Lana Del Rey returns with subtle cowboy ballad, "Henry, Come On"

“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.

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