Lana Del Rey to release new album in 2020
Lana Del Rey will release a "spoken word album" and she says it can be likened to "freestyle poetry".
Lana Del Rey has taken to Instagram to announce her upcoming album which is set to be released in January.
However, the new album is nothing like you have heard from the star before. She calls it a spoken word album.
"I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to put up a spoken word album, if you can call it that, on the 4th of Jan," she announced on Instagram.
She explained that she has decided to release a spoken word album because her upcoming book of poetry, 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass', is taking longer than she had anticipated to hand bind.
"I had a thought for a while about how I wanted the album to be around a dollar because I just love the idea that thoughts are meant to be shared and that they were priceless in some way, and there was a second part that I’d been thinking of before releasing it which was that I wanted half of what the spoken word is going for to benefit Native American organizations around the country, whether it was for preserving their rights or trying to help keep their land intact," she said in the Instagram video.
"I had wanted to do it because in doing my own work in connecting to my family lineage, I was encouraged to also try and connect with the country’s lineage—this was a while ago—and it kind of informed the next album that I’ve been working on. And I just really wanted to sort of pay homage to this country that I love so much by doing my own reparation, I guess I would say, my own reparative act. I know it’s an unusual choice, and I have no reasoning for it other than it just feels right to me, so as long as my spoken word album is distributed, half of it will be going to Native American organizations across North America," she added.
We can't wait for the album!