Lana Del Rey fuels feud rumors with Ethel Cain in unreleased snippet

Lana Del Rey sparked renewed discussion about a potential feud with Ethel Cain after posting a snippet of a new song that appears to target Cain by name. In a video captured from a reel posted to Del Rey’s social media, the singer is shown driving as she lip-synchs an unreleased track whose opening lines include “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post,” followed by references to a Chicago-related moment and other personal imagery. The post arrived as Del Rey preps her tenth studio album, The Right Person Will Stay, a project long teased after a name change from Lasso and described by collaborators as leaning toward a country-influenced direction. Cain, meanwhile, released her own album Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You earlier in August, continuing a period of high activity for both artists.

The lyric excerpt widely shared by fans has fueled speculation about the meaning behind the line, given long-standing public interest in the pair’s parallel careers and overlapping circles. The unreleased material continues with lines such as “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.”...