Dua Lipa

She's well-liked round these parts iirc? Surprising to find there's not already a thread.

Shes just gone to number 1 in the UK and that is an amazing thing indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qgadSvNyU

I've heard some other songs of hers I liked. This is not one of them.

I feel like they've spent a lot of money and time building her up as a popstar and New Rules being a chart-topper is a reward for length of service, it's good but it's far from the best thing with her name on it. I really like the album but it loses points for relegating Last Dance to bonus track status.

is the album good? i liked be the one 2 years ago but new rules does nothing for me and i don't remember much of any of the singles in-between

i like "be the one" but wasn't taken by anything else i've heard so far

the "new rules" vid is cute tho! love the colored robes

i like about half her album a lot but this is not partic good/makes me feel really really old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLQAuQsOWI

this is a very good album imo

Yeah I've gone back to this a lot more than I expected I would - so much personality and presence in her voice. Compared to something like the utterly bland Zara Larsson album, it's a model of what pop can actually be with a bit of ambition and focus

brief shout out to the "new rules" and "lost in your light" music videos for both being extremely good. i love how "lost in your light" totally embodies what it's like to listen to the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AuLm7S3XE

also pop album of the year

yeah this album is so good

I know this is unfair but Bill Maher prevents me from getting into "new rules" :(

why would you let that happen

new rules is great, i think will be a top ten single (and maybe my token pop track) this year for me.

"new rules" is a becky anthem i can get behind.

god every time i hear "lost in your light" i play it five times in a row

really (and unfortunately) such a miracle that this album was not only finally released but also turned out to be stupendous

"lost in your light" has been a stalwart on my jogging playlists this year. the way she sings "i wanna stay riiiiiiiiiiight here all night baby" at the beginning of the final chorus is such a moment

Really glad I clicked on this thread. It has made me revisit an album which I dismissed when I first heard it back in June. I must have watched the Lost In Your Light video 20 times in the last 24 hours. It could well end up being my song of the year. I'm now just taking it in turns to play this album and the new Miguel.

delivery of the year: miguel singing “vivid, vivid”

Ya'll aware of this, right? "New Rules" done mid-80's Italo. Somehow it really works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjNTTCVat0

great find!
I've also come around on the Freedo remix on the single.

album is p good thx for the tip. the drop into the chorus of 'new rules' is my favourite musical moment of the year; i feel dumb the extent to which it gets me every single time

lol, those drums are pretty tricky

I'm fully obsessed with her album now. Everything sounds so effortless which is nice compared to some of the other big pop records of the year that sound like way too much hard work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8rz-llMhE

Haven't heard much about this around here. Already #1 in the UK charts.

I'm still undecided about it but I think it's a step up from IDGAF. Opinions?

As a regular American Top 40 listener it’s very refreshing to have some played-straight, classy, four-on-the-floor house music back on the radio. The first time it came on I briefly thought I’d tuned the station to WBLS by mistake. Don’t know that Dua Lipa feels particularly vital to the success of the record, but by the same measure she acquits herself well.

Man, Calvin Harris is everywhere right now...

i think it's pretty good! a little forgettable, but serviceable for sure

i don't hear too much calvin harris where i am so i'll accept this small dose...

he's no marshmello

i like this a lot better than his fake random access memories songs. IDGAF slander is also insane

we had JD Twitch down to play at Hot Mess on saturday and he played New Rules! or fragments and teasers of it building up to what might have been his own live mix. anyway, it ruled.

that sounds great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-jOuHO-z4

^I love this, though I can't shake the suspicion that the pitch-shifted bit in the chorus was an attempt to make Dua's voice sound as much like Cher's as possible after Cher declined an invitation to guest on the track

her new single 'Want To' is much weaker imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwHjeQjY2eA

i like Electricity a lot, probably my favourite single of hers. i wish the outro just jammed on like that for longer though, it feels like there's a whole other song there waiting to be unearthed. interesting that Romy from the xx has a writing credit on it. i'm very curious about the Blackpink collab that's coming up too

wow "Want To" is really awful

https://www.jaguar.com/the-pace.html

romy's had a couple of non-xx writing credits lately, most recently on Kelela's album

lol wtf

@ the jaguar partnership

This was my favourite pop star mag cover for some time, I mean I know it's GQ and everything but the combination of her and 'A billion people can't be wrong' with 'Could Jacob Rees-Mogg get any worse?' is pretty hard to top

https://www.magazinecafestore.com/Upload/Product/81/gq-uk-magazine-may-2018.jpg

lol Gentlemen's Quarterly

New single is out on Friday. It sounds promising:

Miss me? pic.twitter.com/amWaQuhaDy

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) October 22, 2019

"This was my favourite pop star mag cover for some time, I mean I know it's GQ and everything but the combination of her and 'A billion people can't be wrong' with 'Could Jacob Rees-Mogg get any worse?' is pretty hard to top"

I'm really bothered by the way that the question mark at the end of that line pushes past the right border of the text. It looks wrong.

For all those people reading this in 2027, when the image is gone, there was originally a picture of the front cover of the British edition of GQ magazine, May 2018. All of the headlines on the right were right-aligned to a rigid border but the question mark in the last headline, "Could Jacob Rees-Mogg get any worse?", extended over the edge of the border, and in 2019 it bothered me.

In 2027 you will walk through a miniature recreation of London and see a miniature version of yourself.

For those of us reading in 2019, who is Jacob Reese-Whatever?

hideous far right British politician

Got it

https://youtu.be/htg8v0g_4e4

disco lipa

this is very sophie ellis bextor, in a great way imo

love it

It’s OK

I was sayingto my kids she’s with Anwar Hadid. They replied:”Who’s that?” I thought wow who’s the gossip obsessed teen here? Still me. Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfM8TSBfUQ

aoty 2020

I never liked "new rules" but both of the new songs are great

her voice is just do damn appealing

I don’t like the blonde hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkPChcoHOg

incredible performance

She feels very generic to me, I don’t get the appeal...

If you're looking for a popstar to sell you/the public at large on their persona (and I think that's fairly reasonable) then Dua Lipa has absolutely not managed to do that yet, but the material she's been getting chart hits with has been pretty uniformly A+ so far imo

Also if the phrase "Grammy Moment" has ever meant anything good it's in reference to her joint performance w/ St. Vincent from the most recent one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw2LMnxvW0

the performance i linked is great less because of whatever star power dua lipa may or may not have and more because her backing band sounds incredible

also she plays the woodblock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjB2RWF_jFg

this remix is exactly what I need to hear right now

"don't start now" builds to something so great during its prechorus only to let it all come crashing down during that clunker of a chorus

The way Don't Start Now goes back into the second verse is one of my favourite moments of the year. Really gives me Sophie Ellis-Bextor vibes.

Future Nostalgia is incredible. I can't stop listening to it.

