Dua Lipa

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.

I know Dedicated was well-liked in these parts, but this album gives me the feeling I was hoping to get from that album. I caught the White Town sample but didn't notice the INXS interpolation. Guess I'll just listen to the whole album again

At long last, a bunch of remixes for “Physical”. josh is hyping the dreamy Erika de Casier Remix on the EdC thread, but I’m here for the hi-energy Leo Zero Disco Remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=fC_wSCls3h0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_wSCls3h0

SUCH A JAM!

BREAKING NEWS: I've finally finished remixing @DUALIPA with the certified BOP that is the @BBCNews theme! ❤️(Twitter only allows the first 2min here. Check out the full thing on Youtube: https://t.co/o7CSDr5Qwb) #DuaLipa #Hallucinate #BBCNews #Mashup #Remix pic.twitter.com/UyS91osXhW

— Ben Howell (@piffleandwhimsy) April 27, 2020

no idea what to make of this haha

au•toch•tho•nous adjective
(of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists pic.twitter.com/OD9bNmLcZ4

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) July 19, 2020

a lot of Serbian nationalist propaganda nowadays paints the Albanians as interlopers in the region whereas actually Albanians have inhabited the balkans since before the slavs arrived

I somehow missed it before but I would like to belatedly agree with jed_'s sentiments regarding the BBC Hallucinate mashup

I find sean evans to be not a very good youtuber at all but was extremely impressed by how well Dua was able to tolerate all the sauces on Hot Ones this week

I've seen a few of those over the years, and anecdotally I feel that women handle the hot sauces better than men do.

Halle berry the GOAT, though Paul Rudd and Michael Cera also did quite well iirc

Glad she's gone back to dark hair.

I want to say Aubrey Plaza did really well, and ... ScarJo?

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.

― morrisp, Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:46 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, the White Town sucked too

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:48 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

rmde

the white town sample is the bomb and that song is the one blowing my mind rn

it broke your mind?

(couldn't resist)

LEVITATING REMIXED BY THE BLESSED MADONNA FEATURING MY IDOLS MADONNA & MISSY ELLIOTT - 14TH OF AUGUST - DREAM COME TRUE LETS GO!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/qoj9c3WCIM

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) July 27, 2020

oh wow, that sounds potentially glorious or a total clusterfuck (or, potentially, both)

yes

the likely bloated and godawful remix i need right now

i'm not satisfied by the dialogue i've seen about dua lipa, maybe i just haven't found the good stuff. nothing is good at describing how successfully she occupies this space of having been around the block re: love and relationships but maintaining this clear line from what she knows is real love to how it may or may not play out for her. the register of her voice, the craft of the songs all highlight this appeal. when people accuse it of being generic i think they .. aren't available for this kind of direct, concise, surprisingly deep and worldly discourse on love from a contemporary pop star. she has been very good and successful and convincing at giving us variations on this not generic but general theme. i have a hard time thinking of pop stars who i can satisfactorily compare her to for this reason.

it occurred to me that she's like if Amy Winehouse wasn't reactionary, a la "oh contemporary pop music is so bad, I want to sound like when it was so pure" etc etc… it so happens that her voice is very similar to AW's, but it is used atop state of the art pop stylings…

Everything about that post is baffling.

hey man, sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas; sometimes I'm lucid, sometimes I can't write for shit…

dua lipa is fine. I'm a little suspicious of how pop stars are rewarded commercially and sometimes critically for having very manicured, "always on", don't-rock-the-boat personas (the recent twitter thing an amusing aberration) but she's got a bunch of jams it would be silly to deny

Veronica, I kind of admired how strange it was fwiw.

I'm confused by that tweet up there. I worked out belatedly that The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Featuring actual pop star Madonna ( I misunderstood and thought she was being referred to as Blessed) also featuring Missy E but there other person in that pictorial collage is not Missy.

vm i liked the comparison and definitely feel you on

hey man, sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas; sometimes I'm lucid, sometimes I can't write for shit...

oh wow, that sounds potentially glorious or a total clusterfuck (or, potentially, both)

sadly neither tbh

the album version has an unhinged giddiness that this mostly wipes out, and i'm sad they cut the "but whatever let's get lost on Mars" bit. missy's verse is fun though.

Club Future Nostalgia Out August 28th 🌕🖤✨ https://t.co/xh0aXKO6Ye pic.twitter.com/rNaDYpbpVK

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) August 20, 2020

NENAH CHERRY!

no BBC hallucinate remix no credibility

excuse me, tracks 11, 14, 17 and 18!

11 HALLUCINATE [MR FINGERS AMBIENT DEEP STRIPPED MIX]
14 DON'T START NOW [YAEJI REMIX]
ROBERT OWENS
17 THAT KIND OF WOMAN [JAQUES LU CONT REMIX]
STEVIE NICKS
18 BREAK MY HEART [MOODYMANN REMIX]

moodymann damn

wow

a lot of those “guests” are just samples. E.g. Neneh doesn’t appear but the remix includes a sample of Buffalo Stance.

Still, this looks fun