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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.

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.

“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.”

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris
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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris

The French edition of the world's leading music media outlet is creating a local vertical to cover music news in the Greater Paris region.

Billboard France, the French edition of the world’s leading music media outlet, today announced the official launch of Billboard Paris.

This new vertical, which has already reached 10 million views on social media, will focus exclusively on music news from across the Paris region, covering local events — from small-scale concerts and club nights to music exhibitions — as well as major celebrations such as Fête de la Musique, Nuit Blanche, Techno Parade, and Pride Month.

Billboard Paris will be operated by Billboard France under the leadership of Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy. Yanis Si Youcef has been appointed editor-in-chief, with support from Julien Zeidan.

“In the space of a year, Billboard France has established itself as both a leading outlet for French and international music news and a reference point for industry professionals," Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy, president and managing Director of Billboard France and Billboard Paris, said in a joint statement. "This new Paris-focused event vertical allows us to build a highly localized audience while simultaneously expanding both our editorial and commercial offering. We are pleased to entrust it to Yanis Si Youcef, whose expertise closely aligns with our editorial ambitions.”

“Paris deserved its own benchmark music platform. Billboard Paris will tell the story of the city through its music, its scenes, and its nightlife, with the standards that have defined the Billboard brand for more than a century," added Yanis Si Youcef, editor-in-chief of Billboard Paris.

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