Lana Del Rey has shared a snippet of new music, which seems to see her take aim at Ethel Cain.
The preview of new material was shared by Del Rey on social media yesterday (August 13), and has been quick to make the rounds on various fan pages since. It shows a clip of the singer sitting in a car while a currently unreleased track plays from the speakers. She blissfully sways along to the melody, and mouths along to some of the lyrics.
Coming with her signature, dreamy musical style, the lyrics in the clip appear to begin with, “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post/ Think it’s cute reenacting my Chicago post”, before continuing: “Hard to roll in slow motion/ Hard to say no to precaution/ Hard to stop when it’s like an ocean/ Not afraid to say I’m going down in flames.”
🚨Lana Del Rey shares snippet of new music mentioning Ethel Cain:
“Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post.” pic.twitter.com/wF9TKt0Fbd
— Ethel Cain Data (@ethelcaindata) August 14, 2025
With the lyrics mentioning Cain by name, fans have been quick to unpack what the “Instagram post” mentioned could be referring to. Many on social media are convinced that it relates to their previous ties to Jack Donoghue.
Back in 2022, Lana Del Rey previously posted a photo with the Salem member, songwriter and producer, whom she was dating at the time, outside Cook County Jail. Cain then shared a photo of herself on X/Twitter with Donoghue, before soon deleting it.
Later in the lyrics to the new Del Rey song, the singer is heard saying: “The most famous girl at the Waffle House/ I don’t regret it/ The most famous girl at the Waffle House”. This, some fans suspect, could be another nod to Cain, as she had a feature in the New York Times in 2022, which came with the title “The Most Famous Girl At The Waffle House”.
Lana Del Rey would then make headlines of her own the following year when she was spotted serving coffee at a branch of the US restaurant chain, Waffle House, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Lana del Rey shades ex boyfriend Jake Donogue and singer Ethel Cain in new snippet:
‘Ethel Cain hated my instagram post, Think it’s cute reenacting my chicago post’. pic.twitter.com/ujbOmUr24E
— ؘ (@delreysarchive) August 14, 2025
While it isn’t exactly clear why the two artists seem to have beef, fans online suspect that it could be related to the comparisons they have to one another musically. Some previous posts from Cain have been shared as well, including one on Tumblr where she said she was probably going to be compared to “the lady” (presumably Del Rey) until the day she dies.
There also seems to be a couple of posts where she seemingly responded to a fan who claimed “Lana Del Rey walked so Ethel Cain could run”, by writing: “I pushed her over when I ran past” and “She’ll never catch up to me in her Macy’s dress”.
Lana Del Rey is gearing up to share her anticipated 10th album, which has been renamed from ‘Lasso’ to ‘The Right Person Will Stay’.
While a release date for ‘The Right Person Will Stay’ has not yet been confirmed, Del Rey has released two tracks from the upcoming album: ‘Bluebird‘ and ‘Henry, Come On‘. It is looking like ‘57.7’ will be the next single to be shared ahead of the release.
It has been widely reported that the record will see her hone in on a country sound, and will mark the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’.
