Dua Lipa

[13beachess]

finally had my first listen of the album. and umm I am very disappointed. </3 oh well, I wasn't super impressed of Houdini and TS when they were first released (but now I listen to them like daily) so maybe the rest will grow on me too. Hope so. Loooove the album cover tho!! It's so... neat! Even  though (like basically everyone says) it doesn't really match with the music.

[13beachess]

On 5/4/2024 at 12:37 PM, Terrence Loves Me said:

Happy for you is the best song on the album

I'M NOOT MAAAD 

[creditcardromancer]

I've listened to this album 20 times (according to Last.fm) since it came out which obviously doesn't include listening to it on vinyl or at work. It's really too bad some people can't let go of their expectations and just enjoy a great album for what it is.

[barttttender]

6 hours ago, creditcardromancer said:

I've listened to this album 20 times (according to Last.fm) since it came out which obviously doesn't include listening to it on vinyl or at work. It's really too bad some people can't let go of their expectations and just enjoy a great album for what it is.

 

Sorry, but this album was a pile of.. A massive disappointment. I'm still traumatized by that one song that sounds like a trashy Eurovision song. 

 

It's not that I had high expectations - I just expected a decent record. Yet it seems that this album is completely flopping as it should be.

 

If I were Dua I'd be embarrassed and hit the studio big time - especially since she''s dropped it between Cowboy Carter and HMHAS - two very strong record by artists who have obviously put in a lot more effort, not to mention have more talent in the first place. 

 

This Dua era is best forgotten asap.

[creditcardromancer]

11 hours ago, barttttender said:

 

Sorry, but this album was a pile of.. A massive disappointment. I'm still traumatized by that one song that sounds like a trashy Eurovision song. 

 

It's not that I had high expectations - I just expected a decent record. Yet it seems that this album is completely flopping as it should be.

 

If I were Dua I'd be embarrassed and hit the studio big time - especially since she''s dropped it between Cowboy Carter and HMHAS - two very strong record by artists who have obviously put in a lot more effort, not to mention have more talent in the first place. 

 

This Dua era is best forgotten asap.

Everyone I've played it for irl actually likes it and has 0 interest in the beyonce or billie albums, it's only chronically online 14 year olds complaining about it lol.

[Purrfect]

RO is a great album, Dua‘s best so far. Couldn‘t enjoy it more. 

 

Cowboy  Carter was a joke! If this is what people call country music, then they haven’t listened to real country music yet. Not even to mention all these boring and bland interludes. 
And BE‘s album isn‘t a stroke of genius, it‘s been done million times before, nothing about this music and production is new, and the lyrics couldn‘t be more average. But why the need to compare it to Dua at all? 
Dua‘s the more talented singer, that‘s for sure!

 

 

[barttttender]

1 hour ago, creditcardromancer said:

Everyone I've played it for irl actually likes it and has 0 interest in the beyonce or billie albums, it's only chronically online 14 year olds complaining about it lol.

 

To each their own. I'm confident in my taste. 

[TRENCH]

On 6/10/2024 at 1:21 PM, camera ready said:

Dua‘s the more talented singer, that‘s for sure!

the type of thing i say when i'm on ketamine! 

[Purrfect]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0j79lpw/the-full-set-of-dua-lipa-at-glastonbury-2024
 

 

[Demonmic03]

Not the cash grabby extended versions 

[Purrfect]

 

Will this be available on CD/Vinyl or only for streaming/as download? 

[creditcardromancer]

On 6/30/2024 at 4:48 PM, DemonMic2003 said:

Not the cash grabby extended versions 

A cash grab that you can't even buy? lol

[Demonmic03]

49 minutes ago, creditcardromancer said:

A cash grab that you can't even buy? lol

Help-  

[evalionisameme]

It will be interesting to see if her influences actually come out in the next record- the way this album was marketed as an alt pop record by her was so odd

[Glitter Boy]

lol hyper late but I finally listened to the album. It's not as bad as y'all make it to be  aside from Anything for Love and Illusion, I enjoy everything else at different levels. My favourites were Falling Forever, Maria, Happy for You, Houdini and Whatcha Doing.

overall very cohesive and fun to listen to  

[Purrfect]

Girl is back in the top 3 - deserved, but what did I miss?

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

 

[West Coast]

I had time to listen to the extended versions, and I feel like it was a poorly executed "good" idea. It really had me thinking that sometimes less is more, it mostly felt clunky and it made the pacing more "awkward". Houdini extended is good, but the rest not so much. 

[TRENCH]

12 hours ago, West Coast said:

I had time to listen to the extended versions, and I feel like it was a poorly executed "good" idea. It really had me thinking that sometimes less is more, it mostly felt clunky and it made the pacing more "awkward". Houdini extended is good, but the rest not so much. 

For me the extended version made the album better for me lol. The original felt short and lifeless; the extended version adds life to it. 

Honestly this record needed more live instrumentations

[junegloom]

On 7/2/2024 at 7:29 PM, camera ready said:

 

Will this be available on CD/Vinyl or only for streaming/as download? 

so far it’s a HMV exclusive CD release

[Mer]

Radical Optimism has grown on me soooo much it’s the perfect summer album.  I think she released it too soon in the season and too close to other conglomerate releases and it got overshadowed, but it’s a perfect summer album. If it came out in June I think it would’ve had a much “bigger” moment.