I know this is unfair but Bill Maher prevents me from getting into "new rules" :(
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
why would you let that happen
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
new rules is great, i think will be a top ten single (and maybe my token pop track) this year for me.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
"new rules" is a becky anthem i can get behind.
― map, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
god every time i hear "lost in your light" i play it five times in a row
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
really (and unfortunately) such a miracle that this album was not only finally released but also turned out to be stupendous
― monotony, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
"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
― monotony, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 2 December 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
delivery of the year: miguel singing “vivid, vivid”
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 December 2017 05:43 (six years ago) link
Ya'll aware of this, right? "New Rules" done mid-80's Italo. Somehow it really works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjNTTCVat0
― daavid, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
great find! I've also come around on the Freedo remix on the single.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
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
― flopson, Thursday, 7 December 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
lol, those drums are pretty tricky
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 7 December 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8rz-llMhE
Haven't heard much about this around here. Already #1 in the UK charts.
― daavid, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
I'm still undecided about it but I think it's a step up from IDGAF. Opinions?
― daavid, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Man, Calvin Harris is everywhere right now...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
he's no marshmello
― maura, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 03:10 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
that sounds great!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-jOuHO-z4
― monotony, Thursday, 6 September 2018 04:47 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
wow "Want To" is really awful
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 September 2018 09:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.jaguar.com/the-pace.html
― StanM, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:13 (five 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 (five years ago) link
lol wtf
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
@ the jaguar partnership
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:20 (five 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 (five years ago) link
lol Gentlemen's Quarterly
― niels, Friday, 21 September 2018 06:49 (five 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
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.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
not a Future Nostalgia track, but try Oklou’s stab at “Fever” for a remix that totally works on its own terms
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
love it, thanks for the tip!
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
rumours abound of a joint disco album with Kylie!
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
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
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
Definitely sounds pretty similar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfGeCLAsvI
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
lol yeah that's a rip for sure
she improved on it tho
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 March 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Thursday, 3 March 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
i have a hard time believing it's anything but an unfortunate coincidence tbh.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
there are only so many sunny pop song chorus progressions you can do.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
a real rip would have more of the vocal melody line in common
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
one of my old interns is now working on her team, i really should've asked for MSG tix (and a case of COVID)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
they don't sell it in cases just six packs
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 4 March 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
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?
― Indexed, Thursday, 24 March 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 25 March 2022 05:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Friday, 25 March 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link
(These cases are so common now, thanks to that guy’s big win.)
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Friday, 25 March 2022 06:01 (two years ago) link
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?
― ufo, Friday, 25 March 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
new single is boring, I blame Tame Impala
― Murgatroid, Friday, 10 November 2023 00:22 (five months ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Friday, 10 November 2023 00:32 (five months ago) link
that is a bizarre combo of writers/producers
song is underwhelming, not terrible but it's more 'ok album track' than 'comeback single'
― ufo, Friday, 10 November 2023 00:49 (five months ago) link
so her new album probably won’t be the “British Lemonade” I’m guessing
― Murgatroid, Friday, 10 November 2023 01:38 (five months ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Friday, 10 November 2023 03:09 (five months ago) link
The stuff 'dis hyped releases' threads were made for
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 10 November 2023 04:49 (five months ago) link
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.
― daavid, Friday, 10 November 2023 10:42 (five months ago) link
when the hell is her new album coming out????
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 10 November 2023 21:35 (five months ago) link
Love the vocoder outro, wish it went on for another minute in that vein.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 13 November 2023 16:57 (five months ago) link
"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
― Vinnie, Friday, 16 February 2024 17:33 (two months ago) link
both of the new tracks aren't awful but they're so.... rote
― Murgatroid, Friday, 16 February 2024 17:47 (two months ago) link
Don’t mess with the formula
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:40 (two months ago) link
Yeah not feelin this one at all.
― piscesx, Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:50 (two months ago) link
plods the same way as tame impala's poor forays into disco, letting him be a pop producer was a mistake
― ufo, Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link
"Radical Optimism" out May 3
1. end of an era2. houdini 3. training season 4. these walls 5. whatcha doing 6. french exit7. 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."
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link
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*
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
I'm still holding out hope *wipes tears*
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
Damn, that is such a Dua Lipa Podcast Host album title.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:36 (one month ago) link