single Dua Lipa - "Training Season"

[TCorey]

Ugh the US can choke.

[curiousladybug]

So some apparent tea about the OG video and why it was decided it's not gonna be released. It was in the same "world" as the one that was released, meaning it contained minimalistic editing and a plain color pallet, but the story is a bit different. It starts off with Dua and "her bf" walking amongst all these men, none of whom care about Dua now that she has a bf.. Then the argument starts and they break up, music starts right after he leaves her, Dua walks around the city alone and then men start noticing her being alone and start taking action towards her. At first it starts innocently with them giving her flowers, chocolates in a shape of hearts,... Then right before the second chorus things shart taking a turn for the worse with men starting to fight each other, destroying things around them, violently grabbing her.. (Bridge hits) Dua then starts running and bunch of men start running after her (all this in slow motion).. When the last chorus hits things start being REALLY messed up with men using weapons against each other, start running cars trying to catch Dua, destroying buildings/cars around them and completely losing their mind. Consumed by all this hate they end up forgetting about Dua and they end up accidentally k wording Dua and we see her laying on the streets while a bunch of them gather around her after noticing. They quickly lose interest and leave her laying there like nothing happened and they go back to their usual day. Dua "wakes up" and is back at the begging with her bf we saw at the start, she realises it was all a “fantasy” and she laughs and leaves the scene with him, they’re holding hands. She then turns and winks at us. The end. 

[SayIt]

Loving how her angelic vocals stands out in the acapella version 

[Cain]

27 minutes ago, curiousladybug said:

So some apparent tea about the OG video and why it was decided it's not gonna be released. It was in the same "world" as the one that was released, meaning it contained minimalistic editing and a plain color pallet, but the story is a bit different. It starts off with Dua and "her bf" walking amongst all these men, none of whom care about Dua now that she has a bf.. Then the argument starts and they break up, music starts right after he leaves her, Dua walks around the city alone and then men start noticing her being alone and start taking action towards her. At first it starts innocently with them giving her flowers, chocolates in a shape of hearts,... Then right before the second chorus things shart taking a turn for the worse with men starting to fight each other, destroying things around them, violently grabbing her.. (Bridge hits) Dua then starts running and bunch of men start running after her (all this in slow motion).. When the last chorus hits things start being REALLY messed up with men using weapons against each other, start running cars trying to catch Dua, destroying buildings/cars around them and completely losing their mind. Consumed by all this hate they end up forgetting about Dua and they end up accidentally k wording Dua and we see her laying on the streets while a bunch of them gather around her after noticing. They quickly lose interest and leave her laying there like nothing happened and they go back to their usual day. Dua "wakes up" and is back at the begging with her bf we saw at the start, she realises it was all a “fantasy” and she laughs and leaves the scene with him, they’re holding hands. She then turns and winks at us. The end. 

They should’ve just released this tbh, it could even be seen as a whole critique on femicide and Latam would’ve stanned, ugh

[-brian]

7 hours ago, NostalgiawithDua said:

3.2M on global but 640K in US, they really hate her now….

 

7 hours ago, ReachOut said:

she is so global

 

US not here for psichedelic music tho

 

6 hours ago, DoubleRainbow! said:

The US hates her and I hate the US 

 

love the updates in Latin America

 

1 hour ago, KingWitch said:

They need more U.S promo, she has Europe on a chokehold but the U.S is slowly moving further away from her. 

 

54 minutes ago, TCorey said:

Ugh the US can choke.

I’m sorry, are we looking at the same data?  ya so weird 

 

34 US (biggest market) 

 

compared to top 5 Europe: 

14 UK (home country) 

61 Germany 

63 Spain 

79 France

86 Italy 

 

and latam:

115 Mexico 

103 Brazil

129 Argentina 

113 Chile

177 Colombia 

 

 the US is carrying this bop 

Edited February 20 by -brian

[Miss Harajuku]

33 minutes ago, curiousladybug said:

So some apparent tea about the OG video and why it was decided it's not gonna be released. It was in the same "world" as the one that was released, meaning it contained minimalistic editing and a plain color pallet, but the story is a bit different. It starts off with Dua and "her bf" walking amongst all these men, none of whom care about Dua now that she has a bf.. Then the argument starts and they break up, music starts right after he leaves her, Dua walks around the city alone and then men start noticing her being alone and start taking action towards her. At first it starts innocently with them giving her flowers, chocolates in a shape of hearts,... Then right before the second chorus things shart taking a turn for the worse with men starting to fight each other, destroying things around them, violently grabbing her.. (Bridge hits) Dua then starts running and bunch of men start running after her (all this in slow motion).. When the last chorus hits things start being REALLY messed up with men using weapons against each other, start running cars trying to catch Dua, destroying buildings/cars around them and completely losing their mind. Consumed by all this hate they end up forgetting about Dua and they end up accidentally k wording Dua and we see her laying on the streets while a bunch of them gather around her after noticing. They quickly lose interest and leave her laying there like nothing happened and they go back to their usual day. Dua "wakes up" and is back at the begging with her bf we saw at the start, she realises it was all a “fantasy” and she laughs and leaves the scene with him, they’re holding hands. She then turns and winks at us. The end. 

