Lana Del Rey is kissing and telling in her new tune “57.5.”
Throughout her debut on the 2025 Stagecoach Nation Music Pageant in Indio, Calif., on Friday (April 25), the 39-year-old singer revealed within the tune’s lyrics that she as soon as locked lips with a significant nation star.
“I kissed Morgan Wallen/ I suppose kissing me sort of went to his head,” Del Rey sang. “If you’d like my secret to success/ I counsel don’t go ATVing with him while you’re out west.”
The eyebrow-raising premiere of “57.5” got here in the course of the alt-pop star’s set on the Palomino stage at Stagecoach. In response to the lyrics, the title nods to the singer’s month-to-month Spotify listenership, measured in tens of millions. Simply earlier than premiering the monitor, Del Rey instructed festival-goers that it might be “the final time I’m ever going to say this line.”
It stays unclear whether or not Del Rey and Wallen ever shared a kiss, or when it supposedly occurred. Billboard has reached out to Wallen’s representatives for remark.
Elsewhere in “57.5,” Del Rey crooned about having “a person” who “actually loves me,” a sentiment seemingly referring to her husband, Jeremy Dufrene, whom she married in September 2024.
Wearing a white robe and performing in entrance of a set designed to resemble a picturesque rural residence at nightfall, Del Rey’s Stagecoach set featured a duet with George Birge on his present hit “Cowboy Songs,” a canopy of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man,” and a singalong to John Denver’s “Take Me Residence, Nation Roads.”
Along with debuting “57.5,” she additionally carried out a number of new tracks from her forthcoming country-leaning studio album, which has but to be titled or assigned a launch date. The brand new songs included “Trip,” “Husband of Mine” and “Henry, Come On.” (Learn Billboard‘s greatest second from day considered one of Stagecoach 2025 right here.)
The singer’s upcoming album will comply with Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd, which peaked at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200 in April 2023. So far, Del Rey has earned two prime 10 hits on the Billboard Scorching 100: 2013’s “Summertime Unhappiness” and her 2022 characteristic on Taylor Swift’s “Snow on the Seaside.”
