With its pulsing physicality and its echoes of club music history, Dua Lipa's new album is the disco liberation soundtrack we need these days
— there’s nothing wrong with assembling an album of throwback bangers, anyway — but her aesthetic choices add up to a clear homage to that era and the synth-heavy dance-pop that followed. Released right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic while nearly everyone is stuck at home, her album is ironically now a prescription for better living while wehas traces of those pop stars who previously looked to disco for inspiration, including Lady Gaga, Queen, and Madonna.
There’s also a thread of uncertainty that runs through songs like “Break My Heart” and “Physical,” as if it’s impossible to know how new relationships or even a hot-burning love will shake out — a feeling that that’s heightened at present. In the darker-sounding “Physical,” she insists on trusting the instincts of her body: “Lights out, follow the noise/Baby keep on dancing like we ain’t got a choice,” she sings.
The future beyond the pandemic is vague at best, but we can momentarily escape the grimness of the news cycle and the sameness of our surroundings by setting our bodies free at home.is a perfect soundtrack to put us in that headspace, at least until we can all be together in a dark, crowded room again.
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