ugh can someone please leak it 

[Owlie]

 

this person is reliable I guess

[Miss Harajuku]

Just now, Owlie said:

 

this person is reliable I guess

how? late april is basically all taylor 

[Owlie]

2 minutes ago, Miss Harajuku said:

how? late april is basically all taylor 

let's be real - Dua was not going #1 in US as it is so like.. she can co-exist while Taylor smashes

[State of Grace.]

None of those Twitter insiders is reliable. I really don't see the album coming anytime before mid-May at this point. Maybe even June.

 

To be fair, Dua won't be competing for #1 on the BB200 so it doesn't matter if she releases close to the Taylor domination, but they're definitely gonna aim for better debuts/peaks in the rest of the world and it wouldn't be smart to release right after her. 

Edited February 20 by State of Grace.

[louvronthebrain]

1 minute ago, State of Grace. said:

None of those Twitter insiders is reliable. I really don't see the album coming anytime before mid-May at this point. Maybe even June.

 

To be fair, Dua won't be competing for #1 on the BB200 so it doesn't matter if she releases close to the Taylor domination, but they're definitely gonna aim for better debuts/peaks in the rest of the world and it wouldn't be smart to release right after her. 

that’s why i think they will release it on late may 

[Digitalism]

1 hour ago, Cain said:

They should’ve just released this tbh, it could even be seen as a whole critique on femicide and Latam would’ve stanned, ugh

Release it with the album Queen 

[Starkboy]

1 hour ago, -brian said:

 

 

 

 

I’m sorry, are we looking at the same data?  ya so weird 

 

34 US (biggest market) 

 

compared to top 5 Europe: 

14 UK (home country) 

61 Germany 

63 Spain 

79 France

86 Italy 

 

and latam:

115 Mexico 

103 Brazil

129 Argentina 

113 Chile

177 Colombia 

 

 the US is carrying this bop 

Hm it doesn’t work like that.

european and latin american charts are full of local artists. It’s way more difficult to push numbers here for an international popstar.

Dua does in fact pull bigger numbers in such continents compared to the typical popstar’s stats.

 

640k vs 3.2M tells you are quite global.

[Bloodflowers.]

Dua shouldn't delay or punish her A-list status in international markets because the US isn't on board (so far). Hope the album is coming even if it underperforms in US this time around. She was doing fine during self-titled era when only New Rules was her only US hit and other songs (including One Kiss) were massive hits globally

[Relampago.]

1 hour ago, curiousladybug said:

So some apparent tea about the OG video and why it was decided it's not gonna be released. It was in the same "world" as the one that was released, meaning it contained minimalistic editing and a plain color pallet, but the story is a bit different. It starts off with Dua and "her bf" walking amongst all these men, none of whom care about Dua now that she has a bf.. Then the argument starts and they break up, music starts right after he leaves her, Dua walks around the city alone and then men start noticing her being alone and start taking action towards her. At first it starts innocently with them giving her flowers, chocolates in a shape of hearts,... Then right before the second chorus things shart taking a turn for the worse with men starting to fight each other, destroying things around them, violently grabbing her.. (Bridge hits) Dua then starts running and bunch of men start running after her (all this in slow motion).. When the last chorus hits things start being REALLY messed up with men using weapons against each other, start running cars trying to catch Dua, destroying buildings/cars around them and completely losing their mind. Consumed by all this hate they end up forgetting about Dua and they end up accidentally k wording Dua and we see her laying on the streets while a bunch of them gather around her after noticing. They quickly lose interest and leave her laying there like nothing happened and they go back to their usual day. Dua "wakes up" and is back at the begging with her bf we saw at the start, she realises it was all a “fantasy” and she laughs and leaves the scene with him, they’re holding hands. She then turns and winks at us. The end. 

Omg this would have been such a serve. I get why they chose to not release this version though. 

 

1 hour ago, Owlie said:

 

this person is reliable I guess

The “chaos” hint is giving me fan theory/assumption teas. I believe it will come late April too, I just don’t think they know that. 

 

I actually don’t think Dua’s team is all that concerned about Taylor. They’ve had this release date in mind for awhile now, and probably aren’t keen on changing more plans surrounding the era. Plus, they’ve been very clear about milking Dua eras and stretching them out while Taylor eras last no more than a month lately with her rapid release schedule. 