"don't start now" builds to something so great during its prechorus only to let it all come crashing down during that clunker of a chorus

I've grown to like it on the strength of the prechorus alone but otm

counterpoint: the chorus is also good

otm

if you don’t like the chorus

don’t show up

otm

:D

« Don’t Start Now » is very good. The WHOLE of it !

i am very much in love w/it

I was on the fence with this song as well, but I’ve fallen for it now, a process set in motion by ufo posting the Fallon performance.
All the parts people have identified as great (pre-chorus, chorus, the way the verse starts) actually felt like clunkers to me at some point. That disco break after the second chorus is the real highlight though.

Loved Don’t Start Now but having difficulty getting into the Future Nostalgia

the new single "physical" is out friday. she's also been delivering the goods with performances of "don't start now" - esp. this one w/ its extended intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSoT3T58QFY

I love how much she changes up the arrangement for every performance and sells it every single time.

Hope this new single comes with the album announcement. Probably my most anticipated album of the year along with Jessie Ware.

holy shit @ that performance

literal roller skating to a roller skating jam

future nostalgia the album of the year 2020 out april 3

https://i.imgur.com/KBU0GrA.png

still don't love "don't start now" but at least she's not playing around

Everything about this already feels so perfect.

I love the enthusiasm over on Popjustice. People already calling it this decade's Emotion.

caved and heard the new single, it's sort of like...gaga in imperial mode? very different to the other two songs but just as good

instantly iconic cover art

this is about to be a moment

wait, this reaction is being provoked solely by the cover art? there isn't even a new track?

the track leaked, it's out tomorrow

cover art was shot by the same photographer as the one for caroline polachek's pang, btw

anyway...lights out! follow the noise!

https://open.spotify.com/album/5Vzq1wKBUXMxEZl3NPjJpS

everything feels very early 00s uk pop which feels a little weird (like, "ah we're at 00s revivalism already") but it's a good thing

none of these singles have been amazing (though the live performances of "don't start now" have been quite great) but they're all quite solid and very well produced so if that keeps up for the whole album i expect it'll be pretty good

if you basically mean Xenomania, I agree, and it kind of makes sense in that that whole sound was itself such a diverse blender of past and contemporary signifiers that it doesn’t feel as tied to a particular time or context in the way that, say, a Neptunes-style production would.

This seems counter-intuitive in that the ~songs themselves~ from that period feel very specific to that era and really did not survive beyond the era within broader popular consciousness, but perversely that means Dua Lipa’s efforts are more likely to be accepted on their own terms rather than tagged as, I dunno, a tribute to the third Sugababes album or something.

“Physical” more Girls Aloud of course.

xenomania in part certainly, but i was thinking more kylie, sophie ellis-bextor etc. that sort of disco-with-modern-production sound

i get more of a The Fame Monster vibe from "Physical" more than Xenomania - there's a raggedness to the vocal performance that distinguishes it from something like GA. "Don't Start Now" on the other hand is a lot more pointed and precise, so I hear SAB etc there for sure

this one I have a hard time imagining getting too worked up over

yeah this is defo gaga sounding, which is funny because I really didn't expect that particular revival for a good while. It's good tho, I like it

hashtag physical

I believe the two of you haven’t met -

Ava, this is or something

or, this is Ava Max

(xp)

but anyway: hashtag physical

Oh I have heard Sweet but Psycho on the radio quite a bit but kind of dismissed it as a kind of unpleasant outlier

kind of

I wasn’t

It wasn’t exactly pleasurable to me either, but it was my wtf-isn’t-it-much-too-soon-to-do-the-regaga moment

stuart price has a credit on the record which definitely helps someone's thesis itt

"physical" does remind me of gaga but also doesn't feel that far removed from say "can't get you out of my head"

not really feeling "physical" so far (tho for the record i was never a big fan of gaga's music even at her peak)

Where the Gaga and Xenomania (or more specifically Girls Aloud) comparisons don't quite scan for me is that those productions were absolutely laden with tinsel and tack, whereas Physical has a very specific Drive-soundtrack type filter laden over it. Gaga in particular was unabashedly cheesy in a way that sounded very jarring at the end of the 00s. Physical is going for a kind of dated robotic cool and the Stuart Price production credit absolutely makes sense in that context.

Also "this decade's Emotion" is a pretty absurd thing to say about a pop star who in commercial terms has already eclipsed CRJ several times over.

Both singles do feel like a swerve away from that very specific late 10s Spotify pop sound and towards a kind of classicism though.

"this decade's emotion" is exactly the sort of ridiculous thing i'd expect from stans on popjustice. i don't really think it makes much sense in any regard but i understand what they're trying to say

price isn't on "physical" though, only a few yet-to be released album tracks.

popjustice denizens freaking out about something is pretty much meaningless as they've spent the past five years or so foaming at the mouth every time a thin white woman serves up dance-pop with any commercial ambition whatsoever, only to lose interest each time said woman proves incapable of reaching the hot 100 more than twice. good for them that dua's finally coming thru, tho

hello is this 911 because i would like to etc

the snowqueens of futurepop

The reaction on Popjustice is partly because the thread on Dua was started five years ago when a lot of people fell in love with her from the first release of Be The One (when it wasn't a hit). I followed that thread and people were crazy invested in her through every single and collaboration (and that's about eight singles) before the album even came out. It often looked like she might get dropped and be another popinjustice as often happens (see also Annie -- a hero on that forum). The first album was delayed three times and came out a whole year after its initial release date. It's strange to think about what a struggle it was to get that album out and remember that the label who were desperately looking for that hit, just put it out anyway with the Miguel single which was that album's biggest failure.

When New Rules went to number one, it was a rare moment for those posters where everything worked out. Dua seems to be getting everything right this time round and I really don't begrudge the Popjustice crowd for getting so excited. The Emotion comparison is just the idea of a perfect pop record that's perfectly executed (the quality of music, not the release I'm guessing) It looks like Dua is going to get the bigger commercial success, but it's worth remembering that in the U.K I Really Like You was actually a huge hit. It was only when Run Away With Me flopped and that ridiculous staggered release strategy when Emotion started heading for cult status.

has nobody made the juice newton connection with this song yet or is it just obvious on the face of it?
Anyways, this is loads of fun!

I don't think anyone has made a juice newton connection.
Plenty have made the Olivia Newton John connection though.

lol, i don't know why i wrote that! my mind was free associating i guess; that's what i get for playing with the queen of hearts.

xxp -- alice chater's "hourglass" is another gaga revival, it's been happening for at least a year now

ava max reminds me of marina just as much as she does gaga

Physical is great but not convinced by the other two yet. I'm not really hearing the 09 Gaga sound other than the sheer bombast of the production, to me this "era" is definitely more in key with Sophie Ellis-Bextor's commercial peak of disco revivalism

Physical is great but not convinced by the other two yet.

madness x2

Physcial is my least favourite of the three, but I still love it and think the album is shaping up to be something special.

the greatest song of all time is now on streaming services: https://open.spotify.com/album/0MaGeHimijY3IhEWPkTUEx

Love this remix, real Ewan Pearson meets Aeroplane vibes.

should mention that hearing them back to back on the radio the other day i was struck by the sonic similarities between "blinding lights" and "physical"

Take On My New Attitude

That one part of this reminds me so much of lizzo’s “juice” it feels intentional

should mention that hearing them back to back on the radio the other day i was struck by the sonic similarities between "blinding lights" and "physical"

― monotony, Monday, 24 February 2020 07:09 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Otm these songs definitely occupy the same space in my head

I would be fine with the next few singles being progressively longer remixes of DSN

is that remix purchasable anywhere?

