As well as new Bob and new Weller there’s an album out this week from someone under 60 that I’d not really cottoned onto. Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa is just fantastic: contemporary pop, some solid singing (one track recalling a certain Amy W) and a disco beat under it all. Built to last, and totally 2020. Ten tracks, not a bad one on there. Perfect for the enforced home kitchen and cooking regime.
Stuck in the kitchen?
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Yay! Another true believer! I gushed in a similar way on the, er, Dua Lipa thread.
Never got her at all until this album. Better than it should be.
I’d rather go hungry. Godawful click track crap, Pro-Tooled to within an inch of its plastic life.
*shudders*
Should have stayed at home
I’ve listened to the album on YouTube a few times and, apart from the songs I already know (Physical, Don’t Start Now, Future Nostalgia), the others are all growers – vibrant dance pop that I’m enjoying the more I hear – music to dance to as much as just to listen to. There’s real confidence in every track.
Levitating particularly has great lyrics. Pretty Please has a wondrous thumping bass and not much more – giving space for her teasing vocals to wind their sinuous way through the other percussive sounds. Boys Will Be Boys has a chorus to sing out, which i think is kind of empowering – I’m not sure yet.
Dua Lipa songs are best when her whole performance is on display – dance, choreographed movement. expressive looks and glances, sass – which isn’t the case with many of them yet. But it is with this one – Break My Heart – which breaks out with her soaring voice in the gaps between the regimented rhythm.
It features the title of this review, btw. But it’s also titled as a gentle riposte for Vulpes. There’s plenty of music for everyone. I tend to steer clear of threads on prog (the polar opposite of dance pop), because I know I won’t like it. I’m not sure why you put yourself through this one.
Probably because I was stuck at home due to circumstances beyond my control, and as a result spending large amounts of time in the kitchen cooking up yummy things. When I saw a thread headed “Stuck in the kitchen?” it seemed likely to be of interest; then I read that this music was claimed to be “Perfect for the enforced home kitchen and cooking regime” so I naturally had a listen. To my horror, it was nothing of the sort.
Fair comment. The title of the thread rather slipped me by as I was keen to get into the album and it was the track you disliked that drew me in. I love her passion and intensity in the song and am not too fussed about the production techniques that underpin her voice.
(Still felt a bit like you pissed on Moseley’s pleasure palace when I read it).
Maybe this is more acceptable?
A hundred times better. She gets maybe 7 out of 10 from me for that effort.
I’m afraid that “production techniques” which leap out of the speakers, battering my sensibilities, trashing and devaluing an artist’s talents, are anathema to me.
@moseleymoles – I had no intention of pissing on anyone’s parade, just blurted out what I honestly thought of the track in the OP.