I'm still undecided about it but I think it's a step up from IDGAF. Opinions?
― daavid, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:07 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Man, Calvin Harris is everywhere right now...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 22:00 (six 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
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
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