American singer, songwriter, producer, artist and poet. Lana Del Rey was born on 21st June 1985 in New York City, USA. Raised in Lake Placid, she attended Kent School in Connecticut to address her alcohol abuse. After graduating high school in 2003, she spent a year in Long Island where she learned to play guitar from her uncle.
In 2004, Lana enrolled at Fordham University in New York and studied metaphysics. It was during this time that her musical journey began. From 2005 to 2009, she had various music projects under different names like May Jailer and Lizzy Grant. Finally releasing her first album “A.K.A. Lizzy Grant” (2010) as Lana Del Ray – later changed to Lana Del Rey with an ‘e’.
Throughout the years, over 100 of Lana’s songs have been leaked through different media platforms; mostly demos and songs from the early stages of her career as May Jailer/Lizzy Grant.
Lana Del Rey announced her 10th record, “The Right Person Will Stay”, in an Instagram post back in November 2024, but there isn’t much information available on it; she hasn’t yet released any singles. However, in January 2024, she said about her next album: “We’re going country!” She also said that album would be called “Lasso” and it would be released in September 2024, and neither of those things turned out to be true, so it’s not clear yet if “The Right Person Will Stay” is still going to be her country album, just with a different name, or if she’s shelved the whole country thing for now. But in her announcement post for “The Right Person Will Stay”, Del Rey promised that we’d hear some new songs before the country music festival Stagecoach, which takes place in April.
The singer shared the story behind the delicate “Bluebird” in an impromptu video filmed on her way to rehearsal on Friday. “I started humming this chorus to myself, with the words and the melody, a long time ago when I had been seeing someone for a very long time — and we hadn’t seen each other for a while, and he called,” Lana said in the clip uploaded on Instagram. “And he asked me if I wanted to go for a walk. I was kind of excited, but I didn’t think it was a very good idea.”
“All of a sudden a bird smacked in the double-pane window doors of my bedroom,” Lana recalled.
“I was shocked, and I opened the little door and I saw this little, I think it was a little sparrow, little swallow, right there, and I just was so emotional because you know when you just know that something is meant for you?” she said. “Like sometimes I feel like nature has its own way of communicating with you, especially in extremely severe situations not in a sacrificial way, just in a way just for you to know.”
As the story goes, the little bird did “eventually kind of stumble away,” and did fly away, according to Lana, who didn’t follow suit; she went on that walk anyway.
“Bluebird” is the second song to be released ahead of her upcoming 10th studio album, the first being “Henry, Come On.” presently untitled and without a firm release date. Though it was expected just weeks from now, last week Lana casually broke the news to fans that May is no longer looking likely for the follow-up to 2023’s “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” “You know it’s not going to come on time, right?”
Whether or not “Lasso” and “The Right Person Will Stay” are the same album, it seems like a safe bet that Del Rey’s new music will probably lean more country than her previous work, and we’re intrigued by what she’ll do in that space.
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