 

Plus, I feel like there’s not THAT much overlap between Dua fans and the hardcore Swifties that use all their parents’ credit cards to buy 80 versions. At this point it’s best to just stick to plans considering the mess that’s ensued from shifting them at the beginning of the era. If Dua could make DSN smash while Blinding Lights was also stepping into that sound and smashing harder than ever, I don’t think she necessarily should worry too much about Taylor who isn’t going to touch DL3’s sound on her album.

[Digitalism]

Do we know if the extended version is doing numbers? 

[_Fey]

7 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said:

Dua shouldn't delay or punish her A-list status in international markets because the US isn't on board (so far). Hope the album is coming even if it underperforms in US this time around. She was doing fine during self-titled era when only New Rules was her only US hit and other songs (including One Kiss) were massive hits globally

Yeah I'm really hoping the album announcement isn't being held until they have a proper hit in the US 

 

They also need to remember how well FN was received. If DL3 is anywhere near as well received, that alone will do a lot for its numbers and longevity in the US.

[Waydark]

2 minutes ago, Digitalism said:

Do we know if the extended version is doing numbers? 

 ~ 2M since friday for the extended version. 

[Augmented]

It’s a bit messy at some points but I’m bopping 

 

[SayIt]

10 minutes ago, _Fey said:

Yeah I'm really hoping the album announcement isn't being held until they have a proper hit in the US 

 

They also need to remember how well FN was received. If DL3 is anywhere near as well received, that alone will do a lot for its numbers and longevity in the US.

What do you mean by well received. I was not around during the FN era or really knew who she was. 

[SayIt]

36 minutes ago, Digitalism said:

Release it with the album Queen 

The collapse that would be

[If I'm Dancing]

2 hours ago, curiousladybug said:

So some apparent tea about the OG video and why it was decided it's not gonna be released. It was in the same "world" as the one that was released, meaning it contained minimalistic editing and a plain color pallet, but the story is a bit different. It starts off with Dua and "her bf" walking amongst all these men, none of whom care about Dua now that she has a bf.. Then the argument starts and they break up, music starts right after he leaves her, Dua walks around the city alone and then men start noticing her being alone and start taking action towards her. At first it starts innocently with them giving her flowers, chocolates in a shape of hearts,... Then right before the second chorus things shart taking a turn for the worse with men starting to fight each other, destroying things around them, violently grabbing her.. (Bridge hits) Dua then starts running and bunch of men start running after her (all this in slow motion).. When the last chorus hits things start being REALLY messed up with men using weapons against each other, start running cars trying to catch Dua, destroying buildings/cars around them and completely losing their mind. Consumed by all this hate they end up forgetting about Dua and they end up accidentally k wording Dua and we see her laying on the streets while a bunch of them gather around her after noticing. They quickly lose interest and leave her laying there like nothing happened and they go back to their usual day. Dua "wakes up" and is back at the begging with her bf we saw at the start, she realises it was all a “fantasy” and she laughs and leaves the scene with him, they’re holding hands. She then turns and winks at us. The end. 

So basically a violent version of this? We need it 

[-brian]

58 minutes ago, Starkboy said:

Hm it doesn’t work like that.

european and latin american charts are full of local artists. It’s way more difficult to push numbers here for an international popstar.

Dua does in fact pull bigger numbers in such continents compared to the typical popstar’s stats.

 

640k vs 3.2M tells you are quite global.

??? It doesn’t work like what? What does that have to do with saying the US hates her and she has Europe in a chokehold, when looking at those stats show otherwise? What you said doesn’t change that she’s doing better in the US  

Also.. she’s not american, and the US chart is also full of local artists, remove them and queen is at the top hihi 

Edited February 21 by -brian

[Waydark]

50 minutes ago, Starkboy said:

Hm it doesn’t work like that.

european and latin american charts are full of local artists. It’s way more difficult to push numbers here for an international popstar.

Dua does in fact pull bigger numbers in such continents compared to the typical popstar’s stats.

 

640k vs 3.2M tells you are quite global.

I understand what you are saying. Here in France, she is the only international artist (and ahead of Taylor) in successful singles in recent years. Houdini remains in the top 20 singles filled with local artists (rappers), she is the only international female artist present or at least the most recently.

[Relampago.]

19 minutes ago, SayIt said:

What do you mean by well received. I was not around during the FN era or really knew who she was. 

When the album came out it was basically immediately lauded as THE pop album of the year, even amongst all the competition of Spring 2020 and the peak of COVID. She got good word of mouth and stellar reviews which made the era have legs for awhile even though the singles weren’t mega smashas in the US outside of DSN which had come out nearly half a year before the album at that point.

 

She’s kinda in a similar situation now, given the busy release schedule of Spring 2024, so if she can manage to outshine the other girlies in quality yet again, that’ll do wonders for the era’s good word of mouth. 

Edited February 21 by Relampago.