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Radical Optimism • Third Album

Juan Carlos
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Variants available on Dua's store:

https://ukshop.dualipa.com/

 

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split colour vinyl in transparent dark blue & white (+collectable 8 page book featuring lyrics and exclusive photos) - £40.00

curacao blue vinyl - £25.00

clear cassette - £15.00

lenticular CD - £12.00

 

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Recycled red vinyl available at HMV - £27.00

https://hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/radical-o...d-edition-vinyl

 

Variants available on Amazon

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Clear vinyl - £27.99

Dark blue vinyl - SOLD OUT

I’m not taken by any of the variants. I guess the curacao one maybe feels like the best fit
Spotify sent me a msg sayinf that Dua had prepared domethign JUST FOR ME, as one of her biggest fans... As long as I go and order this limitrd edition album version on her website by such and such a day. But ... I don't use spotify, so how I can be one of her biggest fans? Aso, this album is available for EVERYONE to buy anyway :lol:

Love the title and cover!

 

Wasn’t a fan of ‘Training Season’ but ‘Houdini’ is IT. One of my fav songs of the recent year. Very looking forward to this!

The title definitely has me intrigued about the album. It's not what I was expecting based on the sound of Houdini or Training Season but here for it.
Spotify sent me a msg sayinf that Dua had prepared domethign JUST FOR ME, as one of her biggest fans... As long as I go and order this limitrd edition album version on her website by such and such a day. But ... I don't use spotify, so how I can be one of her biggest fans? Aso, this album is available for EVERYONE to buy anyway :lol:

Whereas I stream her on Spotify all the time but didn't get an email about this :rofl:

Whereas I stream her on Spotify all the time but didn't get an email about this :rofl:

 

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Subject: Dua Lipa made you something special

 

Dua Lipa

Thanks for being a fan

 

To celebrate her new album, radical optimism, Dua Lipa designed this limited-edition picture disc exclusively for her top fans on Spotify.

 

A limited quantity is available for this offer - until March 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM GMT or while supplies last - so act quickly!

 

There is a picture of Dua with the tag, fans first! And a picturw of the album cover after the email text

 

I don't even use spotify!! I use youtube.

Grabbed the cd cassette art card signed bundle! Hopefully the thing bout Presale codes mean we get a tour announcement soon!

Great new interview for Variety

 

Some bits from it:

The resulting album is bright, energized and fresh—something you’d expect from Lipa, but expanding the margins on the disco-pop of “Nostalgia” into more experimental territory. Lead singles “Houdini” and “Training Season” set the table for “Optimism”; both are revved-up dance anthems in line with the pace and sound of the record at large.

 

You talk about your eureka moment. What was that for you?

 

It was a song called “Illusion.” That was a song where I felt like lyrically, I got this radical optimism. I felt very strong in the moment when I was writing that song, because it was really seeing past someone’s bullshit, I guess, for lack of a better word. And understanding it for what it is and just entertaining it for the hell of it, even though you see what’s happening. But I felt in a stronger power of position, because I was like maybe before, I would have fallen for something like this and now I can dance with the illusion, and it’s something for me too, you know? I think musically also, when Kevin and Danny came together and it was the live drums and the synths and the big music breakdown, in my head the big dance moment, when all those came together it was just a feeling. I had a feeling and I was like, now I have something to bounce off of. And in that first week, even though sonically they’re in the same world but they’re very different, I wrote “Illusion” and then I wrote “Happy for You” and “Happy for You” is a much bigger ballad, in a way. Somewhat. I wouldn’t really classify it as a ballad. Because I don’t do songs that are slow and big and emotional, but I just put them in the ballad section, I’m like, I don’t do those. But this feels almost in a world where I can really have this epic singing record that I was able to be very vulnerable and open in. But still sonically, it has this tremolo sound that I’m really obsessed with and it’s Kevin’s voice replicated. We use it as a sample throughout. That was just a moment for me to be really vulnerable and open and honest in what was happening in my life at that point. But I feel overall, in this whole record, I just grew as I was writing. I feel like I matured throughout.

 

You’ve said that this album is inspired by Britpop, but it still sounds like a hard-nosed pop record. How did Britpop inspire you and speak to how the songs were shaped?

 

Well, for me, I think the Britpop element that really came to me was the influences of Oasis and Massive Attack and Portishead and Primal Scream, and the freedom and the energy those records had. I love the experimentation behind it. And of course, it’s a pop record. I’m a pop artist, that’s what I do. But I think overall, the different sounds that are being used, the different breaks in the music, the use of musical samples, whether that’s with Kevin’s voice or with the different instruments that we used, overall it was me going completely out of what I knew, and exploring something different. And that’s what I got from my inspiration. I wasn’t going into Britpop and being like, I’m making this record that sounds exactly like… Because it doesn’t. But it’s a feeling that they portray that when I hear “Teardrop” by Massive Attack and I’m like, how did this song even come to be? It feels like it just happened in a moment of real freedom and writing and emotion, and I think that was just the feeling I was trying to convey more than anything.

 

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Here it is:

 

 

Sadly the alternate cover isn't doing it for me! While the vibe of it is more along the lines of what I expected for this album (than the shark cover), I don't particularly like the picture they've used of her, or the execuction (the crop / text placement). Just not feeling it! :cry:

 

My wallet remains safe... for the time being. :thinking:

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