Lana Del Rey's motorcade entrance at Coachella could have looked a bit different.
The "Summertime Sadness" songstress has revealed that she has thought about riding horses onstage in the past.
"Ooh, do you wanna know something?" she told NME when asked about "getting some horses on stage" for an upcoming festival show. "I actually thought about that! I f-ing did!"
It is unclear if she considered horseback riding into her recent headline Coachella set, but the performance instead kicked off with her riding onto the grounds on the back of a motorcycle. She came and went by being escorted by a pack of bikers.
Although she has gone a different route with her entrance for all of her concerts so far this year, perhaps fans who were lucky enough to snag a ticket to her upcoming stadium show at Fenway Park could get lucky.
The stadium concert is billed as a special, one-night-only experience for fans of the Grammy-nominee. She revealed while accepting the Special International Award at the Ivor Novellos that she was offered to do a stadium tour after her popular Coachella set but turned down the opportunity.
"I get to go wherever I want, whenever I want. I decided not to do a stadium tour this year because I want to go to McCreary County in Kentucky," she said. "I wanna go meet the people. I wanna say hi and have breakfast with them. It's not about always just going north and going to every island straightforward and picking up money at the stadiums."
Del Rey has done more than just have breakfast with fans in the past. She went as far as serving them at a Waffle House last summer when she jokingly picked up a shift as a waitress.
Aside from her upcoming festival performances, the "Video Games" creator is hard at work on her upcoming country album, Lasso. Working on the album with Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, she commented on the recent shift in attitude for country music by the general public.
"When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for Best Producer Of The Year [at the 2024 Grammys], I said, 'Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville because the music business has gone, gone country. And it went silent; 5000 people, dead silent. Then the next week, we had three major artists announce big country albums," she said presumably alluding to Beyonce's Cowboy Carter as one of the records.
When revealing more about her upcoming album, Del Rey confesses that she "has no idea" what direction the LP will end up going in.
"I've maybe less to say in terms of any self-revealing things like on Tunnel or Blue Bannisters or Chemtrails Over The Country Club, and just more melodic," she says of the album's lyrics. "Maybe more American Songbook style?"
The "Candy Necklace" singer has teased that the album is coming this fall, but has not given a concrete release date.
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