Dua Lipa took the world by storm with her seismic sophomore album ‘Future Nostalgia’ – home to smashes such as ‘Levitating’ and ‘Don’t Start Now.’
Now, the Pop starlet is looking ahead to her next musical adventure.
Having teased a new sound, she’s seized a new feature in the New York Times’ T Magazine to lift the lid on what fans can expect from her third studio outing.
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An excerpt from the feature revealed “1970s-era psychedelia” to be the sonic anchoring of the singer’s incoming project:
“The next record will still be pop, she says, lest her “fans have a meltdown.” She doesn’t want to “alienate” them, although she’s developing a new sound that may be informed less by the house and disco beats beneath songs like “Physical” and “Hallucinate” than by 1970s-era psychedelia.
She’s working with a smaller group of songwriting collaborators, supposedly including Kevin Parker of the Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala, a rumor she all but confirms by denying: “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she says, then looks away and laughs a little. Lipa’s dressed — almost studiously — in pop star-off-duty drag: Ugg slip-ons, baggy white jeans, an old Elton John T-shirt, a few diamond-encrusted hoops in each ear.”
Elsewhere, Lipa opened up about what the LP won’t be lyrically-speaking: overtly personal.
Indeed, while most of her Pop peers rely heavily on the well-treaded “this is my most personal album to date” trope, the British-bred belle has embraced an altogether different mentality. She explained:
“I think it’s a marketing tool: How confessional can you be? I also don’t put so much of my life out there for people to dig into the music in this weird, analytical way.” [Source]
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As many of Lipa’s predecessors have established, longevity in the Pop sphere is all about pushing the envelope and shape-shifting.
It’s a memo she clearly gets.
We’re intrigued about this new angle and can’t wait to hear what she’s been cooking up.