Lana Del Rey goes nation.
The choice pop star will take a musical detour on Lasso, a brand new assortment due out in September, Del Rey advised the viewers at Billboard’s pre-Grammy occasion in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening (Jan. 31).
Whereas paying tribute from the stage to Jack Antonoff, who’s within the working to turn into simply the second artistic to win the producer of the yr Grammy for 3 consecutive years, becoming a member of Babyface, Del Rey let visitors in her subsequent undertaking.
”For those who can’t already inform by our award winners and our performers, the music enterprise goes nation. We’re going nation. It’s taking place,” she mentioned from the dais. “That’s why Jack has adopted me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, during the last 4 years.”
The results of that musical journey is a brand new album slated for launch in September, titled Lasso, she explains, her tenth studio LP.
The forthcoming launch is the followup to 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Antonoff is on a scorching streak, with eight Grammys in his trophy cupboard. He has six extra possibilities so as to add to that assortment on the 66th annual Grammys, set for this Sunday, Feb. 4 in L.A., the place his work on Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd and Taylor Swift’s Midnights are up for a number of honors.
To be nominated for producer of the yr for 5 consecutive years, notes Del Rey, is “something however luck.” Antonoff, she continues, was “born underneath a kind of expertise, fortunate musical stars,” and as a producer and artistic, he can primarily do all of it.
Del Rey recounted her first assembly with Antonoff, at certainly one of Clive Davis’ legendary pre-Grammy celebration. It was 2018, a very “fascinating evening,” she explains, having broken-up with a boyfriend simply days earlier than the recording business’s large evening — the second time in her public profession. An on the spot friendship was struck with Jack, who’s “associates with everyone.” That friendship shifted to the studio, the place 5 songs had been created in a single day. His chord progressions are “timeless, like immediately basic,” she explains. And his “instincts are distinctive. And apparently award successful.” The music man is a “one in 1,000,000.”
Del Rey is on a hot-streak of her personal, thanks partly to her musical partnership with Antonoff. Lasso can be her fourth album in simply three-and-a-half years. Or 5 since that fortuitous assembly with Antonoff (six together with the 2020 audiobook Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass). She has 9 prime 10 appearances on the Billboard 200 chart, together with two No. 1s, with 2014’s Ultraviolence and 2017’s Lust For Life.