![]() ![]() It seems like in Future Nostalgia Dua Lipa has a newfound confidence in herself as a popstar and has leaned into the artist 2020 needs a high energy, all glitter and glam, pop machine. ![]() SP: I knew vaguely of Dua Lipa before through her ear-worm breakup anthem “New Rules” but she feels like a different kind of star now. This year there were so many re-scheduled albums it was impossible to keep up. See also: imagining whether Dua and her team were stressing about it seeming like an inappropriate drop how other pop artists and the wider industry would be observing closely to take the temperature of public opinion and mood for their own rollouts. I distinctly remember wondering how it would be received as such an upbeat, sexy, party album considering everyone was inside and facing casual, fun realities like redundancy, viral infections and potentially months of zero sex. HANNAH EWENS: Similarly to you, Lauren, it reminds me of going on walks around Alexandra Palace, pretending I’m getting my heart-rate up to anything like “Hallucinate”’s 124 BPM. ![]() Makes you feel like you’re in a film about cocaine and gangsters instead of doing desperate, hamster-wheel laps around the nearest park because you literally can’t go anywhere else. The only productive thing I’ve done during either lockdown period is “learn” to “run”, so my enduring memory of Future Nostalgia is of listening to it on a run. ![]()
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