8/12/2023 0 Comments Dua lipa future nostalgia cd cover![]() The bass is so gnarly you can imagine the facial contortions. To this end, Lipa leaned more heavily on live instrumentation to lay Future Nostalgia’s foundation. ![]() In keeping with its title, the album accomplishes this purpose by ransacking dance-pop history and repackaging those spoils in sleek modern production. These are songs about the emotional thrill ride of modern romance, built for dancing through whatever agony and ecstasy life’s throwing at you. “Boys will be boys,” she sings, “but girls will be women.” But for the most part, the anti-fuckboi principles spelled out on “New Rules” are shown, not told, via portraits of a strong independent woman navigating the dating landscape. Less than a minute into the album, Lipa affirms her own power with the phrase, “I know you ain’t used to a female alpha,” later smirking, “I can’t teach a man how to wear his pants.” The tracklist ends with a clumsy but well-intentioned chamber-pop ballad about women’s struggles in this world, from the annoying (endless mansplaining) to the terrifying (the constant threat of sexual assault). ![]() Most of the time, Future Nostalgia does not function as anything but a vessel for unadulterated fun. Maybe you can’t bask in its glory in public yet, but it can still incite euphoria in the privacy of your home - and chances are, if you have any taste for pop music as an end unto itself, that’s exactly what will happen. In another sense, it’s exactly the right album for a moment when everyone’s cooped up at home, wracked with anxiety: a bunch of high-gloss, low-stakes bangers engineered for maximum pleasure. Because COVID-19 is also keeping dance clubs, concert halls, and other public gathering places closed indefinitely, the album enters into a world where it cannot be experienced as intended. Future Nostalgia officially dropped last Friday, a week ahead of schedule thanks to a leak and the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The new album might as well be her coronation. The British pop star has been working her way back to Studio 54 ever since her tropical-house jam “New Rules” broke big on both sides of the Atlantic, first delving into deep house on Calvin Harris’ hypnotic “One Kiss” and then euphoric piano-powered house on Silk City’s “Electricity.” By lending her commanding alto to retro party music of many stripes, she has established herself as England’s dance-pop queen, and maybe the world’s. Even before she released lead single “Don’t Start Now” last fall, Dua Lipa was talking about taking inspiration from the disco era: “I feel like you could dance through the whole record,” she told The Face. ![]()
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