Lana Del Rey has shared a snippet of a diss track that apparently takes aim at Ethel Cain. The minute-long teaser, described as ‘Track 13’, opens with the line: “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post.” Del Rey tagged Jack Antonoff – who, in addition to working on her upcoming album, was also involved in another big beef you might have heard about (what next? Clairo and Taylor Swift?) – on the post, which shows her sitting in a car while the music plays from the speakers.
Practically every line you hear in the snippet needs some context. Back in 2022, Lana Del Rey posted a photo with Salem’s Jack Donoghue, her ex-boyfriend, outside Cook County Jail. Fans are speculating this is the Instagram post Del Rey is referring to.
Del Rey follows that opening lyric with, “Think it’s cute reenacting my Chicago pose.” Cain once shared photo of herself on X/Twitter with Donoghue, though it may actually predate that by Del Rey. Later, the line “The most famous girl at the Waffle House” seems to reference a 2022 New York Times headline about Ethel Cain.
A snippet of another unreleased Lana Del Rey song, reportedly called ‘All About Ethel’, also leaked last year.
A few hours after Lana Del Rey posted the teaser, Ethel Cain said this on her Instagram story: “update: lana del rey has blocked ethel cain on instagram.” Cain herself has had some long-deleted tweets about Del Rey.
In an Instagram comment about the whole situation, Del Rey said: “I didn’t know who Ethel was until a few years ago — when someone brought to my attention the disturbing and graphic side-by-side images she would often put up of me next to unflattering creatures and cartoon characters making constant comments about my weight, I was confused at what she was getting at. Then when I heard what she was saying behind closed doors from mutual friends and started inserting herself into my personal life I was definitely disturbed.”
Outside of social media, Cain has not been shy about her thoughts on Lana. It’s no secret she doesn’t like being compared to Lana Del Rey. When I asked her about it back in 2021, before the breakout success of Preacher’s Daughter, she was still gracious enough to answer my question. “I definitely was hugely inspired by Lana when I was in high school; Born to Die I think was the very first CD that I ever bought,” she said. “At first when I listened to Born to Die I was like, ‘Wow, this is this really good American Dream, it’s so glamorous, it’s like old Hollywood,’ I loved it. But then as I got older, especially with the social justice movement and the unravelling of the American Dream, the unravelling of Hollywood, the unravelling of celebrity culture, it was kind of like, it’s all a sham. All that glamour and old opulence is built on the backs of hard-working people who will never get the recognition and it’s just a facade that you start to see through.”
Lana Del Rey’s 10th album, renamed from Lasso to The Right Person Will Stay, has no confirmed release date. Ethel Cain released her new album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, last week.
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Lana del Rey shades ex boyfriend Jake Donogue and singer Ethel Cain in new snippet:
‘Ethel Cain hated my instagram post, Think it’s cute reenacting my chicago post’. 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 until a few years ago — when someone brought to my attention the disturbing and graphic side-by-side images she would often put up of me next 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
