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Just listened to Emotional Machine again and if the whole L+F sounded like this, Believe in Love, Handmade Heaven, Soft to Be Strong, End of the Earth, it could've been a masterpiece lol. Also will never forgive Lana for not accepting the collab ffs.

remembered this pop excellence out of the blue today
 

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

WOWOWOWWW I love the title so much!!!!!  the cover is giving Blue Banister the Re-Up but this album already feels super intimate and wholesome so its kinda kitschy in a way  may 21 feels like a century away tho but her albums are meant for summer and its right after my birthday so I can't complain I feel so full and hype rn  like this is what I live for!!!!!!!!

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)

"and the Diamonds" IIRC was supposed to represent her fans too, right?
 
So we've got that being punted, then I guess "I can't love my fans b/c I don't know them" - which we've seen from other artists, and saying that is kicking a proverbial hornets nest with how parasocial fans are nowadays like logically I get it but if you say that people lose their shit.

Then a little book tour divaism?

Why does it give me a vibe like she's just on autopilot about it all? Like she's just making music/art for a paycheck and not so much a passion? 

okay im gonna need my ultrabaddies to lock tf in and get their clits in gear we are getting this double feature
 
@Veinsineon get on the dark web and find _ultraviolence_hidden_track_club_mix.mp3
 
@That Venice Bitch you and @Elle are to infiltrate the tap management team and find evidence of the double album tracklist
 
@venice biotch i need you to draw a rat to ease the tension
 

 
all systems go ladies

This is the kind of news that I almost wish I didn’t know bc it pains me so much knowing we’ll never get the other half of UV  On the positive side, maybe she will return to IG to promote Blake’s album and give us a crumb of insight on what she’s been up to. 

ULTRAVIOLENCE DOUBLE ALBUM

Blake Lee has a LENGTHY interview and in one small part (30 minute mark) he speaks about his time working on Ultraviolence and his first time meeting Lana!
 
Blake says he first met Lana and he was simply himself, no expectations. Byron helped him get the audition. 
He says the First show they played together was secret and under an alias name in NYC.
 
He says working with Lana is "spontaneous, electric, thrilling" and he remembered looking up Video Games for the first time and his mother overheard and they both fell in love with the sound of the song and the video. and he knew he wanted to be part of her band. 
 
Blake says he is blown away with how fast she writes songs and it is unlike anyone else he has worked with. 
He says he has no idea how many songs she has written BUT Ultraviolence was originally a double album (40 songs were written for Ultraviolence that he remembers and said they were all worthy of being on the album. He said a few of the interludes that didn't make the album have been worked into some of the live shows they do) 
 
Blake says he respects her so much and calls her "the real deal" and admires her ethos of "not trying hard or pretending to be something, and just saying NO when you don't want to do something or if something does not feel right knowing to say no, and then eventually the right thing will come along "
says it was Lana's idea to get Chriss Isaak to perform at the Hollywood Bowl, 
Spoke about Sean Lennon and how magical it was 
 
https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/the-keep-slack-album-club/episodes/the-keep-slack-album-club-blake-lee-no-sound-in-space
 
 
his new album is a dreamy, cinematic, avant-garde album and quite mesmerizing. 
 
 

why i skim-read the title as grimes being in contact with the russian government 

29th of December 2022

At my mom's spending the holidays, in active psychosis, annoying the fuck out of my then-fiance lmao

"I wear my diamonds on skid row" 

A few less tassels on the dress
but nonetheless

she's going to hex trump again and do a spell to make her husband stop supporting him in order to finish her witchy bitch southern gothic masterpiece 

100% agree with everything you said. I said a few pages back I think she should have maybe marketed this as a memoir and ditched some of the rupi kaur line breaks (which makes it harder to read imo), but I think 'poetry book' is the current marketing buzzword at the moment. it's obvious she has a lot that she wants to get off her chest and feels like she can't sing those things, in pain eraser she said: line breaks omitted.
the things i need to write about are the things i'm scared to write about, lest they blow up my life and everything i tried so hard to save / mend / bury / heal.
if she sings about some of these things they're going to get so much more attention than if she just puts them in a poetry book and she'll have to sing them on tour for weeks. I think with over decade of releases she can just release her one little poetry book, new music is coming in 2025, and she'd already said she was taking a break because of her chronic fatigue so I don't think this poetry book has delayed the album at all.

You can write this out of spoiler, in big letters and bold my sis. Just tea.
 
I think it's just so...mean that people not only decided to drop her the moment L+F didn't sound bright, but also just shit on her nonstop. No one's telling you to read her poetry, if you don't like her anymore then just unfollow and move along. 
 
As for the poetry itself, "Aspartame" is pretty shocking (complimentary). I can understand if you find it, poetry-wise, weak, but it's still a fucking revelation in a way her music wasn't able to convey before. Also blunt. As a fan, I find it fascinating to read that and then link up with the lyrics and stories that she shared for the past ~15 years. The way you can read Hollywood in another light, you understand a lot of her "America Obsession" and so on. I haven't been up with everything posted, but I also remember how that "Sparkling Clam" can be connected to Solitaire; it's a deep dive on her mind and life.
 
Maybe the problem was labelling it as poetry and the expectations that comes with it.

This is the experience of being an American Whore

bye if I got involved with a trans-beating homophobe I would get what’s coming to me - “a public image shows a little of the true person somebody is” 💀 do you need the man to go live while beating a trans person to a pulp or … ? 😭 y’all bfr take your pink glasses off Lana is NOT who we thought she was  

I feel like the homewrecker accusation is something she would not let slide if it weren't true
If nothing is said then I will really wonder tbh
It's really hard to give her the benefit of the doubt when the rest of it sounds exactly like her

yep. the truth has unfortunately been hitting me real hard in the past few days. we have been defending her against all odds through each controversy believing in her good faith but nope, she was just venting from the height of her white millionaire privileged ass, unwilling to learn and cosplaying ordinary woman and we ran with it despite signals showing she didn’t really give a fck about marginalised communities except when it literally damaged her reputation (the Indian headwear and the qftc - poc issue) . this has been a hard lesson for me and I fear there’s no coming back. I’m way past denial. 

lmao the crystals debacle sent me fcking flying - I had a hint of her brain rot with the mesh-mask but I chose to ignore. then the post about Tessa “lifting her cough remotely” I was like how was I so blind this bitch is really that dumb? 💀 and now the crystals, ma’am way too much coke fried your brain 

We wont be there to bail her out.