(at 320 or higher)

itunes?

Is this remix ever so slightly slower than the original?

iTunes isn't 320, sadly.

xp possibly. also fyi this is called a "remix" on spotify but it's just the recording of a live session she did

o rly?

I thought the vocal take sounded different.

yes I posted the YouTube vid in here about a month ago - see here: https://youtu.be/YSoT3T58QFY

Amazing how the remix just fixes everything that doesn't quite work about the original and then spends the last couple of minutes just putting its hands in the air.

Also I think it's a remix interspersed with bits of live vocal? Really hammers home the extent to which her production sucks all the spontaneity out of her performance.

i did a quick side by side comparison and i think that's right. the original song, the "live in la" performance video and the "remix" seem to all have the same vocal take, with the "live" ones just having a few live ad-libs added. the only difference i can tell between the performance video and the remix is the mix has been adjusted slightly - the drums hit harder is the main thing.

the original is fine but the remix really should have been the single. just cut off the intro for the radio edit and it's perfect surely?

I think you must all be high :D

Now, if there was a version of the single mix extended out to 6 minutes then we we would be talking.

I have a very good edit of it by mikeandtess and it's just under 6 minutes but it got removed from bandcamp, sadly.

oh it's now a free download on mikeandtess's soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/mikeandtess13

Thanks.

how big is she in North America? is she big-big or niche-big?

"new rules" and the calvin harris collab were big-big, don't think she has much of a profile otherwise

the hot 100 isn't everything, but 'don't start now' is at #5 right now. a new peak for her.

oh i was wondering if i should've checked "don't start now"'s status on the charts. that fuckin rocks

she's been on the major us late night shows like four times which is a pretty good barometer for mainstream awareness

"Don't Start Now" should climb again this week if BTS, who unexpectedly vaulted into #4 without any radio play, drop down. Lady Gaga's single is looking unlikely to threaten the top 5 but "Blinding Lights" might with its strong airplay performance.

"Physical" has so far peaked at #11 in the UK but isn't doing much on any other chart. (It's not on the Hot 100 at all at the moment). She hasn't really promoted "Physical" at all - at least in comparison to the way she promoted "Don't Start Now" - so I wonder whether they're saving the next barrage for a third single to then lead into the album release, which is now only a month away.

my kids fucking love dua lipa. they know pretty much all the words to DSN. i have never played them on the speakers in the house to my knowledge. it's Out There. i love it.

I'm actually DJing in Los Angeles in April, as half of Hot Mess, and only the second time we have been booked outside the UK, and I'm very excited. Although I/we play mostly house & techno I like to throw something very current in amongst the more minimal stuff we usually play to hype up the energy or whether that wuls be seen as naff? So the reason I asked about her North American profile was that I was wondering if playing DSN would work. fwiw, it's an LGBT party.

and fwiw, as well, If you are in LA get in touch, send me a webmail on here or whatever. The party is called Ostbanhof. It seems extremely cool (ostbanhof is the name of the station you get off at to go to Bergain in Berlin)

wuls= would

the remix, live in LA or whatever it's called has the excellent percolating intro, which as someone said above should be the standard version of the song… and I have heard it on multiple radio formats and in RL situations in the past month…it is immediately effective in every single context I have encountered, so I would think it would go down a storm at the LGBT party of which you speak…probly a lot of the people who will be there do already or will know it by then, and any that don't would likely be immediately into it…

god the live in la version is so perfect

I've played it at Hot Mess in Glasgow and it does GO OFF! for sure. I played the mikeandtess edit that I linked above.

thanks, Veronica.

i'm glad to hear ppl's kids like her. personally i rarely hear anyone talk about her irl, tho this song and "new rules" are def big/widely heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVonQ7LUJ0

"New Rules" and "Don't Start Now" have become supermarket music, which is to me the undisputable, definitive proof that an artist has really broken into mainstream.

Aren't you the guy who
Tried to hurt me with the word "goodbye"
'Fore it took some time to survive you
I'm better on the other side

Feel like this is explicit acknowledgement that the lyrics are 'I Will Survive Pt 2' but maybe I'm reaching

I think it's a definite.

I know these sort of single-instrument Youtube covers usually are pretty boring, etc, but this is undeniably great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBR-SrP6uU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2Yaii9GaOdjrexx0jmJOT___KOBTnykEfrm-g1MlGHw25GJoDPHpq31zw

Oops!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBR-SrP6uU

I love that!

Yeah that cheered me the fuck up!

I remebered seeing this recommended to me on YouTube but hadn’t clicked on it – thanks for sharing it, it's great.

Only on ILM could there be an apparently earnest discussion over whether or not Dua Lipa has broken into the mainstream.

I was asking about North America.

I guess the new album just leaked. Did anyone got the chance to hear it?

the last song has a rhyming couplet style I’m not especially fond of and doesn’t really gel with the rest of it, but other than that...incredible

“cool”, “love again”, and especially “LEVITATING”, all stupendous songs

new single friday is the INXS one and that’s a banger too

She's pushed the official release date for the album up a week. It's out this Friday!

[spoiler] hello white town sample!!!! [/spoiler]

Yeah, that was a nice surprise.

I was expecting to hate the last two songs based on the reaction on Popjustice and RYM, but I kind of love them. Great album.

such a strong record.
I get the feeling some people might have with the last two songs but, personally, I have no problems with them.

on the one hand I really want to listen to the leak immediately; on the other hand I really don't want to make Dua Lipa cry

If you support Dua, please don't stream the leaked version of tue album!! Look at her she's devasted 😢Pleaseeeeeee it's her body of work RESPECT HER #DuaLipa #FutureNostalgia @DUALIPA pic.twitter.com/FWyWa5iiX8

— Lordogx is RARE (@lordogx) March 23, 2020

thankfully it's out friday!

ugh i love this fucking record

5/5 on NME:

https://www.nme.com/reviews/dua-lipa-future-nostalgia-album-review-2633945?amp&__twitter_impression=true

I guess this will be her E•MO•TION huh?

What’s the name of the song with a White Town sample? dying to hear this one.

Is the MME good again? ;)

(thanks phone)

only thing i don't really care for on this is "good in bed", pretty solid otherwise and indeed very early 00s uk pop throughout. "cool" is especially wonderful

What’s the name of the song with a White Town sample? dying to hear this one.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"love again"

Love Again should be the next single

it is!

