Physcial is my least favourite of the three, but I still love it and think the album is shaping up to be something special.
― kitchen person, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
the greatest song of all time is now on streaming services: https://open.spotify.com/album/0MaGeHimijY3IhEWPkTUEx
― monotony, Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Love this remix, real Ewan Pearson meets Aeroplane vibes.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 February 2020 06:56 (four years ago) link
should mention that hearing them back to back on the radio the other day i was struck by the sonic similarities between "blinding lights" and "physical"
― monotony, Monday, 24 February 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
Take On My New Attitude
― breastcrawl, Monday, 24 February 2020 07:27 (four years ago) link
That one part of this reminds me so much of lizzo’s “juice” it feels intentional
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 24 February 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link
― monotony, Monday, 24 February 2020 07:09 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Otm these songs definitely occupy the same space in my head
― or something, Monday, 24 February 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
I would be fine with the next few singles being progressively longer remixes of DSN
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
is that remix purchasable anywhere?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 24 February 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
(at 320 or higher)
itunes?
― dyl, Monday, 24 February 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
Is this remix ever so slightly slower than the original?
― Indexed, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
iTunes isn't 320, sadly.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 24 February 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
xp possibly. also fyi this is called a "remix" on spotify but it's just the recording of a live session she did
― monotony, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
o rly?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
I thought the vocal take sounded different.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
yes I posted the YouTube vid in here about a month ago - see here: https://youtu.be/YSoT3T58QFY
― monotony, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Amazing how the remix just fixes everything that doesn't quite work about the original and then spends the last couple of minutes just putting its hands in the air.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 07:41 (four years ago) link
Also I think it's a remix interspersed with bits of live vocal? Really hammers home the extent to which her production sucks all the spontaneity out of her performance.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 07:43 (four years ago) link
i did a quick side by side comparison and i think that's right. the original song, the "live in la" performance video and the "remix" seem to all have the same vocal take, with the "live" ones just having a few live ad-libs added. the only difference i can tell between the performance video and the remix is the mix has been adjusted slightly - the drums hit harder is the main thing.
the original is fine but the remix really should have been the single. just cut off the intro for the radio edit and it's perfect surely?
― ufo, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 08:33 (four years ago) link
I think you must all be high :D
Now, if there was a version of the single mix extended out to 6 minutes then we we would be talking.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
I have a very good edit of it by mikeandtess and it's just under 6 minutes but it got removed from bandcamp, sadly.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
oh it's now a free download on mikeandtess's soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/mikeandtess13
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Thanks.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
how big is she in North America? is she big-big or niche-big?
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
"new rules" and the calvin harris collab were big-big, don't think she has much of a profile otherwise
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
the hot 100 isn't everything, but 'don't start now' is at #5 right now. a new peak for her.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
oh i was wondering if i should've checked "don't start now"'s status on the charts. that fuckin rocks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
she's been on the major us late night shows like four times which is a pretty good barometer for mainstream awareness
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
"Don't Start Now" should climb again this week if BTS, who unexpectedly vaulted into #4 without any radio play, drop down. Lady Gaga's single is looking unlikely to threaten the top 5 but "Blinding Lights" might with its strong airplay performance.
"Physical" has so far peaked at #11 in the UK but isn't doing much on any other chart. (It's not on the Hot 100 at all at the moment). She hasn't really promoted "Physical" at all - at least in comparison to the way she promoted "Don't Start Now" - so I wonder whether they're saving the next barrage for a third single to then lead into the album release, which is now only a month away.
― monotony, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
my kids fucking love dua lipa. they know pretty much all the words to DSN. i have never played them on the speakers in the house to my knowledge. it's Out There. i love it.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
I'm actually DJing in Los Angeles in April, as half of Hot Mess, and only the second time we have been booked outside the UK, and I'm very excited. Although I/we play mostly house & techno I like to throw something very current in amongst the more minimal stuff we usually play to hype up the energy or whether that wuls be seen as naff? So the reason I asked about her North American profile was that I was wondering if playing DSN would work. fwiw, it's an LGBT party.
and fwiw, as well, If you are in LA get in touch, send me a webmail on here or whatever. The party is called Ostbanhof. It seems extremely cool (ostbanhof is the name of the station you get off at to go to Bergain in Berlin)
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
wuls= would
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
the remix, live in LA or whatever it's called has the excellent percolating intro, which as someone said above should be the standard version of the song… and I have heard it on multiple radio formats and in RL situations in the past month…it is immediately effective in every single context I have encountered, so I would think it would go down a storm at the LGBT party of which you speak…probly a lot of the people who will be there do already or will know it by then, and any that don't would likely be immediately into it…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 5 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
god the live in la version is so perfect
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 March 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
I've played it at Hot Mess in Glasgow and it does GO OFF! for sure. I played the mikeandtess edit that I linked above.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Thursday, 5 March 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
thanks, Veronica.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Thursday, 5 March 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
i'm glad to hear ppl's kids like her. personally i rarely hear anyone talk about her irl, tho this song and "new rules" are def big/widely heard
― dyl, Thursday, 5 March 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVonQ7LUJ0
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
"New Rules" and "Don't Start Now" have become supermarket music, which is to me the undisputable, definitive proof that an artist has really broken into mainstream.
― cpl593H, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Aren't you the guy whoTried to hurt me with the word "goodbye"'Fore it took some time to survive youI'm better on the other side
Feel like this is explicit acknowledgement that the lyrics are 'I Will Survive Pt 2' but maybe I'm reaching
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 March 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
I think it's a definite.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
I know these sort of single-instrument Youtube covers usually are pretty boring, etc, but this is undeniably great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBR-SrP6uU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2Yaii9GaOdjrexx0jmJOT___KOBTnykEfrm-g1MlGHw25GJoDPHpq31zw
― daavid, Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
Oops!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBR-SrP6uU
I love that!
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
Yeah that cheered me the fuck up!
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Saturday, 7 March 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
I remebered seeing this recommended to me on YouTube but hadn’t clicked on it – thanks for sharing it, it's great.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
Only on ILM could there be an apparently earnest discussion over whether or not Dua Lipa has broken into the mainstream.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
I was asking about North America.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Saturday, 7 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
I guess the new album just leaked. Did anyone got the chance to hear it?
― Nourry, Monday, 23 March 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link