Lana Del Rey surprise releases new song ‘Henry, Come On’
As the release date for Lana Del Rey’s tenth album, The Right Person Will Stay, draws closer, the singer has finally released the first teaser track from the record. It has been touted as her return to more country influences, and on ‘Henry, Come On’, they’re heard loud and clear.
With any Lana Del Rey release, information has to be taken with a pinch of salt. Her release dates are regularly moved, and albums disappear without ever being released or are often pushed back. The announcement of The Right Person Will Stay was shrouded in confusion, as previously, Del Rey’s pivot to country music was announced as Lasso, leaving fans to wonder if that was this same album or something different.
Released with no warning or comment from Del Rey, the surprise drop of ‘Henry, Come On’, the first taste of the record, puts those questions to bed.
While maintaining the artist’s signature vintage glamour, there are undeniable country influences here as she croons, “Tell him that his cowgirl is gone / Come on and giddy up,” across an instrumentation that combines the orchestral and atmospheric elements of her previous releases with country classics like steel slide guitars and more honky tonk pianos.
The instrumentation and elements of the lyrics definitely lean fully into the country inspirations this album is supposed to be dedicated to, all the Del Rey-isms fans know and love are intact. As she muses her way through the end of a relationship, singing, “Yesterday, I heard God say, ‘You were born to be the one / To hold thе hand of the man Who flies too close to thе sun’”, it’s packed with the sort of phrasings that only she could or would write.
The new release is seemingly a sign that The Right Person Will Stay will arrive as planned on May 21st, 2025, however, only time can tell how that will pan out.
This summer, Del Rey is set to tour the UK and Ireland for a huge stadium tour which will take her to Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium, Glasgow’s Hampden Park and London’s mammoth Wembley Stadium.
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