kinda very impressive this hasn't leaked yet… she won (for once)

What can i say about Miss Lipa? 
Genesis was a highlight for me when i first heard it. 
I remember listening to Blow Your Mind and New Rules with some of my friends in the car and we all stanned. 
New Rules blew up, i thought the video was phenomenal. 
I became a casual stan. 
Her dancing meme with One Kiss was and still is hilarious and made me think she was really cool.

I remember i was in college in the 8 B building when she was teasing Don't Start Now and i was so excited to listen to the snippets.

Don't Start Now came out and I thought it was a good song.

Then i started noticing a lot of women in my school using Dua Lipa as a reference for their own work. Which, is a reference i can get on board with. I stanned their songs.

Physical came out and I thought it was great. Being in FN era and Rare era at the same time was a lot of fun.

When FN came out, i was happy it was pushed up a week since i was going through it as we all were during the pandemic and having a great album come out during the first few days of the pandemic was awesome.

Levitating was my instant favorite from FN. Break My Heart i always thought was an amazing song and bigger than a lot of people give it credit for.

I was very happy Levitating did not go #1 and made a GIF i thought was very funny at the time all in good fun.

When i was able to go to the clubs they played Dua A LOT. And i really enjoyed listening to Dua at the club. 
We're Good came out and i thought it was one of her best videos and i loved hearing it on the radio. 
I also pieced together that Dua and Selena have worked with a lot of the same people and potentially that might be why i really enjoyed Dua's production and writing. 
Cold Heart was a magical experience at the clubs.

When Dance The Night came out i thought it was a bit childish but it really grew on me over time. I saw the Barbie movie 3 times in theatres. Twice in English and once in Spanish. I thought it was funnier in English. 
When Houdini came out i thoroughly enjoyed it but didn't get the advertising and descriptions for it at all. 
I kinda got over it quickly. 
When Training Season came out i would listen to both songs and they sounded great together. 
When Illusion came out i decided to officially get hyped for the album. The Illusion video is the only video i thought was to my taste.

I don't know what to expect from this album, she seems to be telling a love story, which i like, but i still don't understand the connection to the Radical Optimism title. 
And anyways i'm excited.

7 hours ago, Cain said:

I loveeeeee the snippets promo, the shark  and ofc Amsterdam making it, we STAN her

You are from Amsterdam?

I wanted to rank the singles prior to the release of the album. I love all three singles truly. Training Season and Illusion were instant for me. Houdini took 4 months before it clicked for me but I still supported it! I will rank the full album after a week. 
 

I ranked each song from 1-10 (10 highest) for instrumental, lyrics, vocals, melodies and overall vibe. The results are listed below. 
 

Houdini:

Instrumental: 10/10

Lyrics: 8/10

Vocals: 8/10

Melodies: 7/10

Vibe: 10/10

Average: 8.4/10

 

Training Season:

Instrumental: 8.5/10

Lyrics: 10/10

Vocals: 9/10

Melodies: 9.5/10

Vibe: 9/10

Average : 9.2/10

 

Illusion:

Instrumental: 7/10

Lyrics: 8/10

Vocals: 8/10

Melodies: 9/10

Vibe: 10/10

Average: 8.4/10

 

Personally: 

Training Season > Illusion > Houdini 

 

We were served top quality. Can't wait to hear the rest of the album! 

There is a Japanese version of the album and it features London Sessions of Illusion, if anyone can find international purchase options for it (like CDJapan) please let me know

https://www.billboard-japan.com/goods/detail/733574

8 minutes ago, BlackoutZone said:

There is a Japanese version of the album and it features London Sessions of Illusion, if anyone can find international purchase options for it (like CDJapan) please let me know

https://www.billboard-japan.com/goods/detail/733574

So Illusion London Session exist  I hope it gets released this Friday.... its time for this song to smash!

I need the album now!! How many more hours? Has anyone received their CDs? 
 

 

58 minutes ago, SayIt said:

You are from Amsterdam?

Yes

38 minutes ago, BlackoutZone said:

There is a Japanese version of the album and it features London Sessions of Illusion, if anyone can find international purchase options for it (like CDJapan) please let me know

https://www.billboard-japan.com/goods/detail/733574

Oh wow! Japan always gets the good stuff.

the first teaser (the miss me? picture) was posted 203 days ago

27 minutes ago, SayIt said:

I need the album now!! How many more hours? Has anyone received their CDs? 
 

 

A little less than 14 hours for NZ

Houdini - TS - Illusion is the best single run in recent pop culture history sawry.

 

Just listened to GODini yesterday and WHEW 

Everyone got their tickets booked for NZ tomorrow? 

9 minutes ago, _Fey said:

Everyone got their tickets booked for NZ tomorrow? 

Catch me or I go... 

 

Use my Kiribatian VPN 

I come to New Zealand and I go...

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i be like OOOooo0ooOo. it's amuuuuusing. you think i'm gonna wait til radical optimism is out in my time zone to LIiiiIiiiIiiiiiisten

catch me or i go NEW ZEALAND

Pains me that tomorrow we'll have three fabulous, improved extended versions plus 8 way-too-short, no-breathing-room additional songs. Oh well,maybe an extended album version in the future 

45 minutes ago, sneakyishere said:

A little less than 14 hours for NZ

Time to tell the government to close the borders

 

About to check the mail to see if the Lenticular CD was delivered today. I am radically optimistic that it is sitting in the mailbox waiting for me

 

I will keep you guys posted

43 minutes ago, _Fey said:

Everyone got their tickets booked for NZ tomorrow? 

When I visited NZ, I got a number from there and created a Spotify account to get first access to midnight releases

 

Hey y'all! Did we get the length duration for the album/songs? If so, can someone post it please. 

The promo with the live sharks everywhere was brilliant, she's coming really hard with all these promos 

Houdini -> Illusion -> Training Season

I liked training season in the beginning but don't like it as much anymore. Still in luv with houdini. So exciteddd for the album 🫡💗

11 minutes ago, GreenFrequncey said:

Hey y'all! Did we get the length duration for the album/songs? If so, can someone post it please. 

It's under the track-listing on Wikipedia!

 

The album is about 37 minutes. 9 of the songs being over 3 minutes, 1 song over 4 minutes, and 1 song only at 2:20

 

Edited May 1, 20242 yr by PotatoPancake420