Lana Del Rey shares update on Lasso: "I don’t want to turn it into something that’s half cooked"

Lasso is the followup to 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd and will be her fourth album in just over three years, following Chemtrails Over The Country Club, and Blue Bannisters.

Speaking about the progress of writing songs for the album, Lana Del Rey shared that she has felt a need to take it slow: "I think all the songs have been Americana and I want to wait to see what the musical atmosphere feels like, cause I don’t usually feel like I need a pause in the creation process, but if there’s a literal energetic pause that almost feels like physical, then I have to wait and I don’t know why."

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“I’ll have to see if it’s because of something someone’s done or because it’s going to take a turn,” she added, on the direction of where the Country-influenced songs will go. “We’ll see. But the songs I have, I love, so I don’t want to turn it into something that’s half cooked, even if it’s super stripped back. I want it to be what it was supposed to be.”

Earlier this year, she released "Tough" – a collaboration with Quavo – and has promised that there is more music on the way. “We have two more coming out by the end of the year!” she told Vogue.