Oh, I thought it was going to be Break My Heart but maybe that's just a promo/buzz single. I get so confused. Either would work, but Love Again seems like the most obvious hit on the album.

lol sorry i got their titles mixed up, you're right kitchen person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2U6rhnucI

This album is fucking relentless. And "Break My Heart" is a great covid-19 anthem (I wonder if this is why it was chosen as the next single).

Chorus reminds me of Shakedown Street

So, this is pretty much the album of the year until the Jessie Ware one comes out right?

hi

the "need you tonight" interpolation in "break my heart" is really bugging me, it doesn't quite work with the rest of the song

video rules though

Once first listen, loving « Break my Heart »(indeed it’s zeitgeisty !) and the fabulous-kinky-obvious summer hit « Good in Bed » !

THE NEED YOU TONIGHT SAMPLE DKGKTKEKKDJFJF

Oh it’s actually “need you tonight” not “shakedown street”!

“Good in Bed” sounds like Lilly Allen to me, not sure I care about it.

Non-single tracks that I like on first listen: “cool”, “love again”

This album is *Cars voice* just what I needed.

I dig Good in Bed. Fun bop.

You want me
i want you baby
my sugar boo
i’m levitating
the milky way
we're renegading
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

very early 00s uk pop throughout.

This ain't the early 00s. But why does it feel so good?

Damn, I haven’t seen the ILX hivemind so stoked for an album since Random Access Memories.

We've come too far.

It's good; it reminds me of Selena Gomez's January album. I like pop stars releasing these tight albums.

Damn, I haven’t seen the ILX hivemind so stoked for an album since Random Access Memories.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, March 27, 2020 1:29 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haven't heard a note of this but I'm sure it's better than that turd

It is a lot better than RAM.

It's a good album but it's kind of funny to me that "Katy Perry using Selena Gomez's vocal technique" is apparently the ILX sweet spot.

I’m holding my hype for the Jessie Ware album.

fwiw I don’t hear selena gomez in this at all

This is good but patchier than I'd expect given how concise it is tbh

I don't get patchy at all. It's pretty much wall to wall bangers

Katy Perry and Dua Lipa don't sound remotely alike, not least because Dua Lipa doesn't do that big honking thing that sounds like she's constantly mugging to camera.

let me be the one to mention “Pretty Please”.

nothing’s blowing me away, but the album sounds pretty good on first listen, “Boys Will Be Boys” excepted.

I am totally hearing the Katy Perry thing now (unfortunately, thanks DJP!), and it was a qualified comparison to begin with.

I really want to connect with this album -- spiritually, it's absolutely up my alley -- but something's not sticking and idk what it is :(

and that's okay!

hi, josh!

Her singing is competent, but lacking in personality (she sounds bored). The music is mostly polite, generic dance-pop. The White Town sample is distracting, as samples of well-known songs can be. I like what “Break My Heart” does with the INXS melody.

well, the White Town sucked too

the white town sample is way less distracting than the inxs one

"Boys Will Be Boys" reminds me of this recent song (but I like this one better):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG8PqSXY6O8

Went for walk in the park the other night that turned into a disco stepping affair to the beat/tune of this album.

“Break My Heart” and “Pretty Please” are on a par with the two big singles for me, but “Levitating” and “Hallucinate”, enjoyable as they are, had me restless for some Fever-era Kylie. I settled on a loop of the full non-edited “Groovejet”.

iow, mixed results (but man did it feel good to be outside again - shame it’s so cold right now)

I have to admit I'm thoroughly enjoying both sample-heavy cuts. Imho "Love Again" tops "Break My Heart"; it's simply a better song. On the other hand, "Break My Heart", really does it for me with the... cleverness? i'm not sure that's the word but it's the best I can think about. Any way, it's clever in the way it integrates the INXS riff, and it's so sticky.

But the two songs that I keep hearing in my mind when I'm not actually listening to the album are "Hallucinate" and "Cool". I think those two will end up being my favorite cuts. "Hallucinate" in particular is totally relentless and reminded me of "Fever" too.

I'm also hearing "patchy" but not in a bad way. The payoffs are big.

the last song is bleh.

my choice cuts: levitating, love again, break my heart, don't start now. really, everything but the closer (billsteve otm), it's a super bubbly, crafty, and enjoyable record.

I think the debut was patchier than this, but higher in the peaks. I love her at her most relentless, "Begging" in the debut, "Hallucinate" here.

title track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24MI99Df3FM

eerily similar to "up all night" by the right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title

weird that it refuses to embed in my posts :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title

Physical > Levitating > Pretty Please (terrific bassline) is a sublime sequence. Prefer it by a wide margin to the debut. If she named it Bangerville it wouldn't have been arrogant.

"Levitating" has become my favorite. What a jam. I dance to it in my isiolation.

i’ve just discovered her today and am loving the absolute pants off future nostalgia

gave this album a listen, it's quite good but i kind of expected it to be... better based on all the effusive praise?

Moka upthread OTM, "Good in Bed' sounds like a rejected Lily Allen song from 2006. The rest of the album is great.

I know Dedicated was well-liked in these parts, but this album gives me the feeling I was hoping to get from that album. I caught the White Town sample but didn't notice the INXS interpolation. Guess I'll just listen to the whole album again

At long last, a bunch of remixes for “Physical”. josh is hyping the dreamy Erika de Casier Remix on the EdC thread, but I’m here for the hi-energy Leo Zero Disco Remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=fC_wSCls3h0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_wSCls3h0

SUCH A JAM!

BREAKING NEWS: I've finally finished remixing @DUALIPA with the certified BOP that is the @BBCNews theme! ❤️(Twitter only allows the first 2min here. Check out the full thing on Youtube: https://t.co/o7CSDr5Qwb) #DuaLipa #Hallucinate #BBCNews #Mashup #Remix pic.twitter.com/UyS91osXhW

— Ben Howell (@piffleandwhimsy) April 27, 2020

no idea what to make of this haha

au•toch•tho•nous adjective
(of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists pic.twitter.com/OD9bNmLcZ4

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) July 19, 2020

a lot of Serbian nationalist propaganda nowadays paints the Albanians as interlopers in the region whereas actually Albanians have inhabited the balkans since before the slavs arrived

I somehow missed it before but I would like to belatedly agree with jed_'s sentiments regarding the BBC Hallucinate mashup

I find sean evans to be not a very good youtuber at all but was extremely impressed by how well Dua was able to tolerate all the sauces on Hot Ones this week

I've seen a few of those over the years, and anecdotally I feel that women handle the hot sauces better than men do.

Halle berry the GOAT, though Paul Rudd and Michael Cera also did quite well iirc

Glad she's gone back to dark hair.

I want to say Aubrey Plaza did really well, and ... ScarJo?

Her singing is competent, but lacking in personality (she sounds bored). The music is mostly polite, generic dance-pop. The White Town sample is distracting, as samples of well-known songs can be. I like what “Break My Heart” does with the INXS melody.

― morrisp, Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:46 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, the White Town sucked too

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:48 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

rmde

the white town sample is the bomb and that song is the one blowing my mind rn

it broke your mind?

