Also all that DL4 needs is good music + good marketing. RO's visuals were bland and uninspired. FN had an entire concept and worldbuilding around it. I mean the photoshoot alone was so extensive and layered with the lighting and style choices. We're in the 'eras' era anyway, so it doesn't make sense to not pay extra attention to that.

I've PRAYED for her to work with Aidan Zamiri after seeing Caroline's album cover.

1 minute ago, Solaria said:

Also all that DL4 needs is good music + good marketing. RO's visuals were bland and uninspired. FN had an entire concept and worldbuilding around it. I mean the photoshoot alone was so extensive and layered with the lighting and style choices. We're in the 'eras' era anyway, so it doesn't make sense to not pay extra attention to that.

I've PRAYED for her to work with Aidan Zamiri after seeing Caroline's album cover.

I agree

Yeah RO had puzzle pieces but the execution was bad. They never should have thrown around buzz words like psychedelic and just teased the album by putting focus on creating an album that can adapt to different settings.

She did the London sessions, Glastonbury and The Royal Albert Hall, perfect ways to highlight as that aspect of the era. I am still suprised they just left the RAH to die, just one live video of one of the songs pushed in the UK and Mainland Europe and she had an other top 10.

As for the world building, the visuals really felt like random pieces thrown together, which ironically also could have been a marketing aspect, as she released the lyric journal eventually. Had she promoted the album as pieces of a journal/diary with that being the reason why Houdini, Traning Season and Illusion look so different, it could have worked.

DL4 needs to have a strong concept and do everything to sell it. It was genius how during FN they tied everything together from the video's, to the studio 2054 to the remix album to the Repackage to the eventual tour, even the collabs fitted into the realm of the era.

52 minutes ago, NostalgiawithDua said:

Why didn't she do a droplet era?! One Kiss and Electricity shaped Future Nostalgia, Sweetest Pie floppery pivoted them from their original DL3 sound. Gives a basic idea of the direction you want to go in next and it's not like there's anything to lose but she's busy vacationing ig….

We have Handlebars and Two Hearts… do with that information what you will

The way we're 2 years away from her last album and active era, she's still working on a new album and apparently it's all horrible and there's 0 hype for any of her new releases including this collab

Oh miss Lipa you're going to need a miracle to come back

Wth is that Dula?

Girl, I'm so disappointed in you, DL1 and DL2 are pure excellence, DL3 ain't that bad, but DL1&2 had superior collabs tbh, and this is mid

I absolutely love this. It is very strong song with very European dance sound.

You can hear some Robyn, some Kylie, some Loreen in it

Wish this had big budget video and droplet single push but Danny L Harle is not that big commercially unfortunately

1 hour ago, Cain said:

The way we're 2 years away from her last album and active era, she's still working on a new album and apparently it's all horrible and there's 0 hype for any of her new releases including this collab

Oh miss Lipa you're going to need a miracle to come back

When she read all the discourse online and DL4 will be called 'Beautiful Garbage' as a pun

Dracula is miles better than Two Hearts, her voice would've suited that song so much better…

if DL4 gets delayed it would be cute if she give us an EP with some fan fav unreleased and some other gems that she keep on the drafts (with Ball & Chain ,Love Is Religion ) like 8 tracks an make a music video meanwhile because the last one was on April '24

(pd:I'm very intrigued about the songs that she made between 2021-2022 with Koz ,Jason Evigan and other Ones she made with Ian Kickpatrick because at these times she said that she had made the 50% done before scrapped all when she started working with Danny and Kevin )

not the meltdowns over DANNY'S song with Dua on feat... chill tf out

Not some people praising faceless mediocre Lostboy production but saying Two Hearts is bad

LOL

Edited February 13Feb 13 by mike_int

1 hour ago, DuaLipaFuture said:

if DL4 gets delayed it would be cute if she give us an EP with some fan fav unreleased and some other gems that she keep on the drafts (with Ball & Chain ,Love Is Religion ) like 8 tracks an make a music video meanwhile because the last one was on April '24

(pd:I'm very intrigued about the songs that she made between 2021-2022 with Koz ,Jason Evigan and other Ones she made with Ian Kickpatrick because at these times she said that she had made the 50% done before scrapped all when she started working with Danny and Kevin )

Let's pray she's in her 2021-2022 recording phase rn

I kinda want to know what she is manifesting these days. She said she manifested Glastonbury and working with Kevin. I can't imagine LostBoy is a manifest she had.

