Pop star Dua Lipa’s new album, Radical Optimismwill be released by Warner Music on May 3rd and, according to the British singer and songwriter of Albanian origin, “explores the pure joy and happiness of being able to look clearly at situations that once seemed impossible to face”.
In this, his third studio album – after the eponymous Dua Lipa (2017) and Future Nostalgia (2020) –, the singer includes 11 tracks, two of which have already been released: Houdini It is Training seasonwhich he performed earlier this month at the 2024 Brit Awards, where he won his seventh award, this time awarded in the Best Pop Artist category.
With a group of collaborators that includes Caroline Ailin, co-author of several of his hits, Danny L. Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr. and Kevin Parker, also known as Tame Impala, the album, which is already on pre-sale, was inspired by the “rawness and honesty” of “90s Britpop”, and also by trip-hop and psychedelic music from the 70s, says the artist in a press release. “All of this always sounded so optimistic to me”, she explained.
“A few years ago, a friend introduced me to the concept of radical optimism, which resonated with me, and which I became more curious about as I played with it and wove it into my life”, says Dua Lipa. , explaining that she was particularly impressed by “this idea of going through chaos with grace and feeling that you can weather any storm.” Perhaps this is a bit the idea that the album cover aims to convey, with its image of the artist floating in the ocean, looking serenely at a shark that is almost reaching her.
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Also an actress, dancer and model, Dua Lipa, who is now 28 years old, was born in London, to Kosovar-Albanian parents, and lived part of her childhood and adolescence in Pristina, Kosovo. She was just 14 years old when she began sharing her interpretations of other musicians’ songs on YouTube, but her international recognition came in 2015, when she signed a contract with Warner Music, where she released songs such as New love or your first big success, Be the one.
At the beginning of this decade, she became the first singer to have four songs listened to more than two billion times on Spotify: New rules (2017), One kiss (2018), Don’t start now (2019) and Levitating (2020).
Dua Lipa also stands out for her unusual political involvement among young pop stars. In the United Kingdom, where he lives, he supported the Labor Party several times, although he frequently criticized some of its policies, and in the 2020 American elections, which gave victory to Joe Biden, he publicly assumed his preference for Bernie Sanders, connoted with the left wing of the Democratic Party, which would end up withdrawing its candidacy.
In addition to those already mentioned Houdini It is Training seasonhis new album includes the themes End of an era, These walls, Whatcha doing, French exit, Illusion, Falling forever, Anything for love, Maria It is Happy for you.
The singer passed through Portugal on her European tour to launch Future Nostalgia in 2022. He was also the first name confirmed to set foot on the Passeio Marítimo de Algés in the 16th edition of Nos Alive, where he will be on the 12th of July.