(couldn't resist)

LEVITATING REMIXED BY THE BLESSED MADONNA FEATURING MY IDOLS MADONNA & MISSY ELLIOTT - 14TH OF AUGUST - DREAM COME TRUE LETS GO!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/qoj9c3WCIM

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) July 27, 2020

oh wow, that sounds potentially glorious or a total clusterfuck (or, potentially, both)

yes

the likely bloated and godawful remix i need right now

i'm not satisfied by the dialogue i've seen about dua lipa, maybe i just haven't found the good stuff. nothing is good at describing how successfully she occupies this space of having been around the block re: love and relationships but maintaining this clear line from what she knows is real love to how it may or may not play out for her. the register of her voice, the craft of the songs all highlight this appeal. when people accuse it of being generic i think they .. aren't available for this kind of direct, concise, surprisingly deep and worldly discourse on love from a contemporary pop star. she has been very good and successful and convincing at giving us variations on this not generic but general theme. i have a hard time thinking of pop stars who i can satisfactorily compare her to for this reason.

it occurred to me that she's like if Amy Winehouse wasn't reactionary, a la "oh contemporary pop music is so bad, I want to sound like when it was so pure" etc etc… it so happens that her voice is very similar to AW's, but it is used atop state of the art pop stylings…

Everything about that post is baffling.

hey man, sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas; sometimes I'm lucid, sometimes I can't write for shit…

dua lipa is fine. I'm a little suspicious of how pop stars are rewarded commercially and sometimes critically for having very manicured, "always on", don't-rock-the-boat personas (the recent twitter thing an amusing aberration) but she's got a bunch of jams it would be silly to deny

Veronica, I kind of admired how strange it was fwiw.

I'm confused by that tweet up there. I worked out belatedly that The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Featuring actual pop star Madonna ( I misunderstood and thought she was being referred to as Blessed) also featuring Missy E but there other person in that pictorial collage is not Missy.

vm i liked the comparison and definitely feel you on

hey man, sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas; sometimes I'm lucid, sometimes I can't write for shit...

oh wow, that sounds potentially glorious or a total clusterfuck (or, potentially, both)

sadly neither tbh

the album version has an unhinged giddiness that this mostly wipes out, and i'm sad they cut the "but whatever let's get lost on Mars" bit. missy's verse is fun though.

Club Future Nostalgia Out August 28th 🌕🖤✨ https://t.co/xh0aXKO6Ye pic.twitter.com/rNaDYpbpVK

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) August 20, 2020

NENAH CHERRY!

no BBC hallucinate remix no credibility

excuse me, tracks 11, 14, 17 and 18!

11 HALLUCINATE [MR FINGERS AMBIENT DEEP STRIPPED MIX]
14 DON'T START NOW [YAEJI REMIX]
ROBERT OWENS
17 THAT KIND OF WOMAN [JAQUES LU CONT REMIX]
STEVIE NICKS
18 BREAK MY HEART [MOODYMANN REMIX]

moodymann damn

wow

a lot of those “guests” are just samples. E.g. Neneh doesn’t appear but the remix includes a sample of Buffalo Stance.

Still, this looks fun

this sounds wild! Gobsmacked at Moodyman and Mr. Fingers.

My elementary aged daughter loves a couple Dua Lipa songs, especially Break My Heart, and her crusty old dad loves Moodymann. I'm looking forward to this bizarrely.

boo at that just being a cherry sample. ah well.

I'd have to worry about anyone who didn't love at least a coupla Dua Lipa tracks, bld. I hope it works out!

that's a cool way to highlight samples though xp

really all that's missing here is a remix ft koffee or sun-el to complete ilm bingo

Will definitely check this out because I’m a big fan of Future Nostalgia (album of the year so far), but that heavily-hyped “Levitating” remix with Madonna and Missy was absolute trash.

11. “Hallucinate” – Paul Woolford Extended Remix
Sample: Larry Heard Presents Mr. White – “The Sun Can’t Compare”

It might not be the BBC remix but holy shit

Oh good lord we don't deserve this.

gen hoshino sure is a weird pick for this

My hot take here is that I would much rather hear peak Neneh Cherry or Missy or Stevie Nicks repurposed here than what they're doing now, especially in the hands of Larry Heard or Moodymann or even JLC (whose track will almost certainly be the laziest here).

it's not on here but the tensnake remix of hallucinate was good too btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNWzOJiJo48

yes, that Tensnake is fun

as Tombot said earlier, No Ben Howell BBC News remix, no credibility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skK3WoK5Z8A

The Mr. Fingers remix needs to be 20 times longer and also starting it off with "Hollaback Girl" should be illegal

wait, this is DJ mix not tracks?

yeah I hope there's a version that is unmixed and has extended version of the tracks

what a fucking monumental let down!

I usually don't mind Mark Ronson but his remix is just... awful

Nobody's remixed anything. It's Just a B. Madonna mix of Dua tracks with Dua Lipa laid vox over other tracks by the people listed.

I want my money back.

It's just a BM DJ mix with Dua Lipa vox laid over.

:-(

i mean...it was never advertised as anything other than basically a blessed madonna x dua lipa DJ-kicks?

personally i think it's really fun! i was very underwhelmed by the madonna & missy remix, but it sounds a little less drab in context and there are many other entertaining moments. "boys will be boys" finally making sense as a samba workout! jayda-g doing "cool"! mr fingers elevating "hallucinate"!

not sure why it's being retconned into this era but i liked the new take on "kiss and make up" as well.

i mean...it was never advertised as anything other than basically a blessed madonna x dua lipa DJ-kicks?

i haven't heard it yet but I was under the impression that BM was playing curator for these remixes by other people. def changes things if it's a mix.

it's both as far as I understand it?

The tracks have been remixed by the artists listed but it's been assembled as a mix?

yes, that's correct (sorry if I implied otherwise). The Blessed Madonna has taken the various remixes and turned them into what's more or less a continuous ~50 min mix

this thread has me doubting reality

anyway this is a much cooler idea than a normal remix album

xpost yep I'm listening now and that's what it is - sorry, was thrown off by jed's "nobody's remixed anything" post upthread.

I don't know about this... there are some good moments but the mix feels rushed, there's barely any time for the tracks to breathe. both the Mr. Fingers and Paul Woolford remixes need to be wayyyy longer than two minutes wtf.

Faves so far: BM's own remix of Love is Religion (is that a new track?) might be the best thing here, so joyful. also liked the Jayda G and "Boys will be Boys" remixes, and the Dimitri from Paris edit - is it time for the jamiroquai re-appraisal yet? 

Worst: the Mark Ronson remix as mentioned above (Gwen Stefani doesn't have the chops to carry that huge "Physical" chorus at all, yikes) and the JLC remix which is just hilariously lazy.  

need the unmixed versions of these ... could barely make out the mr fingers track

xp to Roz - the Paul Woolford remix is available as a full version (this came out around the time "Hallucinate" was released as a single): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqeJGcW680

ooh thanks!

