Saddle Up: Jack Antonoff Confirms He’s Working on Lana Del Rey’s ‘Lasso’

Antonoff and Del Rey have been hitting the studio trail together since 2019’s NFR.

Jack Antonoff and Lana Del Rey attend The Drop: Lana Del Rey at the GRAMMY Museum on Oct. 13, 2019 in Los Angeles.

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Lana Del Rey is going country with her upcoming album Lasso, and she’s bringing her trusty collaborator Jack Antonoff along for the ride.

In a new interview with Time, confirmed he’s saddling up for Lana’s latest project. “We have… yeah,” he said. “[It’s] a story for another time,” he said, staying tight-lipped on further details about the LP. “The reason why I don’t talk about things until they’re out is very succinct: I like to let the music be the first entry point for people.”

“I don’t want to rob anyone of their experience of hearing it without context,” he added. “The second you start talking about work that is coming, you’re planting these seeds in people’s head.”

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Antonoff and Del Rey have been hitting the studio trail together since 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell, followed by Chemtrails Over the Country Club in 2021, and last year’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — all of which lassoed top spots on the Billboard 200, while Tunnel reached No. 3. Now, it seems they’re roping in country influences for Del Rey’s newest project, which she first teased back in January during Grammys week.

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“If you can’t already tell, the music business is going country,” Lana announced at the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards. “We’re going country. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi over the last four years.”

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