Dua Lipa

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

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

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.