Kids all over twitter saying how awful this is. One 20-second snippet of the MAW one has them generally freaking out underneath 'it sounds like a load of random computer game noises!'.

There are some pretty ancient names involved, you'd think remix culture would've moved on a bit in the last three or four decades.

.. although by contrast someone on PJ claims 'the vibe makes me wanna pour a babycham and do a line off someone’s D' so, horses for courses.

I don’t blame the kids - given how rushed this feels, there’s hardly anything for them to latch on to and the lack of name recognition doesn’t help. Like aside from Missy and Madonna, they prob don’t know anyone else than maybe Yaeji and Mark Ronson (the latter’s is the one they all seem to like so go figure).

I've got as far as the Boys Will Be Boys remix and everyone concerned is half-arsing this so transparently.

lol even the Moodymann mix is astonishingly half-baked

That's one of the better ones IMO, the Horse Meat Disco one is OK and the Paul Woolford is good, but that's about it. Larry Heard barely even bothered to get out of bed.

I suppose we should have looked at the track listing and seen 'annoying Girl Talk album' in our collective future but we live and learn.

Larry Heard barely even bothered to get out of bed.

this is probably because he wasn't one of the remixers

Track 10 is him, right?

oh lol whoops i got my signals crossed you're right

tbf no one is at 100% working from home

The only part of the part listed as Larry Heard is a snippet of The Sun Can’t Compare with Dua vox laid over it.


https://youtu.be/tdIQTEYXDP4

So I’m not sure he’s actually had anything to do with this.

There's the sample and there's also the preceding remix which is listed as Mr Fingers.

Ok I can’t check at the moment but doesn’t it go blessed/madonna/missy then Gwen Stefani then 10-20 seconds of next to nothing then the sun can’t compare then Paul woolford? So is the Larry heard mix the 10-20 seconds of nothing?

lol yeah I think it probably is. It’s possible there is actually a Mr Fingers remix that hasn’t really made the album in any audible form.

wow ok this is all very weird!

basically it sounds like they rushed an unfinished master onto spotify a couple weeks early or some shit

Why is there a model of a West Highland Terrier on the cover?

I really like the two new songs (“Love Is Religion” and especially “That Kind Of Woman”), both full-length tracks that would have fitted on a deluxe edition of the original album. Also wish there was much more of the MAW remix of “Pretty Please”.

Apparently the unmixed versions are out next week

cool, i can wait

Hoo boy, I’m only halfway through it but I think I can safely say that Club Future Nostalgia is terrible. Whoever said upthread that it sounded like everyone was half-assing it is otm. Or maybe it’s just that this “Blessed Madonna” wanker has no talent.

The “Live in LA” remix of “Don’t Start Now” is the only good Dua Lipa remix and even that isn’t as good as the original. I’ll stick with the original Future Nostalgia album thank you very much.

Unmixed version out today

these sound pretty good! except the paul woolford, blech - his piano house vocal "anthems" have been circling the drain for a few years now imo. kaytranada remix does a nice thing with the chorus.

Mr Fingers mix is 8 minutes complete (whew). Nothing special or anything but its nice and chilled.

Spotify has all the tracks only as individual releases. Make yr own album? OK I will.

Good grief this is a huge disappointment. I wasn't even that wild about the actual album this is based on but it had some great moments. Imagine thinking what Physical needed was to be slowed down and have all of its energy and grandiosity sucked out of it

I really admire that instead of reaching for the obvious names like Kygo/Diplo/Skrillex this exists and will introduce a generation of listeners to names like Masters At Work and Mr Fingers... But if this was my introduction to classic seminal names like those I doubt I would bother investigating any further, this feels like such a wasted opportunity

Another new version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WoWk4b3D0

dababy works better on it than i thought he would

Heard the DaBaby version on the radio today and it fucking KILLED

Don't have any desire at all to re-listen to the other remixes but "Love is Religion" is just soo good. Is the original available anywhere? Do we know if it's different from the Blessed Madonna's remix or why it was left off the record?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV_w4TNOCjo

thank you!

OK I can kinda see why it was left off the album - it’s more nostalgia than future nostalgia I guess ha. The remix solves that problem by leaning into the Madonna vibes and turning it into a straightforward pop-house track.

One of my kids told me about a guy on Tik Tok (probably) who pretends to be her brother, Duo Lipa. I think that's pretty funny.

didn't see this collaboration coming - it's very nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBNpVQ0k_k
Dua Lipa & Angèle • Fever

(Angèle is a Francophone Belgian singer who had some big hits in 2018 and 2019 in Belgium and France)

it's good

Please say there’s an extended mix of that. It’s way too short. Come on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f_Y7b5iiTc

Liked all the Angèle singles so I'm pleased to say this works

Sorry meant to post the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs61OHs2g-w

Ian Kirkpatrick is one of my favorite producers right now

PRISONER @MileyCyrus 19NOV 🖤 4PM LA / 7PM NYC / 12AM LONDON / 11AM SYDNEY / 8AM BEIJING ⛓🔪🍒🩸🚬👅 https://t.co/5Qwcm9sEZt pic.twitter.com/VsUrAFXPYl

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) November 18, 2020

weird/gross promo but i will definitely want to hear that song asap

that's how you get covid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ir1qkPXPVM

Kind of surprising that a video of Dua Lipa lezzing up could be so profoundly unsexy

i don't know how i feel about this song

Ne neither

I definitely like the verses

yeah they're good. i can't decide if it should have gone a little more bon jovi or not overall. i think i'm sold on the song itself it's a b+ maaaaybe an a-. terrible video though lol

It kind of sounds exactly like you'd imagine a collaboration between Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa to sound

it really does except that it's somehow more underwhelming than i would've imagined.

This is growing on me. The key is not to look at the video.

otm

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/dua-lipa-studio-2054-livestream-5-million-views-1234842345/

This person has a song on Just Dance 2021 that my 10yr old daughter likes.

$50 million dollar on a one-time livestream is a little scary

I liked the "Prisoner" chorus better when Olivia Newton-John used it for "Physical"

. @SongExploder premiering globally December 15 on @netflix !!!! pic.twitter.com/ItjqzLwDGK

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) December 13, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBrVD6yMkZc
Dua Lipa x Angèle • Fever (Oklou Remix)

.@DUALIPA appears on our February cover.

How the singer ignored the trends, turned herself into a ‘female alpha,’ and delivered the modern disco classic we didn’t know we needed. https://t.co/yLiGFzgf3T pic.twitter.com/LPVQhOK3Ve

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 14, 2021

Boomers not happy

Is this a music magazine or a fashion magazine?? Way to prop up talentless people, where are the pianists and violinists let alone guitar players that would shred that excuse for clothing even more.... helping dumb down society instead of improving it.

