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 Did you anticipate Dua becoming a #1 pop girl?, esp. if you came across her before New Rules |
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 May 19 2018, 08:18 AM
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Just something that came to me earlier this morning when I saw the One Kiss video come on TV. Dua looks stunning and really a shining star, and I just was thinking, I never would have predicted that the singer of Blow Your Mind (Mwah) would do any better than a few minor UK top 40 hits and then fade away, or at best, have a Marina and the Diamonds type career as an alternative pop player.
Wondered what everyone else's thoughts were? (Obviously if you didn't discover her until around New Rules, the ball was well rolling by then) |
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May 19 2018, 08:21 AM
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I don’t think anyone expected her to be big tbh
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May 19 2018, 02:20 PM
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Definitely not
I don't think anyone could have predicted just how major she's become? Especially with all the stop starts before the album, and then the lackluster album launch. |
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May 19 2018, 02:25 PM
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Brown cow, stunning!
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No, I knew there was potential once Be The One came out but I really thought she'd be sort of a Marina/Lana type where she never quite gets that massive hit but is loved online, by the gays etc
 First listen of New Rules when the album came out I knew she'd struck gold though! |
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May 19 2018, 06:57 PM
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QUOTE(Liаm @ May 19 2018, 03:25 PM)  No, I knew there was potential once Be The One came out but I really thought she'd be sort of a Marina/Lana type where she never quite gets that massive hit but is loved online, by the gays etc First listen of New Rules when the album came out I knew she'd struck gold though! Yeah 'New Rules' as a pop song really was absolute GENIUS and it definitely elevated her career to the next level, I was gonna say 'saved' but I suppose she was doing ok enough before that and the album went top 5 without New Rules. I like her but she still doesn't seem like a big #1 pop girl to me, like it's easy to forget this time last year Lost In Your Light was coming out
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May 19 2018, 07:00 PM
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 you never forget your first time...
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I never had such high expectations for her, even when I first heard New Rules as an album track. I was hoping it would be a cute post-album hit to help it sell a few more copies. It was the music video that truly showed her off as a potential global star and it's clear to see why it blew up like it did!
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May 19 2018, 07:38 PM
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Never would have anticipated this! Pre-New Rules release, I liked Dua, but I wasn't even particularly rooting for her to become a big pop girl. The New Rules video opened my eyes to her having more potential than I'd initially given her credit for.
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May 19 2018, 09:25 PM
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Same as pretty much everyone else tbh, pre-New Rules (more the video tbh) I kinda just expected her to be one of those forum faves with songs like Be The One and Hotter Than Hell, would never in a MILLION years have seen her becoming the global smash she is, she really just didn't give off that vibe, but boy am I glad she exploded
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May 20 2018, 02:28 AM
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Well, she always had the potential to blow up and every now & then someone takes you by surprise so yeah, guess it was her time!
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May 20 2018, 04:38 PM
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It's still so weird how big she is now. After Be The One flopped the first time around I thought she was going to have a really hard time
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May 20 2018, 05:24 PM
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I felt like they'd spent about a year trying so hard to make her happen and nobody really cared, then around the time of 'Lost In Your Light' I thought it was most likely she'd just fade away or have feature hits.
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May 20 2018, 05:47 PM
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It's weird - Anne-Marie, Zara and Dua have all had fairly similar career trajectory's, getting one big hit (Lush Life / Be The One / Ciao Adios) and then flopping badly with the follow up (So Good / Lost In Your Light / Heavy) before turning it around almost seemlessly with their next release (Symphony / FRIENDS / New Rules).
I didn't anticipate her being huge, I thought she'd be about the same level as Anne-Marie is right now at best. I still find it mad that I've actually met her and had a conversation with her just after she released 'Hotter Than Hell'. |
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May 20 2018, 06:42 PM
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Speaking of Anne-Marie, here’s her chart success so far in comparison to Dua’s.
It’s so bizarre how big she’s become. Anne-Marie has had a steady climb and is only now just starting to get big success. Also, what was bigger... Rockabye or New Rules? Both will be remembered very well in a decades time. Anne-Marie #90 Do It Right #16 Alarm #1 Rockabye #09 Ciao Adios #37 Heavy ~ minor hit, definitely bigger than So Good and LIYL #87 Then [NAS] #4 FRIENDS #5 2002 Dua Lipa #15 Hotter Than Hell #30 Blow Your Mind (Mwah) #14 Scared To Be Lonely #86 Lost In Your Light #1 New Rules #3 IDGAF #1 One Kiss This post has been edited by Cqmerqn: May 20 2018, 06:44 PM |
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May 20 2018, 06:49 PM
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No I hated all her pre-New Rules music and never thought she was going to become big
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May 20 2018, 10:59 PM
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She's doing well, but she has a very long way to go still
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