21 minutes ago, J-esper said:

I kinda want to know what she is manifesting these days. She said she manifested Glastonbury and working with Kevin. I can't imagine LostBoy is a manifest she had.

Not getting dropped

6 hours ago, Solaria said:

Also all that DL4 needs is good music + good marketing. RO's visuals were bland and uninspired. FN had an entire concept and worldbuilding around it. I mean the photoshoot alone was so extensive and layered with the lighting and style choices. We're in the 'eras' era anyway, so it doesn't make sense to not pay extra attention to that.

6 hours ago, J-esper said:

I agree

Yeah RO had puzzle pieces but the execution was bad. They never should have thrown around buzz words like psychedelic and just teased the album by putting focus on creating an album that can adapt to different settings.

She did the London sessions, Glastonbury and The Royal Albert Hall, perfect ways to highlight as that aspect of the era. I am still suprised they just left the RAH to die, just one live video of one of the songs pushed in the UK and Mainland Europe and she had an other top 10.

As for the world building, the visuals really felt like random pieces thrown together, which ironically also could have been a marketing aspect, as she released the lyric journal eventually. Had she promoted the album as pieces of a journal/diary with that being the reason why Houdini, Traning Season and Illusion look so different, it could have worked.

DL4 needs to have a strong concept and do everything to sell it. It was genius how during FN they tied everything together from the video's, to the studio 2054 to the remix album to the Repackage to the eventual tour, even the collabs fitted into the realm of the era.

^^^^^^^^^ Ya'll are so right. RO could have had good visuals and a 'world' built, but they totally screwed the pooch. IDK, and I don't get, what happened? She was so driven pre-RO, and then they just totally dropped the ball? So notably, that it also seems intentional (IK it wasn't but like???). Wild to me.

3 hours ago, DuaLipaFuture said:

(pd:I'm very intrigued about the songs that she made between 2021-2022 with Koz ,Jason Evigan and other Ones she made with Ian Kickpatrick because at these times she said that she had made the 50% done before scrapped all when she started working with Danny and Kevin )

I dream for this, just SOME RO scrap, something I need more content TBH, so bummed we never got a deluxe. Not very radically optimistic of her or her team..

40 minutes ago, J-esper said:

I kinda want to know what she is manifesting these days

a wedding, her next vacation, and a pack of ciggies - in that ascending order

41 minutes ago, ahauntingnearu said:

^^^^^^^^^ Ya'll are so right. RO could have had good visuals and a 'world' built, but they totally screwed the pooch. IDK, and I don't get, what happened? She was so driven pre-RO, and then they just totally dropped the ball? So notably, that it also seems intentional (IK it wasn't but like???). Wild to me.

It's interesting to look at the timeline of in which she wrote the songs. She wrote Houdini and TS when she was single and the other songs mostly when she got together with Romain

4 hours ago, Solaria said:

It's interesting to look at the timeline of in which she wrote the songs. She wrote Houdini and TS when she was single and the other songs mostly when she got together with Romain

She wrote Happy For You after her breakup with Anwar, i think

Honestly she needs to stay the hell away from Danny L Harle and Tame Impala for her next record.. They just don't know how to produce around her voice.. 2 hearts is yet another boring song..

I know she's working with Lostboy now but how come it's gone quiet around the work she did with Andrew Watt last year? I thought that would be for DL4

8 minutes ago, Abracadabra said:

I know she's working with Lostboy now but how come it's gone quiet around the work she did with Andrew Watt last year? I thought that would be for DL4

Rule of thumb with Dua: anything she does in the first half of writing/producing an album is never the final product

1 hour ago, Solaria said:

Rule of thumb with Dua: anything she does in the first half of writing/producing an album is never the final product

Wonder if she's found 'the song' that's gonna define the album's direction yet

'The' songs per era

DL1 - Hotter Than Hell

FN - Levitating

RO - Illusion (lol)

I see two masterpieces and a chop, so let's hope RO was a blip in the system and not a continuation

31 minutes ago, Cain said:

'The' songs per era

DL1 - Hotter Than Hell

FN - Levitating

RO - Illusion (lol)

I see two masterpieces and a chop, so let's hope RO was a blip in the system and not a continuation

Whatever it is I hope she wrote it on the same substance she took during November 2022 when she wrote Houdini otherwise she can keep it

Two Hearts is nowhere near good enough to influence the next album

It's ok but it's not great

4 minutes ago, Relampago. said:

Two Hearts is nowhere near good enough to influence the next album

It's ok but it's not great

It's kinda the Potion of the RO era anyways