Grammy-award winning pop star Dua Lipa's third album, “Radical Optimism,” releases Friday. UK rave culture and genre-averse alternative groups like Primal Scream and Massive Attack were key influences. She tells The Associated Press the album is the one she's always wanted to make, in more ways than one.
Recording artist Dua Lipa discusses Service95 - her editorial platform made up of a website, a weekly newsletter, the podcast “ Dua Lipa : At Your Service” and a book club. Recording artist Dua Lipa discusses Service95 - her editorial platform made up of a website, a weekly newsletter, the podcast “ Dua Lipa : At Your Service” and a book club.
“It was so much more free flowing,” she says of her latest album’s creative process. “And it didn’t have a formula, per se, but I always had that pop sensibility in the back of my mind. But I wanted to just experiment and try and create something new. But I think this was always kind of the album that I’ve always wanted to make.”Excitement is building for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2024, her pop songs contain a kind of learned elasticity. The melodies stack atop unusual synth sounds, the vocal range stretches , the dance breaks inspired by U.K. rave culture and format-benders Primal Scream and Massive Attack — they’re all elements Lipa says she wouldn’t have dared attempt on her last album. That came from working with Parker, producer Danny L Harle, songwriter
That experimentation appears across Lipa’s endeavors, too. She’s acting more — “little baby roles!” she says with a smile — after playing Mermaid Barbie inIn 2022, she founded a newsletter called Service95, what she views as an extension of a childhood blog, to “tell stories from all around the world, not solely from a Western lens,” she says.
A few days after visiting the AP’s New York headquarters, Lipa appears at a public high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to speak to students in a conversation moderated by
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