Dua Lipa

o rly?

I thought the vocal take sounded different.

yes I posted the YouTube vid in here about a month ago - see here: https://youtu.be/YSoT3T58QFY

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.

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.

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?

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.

I have a very good edit of it by mikeandtess and it's just under 6 minutes but it got removed from bandcamp, sadly.

oh it's now a free download on mikeandtess's soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/mikeandtess13

Thanks.

how big is she in North America? is she big-big or niche-big?

"new rules" and the calvin harris collab were big-big, don't think she has much of a profile otherwise

the hot 100 isn't everything, but 'don't start now' is at #5 right now. a new peak for her.

oh i was wondering if i should've checked "don't start now"'s status on the charts. that fuckin rocks

she's been on the major us late night shows like four times which is a pretty good barometer for mainstream awareness

"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.

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.

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)

wuls= would

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…

god the live in la version is so perfect

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.

thanks, Veronica.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVonQ7LUJ0

"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.

Aren't you the guy who
Tried to hurt me with the word "goodbye"
'Fore it took some time to survive you
I'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

I think it's a definite.

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

Oops!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBR-SrP6uU

I love that!

Yeah that cheered me the fuck up!

I remebered seeing this recommended to me on YouTube but hadn’t clicked on it – thanks for sharing it, it's great.

Only on ILM could there be an apparently earnest discussion over whether or not Dua Lipa has broken into the mainstream.

I was asking about North America.

I guess the new album just leaked. Did anyone got the chance to hear it?

the last song has a rhyming couplet style I’m not especially fond of and doesn’t really gel with the rest of it, but other than that...incredible

“cool”, “love again”, and especially “LEVITATING”, all stupendous songs

new single friday is the INXS one and that’s a banger too

She's pushed the official release date for the album up a week. It's out this Friday!

[spoiler] hello white town sample!!!! [/spoiler]

Yeah, that was a nice surprise.

I was expecting to hate the last two songs based on the reaction on Popjustice and RYM, but I kind of love them. Great album.

such a strong record.
I get the feeling some people might have with the last two songs but, personally, I have no problems with them.

on the one hand I really want to listen to the leak immediately; on the other hand I really don't want to make Dua Lipa cry

If you support Dua, please don't stream the leaked version of tue album!! Look at her she's devasted 😢Pleaseeeeeee it's her body of work RESPECT HER #DuaLipa #FutureNostalgia @DUALIPA pic.twitter.com/FWyWa5iiX8

— Lordogx is RARE (@lordogx) March 23, 2020

thankfully it's out friday!

ugh i love this fucking record

5/5 on NME:

https://www.nme.com/reviews/dua-lipa-future-nostalgia-album-review-2633945?amp&__twitter_impression=true

I guess this will be her E•MO•TION huh?

What’s the name of the song with a White Town sample? dying to hear this one.

Is the MME good again? ;)

(thanks phone)

only thing i don't really care for on this is "good in bed", pretty solid otherwise and indeed very early 00s uk pop throughout. "cool" is especially wonderful