The Right Person Will Stay - Pre-Release Thread (OUT: May 21st, 2025)

[Embach 52,663]

Yesterday, I was looking up Neil Krug's portfolio for other artists and I LOVE his photoshoots for Bat For Lashes, they give me Southern Gothic vibes and I NEED these vibes for The Right Person Will Stay!!!

 

[Future Jazz 9,606]

i doubt there is no album cover yet. why? because she must’ve believed in that may 21 date when she announced it. and vinyls take 6 months to press and allegedly the album has been mastered in september (although she said in late october she didn’t know where it was going but let’s ignore this for a bit). if she thought the album was gonna be out by may she must’ve thought the vinyls could start being pressed in… november, or december at the very latest. so it’s very likely she already had the album cover when she announced the album in november! i don’t think she would’ve waited till now to shoot.

henry, on the other hand, did not need to have a cover that was ready months in advance as there are no vinyls to press for the release of henry. therefore she must’ve waited till february-march to shoot the picture for it, as she always likes to use very recent pictures for her single covers (if i’m not mistaken, the picture for summer bummer was taken after the album cover, probably same for let me love you like a woman and arcadia).

all of this to say i think the album cover has been chosen months ago and she’s sticking to it.

if we do get henry soon, and another song in april, the album could come out in may as she said it would. apart from the DROUGHT due to her radio silence, absolutely nothing indicates it has been delayed. we haven’t had any information from insiders that would indicate this. imo, it’s still coming in may and this whole thing was just her being her 

[thebluestbanister 175]

the right person will SLAY 

 

[Future Jazz 9,606]

now that i think of it, it made sense for her to announce the album in november. it was probably the time vinyls were starting to get pressed, so she knew they would be done in may. this radio silence isn’t too different from what we got before the preorder for blue banisters or ocean blvd dropped, or even for nfr / chemtrails. she’s always been very silent and secretive in the months before the preorder dropped (think of the drought of september-december 2022, early july-early september 2021, early november -late december 2020 etc)

 

i don’t think she would’ve abandoned the album cover she must have had in november. apparently she kept most of the songs on lasso, more importantly she’s been sticking to the idea of choosing henry out of all her songs, she’s been sticking to it for at least 15 months now. so it does seem like the album is the result of choices she has more consistently believed in and more consistently stood by than all the chaos made us think she has. which makes it likely for the album cover that must’ve existed in late 2024 to still be the one she’s going to use 

 

anyway im quite confident she wouldn’t have waited till now to shoot the cover because if she has, it means we won’t get the album till at least september and this would be nothing short of absurd considering these songs were literally made years ago, like two, three, four, five years ago and we’ve been waiting for way too long  so if most of lasso was kept, as i think it was, i don’t think she wouldn’t have shot the cover early enough for a may release to happen.

[PipeDelRey 652]

Before the official photo came out, I was working on this cover imagining what the album's aesthetic could be like. I was inspired by that fake photo that was on X. I hope you like it. 

 

 

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[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 12,141]

The funniest thing is….we are technically no closer to knowing when Henry is coming now than we were before she posted this morning  there have been so many false starts this last year it’s hard to trust her. Like where are the details. The facts. The pre-save links. 

[misselectrarockwell 832]

I don’t know if this was already said but I saw someone on Twitter say she’s wearing her wedding dress here!! 
 

[shadesofblue 20,408]

I kinda wish the Henry pic was the actual album cover

[taco truck 34,139]

I really like the Henry come on photo. I think the white and red color palette is really cute and I hope white is the “color” of the album, it would really fit since it’s (presumably) about her marriage!

[cherrytropico 11,163]

she said we’re getting 2 songs before stagecoach and she’s fulfilling that promise 

[heroindealer 11,767]

it’s giving more ch*ck than neil if i’m honest 

[rightofjupiter 16,995]

1 hour ago, Embach said:

Yesterday, I was looking up Neil Krug's portfolio for other artists and I LOVE his photoshoots for Bat For Lashes, they give me Southern Gothic vibes and I NEED these vibes for The Right Person Will Stay!!!

 

 

YESSSS BFL is the best and his photos w natasha are gorgeous, esp for this album (the bride, her most lana album imo)

[Get Drunk 18,202]

the way this gives us the exact same amount of info as the snippet she posted six months ago..

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 12,141]

My biggest fear is she goes radio silent again until the week of stagecoach and then releases Henry. I do have hope it’s coming this Friday but this woman has given me ptsd severely. 

[Black to Blue 6,416]

At least her post has given us something to talk about on here after the months long dry spell  henry is coming!

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 12,141]

Luke Laird posted a clip from his studio back in February and it sounds so Lana-esqu with an 80’s twist. Hoping it’s for her but idk that he would leak that without getting in trouble. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFv-GNnOCxR/?igsh=OWxqZHk5c3ltOTly

 

[ultrablvd 49,821]

14 minutes ago, Get Drunk said:

the way this gives us the exact same amount of info as the snippet she posted six months ago..

well no because we know professional visual work has been undertaken to some degree so it’s harder for her to just not release bc the label needs to pay mr krug

[blueskiesforever 1,458]

I don’t think it will come out on Friday because Ariana is releasing her new album that day; next week (hopefully). If it comes out on Friday anyway,  we cheer.  

 

[Poor Stacy 12,123]

I have a feeling she'll randomly drop it sometime next week, not on Friday. But who knows. I hope this isn't like a 2 weeks+ tease.

[DCooper 38,086]

I am so ready to drink red wine and sway/cry to this song