024)
- Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette cover performed multiple times during Lana's 2023 tour)
- Dolly Parton collab (Lana, Nikki Lane, and Luke Laird visited Dolly Parton's home in January 2024)

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1. She’s lying 
2. that better not be the fucking cover

OH MY FUCKING GOD

So much of this footage looks like it could be straight from 2011 She is just a baby

i want her to making more videos like this

Oh gosh that was so special and made me realise how little of this behind the scenes day to day look we have ever seen of Lana and her personality. She looks even more strikingly beautiful off duty in the real world wtf... Very happy she agreed to do this and honestly shocked Chuck not only delivered but exceeded expectation (not a comment on the quality of her work–just that she never fucking shares it).

at one point I almost cried, what a nice surprise 

What a cool video. Her personality is infectious. And what an humble queen  

The fact that we got this, a Vogue cover, a red carpet, AND we still have something on the way music related…we have been eating good