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Zoetrope Edition Of Smash LP - Pop Dance R&B, Disco LP -Vinyl Inc Hits Physical, Dont Start Now & Break My Heart
In 2017, after years of promotional buildup and an unbroken streak of hit singles, English singer Dua Lipa became a veritable superstar, conquering the pop landscape with a near-perfect debut and racking up additional chart smashes as an in-demand guest vocalist. At the turn of the decade, she returned with her sophomore effort, Future Nostalgia. Without collapsing under the pressure of high expectations, Lipa managed to deliver a package that was somehow sleeker, cooler, and more compulsively listenable than her first outing. In the spirit of pulse-pounding classics like Kylie Minogue's Fever or Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor, Lipa channeled the best of past decades -- '70s disco, '80s dance-pop, and '90s club jams -- to create her own joyous, sweat-glistened vision of bliss. Not a moment is wasted here, and Future Nostalgia is a brisk and breathless experience that begs to be played on loop. With an endless supply of confidence, charm, and cooler-than-you attitude, Lipa pulls listeners onto the dancefloor with immediate earworms like the funky kiss-off "Don't Start Now," the rapturous out-of-body rave "Hallucinate," and the glistening full-body workout "Physical," a distant cousin of Madonna's "Hung Up" and Lady Gaga's "Applause." At the end of the night, when things transition to the bedroom, Lipa offers the begging "Pretty Please" and the giddily horny "Good in Bed." Throughout, she finds inspiration from the funkiest of forebears, channeling 2000s Timbaland hip-pop on the title track, Daft Punk's own Chic-inspired electro-disco on "Levitating," and even INXS's guitar-based allure with "Break My Heart." She even drops a surprising sample on "Love Again," which fans of the Al Bowlly-sampling White Town one-hit wonder will absolutely adore. Flipping her hair at detractors with a wink and a smile on "Future Nostalgia," she sings, "You want a timeless song/I wanna change the game." With this flawless effort, she manages to achieve both. Future Nostalgia could have just as well been titled "Future Classic."
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Dua Lipa (born 22 August 1995) is an English and Albanian singer, songwriter and actress. She began her career as a model before signing with Warner Bros. Records in 2014. Her self-titled debut studio album was released in 2017 and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The album included the singles "Be the One", "IDGAF", and the UK number-one single "New Rules". In 2018, she received Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Her collaboration with Calvin Harris, "One Kiss", became her second UK number-one single and was the best-selling song of 2018 in the UK, winning the Brit Award for Song of the Year. She received Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording for "Electricity", a collaboration with Silk City, in 2019.
Her second studio album, "Future Nostalgia" (2020), became her first UK number-one album and reached the top three in the United States. The album produced several successful singles, including "Don't Start Now", which achieved the longest top-ten run for a British female artist on the UK Singles Chart and ranked in the top five of the US Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2020. Other singles from the album, including "Physical", "Break My Heart", and "Levitating", also achieved commercial success, with "Levitating" topping the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart for 2021 and receiving a Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. "Future Nostalgia" won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Lipa achieved further success with the UK number-one singles "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)", a duet with Elton John released in 2021, and "Dance the Night", featured on the soundtrack of the film "Barbie" (2023), in which she also made her acting debut. Her third studio album, "Radical Optimism" (2024), debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was preceded by the UK top-ten singles "Houdini", "Training Season", and "Illusion". In 2024, she also appeared in a supporting role in the spy film "Argylle".
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dua_Lipa
Studio albums
Dua Lipa (2017)
Future Nostalgia (2020)
Radical Optimism (2024)
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