The Right Person Will Stay, the latest album from Lana Del Rey, is coming May 21, the American singer-songwriter announced in an Instagram post.
The upcoming album will feature 13 tracks on which Del Rey worked with long-time collaborator singer-songwriter and record producer Jack Antonoff and Zachary Dawes who she previously worked with on her 2023 album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. Also tagged in the post is country producer Luke Laird, known for his work on Kasey Musgraves and Eric Church’s music.
During a pre-Grammy event in January, Del Rey teased the album saying, “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.”
In the same month, she previewed a guitar-heavy song called “Henry, Come On,” which led fans to speculate that it’s the same Henry she’s referring to in the announcement post. It will be the lead single for The Right Person Will Stay, one of two tracks that she said will be out before the end of this year.
A Country Album
Her 10th studio LP was initially announced as Lasso in January but in succeeding interviews, Del Rey implied it was still in progress that it could be released with an entirely different title. “There was a lot of “American flair,” too much of that very American aesthetic,” she said, describing the upcoming album. “I stopped because I didn’t recognize myself. I would like this album to be a reflection of the person I am today. I might turn it into something more “southern gothic,” like it was supposed to be in the beginning, and less country.”
She, however, dismisses speculations that The Right Person Will Stay will be a heavy departure from her discography. “If anything, it will just be a little lighter lyrically, and more pointed in a classic country, American, or southern gothic production — which again, so many of my songs already are.”
As to why she had to move the release from September this year to May 2025, the singer has this to say: “[T]he 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.”
