Dua Lipa

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