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

[Beautiful Loser]

35 minutes ago, NikoGo said:

the press release has dates going all the way to July 

 

https://www.universal-music.de/lana-del-rey/news/lana-del-rey-veroeffentlicht-ihre-neue-single-henry-come-on-275627

 

I don’t know German, can only understand a word here and there since Swedish is kiiiind of similar, but I don’t see them? Just the tour dates, everything else seem to say that the song is out today?

[Embach]

1 minute ago, Beautiful Loser said:

I don’t know German, can only understand a word here and there since Swedish is kiiiind of similar, but I don’t see them? Just the tour dates, everything else seem to say that the song is out today?

it only says that the song is out + mentions who wrote and produced the song but about the tour it only mentions the summer tour in uk/ie + stagecoach but the weird thing is that it doesn't mention that she has a show in august as well.

[NikoGo]

8 minutes ago, BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou said:

Why do we think the album is delayed? Just because the press release doesn’t mention Henry is a part of an upcoming album? I neeeed a summer Lana album so I’m staying delusional. 

 

well typically something like this would at least mention the album it is from 

 

that said, this could be the 'stagecoach' single to kick off the tour and after stagecoach she could release another song with the album preorder going live. She has nothing planned for May (except the album apparently) so that's a good time to kick off the prerelease with a June/July release date 

[Beautiful Loser]

4 minutes ago, Embach said:

it only says that the song is out + mentions who wrote and produced the song but about the tour it only mentions the summer tour in uk/ie + stagecoach but the weird thing is that it doesn't mention that she has a show in august as well.

Oh, right. I forgot she had another one later in August lol.

Yeah, then I understood everything right.  

[NikoGo]

That said, I'm really curious who here actually thinks we're getting an album in May. 

 

I want to hope that most people know it's not releasing in May, but in today's world it's hard to tell. "why do we think the album is delayed" is such a July/August 2020 comment, when we hadn't gotten anything yet and still thought the album was coming out in a month. It's not so cute or fun in 2025 

[Beautiful Loser]

This reminds me of 2019, when we were so certain she was going to release NFR! before the summer festivals began, because we thought it made no sense to go on festivals to promote new songs without an album. But then it got out in August in the end lol.

[NikoGo]

Just now, Beautiful Loser said:

This reminds me of 2019, when we were so certain she was going to release NFR! before the summer festivals began. But then it got out in August in the end lol.

 

"NFR" top of the year followed by "who knows when it's coming" on twitter in March was so traumatic, then there was "single soon album later later" in 2021 that was also bad.

 

I was really hoping for another Ocean rollout, that was our best one since Honeymoon 

[carmenbelair]

I think it all started with the rumor that album still coming out in may(I saw it on Twitter), plus she dropped pre-sale for nfr one month before the release, that's why there's a hope that she'll do the same now. 

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou]

I know her reputation with release dates is flimsy at best but I have a shred of hope this is still coming this summer. And before Henry came I was the biggest TRPWS-doesn’t-exist-truther.
 

There a few things giving me hope: a high budget photoshoot with Neil is already in the can. We’ve seen two pictures so far and I bet more will be unveiled for Stagecoach. It also seems like the album cover has been chosen based off some of Neil’s friend’s comments on IG.

 

She mentioned last August she wanted to rework the songs to be in her vision - which gave her plenty of time to rework arrangements, fully finish the album and send to vinyl plants for a summer release.

 

Her team seems to have Stagecoach merch ready to go. Maybe they don’t want to overload fans with Stagecoach merch + vinyl variants + TRPWS merch all at once but rather spread it out. Budgeting queens 

 

She has been cooking for awhile so I’m remaining delusional that everything is packaged nicely behind the scenes and the rollout officially began this week. We’ll hopefully know more when / if she posts about Henry and Stagecoach. 
 

