single Dua Lipa - "Houdini"

[Solaria]

11 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

this is so funny cause if anything she herself hopped on the 80s revival trend. saying that anyone copied her in particular is laughable lol

same goes for the sound/aesthetic of this new project but go off i guess

Literally no song in the top 10 of the Hot 100 on October 31, 2019 sounded anything like FN  she and The Weeknd started the 80s revival trend, it’s literally noticeable if you analyse the charts after DSN and Blinding Lights were released

[katara]

Gosh this sounds insane. Goes really hard. Somehow I think this will be her Poker Face (even with the instrumental build up in the beginning).

[Cain]

2 minutes ago, Love Again said:

Literally no song in the top 10 of the Hot 100 on October 31, 2019 sounded anything like FN  she and The Weeknd started the 80s revival trend, it’s literally noticeable if you analyse the charts after DSN and Blinding Lights were released

I remember an interview with a radio head that said he heard DSN cause Dua’s team was shopping it around and he said ‘this could change the sound of radio’

 

And it did

[AlleeX]

3 minutes ago, Cain said:

Can you show me the 80s/disco revival that was going on when Don’t Start Now dropped?

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

We need some RADIO interviews. Please no Zane Lowe but do the typical interview run dua. The interviews she did before DSN came out build up so much hype, she did one basically every day.

Edited November 4, 2023 by houdini

[unclefloprry]

Just now, houdini said:

The only reason people want to downplay Dua’s impact is because she is Dua

fixed, bc people bring Doja's Say So and even Carly and Kylie to the conversations to downplay her impact.  

The amount of publications, critics and people who agree that Dua along with The Weeknd REVIVED the 80's sound in pop music is bigger than 20-30 random people who can't accept it because their fave didn't.

[Solaria]

1 minute ago, Cain said:

I remember an interview with a radio head that said he heard DSN cause Dua’s team was shopping it around and he said ‘this could change the sound of radio’

 

And it did

It’s the way she panicked and thought it was gonna flop too 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Lover is disco revival now? 

[Cain]

Just now, Love Again said:

It’s the way she panicked and thought it was gonna flop too 

Omg when she said she was scared to release it  me before handing in an assignment 

 

Relateable queen 

[Cain]

ME! the disco banger you are!

[AlleeX]

Just now, houdini said:

Lover is disco revival now? 

Learn to read, disco revival does not equal 80s influences.

[Solaria]

1 minute ago, AlleeX said:

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

‘Dua isnt responsible for the 80s revival thing’’

’Dua’s team went literal with the 80s influences and now we’re stuck with 80s influences and now all these songs I just named sound like it’

 

[Hephaestus]

Aaaaaah that snippet sounds INCREDIBILE! You can tell even from those few LQ seconds that the track will be a whole ass bop! 

[Cain]

3 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

So your argument is that a popular TV show set in the 80s who’s most popular soundtrack song has 70M streams is the reason why no one should give Dua props for being the first mainstream artist to release a 70s disco smash in an era that was literally defined by trap?

 

Makes sense

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Just now, AlleeX said:

Learn to read, disco revival does not equal 80s influences.

and 80s do not correlate to disco music specifically… which is a sub-genre that dua revived for a good 2-3 years.

[unclefloprry]

2 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

Don't do mental gymnastics
 

 

 

[jjmed59]

5 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

Dont Start Now is in an entirely different world than Blinding Lights and As It Was. The publications that Ive seen credit her, credit her for the huge disco resurgence that happened afterwards. Not the 80s resurgence (which it barely was, as it pops up every 2-3 years). People just bunch up everything as the 80s though.

 

Physical and, to some extent, Cool are far more aligned w the other songs you mention.  As those are actual 80s synthpop. 

[AlleeX]

1 minute ago, Love Again said:

‘Dua isnt responsible for the 80s revival thing’’

’Dua’s team went literal with the 80s influences and now we’re stuck with 80s influences and now all these songs I just named sound like it’

 

Dua isn't SOLELY responsible for it, nor was she the first and only one to do it. Attributing the whole wave that happened concurrently to one artist and album without the full context is what bugs me.

And of course that looking back, she is the one to get most of the credit, as she's the only one who hasn't moved on from it years later, and bases her whole persona on the "Nostalgia" narrative.

I hope this album will be a bit more experimental and give us the Future part of Future Nostalgia, without endless samples, interpolations and inspirations.

[Duanielipa]

4 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

Learn to read, disco revival does not equal 80s influences.

If lover counts as 80s influenced almost all of modern pop can be argued to be the same. Future Nostalgia shows off its influence much more obviously and isn’t just generic electro pop.

[Asherio]

8 minutes ago, houdini said:

Lover is disco revival now? 

I stopped reading there. I can’t. 

[RideOrDie]

9 minutes ago, AlleeX said:

the whole world was in an 80s craze with Stranger Things, its soundtrack and aesthetic. Then Dua, The Weeknd, Miley, Harry and basically every artist hopped on the wave. But for some reasons, Dua is presented as THE ONE just because she is not letting go of the sound 4 years late. If anything, Post Malone, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were doing all of this even earlier, with Starboy, Sunflower, Lover... 

I mean, Dua's songs are amazing, and the album is good, but it's really nothing 'ahead of its time' really, her team just went more literal with the 80s influences just like Blinding Lights and we're stuck with 80s influences and rehashes for years (As it was / Stay, looking at you) 

people were doing 80s synth stuff lol but they weren't doing 70s disco that much? dua and jessie really went in on that sound before everyone else 

[Relampago.]

Starboy was a disco/80s album?  

[unclefloprry]

btw the snippet sounds better every time I listen to it 

[ImperialCuntess]

It sounds interesting. I'm getting more Prince power pop but it's recorded in a toaster. 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

People thinking 80s and disco are synonymous are so dumb. Disco is literally 70s… Bee Gees, Donna Summer, CHIC, Chaka Khan… this is literally 70s