Dua Lipa

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.