Lana Del Rey is back—boots on, heart wide open—with a slow-burning new single that signals yet another iteration of her ever-evolving sound. “Henry, Come On,” released this week, is the first taste of her upcoming 10th studio album The Right Person Will Stay, out May 21.
The track is as wistful and cinematic as fans have come to expect, but with a distinctly Americana edge.
“All these country singers and their lonely rides to Houston / Doesn’t really make for the best, you know, settle down type,” she sings, leaning into the image of a cowgirl who’s finally had enough.
It’s also her first solo release in two years, following a string of collaborations and the genre-blurring 2023 album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. This time, she’s trading the hazy orchestral melancholy (and Judah Smith interludes) for steel guitars and southern grit—though the melancholy, of course, never really goes away.
On the outro, she drawls, “Hang his hat up on the wall / Tell him that his cowgirl is gone / Go on and giddy up.” It’s Lana at her most subtly savage.
The album has been long teased—once known as Lasso, then delayed amid what Del Rey called an “energetic pause”—but fans finally have a concrete release date and a first glimpse at what’s to come. She’s described the project as more melodic, leaning into the American Songbook tradition and letting go of some of the emotional excavation that defined Tunnel, Blue Bannisters and Chemtrails Over the Country Club.