Spoiler

Henry’s beauty has completely blinded me to reality and logical thinking for the time being 

 

[somber]

At this point, I know better not to listen to X Insiders anymore, because nothing they say is accurate, and if it does happen to become true, it's a lucky guess. But this post made me chuckle 

 

 

The great town of Tulsa would be an interesting name. If this HAPPENS to be true, I'm claiming that track 

[Bonita]

49 minutes ago, NikoGo said:

That said, I'm really curious who here actually thinks we're getting an album in May. 

 

I want to hope that most people know it's not releasing in May, but in today's world it's hard to tell. "why do we think the album is delayed" is such a July/August 2020 comment, when we hadn't gotten anything yet and still thought the album was coming out in a month. It's not so cute or fun in 2025 

 

I kinda am delulu about it coming in May mainly because she's kinda sticking to her word about the songs before Stagecoach thing, and that being said let's hope we get the second single soon 

[Gothicula]

Lana is always unpredictable, and the most unpredictable thing right now would be actually releasing it on time  she subverted my expectations by releasing Henry in the first place, I expected to listen to the stagecoach live version for a few months 

[LanaBalkana]

54 minutes ago, Bonita said:

 

I kinda am delulu about it coming in May mainly because she's kinda sticking to her word about the songs before Stagecoach thing, and that being said let's hope we get the second single soon 

Her sticking to her word is a stretch though.. she said two songs before the end of last year lol

[Venice Peach]

I wonder if insiders heard an early version of the album (or at least Henry) cause this doesn't sound like Sirens with a budget at all. Unless they meant that guitar + strings is Sirens with a budget which is a weird thing to say cause all of her post LFL albums have songs that mix acoustic songs with orchestral parts 

[Americen Whore]

I’m so happy she decided to involve other producers to add those gorgeous instrumental to the song, hope the same thing goes to the other tracks & it’s not just a one song thing, maybe that’s why we haven’t gotten a pre-order link yet. I won’t mind 12 more tracks of henry 

[barttttender]

41 minutes ago, Venice Peach said:

I wonder if insiders heard an early version of the album (or at least Henry) cause this doesn't sound like Sirens with a budget at all. Unless they meant that guitar + strings is Sirens with a budget which is a weird thing to say cause all of her post LFL albums have songs that mix acoustic songs with orchestral parts 

 

Let me solve this mystery for you: the "insiders" heard the Henrye early demo snippet and called the album boring and "Sirens on a budget" because that's exactly what Henry sounded like at that stage.  These people know shit. There are no real insiders this era.

[taco truck]

2 hours ago, NikoGo said:

That said, I'm really curious who here actually thinks we're getting an album in May. 

 

I want to hope that most people know it's not releasing in May, but in today's world it's hard to tell. "why do we think the album is delayed" is such a July/August 2020 comment, when we hadn't gotten anything yet and still thought the album was coming out in a month. It's not so cute or fun in 2025 

I feel like it’s 100% coming in June/July. This is based of purely vibes but Henry is such a summery song to me I feel like the album has to come out in the summer. 

[Embach]

i was reading that boston fenway stadium show thread and some people there were theorizing that maybe the alleged "the mirror" intro is called "has anyone else died for you" because they kinda almost heard the title in that song and this got me thinking rn that shit maybe it's true.

 

i know that the fenway intro isn't a stripped back country song but like damn, i still have hope left that it's on the album...

[taco truck]

4 minutes ago, Embach said:

i was reading that boston fenway stadium show thread and some people there were theorizing that maybe the alleged "the mirror" intro is called "has anyone else died for you" because they kinda almost heard the title in that song and this got me thinking rn that shit maybe it's true.

 

i know that the fenway intro isn't a stripped back country song but like damn, i still have hope left that it's on the album...

Tbh the “releasing Henry as the lead single is like releasing change from lust for life” comment has really stuck with me and I think it’s an indication that we really are going to be getting a kind of eclectic mix of country style songs on the record. I don’t think Tough is going to be on the album but I think Henry, Tough, and the Fenway intro show different types of songs we could be getting. 

[PipeDelRey]

I don't know, but “Crocodile Tears” sounds very fake or something very expected.

I'm so confused!