Future Nostalgia It is already one of the best albums of 2020. Dua Lipa, the singer who cried on Instagram live learning that her new album had been leaked, she has marked herself as a pop masterpiece full of retro nods and dreamy Jamiroquai-style pop and electronic music from the 27s. After advancing the launch to March XNUMX for the enjoyment of all Coronavirus inmates who don't know what to do with their lives, the one responsible for IDGAFMore has signed a classic full of songs that have come to stay.
Future Nostalgia: criticism, opinion and best songs from Dua Lipa's new album of 2020
As we saw in the previews break my heart, Don't start know y Physical, Dua Lipa's second album is full of tributes to the music of the end of the XNUMXth century. The pressure was great and Dua Lipa has overcome it with flying colors. And without the help of Calvin Harris.
the first cut, Future Nostalgia It is a very careful pickle that leaves you broken without warning. A resounding BIG PEPO that makes clear from minute one the cards with which Dua Lipa has presented herself to the game. Halfway between the sound poppy of the best Lady Gaga but with touches of rap, raw electronics and stark synthesizers.
Future Nostalgia (the song) it has a spell that catches you instantly. the stretch that breaks very well with the pattern, added to the scarce 3 minutes that it lasts, make Future Nostalgia a perfect song to kick off the self-titled album. Like in Tame Impala's new album, Dua Lipa tells us about nostalgia and the passage of time. But in Dua Lipa's way: "You want an immortal song, and I want to change the game. Like modern architecture, John Lautner breaking through»:
You want a timeless song, I wanna change the game
Like modern architecture, John Lautner coming your way
Later, in the 7th cut (hallucinate) we will receive the certainty that Dua Lipa could not exist without Lady Gaga and Daft Punk. But mostly Gaga. the of born this way is a very clear reference to the British, despite the fact that she does not mention her in her list of influences when they ask her in interviews.
Future Nostalgia is a revival party of the 70,80s, 90s and XNUMXs
Promotional image of Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa's new album for 2020.
But the party has only just begun. On Don't start now (launched four months ago and with 200 million views on YouTube) we find a very danceable combination of pop and electronic music and music for workout It's a great song disco nineties guy Lady, by Modjo, but released in 2020 and could be signed by Daft Punk. Those violins are pure 90's please.
In this song, and in so many others not Future Nostalgia but of the entire career of Dua Lipa, it's hard not to remember Gwen Stefani, lead singer of Not Doubt.
En Cool Dua Lipa acknowledges that her boyfriend/crush It's making her nervous in a good way. That he can no longer hold his facade cool when he's around.
Well very good.
If there is one thing we must be clear about with this new Dua Lipa album, it is that we cannot ask for pears from the elm tree: here we are not going to find elaborate verses as we could find in, I don't know, The Weeknd. No. This is something else. This is pure syrupy pop. And yet there are witty lines: "You got me losing all my cool, I guess we're ready for the summer."
All the songs could be Singles
Physical confirms the prevailing atmosphere of Future Nostalgia: a succession of songs (mostly disco and reminiscent of the 70,80s, 90s and XNUMXs) in search of singles. The search for the next hit to break Youtube. And we have no problem with this. Just connect with levitating and catch the rush of energy that this great song transmits. The little guitars (and at times the atmosphere) are stolen from Get Lucky by Pharrell Williams and Daft Punk. But we allow it because the vocal show is 100% Dua Lipa (and her crystallinely computer-cleaned voice).
pretty please offers the first truce Future Nostalgia. It is a song with which you know that sooner or later you will find yourself at Zara or H&M. Create a nice atmosphere. And a little more. It's a pretty standard cut and quickly forgettable.
Dua Lipa: samples of legendary songs
For those of us who are beginning to have an age closer to adult than young, listening at the beginning of Love again the trumpets of YourWoman by WhiteTown (hit of the 90) is equivalent to giving him the automatic pass.
Once again, Dua Lipa's elastic, sober and rebellious performance invigorates the song to new heights not reached so far in Future Nostalgia. Love Again andIt's quietly one of the best tracks on the album.
The same thing happens with break my heart, that shamelessly honors one of the riffs mythical pop music guitar tracks: Need You Tonight by INXS. It is no coincidence that this has been one of those chosen as single in advance of an album that, unfortunately for Dua Lipa, leaked online a few days ago. The poor thing, when she found out, she began to cry in an Instagram direct.
I know it's really bad, bad, bad, bad, bad
Messing with my head, head, head, head, head
We drive each other mad, mad, mad, mad, mad
But baby, that's what makes us good in bed
Good in bed she's a bit silly and has a tone woman power which is very reminiscent of truth hurts by Lizzo. Two people who only know how to get along in bed. Okay. The song will cast a spell on you or be quickly forgettable. It all depends on how much you like the constant repetition of the chorus.
Dua Lipa releases a feminist anthem
Future Nostalgia we run out soon, sooner than necessary, and it does so with Boys will be boys. The theme aspires to become the anthem of a generation that (Coronavirus aside) will be marked by the wave of the new feminist movement:
“It's second nature, to walk home before dark, and put your keys between your knuckles when there are guys around. Isn't it funny how we laugh about it to hide our fear, when there's really nothing funny here? It is a sick intuition that we have been taught so that we do not get angry. We hide our figures, doing whatever it takes to shut their mouths. We smile to relax the tension so things don't get out of hand. But there's nothing funny about this now."
It's second nature to walk home before the sun goes down
And put your keys between your knuckles when there's boys around
Isn't it funny how we laugh it off to hide our fear
When there's nothing funny here? (oh)
Sick intuition that they taught us, so we won't freak out
We hide our figures, doing anything to shut their mouths
We smile away to ease the tension so it don't go south
But there's nothing funny now (Ah)
The theme is pure allegation: «When will we stop saying these things? Because they are listening. No, the boys are not well, and they do what they see, because it's on television. The boys are not well and goes so far as to state that if any boy listens to this and thinks that it is not right, he is the one who is not right.
Something similar could be said of the album Future Nostalgia. It's pure pop without compromise. There is no vilifying this record. If you don't like it, fine, it's not for you. But the fact is that Future Nostalgia it's a parade bangers, hitazos, pickles y ultra pepos without a rest.