After a year of taunting fans with snippets and other subtle teases, Lana Del Rey has finally shared her new single, “Henry, Come On.” The song is classic Lana, with an almost imperceptible new country twang. “Last call, ’Hey, y’all’/Hang his hat up on the wall/Tell him that his cowgirl is gone,” she sings over a soaring melody in the new breakup ballad. “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.'”
“Henry, Come On” is our first glimpse at the picture Del Rey will paint on The Right Person Will Stay, her 10th studio album, due out May 21. Previously, the artist teased that the album, originally titled Lasso, would be a full pivot to country. “If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country,” Del Rey said at a pre-Grammy event, per Rolling Stone. “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.”
Then, in an August interview with Vogue, she pulled back a bit. “All my albums are somewhat rooted in Americana… so I don’t think it will be a heavy departure,” she said. “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.”
Del Rey will allegedly flesh out the world of The Right Person Will Stay a bit more before her performance at California’s Stagecoach festival later this month.”Happy for you to hear a few songs coming up before Stagecoach… starting with Henry,” she teased along with her album announcement in November. Go on and giddy up, Lana fans: our watch begins now.