— Family Size Cereal Killer (@R5_TheShredder) January 14, 2021

Rando cereal-loving covid truthers not happy.

where are the pianists and violinists let alone guitar players that would shred that excuse for clothing even more

where is that "haunting imagery" thread

also lmao @ "Dua Lipa???? FUCK OFF, WHERE IS MY ITZHAK PERLMAN COVER???"

the Dua Lipa experience is hearing a song you've heard a million times and going "who is this" and somebody says "Dua Lipa" and then you immediately forget again

— Sam Adler-Bell (@SamAdlerBell) January 14, 2021

since hearing Wendy Williams call her "Dula Peep" I cannot stop doing it myself, it is a much better popstar name

I have no idea how you would forget a song was by a person named dua lipa

Dula Peep is her canonical Star Wars name

Dula Peep Roth:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/21/f5/6821f5b20ae97a71dc83a69d10e6194e.jpg

(this one’s for you, “Cereal” Shredder)

Dula Peep > Dua Lipa, by every metric imaginable

i would like to see that thing she's wearing on a hanger. i just think it would be hilarious.

Duo Lingo, I mean, not the hot babe looking in the mirror of that more recent photo

anybody angry about doula pyap on the cover of the stone is ignoring the hard truth that RS is less popular and culturally important that d'walla i'pa by an exponential factor

boomer dads got angry when Rolling Stone put Britney on the cover in what, 2000? surprises me that people still have outrage left for this stuff.

New 'Moonlight Edition' of the album out today with some new tracks on it

WE’RE GOOD video is OUT NOW!!! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to bring this video to life. 🦞🦞🦞🦞 #WereGood https://t.co/K71s0Omzsj pic.twitter.com/indwk5ykQn

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) February 12, 2021

I'm really into that song but I don't know what's more demented: lobster aboard the Titanic video or "we're not meant to be/like sleeping and cocaine".

In the past couple days I stumbled across her Tiny Desk Concert from December and I'm completely obsessed with it. Could be an e.p. in its own right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEDhaM9tR8

to be fair you could edit any popstar like this I'm sure

I assume at least some of those are rehearsals? (But she half-asses her singing on record, so...)

her slack approach to singing and dancing is part of her appeal, to me anyway.

yeah, kind of a debbie harry thing

lmao all the club future nostalgia remixes really are dogshit aren't they.

the only good one afaict is tensnake's "hallucinate" which wasn't on the album.

I like the Mr. Fingers and Midland remixes

I literally only know Dua Lipa because my daughters like her, but she is by far the best thing they listen to. I enjoy her music. I am old.

some of the remixes are ok i guess but they're all at least second-tier for the artists in question imo. the fingers remix is nice but it's hard for me to ignore how his chords clash with the key of the vocal. worst in that regard is the paul woolford remix, just like ... wtf was he thinking? that doesn't work for me on any level. it just seems like there was no dialogue at all between dua lipa or her songwriters and the remixers - just all on separate islands and it sounds totally phoned in as a result, less than the sum of the parts. there must have just been too many people involved without anyone making overall creative decisions and like covid and everything, idk.

not a Future Nostalgia track, but try Oklou’s stab at “Fever” for a remix that totally works on its own terms

love it, thanks for the tip!

unexpectedly i found the 2cd edition for £2 today.
read this thread, expected the worse re the Blessed Madonna mixtape version.
instead, like a proper cut-n-paste sample heavy mixtape, i bloody love it.
so much fun.
the label must have had a lot of fun clearing/paying for samples.
cant recall the last time i heard a major release with so many samples.
not heard the album proper yet, but damn, best £2 i have spent in a long time.

rumours abound of a joint disco album with Kylie!

be still my beating heart.

ps. heard the proper album now.
yeah, it's bloody brilliant.
still don't get the hate the re mixtape as it's exactly what i'd expect/want from a dj mixtape.
celeb phone ins, samples, and quick cut-n-paste drops of remixes.
i think it's a brilliant 50 mins of pop/dance perfection.

given the rather boring megamix that girls aloud put out for their Tangled Up album release, then i cant help but throw a lot of love to Dupa for the effort put in by all concerned.

i'm a big fan of this misprint in this week's New York Magazine "Things to Do" section.

http://i.imgur.com/hWWRl8i.png

Lol

Definitely sounds pretty similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfGeCLAsvI

lol yeah that's a rip for sure

she improved on it tho

I can't remember if they said anything in the Song Exploder episode about how they came up with the chorus. I'll have to go back and listen to that later.

i have a hard time believing it's anything but an unfortunate coincidence tbh.

there are only so many sunny pop song chorus progressions you can do.

a real rip would have more of the vocal melody line in common

one of my old interns is now working on her team, i really should've asked for MSG tix (and a case of COVID)

they don't sell it in cases just six packs

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdbmq/the-dua-lipa-lawsuits-could-cost-her-millions-according-to-a-lawyer

There are two suits. One concerning the vocal melody in "Live Your Life" (posted above), the other the vocal melodies in these songs written by L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsEXuWK7PZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtlrFwKE_Y

I am very curious to see how this turns out. With acts/songs these small, it's not hard to imagine these could be coincidences; others have noted the Artikal melody sounds like "Rosa Parks," too.

You have to show your work is original, and you have to show some theory of access, meaning that [the defendant] had a reasonable ability to access it. Then you get to substantial similarity, which is a two-step process.

This is such a weak requirement so as to be basically pointless. I suppose it protects a famous artist from being sued by any John Doe but Artikal Sound System isn't far removed. It would be interesting if they had to prove the artists involved had the song in question in their possession. Is some sort of digital forensics ludicrously easy to evade?

This is getting ridiculous unless I am listening to the wrong parts of the songs, in both cases there is only a passing similarity of rhythm and melody, but only in the case of the line using very broad immediate patterns.

That “Blurred Lines” lawyer doesn’t provide much in the way of analysis, he just makes some pretty obvious points (“if she didn’t copy the song, she’ll fight the lawsuit; if she did, she’ll settle,” etc.). They should have talked to a musicologist about how strong the similarities actually are.

(These cases are so common now, thanks to that guy’s big win.)

there's an audible similarity with the artikal sound system track, probably enough to hold up in court with how weak things are after the "blurred lines" lawsuit

but the brown/lizner tracks seem pretty dubious, there's just a tiny bit of the melody that has a similar phrasing & rhythm to it, but i don't think the melody itself is actually that close?

new single is boring, I blame Tame Impala

I like Tame Impala, even their most recent album, but yeah I'm not much into this. Tame Impala + Dua Lipa + Danny Harle should certainly be better. But who knows, I hear this enough times maybe it will grow. I do like the ending synth

that is a bizarre combo of writers/producers

song is underwhelming, not terrible but it's more 'ok album track' than 'comeback single'

so her new album probably won’t be the “British Lemonade” I’m guessing

Great production and the last minute is really cool, but the chorus just isn't strong enough. Hoping it'll grow on me like Dance The Night did.

The stuff 'dis hyped releases' threads were made for

Somehow I was expecting something completely different because she had mentioned that that the new album was going to be 70s psychedelia-inspired. I don't even know what that means but I can't hear any 70s or psychedelia in this track. Sounds more like it has elements from a very specific era circa the early 80s.

