Dua Lipa

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

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.