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Lana Del Rey‘s highly anticipated new country album has gone through a few different names so far — Lasso and The Right Person Will Stay were previously in play — but she revealed back in April that the name had changed again, although she didn’t reveal it at the time. In a new interview with W, she says that it’s now called Stove, and it “will likely be released at the end of January” (it was previously set for May of this year). She’s also added six songs, and tells W, “They were more autobiographical than I thought, and that took more time. The majority of the album will have a country flair. Eight years ago, when I was looking to make a country record, no one else was thinking about country. Now everyone is going country! I’ve asked myself, Should I retire all my snakeskin boots? Should I put my cowboy hats in storage?”
Lana told W that a new song she’s been playing live, “Stars Fell on Alabama,” is about her husband, alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene. “When we met,” she told W, “I realized pretty immediately that I loved him, but that it might get difficult because of what I was bringing to the table. Jeremy said, ‘I work with alligators—I have tough skin.’ And he is a man of his word. All the things that made me upset—and there were so many!—he would just listen and say, ‘You be you—and I’ll just love you more.’ ”
Lana shared “Henry, come on” and “Bluebird,” her first previews of the new album, back in April, and then debuted three new songs at Stagecoach that seem likely to appear on Stove. Earlier this month, she previewed another new track that includes the line “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post” and sparked a lot of speculation. Will that appear on the album too? Hopefully we’ll find out soon.
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