Lana Del Rey has shared a preview of a brand new music referred to as “Observe 13” wherein she apparently disses Ethel Cain.
The preview arrived on Wednesday night time, as Del Rey shared a one-minute teaser of her listening to “Observe 13” in a automotive and tagged producer Jack Antonoff within the publish. The primary lyric goes, “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram publish,” adopted by “Assume it’s cute reenacting my Chicago pose.” The latter lyric supposedly references a particular picture, wherein Cain apparently posted a picture of herself with musician Jack Donoghue — Lana Del Rey’s ex-boyfriend, with whom Cain has been linked — seemingly re-creating a shot of Del Rey and Donoghue exterior Cook dinner County Jail in California. (Maybe “Chicago” within the lyric refers back to the plot of the musical Chicago, somewhat than the bodily location of the picture?)
She continues within the refrain, repeating “Probably the most well-known lady within the Waffle Home/ I don’t remorse it,” which is a reference to The New York Instances’ 2022 profile on Cain, in addition to probably being a reference to her personal 2023 stint working at an Alabama Waffle Home. The remainder of the music’s lyrics aren’t as discernible, however the monitor’s general temper is extra meditative, somber, and ballad-esque. On the finish of the preview, Del Rey says “Okay, okay,” and concludes the video. Watch the publish under.
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There’s a bit greater than meets the attention as far this beef goes; for starters, the picture reenactment in query is barely a reenactment, with Cain and Donoghue in a very completely different location, sporting completely different garments and basically taking a unique pose (see a side-by-side under). The precise “Instagram publish” that Del Rey refers to within the opening line can be unknown, however followers have identified that she had defined her aversion to Cain in an Instagram remark.
“I didn’t know who Ethel was till just a few years in the past — when somebody delivered to my consideration the disturbing and graphic side-by-side photos she would usually put up of me subsequent to unflattering creatures and cartoon characters making fixed feedback about my weight, I used to be confused at what she was getting at,” Del Rey wrote in an Instagram remark. “Then after I heard what she was saying behind closed doorways from mutual pals and began inserting herself into my private life I used to be undoubtedly disturbed.”
There’s extra, too: Apparently, Del Rey had recorded a demo titled “All About Ethel” someday between 2020 and 2022, which can or will not be the monitor she teased on Instagram this week. For Cain’s half, reddit customers have famous that she significantly dislikes being in comparison with Lana Del Rey, and had posted some mild diss tweets about Del Rey which have since been deleted. A number of hours after Del Rey shared the preview on Wednesday night time, Cain posted on her Instagram story, “replace: lana del rey has blocked ethel cain on instagram.”
Ethel Cain launched her new album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You, on Friday, August eighth. She’s received an enormous stretch of tour dates arising in help of the album; get tickets to see Ethel Cain right here.
Lana Del Rey, in the meantime, remains to be at work on her follow-up to 2023’s lauded Do you know that there’s a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd. Her new “country-influenced” album was initially titled The Proper Individual Will Keep and was set to launch in Might, however Del Rey pushed it again and has since modified the title.
Lana del Rey shades ex boyfriend Jake Donogue and singer Ethel Cain in new snippet:
‘Ethel Cain hated my instagram publish, Assume it’s cute reenacting my chicago publish’. pic.twitter.com/ujbOmUr24E
— ؘ (@delreysarchive) August 14, 2025
Lana Del Rey elaborates on her lyrics about Ethel Cain, stating that the singer used to body-shame her:
“I didn’t know who Ethel was till just a few years in the past — when somebody delivered to my consideration the disturbing and graphic side-by-side photos she would usually put up of me subsequent to… pic.twitter.com/I6uV9UO6qU
— Pop Base (@PopBase) August 14, 2025
Ethel Cain says Lana Del Rey has blocked her. pic.twitter.com/abfpK3zdjk
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 14, 2025
NEW LANA DEL REY OUTTAKE TITLE:
“All About Ethel” – Seemingly recorded in 2020-2022, most probably the title to this beforehand unknown snippet pic.twitter.com/ZiXDF9CekL
— Lake Placid (@LakePlacid_) June 30, 2024