2024-05-03 17:08:26
Dua Lipa poses while promoting her new album, “Radical Optimism,” in New York on April 26, 2024. DREW GURIAN/INVISION/AP
On the cover of her third album, singer Dua Lipa is in great danger, like the bather in the first scene of Sea teeth. In troubled waters, she faces a shark fin. The visual takes the idea of the London pop group Blur for The Great Escape (” The great Escape “), golden boys diving from their speedboat to probably get eaten by a shark. This record was released in 1995, the year of birth, in London, of this daughter of a Kosovar rocker.
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Like Blur, Dua Lipa plays on the contrast between the desperate situation and the title: Radical Optimism. Here, only the second term is correct: ahead of the summer solstice, the object actually celebrates hedonism, going against the darkness of the time. But radical, it is in no way radical.
Unlike Taylor Swift, who once turned to folk, or Beyoncé, with her recent desires for country, Dua Lipa does not abandon her comfort zone. Rather than getting into the water, she preferred to stay at the beach bar to sip a cocktail – which we hear straight away with the tropical house of End of an Era. And when she ventures somewhere, it’s to the adjoining dance floor.
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After all, this formula worked for him for his two previous albums, Dua Lipa (2017), synthetic and percussive R’n’B, and above all Future Nostalgia (2020), which crowned her the new queen of disco (or queen of neodisco?) with Chic-style funk basses and flights of strings. And a storytelling with the air of revenge, since the unfortunate child had been refused entry into her school choir, before subsequently being mocked on nasty social networks for her poor dancing skills.
Four years later, an eternity when glory can be as fleeting as it is today, Radical Optimism appears in conditions worthy of its star status. That is to say with maximum retention of information to fuel the mystery which will generate buzz and speculation.
At best we learned that Dua Lipa had deleted her entire Instagram account and dyed her hair auburn. To renew herself, she claims to have immersed herself in the dominant trends in Great Britain in the 1990s, britpop (Blur, therefore) and trip-hop, more generally in “psychedelia”. For the one, whose first influences are P!nk (the most obvious vocal model) and Justin Bieber, Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera, this word does not refer to San Francisco and the Grateful Dead, rather to a party in Ibiza.
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