I do think it is excellent, though. Much better than Dance The Night.

when the hell is her new album coming out????

Love the vocoder outro, wish it went on for another minute in that vein.

"Houdini" did grow on me a little but the new one is a more successful collaboration between the same artists. Still not wowed but a good song

both of the new tracks aren't awful but they're so.... rote

Don’t mess with the formula

Yeah not feelin this one at all.

plods the same way as tame impala's poor forays into disco, letting him be a pop producer was a mistake

"Radical Optimism" out May 3

1. end of an era
2. houdini
3. training season
4. these walls
5. whatcha doing
6. french exit
7. illusion
8. falling forever
9. anything for love
10. maria
11. happy for you

"A couple years ago, a friend introduced me to the term Radical Optimism. It’s a concept that resonated with me, and I became more curious as I started to play with it and weave it into my life," Lipa says in the announcement. "It struck me – the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm. At the same time, I found myself looking through the music history of psychedelia, trip hop, and Britpop. It has always felt so confidently optimistic to me, and that honesty and attitude is a feeling I took into my recording sessions."

radical optimism - like the hope Dua Lipa stans have that the album will still be good after the two singles that have come out??? *ba-dum-psssh*

I'm still holding out hope *wipes tears*

Damn, that is such a Dua Lipa Podcast Host album title.

It's kinda quiet in her ...has no one listened to the album yet?

Or do people no longer care about Dua Lipa? :(

I don't think it's out yet

I mean I definitely don't care enough about Dua Lipa to seek out leaked files

Me neither.

I just assumed some people here got early access to releases.

I fully expect it to be pretty good, okay, toe taps a little, and then when I’m finished I’ll never feel the need to hear it ever again for the rest of my life. Hope I’m wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dua_Lipa#2023%E2%80%93present:_acting_debut_and_Radical_Optimism

the album "was released on 3 May 2024." which is tomorrow.

future nostalgia

granted i'm in america but i feel like there is zero hype for this, didn't realize it was about to drop until now

I think her music feels like generic radio stuff now, even if it didn't always. I even hear other artists copping stuff from her, like having a group of girls shouting "Yeah yeah yeah."

She's on SNL this weekend. Maybe that will stir some buzz.

well she has released a series of retread singles that are essentially objectively not as good as the singles from the previous record. so it feels like a 1+1=2 situation to me

there's been a weird disconnect with the rollout where she has cited a bunch of british rock bands as influences but the audience is just hearing a replay of her last 'era'... i wonder if the album will reveal a tension between the single choices & the album tracks that makes her framing of it make more sense

i don't think the singles really felt that much like retreads - they very much sound like they're produced by kevin parker - but they're a definite step down

listening now the first track is really nice, much better than the singles

i'm kinda expecting that all the talk about being influenced by primal scream is just referring to like, the shuffling percussion in the background of "houdini"

None of the songs touch the highlights of the previous album for me, but I enjoyed my first listen. It's a little bit more all-over-the-place than I expected; after the first track I thought the through line might've been...Moloko or fin de siècle William Orbit or something, but it's less balearic than that. "Falling Forever" reminded me of a Eurovision song!

I predict it will do well across Europe, but absolutely nothing in the US.

She should've sung on the Mdou Moctar album.

"maria" sounds like "island in the sun" lol

i definitely like the tracks where it's trying to sound like moloko more than the ones that sound more obviously like tame impala

this is pretty solid, there's no real duds, but it's never really great either. i agree about it likely doing well in europe but flopping in the usa

yeah agree with that. a number of solid tracks here, particularly the closer (which really starts and ends like 10cc)

"Illusion" is still a dud though

ufo, I mostly agree with that. There aren't weak songs here, but apart from End Of An Era which I love there's nothing that touches the best moments on Future Nostalgia. I think it could grow on me after a few listens. I really like how lush and chilled out it is.

it's probably more solid as an album than future nostalgia which bizarrely fell off in the last few tracks, but it doesn't reach the same highs. i'm frustrated though because there are some good ideas that they didn't lean into enough

Meh. On first listen has none of the charm and a fraction of the hooks of Future Nostalgia.

I predict it will do well across Europe, but absolutely nothing in the US.

Sounded to me like a (flawed?) attempt to appeal more to a US “real songs” market IMO. But maybe I don’t know what I’m talkin’ ’bout.

This album isn't any more uneven than the last one. "End of an Era" is at least as much a banger as "Physical."

i like this album just fine, I think she has a solid catalog

yeah, the new album doesn't feel like a quality drop.

hands down my favorite pop star. great voice, terrible dancer, super lovable, great songs.

This album isn't any more uneven than the last one. "End of an Era" is at least as much a banger as "Physical."

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I'm really hooked on End of an Era at the moment. I especially love the "I've lost all my senses, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la" bit. It's one of my favourite songs she's done.

I'm really surprised by the negative reaction this is getting online. I saw a few people call it her Solar Power which is just cold. Maria is the only one I'm not totally sold on at the moment. Even the singles have grown on me.

I'm wondering which single will be put out next. I can't really see a big Levitating moment on here.

she's my favorite recording artist of the past six years, and if people who fixate on whether a record hits #1 or not crow that she's fallen off? well I've never been hung up on fucking charts anyway and so this record is fantastic… like, it seems like chart obsessives really like math or sports, or beyhive or swifties or little monsters and people like that are really into "we're #1" triumphalism, which seems to me to be contrary to, like art and creativity and dancing and songs concerned with romance and pleasure.

I will say that she has a really interesting vocal —or pronounciative— quirk on this record… she pronounces "err" or "Urr" as "oyy": so you have "forev-oyy" instead of forever, or "nay-choyy" instead of nature.

‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/05/cursive-singing-vocal-trend-pop-music

The sudden onboarding of this technique by Ms Lipa, of whom I am normally a big fan, has made the new record a challenging listen for me.

thought this record was pretty all right when it came out. then the weather changed, and now i’m *loving* it

i like it so much more as a whole than future nostalgia, and i think the production here is the most natural home for her vocals, their total lack of subtlety just works with the production's simultaneous intricacy and breeziness, like going to the beach in the middle of a breakup. the optimal ratio of knotty funk to big feelings. walking around in the sun to this record was a freaking blast

hands down my favorite pop star. great voice, terrible dancer, super lovable, great songs.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, May 6, 2024 4:05 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

We saw her the other night. Can confirm 3 of your 4 — she’s obviously put in hours with her dance team. It was non-stop choreography, every track like a Super Bowl halftime show.

she’s talked about working hard to improve her dancing, glad the effort is paying off!

Has anyone mentioned her book club/podcast? Her choices show great taste and range imo, and doesn’t feel like it’s just picking out the latest trendy book like so many other celeb book clubs. Her author interviews are surprisingly insightful as well, always a delight to see writers light up when they meet someone who actually seems to have engaged with their writing.

I adore her, the rare pop star who seems to have figured how to do it right - just be hot, go on endless vacations, eat great food, read lots of books, do lots of yoga, dance