Dua Lipa

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

this sounds wild! Gobsmacked at Moodyman and Mr. Fingers.

My elementary aged daughter loves a couple Dua Lipa songs, especially Break My Heart, and her crusty old dad loves Moodymann. I'm looking forward to this bizarrely.

boo at that just being a cherry sample. ah well.

I'd have to worry about anyone who didn't love at least a coupla Dua Lipa tracks, bld. I hope it works out!

that's a cool way to highlight samples though xp

really all that's missing here is a remix ft koffee or sun-el to complete ilm bingo

Will definitely check this out because I’m a big fan of Future Nostalgia (album of the year so far), but that heavily-hyped “Levitating” remix with Madonna and Missy was absolute trash.

11. “Hallucinate” – Paul Woolford Extended Remix
Sample: Larry Heard Presents Mr. White – “The Sun Can’t Compare”

It might not be the BBC remix but holy shit

Oh good lord we don't deserve this.

gen hoshino sure is a weird pick for this

My hot take here is that I would much rather hear peak Neneh Cherry or Missy or Stevie Nicks repurposed here than what they're doing now, especially in the hands of Larry Heard or Moodymann or even JLC (whose track will almost certainly be the laziest here).

it's not on here but the tensnake remix of hallucinate was good too btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNWzOJiJo48

yes, that Tensnake is fun

as Tombot said earlier, No Ben Howell BBC News remix, no credibility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skK3WoK5Z8A

The Mr. Fingers remix needs to be 20 times longer and also starting it off with "Hollaback Girl" should be illegal

wait, this is DJ mix not tracks?

yeah I hope there's a version that is unmixed and has extended version of the tracks

what a fucking monumental let down!

I usually don't mind Mark Ronson but his remix is just... awful

Nobody's remixed anything. It's Just a B. Madonna mix of Dua tracks with Dua Lipa laid vox over other tracks by the people listed.

I want my money back.

It's just a BM DJ mix with Dua Lipa vox laid over.

:-(

i mean...it was never advertised as anything other than basically a blessed madonna x dua lipa DJ-kicks?

personally i think it's really fun! i was very underwhelmed by the madonna & missy remix, but it sounds a little less drab in context and there are many other entertaining moments. "boys will be boys" finally making sense as a samba workout! jayda-g doing "cool"! mr fingers elevating "hallucinate"!

not sure why it's being retconned into this era but i liked the new take on "kiss and make up" as well.

i mean...it was never advertised as anything other than basically a blessed madonna x dua lipa DJ-kicks?

i haven't heard it yet but I was under the impression that BM was playing curator for these remixes by other people. def changes things if it's a mix.

it's both as far as I understand it?

The tracks have been remixed by the artists listed but it's been assembled as a mix?