Lana Del Rey Has Songs Ready for Country Album but Doesn't Want It to Be 'Half-Cooked': 'We'll Get There'

[venicebitch]

Lana Del Rey Has Songs Ready for Country Album but Doesn't Want It to Be 'Half-Cooked': 'We'll Get There'

Lana Del Rey wants fans to know she isn't rushing perfection when it comes to releasing her hotly-anticipated country album, Lasso.

Speaking with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly at the 2024 Instyle Imagemaker Awards held in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 24, the singer, 39, offered a brief glimpse into where her head's at as she inches closer to the release of her next body of work.
 

"I think all the songs have been Americana and I want to wait to see what the musical atmosphere feels like," she says of Lasso. "'Cause I don't usually feel like I need a pause in the creation process, but if there's a literal energetic pause that almost feels like physical, then I have to wait and I don't know why."
 

The "Born to Die" performer adds, "I'll have to see if it's because of something someone's done or because it's going to take a turn."
 

Although Del Rey can't put a specific release date on the project just yet, she teases that "we'll see. But 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."
 

As for fans patiently awaiting the album's release, all she has to say is, "They can be excited for all the other good stuff going on. We’ll get there. First things first!"
 

Those who want a glimpse of a Americana-twanged Del Rey need to look no further than her most recent collaborative single: "Tough," which features Quavo. Backed by an emotional, country-influenced guitar riff that carries vocals discussing everything from "the scuff on a pair of old leather boots" to "blue-collar, red-dirt attitude," the music video flashes scenes of country roads, farm homes and other elements of Americana.
 

Del Rey previously told NME earlier this year that Lasso will contain songs that have “maybe less to say in terms of any self-revealing things like on Tunnel or Blue Banisters or Chemtrails over the Country Club," describing her new songwriting as "more melodic. Maybe more American Songbook style?”
 

Ultimately, the "Summertime Sadness" singer is aware of country music's power in the industry today. "When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for best producer of the year, I said, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville because the music business has gone, gone country.' And it went silent; 5000 people, dead silent," she told the outlet. "Then the next week, we had three major artists announce big country albums."
 

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[Venice Peach]

Wait so they confirmed a (not so secret anymore) project? 

It's either a covers album or an unreleased collection 

 

The album stuff is so confusing... basically what I get is that she has some songs but doesn't know if she wants to give them country production or just stick to a folky acoustic sound 

[vicdelrey]

what could be this secret project 

[lostindarkparadise]

Wow the secret project is real 

[jimmyjimmycocoapuff]

The People article- I swear whenever she talks about this record I get even more confused She really said "go listen to something else"

EVERYONE STREAM DISEASE BY LADY GAGA AND AQUAMARINE BY ADDISON RAE BC LANA TOLD YOU TO!

[Venice Peach]

At least we have confirmation now that Lasso isn't coming soon and that whatever she's releasing (maybe the two singles are still in the schedule) is from a secret project 

 

Time to stop being delulu about Lasso and time to start being delulu about secret lana 

[JDaniel]

1 minute ago, Venice Peach said:

At least we now have confirmation that Lasso is not coming out anytime soon and that whatever she releases (maybe the two singles are still on the docket) is from a secret project. 

 

It's time to stop being wrong about Lasso and start being wrong about  Secret Lana. 

I love your fatalism

[Chickacherrycola]

Am I the only one who is not getting “secret project” from what she said? The “other good stuff going on” sounds like go listen to other artists until it’s  ready. I’m really starting to believe those tough remixes were the other 2 singles. 

[venicebitch]

12 minutes ago, Venice Peach said:

Wait so they confirmed a (not so secret anymore) project? 

there's no secret project omg ldr addiction just overinterpreted as always

1 minute ago, Chickacherrycola said:

Am I the only one who is not getting “secret project” from what she said? The “other good stuff going on” sounds like go listen to other artists until it’s  ready.

exactly

[Veinsineon]

1 hour ago, venicebitch said:

"They can be excited for all the other good stuff going on. First things first!"

Are the other good stuff going on in the room with us, miss del rey? 

[venicebitch]

1 minute ago, Veinsineon said:

Are the other good stuff going on in the room with us, miss del rey? 

 

oh it is

 

 

[Candy Necklace]

I can’t  maybe Jinn was right

[The Stargirl Pinky]

1 minute ago, Veinsineon said:

Are the other good stuff going on in the room with us, miss del rey? 

And when the good stuff going on is free range tumbleweeds then what?

[West Coast]

If she doesn't want her music to sound half cooked, mayhaps I suggest she'd work with someone other than the half-cooked-music man himself.
 

Ultimately this album isn't coming out anytime soon.

 

[jimmyjimmycocoapuff]

Until I see this "secret project" on my Spotify page I am refusing to believe anything is coming bc I am not ready for disappointment

[venicebitch]

Just now, West Coast said:

If she doesn't want her music to sound half cooked, mayhaps she could work with someone other than the half-cook-music man himself. Ultimately this album isn't coming out anytime soon.

well at least she learned her lesson after chemtrails and blue banisters!

[The Stargirl Pinky]

“Even if it’s stripped back”

 

I just know the pop gays are fuming

 

[Make me your Dream Life]

Don’t mind more poetry just saying 

[cherrytropico]

well, at least she confirmed lasso. i really thought it was scrapped.

[Make me your Dream Life]

Release I Talk To Jesus queen