Lana Del Rey Is Back With a New Country-Inspired Song

After her triumphant Coachella set, Lana Del Rey is back as she promised with a new country-inspired album. Among the popularity of projects from Beyoncé, Diplo, and Orville Peck's collaboration with Kylie Minogue, country is definitely in. But, like the others, Lana is also doing country with a twist.

As reported by People, Lana's new song, "Tough," features rapper Quavo and blends hip-hop with its folksiness.

Lana has been teasing the track to her fan base for weeks, and even did a live performance. Now her release comes with a countryside visual to set the mood.

"Tough like the scuff on a pair of old leather boots / Like the blue-collar, red-dirt attitude / Like a .38 made out of brass / Tough like the stuff in your grandpa's glass," Lana sings in her usual breathlessness.

The visual theme seems to portray the two as a gun-touting couple in love, against the world and trying to escape their pasts, and the lyrics of the song further advance that theme.

"Tell me how it's hard for you / Like a nickel on strings and your good old Gibson guitar," the song goes. "Like the songs that your mama sing to you / And the way that it makes you tell the truth / If you come from where you come, then you were born tough."

In the visuals, Lana and Quavo even almost kiss – and judging from this chemistry, we can only imagine what the pair have in store for the music video.

Produced by Andrew Watt and Cirkut and co-written by Clayton Johnson, "Tough" is Lana and Quavo's first collaboration, and is yet another example of the music business going country, according to what Lana teased at the Billboard x NMPA Songwriter Awards.

"If you can't already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country," Lana told the crowd at the event. "We're going country. It's happening. That's why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years."

In a conversation with NME about the industry turn to country, she added, "Oh geez, what can I say now? When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for best producer of the year [at the 2024 Grammys], I said, 'Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville,' because the music business has gone, gone country."

According to Lana, the title of her project is expected to be called "Lasso." And now fans can get their first listen of what's in store below.