Lana Del Rey Looked Absolutely Disgusted Singing About Morgan Wallen This Weekend

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If she’s going to keep doing this, we really need to know what happened…

In April while playing Stagecoach festival, alt-pop star Lana Del Rey threw some major shade at country’s biggest star Morgan Wallen, and it was honestly completely random and no one could really ever figure out why or what the context was.

Lana has been dipping her toes in the country world, so to speak, over the last year or so, and she previously said she was going to put out a country album (I have no idea if that will actually happen at this point), and has covered songs like Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man”, appeared on The Ryman stage alongside Lukas Nelson to sing “Find Yourself,” and she also appreciates the mainstream side of country, noting previously how much she loves Morgan Wallen’s music… though I’m not so sure that’s the case anymore.

Like I said, while at Stagecoach earlier this year, she debuted a new song called “57.5” which explicitly states that she “kissed Morgan Wallen,” and then says something about how it went to his head… she even warned people not to go “ATV’ing with him when you’re out west.”

She also said at the time that it was the “last time” she would ever say that particular line, but I kind of thought she might’ve said that as part of the performance or to stir up publicity, and it was unclear if the whole verse is actually going to be on the final cut. I didn’t really think it would, because that would mean she’d actually have to explain herself at some point, but here’s what she said a couple months ago:

“This is the last time I’m ever gonna say this line:
“I kissed Morgan Wallen,
I guess kissing me kind of went to his head,
If you want my secret to success,
I suggest don’t go ATV’ing with him when you’re out west”

Watch it here:

@ludmilarochax “I kissed Morgan Wallen 🙄🥴” @Lana Del Rey 📍Liverpool #lanadelrey #liverpool ♬ sonido original – ludmilarochax

During a show last week, Lana skipped the line altogether, waiting a few beats where the Morgan line was, then keeps going. You can hear some of the fans yell it while she smiles and then keeps singing rest of the lines about “ATV’ing with him”:

It’s obviously a shady remark, but I have no idea if they ever had some sort of fling or not… I don’t think I’ve ever heard Morgan speak about her publicly and they’ve obviously never been pictured together or anything like that, but Morgan is very private when it comes to his dating life, for obvious reasons, so that clearly doesn’t mean they never hung out or anything of that nature.

Lana made tons of headlines last year when she married Jeremy Dufrene, just a regular ol’ Louisiana alligator tour boat guide, so it does seem a little weird she would say this since she’s so recently married. Regardless, I definitely think it’s shade and there obviously has to be more to this story. When she sang that line, many of her hardcore fans were upset over it, so they should be happy to find out that Lana seemingly meant that really was the last time she would name drop him in the song, as she performed it again recently and it was gone.

This is from a show at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, UK:

And this past weekend, Lana skipped the line again, this time looking quite disgusted at a show in Liverpool where fans once again filled in the line for her. I mean, what a face…

If this song does make an album, like I said before, I highly doubt the line about Morgan would make it, and that seems pretty certain at this point. Lana is a massive pop star, and her using a platform like Stagecoach certainly felt like a choice, and taking it out does too. That being said, Morgan is the biggest thing in music right now, so it seems super convenient to throw it out there… seemingly years later. Shading Morgan Wallen to make some headlines is straight out of the Hollywood playbook these days.

Clearly, it’s good for headlines, but it’s also annoying to see her continue to play into it like this with no explanation whatsoever. Either way, it will be really interesting to see what makes it if this song ever gets cut in the studio and released to fans. Even though some of them were annoyed about the Morgan reference, they don’t seem to mind singing it for Lana since she’s seemingly done doing it.