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

[Make me your Dream Life]

I want an album trailer gesture gesture hint hint 

[Enco]

30 minutes ago, ivory almond said:

why tf has Jack still not said ANYTHING about this project? 

He has he said it was brilliant or something like that a while ago 

[RIP ivory almond]

3 minutes ago, Enco said:

He has he said it was brilliant or something like that a while ago 

yeah but that was when it was still Lasso by september

since TRPWS announcement, ed, ben, luke, and even neil have said smthn but jack (who is the main producer) has said nothing

[Make me your Dream Life]

the year's gonna go fast, and then new years, and then 2nd week of Jan when everyone tries to recuperate from all the holiday stuff. February for a cooler time period. 
birthday in feb so I'll be occupied til then to March. 
3 months wowow 

[barttttender]

5 hours ago, ivory almond said:

yeah but that was when it was still Lasso by september

since TRPWS announcement, ed, ben, luke, and even neil have said smthn but jack (who is the main producer) has said nothing

 

A theory: he did a lot of work on the country album over the years,  using benjos and diving into the country aesthetics. But then Lana decided to move away from that direction. Then he had to jump on another project (Kendrick Lamar?), and she rejigged it with Zach and other minor producers. So, he just doesn't care as much before or doesn't think it's as "brilliant." That's why he said "let's move off that topic" the last time he was asked.

[cherryzandwine]

AHHHHGG

[americangothic]

Does anyone feel like "Ocean Blvd" set the bar too high for the follow up? Like someone else said, it felt like the quintessential Lana Del Rey record. Something I personally was not sure if would be possible after Chemtrails/Banisters (not bad records, just overshadowed by NFR! opus and COVID).

[Make me your Dream Life]

As wondrous as ocean blvd is, first, someone’s always going to complain and want more. And secondly, despite it’s magic and just the overall quality, it’s mostly pretty written from a cerebral and from the past perspective. 
 

it’s a culmination of a lot that’s she’s been thinking about and has felt, so the answer w this next one possibly is what comes next, yea naturally, but what’s also a cause for more excitement is the newness and freshness of her current world past ocean blvd’s stances. 
 

and as much chaos that always surrounds her externally, it honestly makes great accidental set dressing as the world of this one. 
 

i personally love it when people get to the point, wisdom’s hugely underrated, so I wanna know what stripped back is more. What’s underneath the storm? Who’s in the middle of it more made apparent

[audreysdance]

10 hours ago, Embach said:

I want an album full of Get Frees, Terrence Loves Yous, Art Decos, Heroin, The Blackest Days, 13 Beaches but I'm sure I should just keep dreaming...right?

 

Rick Nowels...we still think about you 

[GeminiLanaFan]

9 hours ago, ultrabanisters said:

zodiac will be nowhere near this tbh 

I think you’re sadly right. Its place was on Ocean Blvd   
We need this song like right now, it’s just too good not be heard. Seriously, why didn’t she ditch the damn Pastor interlude for Zodiac, placed between A&W and Candy Necklace? This track run would have been unmatched. And Zodiac is even a bit shorter than the pastor’s speech, I mean… 

[inthezodiac]

9 hours ago, ultrabanisters said:

zodiac will be nowhere near this tbh 

stop it

[bluechemtrails]

9 hours ago, ultrabanisters said:

zodiac will be nowhere near this tbh 

when each song is about a different zodiac sign and Zodiac is track 13 that holds everything together 

 

[inthezodiac]

zodiac being track 13 as a transition to a southern gothic album

[venicebitch]

10 hours ago, ivory almond said:

yeah but that was when it was still Lasso by september

since TRPWS announcement, ed, ben, luke, and even neil have said smthn but jack (who is the main producer) has said nothing

well it's probably the same album she just renamed

[GeminiLanaFan]

 Im gonna say this and will probably get rocks thrown at me, but hey fuck it. As much as I’d love it, we need to be realistic : I think we collectively need to forget she said the album would be southern gothic, especially if southern gothic means Ethel Cain to you. Given her track record at describing the genre of her songs, based on the Henry snippet (which is probably just a demo, but still), based on the album title and supposed cover, this album will have, at best, some arrangements that will be a bit southern gothic. 
again, it’s not what I wish for, but I’m telling myself it’s what we’ll get. 

[Thats why they call me Dita]

Do we think we’ll get something more prog rock this time.. i think the Jon batiste interlude was a lil taster and now she’s married to a full on dad.. and she’s very influenced by her current partners 

 

id personally loooooove it, my 2 favourite things collide 

[GeminiLanaFan]

Since we know Zach Dawes is on board, one thing I do wish for is that Zach doesn’t produce the opening track. I love the work she’s done with him, but both the Grants and Textbook are a bit lacklustre as opening tracks NGL 

[Pico Ocean Boulevard]

Maybe a bit more controversial but I don't want a cover of Stand By Your Man to be on the album

[Summerain]

I want the mirror in the album

[Evergreen]

The Grants is perfect as an opener for an album like Ocean Blvd. It captures its atmosphere and storytelling perfectly. Lana said this album is "super stripped back" so I don't expect a big opening song. Some of you already have unrealistic expectations.

“The songs I have, I love, so I don't want to turn it into something that's half cooked, even if it's super stripped back. I want it to be what it was supposed to be.”

If anything, I want this album to just sound beautiful and truly "light" in its atmosphere, more in the style of Let The Light In rather than Not All Who Wander Are Lost.