27 minutes ago, Parallel said:

I can see this doing better than Training Season, the "ooo"s are addicting and the semi-baby voice is trendy. But can her stans stop pretending this is some experimental psychedelic massive-departure from her previous sound era  

Literally. Why are we acting like this album is in an entirely different vein that FN? It's very similar. Euro 80s pop is Dua's signature. The songs so far have been good and they would've fit into FN easily 

1 minute ago, mike_int said:

Next Thursday/Friday depend on your location

 

 

Thanks! It sounds fun but nothing special 

Damn this is really not great  I really wanted to love this era, I thought the first 2 singles were maybe just different from the rest of the album but 3 songs that are not giving means the rest of the album won't be any better 

Im sure "Illusion" will deliver, there will be interesting element just like there was in TS and Houdini

 

Sounds like a Hallucinate demo.

 

This era is so confusing cause the songs doesn't match the album aesthetic, the title and there's no departure from her previous sound - and there's nothing wrong with that but i feel like she thinks she's doing something else

is this a 90s uk rave-culture inspired record paying tributes to the likes of moby, massive attack and primal scream or not? the people need to know, dua

Houdini does NOT sound like it belongs on FN. like how is that a thing some of you think? 

 

it's like saying bad romance would fit on the the fame or born this way which – yes you can say that if you think just because something is "dark synth pop" it all sounds the same, but there's clear differences to the sound of each of the three albums. the same way houdini is serving pop bop with vintage (let's say psychedelic) inspiration, but just because of that, it doesn't sound like it would fit right next to don't start now, levitating and physical.

I loved Houdini and Training Season but this snippet isn't giving for me, I'll wait for the full song to judge though

This sounds like one of those generic songs you would hear from Ava Max or that kind of artists 

 

Dua, we need an album of Houdinis 

Edited April 4, 20242 yr by GuyNextDoor

Illusion is the first song I could see fitting on FN but that's pretty much only because Hallucinate exists and admittedly that song is pretty different from the rest of FN anyways lol 

It's very Calvin Harris vibes so I love it already. But I agree with everyone that so far this album is not a departure from the FN sound  which is fine but her stans need to stop saying that this is psychedelic music because it's not. 

This sounds alright. I wish Houdini did better commercially as I really like it. Dare I say it might be time to throw Dance the Night into the tracklist to save the era. 

Edited April 4, 20242 yr by Anomaly

39 minutes ago, Iris said:

The instrumental

its not psychedelic at all. especially not considering kevin parker is the man behind the music. 

sounds like a lesser version of hallucinate but still a bop. i am just confused by the album aesthetic, sound and thread-line not matching at all. future nostalgia was such a clear concept and world, everything about this era is incoherent besides the £10 budget mvs 

with all said tho, i actually like the snippet. even considering its not necessarily what i expected. hopefully the album tracks are really giving that tame impala dreamscape sound that i've been craving from her ever since she teased this album.

6 minutes ago, DUA LIPA said:

Houdini does NOT sound like it belongs on FN. like how is that a thing some of you think? 

 

it's like saying bad romance would fit on the the fame or born this way which – yes you can say that if you think just because something is "dark synth pop" it all sounds the same, but there's clear differences to the sound of each of the three albums. the same way houdini is serving pop bop with vintage (let's say psychedelic) inspiration, but just because of that, it doesn't sound like it would fit right next to don't start now, levitating and physical.

tell 'em

 

all these meltdowns over a 29 secs. snippet  

 

Yeah im checking out. This entire era has been one disappoint after another. Shes back to indie pop level. MPG my ***.

This doesn't sound as cool as Houdini/Training Season but hey. I'll be streaming.

1 minute ago, LanaXtinaFan said:

Yeah im checking out. This entire era has been one disappoint after another. Shes back to indie pop level. MPG my ***.

Indie pop level selling out 20k venue within minutes with already another world tour scheduled

 

The delusion of some of you

Out of the 3 singles Houdini is gonna be the one that stands out the most I feel like. Unless there's a twist on Illusion that we haven't heard yet.

 

I've absolutely loved everything she's released so far and this one definitely will be my jam too, my only issue with this era is that she labeled it as psychedelic from the jump and everyone expected a huge departure from FN when in reality the psychedelic influence is pretty minimal so far. Hope we get to hear more of that in the album, I need more Tame Impala in there sonically. Kevin should've gone ALL OUT!!!

1 minute ago, mike_int said:

Indie pop level selling out 20k venue within minutes with already another world tour scheduled

 

The delusion of some of you

In her main market; you mean. Wait til she attempts the US. Her presence here is non existent this era. Flop after flop.

 

Quality of music and commercial performance… indie vibes. She doesn't even care to put in 10% of the effort she did for FN.

 

AND… her team sucks. Bye.

Saying Houdini sounds like FN is crazy tho. As soon as I heard that beat drop I was like yeah that's Tame Impala right there. Sounds nothing like Dua made before. I just need more of THAT

It kinda sounds like Hallucinate to me

Looks like Kevin did the bare minimum on each track he co-produced but minimalism seems to be one of the main themes of this era. Just lower your expectations and enjoy the bops

Just now, LanaXtinaFan said:

In her main market; you mean. Wait til she attempts the US. Her presence here is non existent this era. Flop after flop.

 

Quality of music and commercial performance… indie vibes. She doesn't even care to put in 10% of the effort she did for FN.

 

AND… her team sucks. Bye.

I dont care about US market, I care about quality music and based on whats topping US charts for last decade "quality" is not the term to describe it