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• This is what Billie Eilish talks about when she’s not promoting ‘Barbie, Barbie, Barbie’
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• The award-winning singer-songwriter has nine great studio albums, and now she might be attempting a career pivot.
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• Making friends and meeting fans at Waffle House
• Well, there you have it! Maybe we can expect Syrup on Top of My Waffles to be her next album.

The artist behind "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" caused a stir in July after a video showed her working at a Waffle House and posing with fans in the small town of Florence, Texas. She was equipped with the breakfast spot's uniform and a name tag as she served coffee to locals. Welcome to Delicious or Distressing, where we rate recent food memes, videos, and other entertainment news. Last week we discussed the rumor circulating on TikTok that Europeans don’t believe in water. As it turns out, O’connell said, is that Del Rey simply has family ties in the small town (pop. 40,000), is good at making fast friends and just loves hanging at diners.

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(Laughs.) I think I’ve done two [TV performances]? Maybe that’s something else I’ll grow into more, like touring. I toured for nine years of my life.

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Sam Burros is a writer, producer, and cook working with the Food and Lifestyle team at PEOPLE. Prior to working with PEOPLE, he was an editorial fellow for Food Network, a reporter for Heritage Radio Network, and a recipe tester for Alison Roman's third cookbook Sweet Enough. The music took a huge turn from Norman, and it’s been going down that path aggressively. I’m going to continue going where I feel the only next stop is, but I think it’ll be in an Americana vein. The hard thing, in your personal life or in public, is that you can lose the idea that passion should be your true North.

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The reason Del Rey was at the Waffle House remains unclear, leaving fans to speculate on a variety of possibilities. "It was a bit surreal," Juarez said. "I just told her how much I loved her music and her work in general. She was super lovely and incredibly nice." Jack Antanoff told THR that it's not a "bit" for her to do these zany things. “The secret to Lana is that she’s exactly who she is,” he said. Frequently smiling throughout the surprise performance, Del Rey thrilled the crowd when she crooned the song’s powerful chorus.

“This guy,” Del Rey tells Hollywood Reporter, “a regular, comes in every day and orders two things, so they were like, ‘Just go get it for him! For dip,” referring to a spit cup, a sort of improvised mobile spittoon frequently utilized by smokeless tobacco users. The “Video Games” and “West Coast” singer discusses her buzzy Alabama sightings in an extensive new interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Mikey O’Connell. The guts of the interview focus on Del Rey’s unique songwriting, prolific recording pace, influence on female popstars like Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, and her journey from polarizing artist to living legend.

It’s arguably up there on the unexpected-yet-relatable matrix with the time she showed up to the Grammys in a dress she bought at Dillard’s. After, the restaurant’s manager, who goes unnamed in the interview, posted a short clip to Facebook, which set off the rumor mill. Lana Del Rey has left fans puzzled after she was spotted working a shift at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama, on Thursday. “We were on our third hour, and the servers asked, ‘Do you guys want shirts? ’ ” Del Rey told The Hollywood Reporter of her visit to a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama. We were thrilled,” she continued.

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Perhaps a new music video is on the way? Those friends just might be found at the Waffle House. Appearance came a month after Del Rey released her new album, titled Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. Friend and fan Taylor Swift called the new music "extraordinary" when she gave Del Rey a shout-out during a Las Vegas Eras Tour stop in March. “Just Lana Del Rey working as a waitress at a restaurant,” the caption for lanadelreybr's Instagram post read. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.

Well, there you have it! Maybe we can expect Syrup on Top of My Waffles to be her next album.

Music's introspective queen of melancholy discusses moving on from (and winning over) her longtime detractors, being a mentor to Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo and that viral gig at Waffle House. The 38-year-old del Rey has recently released her new album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.” Fans speculated that the Waffle House gig was part of a video in conjunction with the album. AL.com checked in with recording studios in the area, including FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound, to see if Del Rey had been recording there, but confirmed that she was not. Her most recent album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” dropped in March. She is scheduled to play at Lollapalooza in Chicago and Outside Lands in San Francisco in August, but has no performances scheduled in the South or surrounding areas.

Another fan even caught Del Rey in the parking lot. Del Rey explained that while wearing her uniform, a Waffle House manager asked the star to fulfill a simple request.

It’s a little bit of a different process now. For Tunnel, I did not edit myself. Might that reason be, at least in part, the world catching up to you?

It’s not necessarily creative. I’m somewhere in the middle, I would say. I’d just like something grounding, where your time is orderly. I think that’s really important because I have a lot of days on the fly. Because Billie and Olivia are such good people, it’s fucking awesome. I love them and their music.

And I don’t think people speak about others in the same way they did back in 2011. The thing that I always thought was fucking stupid is that you learn more about somebody when you just let them talk. I never really felt like anyone was in it for the info. And talking about this [now] is appropriate because it is a huge part of [my] story. And new people who I meet have no idea.

And I’ve never corrected anything. In fact, not for years have I actually submitted my lyrics to anybody. Should they be out there, they’re not from me. I don’t even want to think about what I have to say. Maybe they weren’t supposed to back in the day, when I thought that they would. There might’ve been a reason for that.

Employees then encouraged her to bring a regular customer's order to him and she obliged. "I brought him a Coke. No ice. And an empty cup. … For dip," the musician said. The singer-songwriter's ninth studio album, which came out in March, pays homage to Americana. Florence, where the Waffle House is located, is name-dropped in track 10 "Paris, Texas." Lana Del Rey's latest album didn't get the viral buzz she hoped for — at least not in comparison to her brief shift at Waffle House.

Her kindness during her Alabama visit made her even more endearing. By all accounts she came off disarmingly down-to-earth to every normie she met here. "She was there, wearing a uniform and everything," said one fan who met the singer at the restaurant. Last week we discussed Hillshire Farm recalling 15,000 pounds of smoked sausage. And an empty cup,” Del Rey said, adding that the empty cup was for chewing tobacco.

But you know in your heart when it’s the right time. And it’s never been the right time. Maybe now, even if I didn’t feel confident, I would do it anyway.