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...
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
he's no marshmello
― maura, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
i like this a lot better than his fake random access memories songs. IDGAF slander is also insane
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 April 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 14 May 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
that sounds great!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-jOuHO-z4
― monotony, Thursday, 6 September 2018 04:47 (six years ago) link
^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
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
wow "Want To" is really awful
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 September 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.jaguar.com/the-pace.html
― StanM, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
romy's had a couple of non-xx writing credits lately, most recently on Kelela's album
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
lol wtf
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
@ the jaguar partnership
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
lol Gentlemen's Quarterly
― niels, Friday, 21 September 2018 06:49 (six years ago) link
New single is out on Friday. It sounds promising:
Miss me? pic.twitter.com/amWaQuhaDy— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) October 22, 2019
― monotony, Saturday, 26 October 2019 07:20 (four years ago) link
"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.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
For those of us reading in 2019, who is Jacob Reese-Whatever?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
hideous far right British politician
― monotony, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Got it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/htg8v0g_4e4
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
disco lipa
― monotony, Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
this is very sophie ellis bextor, in a great way imo
love it
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 1 November 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
It’s OK
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 November 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
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
― nathom, Friday, 1 November 2019 07:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfM8TSBfUQ
aoty 2020
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
I never liked "new rules" but both of the new songs are great
― Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
her voice is just do damn appealing
― ingredience (map), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
I don’t like the blonde hair.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkPChcoHOg
incredible performance
― ufo, Saturday, 21 December 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
She feels very generic to me, I don’t get the appeal...
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
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
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
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
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:17 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 21 December 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
also she plays the woodblock
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjB2RWF_jFgthis remix is exactly what I need to hear right now
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 21 December 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
"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
― dyl, Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 22 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
I've grown to like it on the strength of the prechorus alone but otm
― Number None, Monday, 23 December 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
counterpoint: the chorus is also good
― Simon H., Monday, 23 December 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
otm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
if you don’t like the chorus
don’t show up
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
:D
― dyl, Monday, 23 December 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
« Don’t Start Now » is very good. The WHOLE of it !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 23 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
i am very much in love w/it
― chet san telmo (alomar lines), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 23 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Loved Don’t Start Now but having difficulty getting into the Future Nostalgia
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 07:57 (four years ago) link
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
― monotony, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
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"
― ufo, Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:00 (four months ago) link
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.
― monotony, Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:30 (four months ago) link
She should've sung on the Mdou Moctar album.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:34 (four months ago) link
"maria" sounds like "island in the sun" lol
― ufo, Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:49 (four months ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:56 (four months ago) link
yeah agree with that. a number of solid tracks here, particularly the closer (which really starts and ends like 10cc)
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 May 2024 01:15 (four months ago) link
"Illusion" is still a dud though
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 May 2024 01:18 (four months ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Friday, 3 May 2024 02:18 (four months ago) link
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
― ufo, Friday, 3 May 2024 05:15 (four months ago) link
Meh. On first listen has none of the charm and a fraction of the hooks of Future Nostalgia.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:34 (four months ago) link
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.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:36 (four months ago) link
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), Monday, 6 May 2024 17:56 (four months ago) link
i like this album just fine, I think she has a solid catalog
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 6 May 2024 18:23 (four months ago) link
yeah, the new album doesn't feel like a quality drop.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 6 May 2024 18:24 (four months ago) link
hands down my favorite pop star. great voice, terrible dancer, super lovable, great songs.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 6 May 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
― 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.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 01:42 (four months ago) link
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.
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 14:51 (four months ago) link
‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/05/cursive-singing-vocal-trend-pop-music
― Davey D, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:55 (four months ago) link
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.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:59 (four months ago) link
thought this record was pretty all right when it came out. then the weather changed, and now i’m *loving* it
― ivy., Saturday, 8 June 2024 16:38 (three months ago) link
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
― ivy., Saturday, 8 June 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link