Dua Lipa is to ditch her disco pop period in favour of music knowledgeable by “Nineteen Seventies-era psychedelia”.
A New York Instances profile on the Grammy-winning pop star, 27, has claimed the ‘Bodily’ hitmaker is reinventing her sound for her follow-up to 2020’s dance document ‘Future Nostalgia’, and is getting assist from psychedelic act Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.
Requested if the hearsay is true, she coyly replied: “I don’t know what you’re speaking about.”
The profile famous: “She doesn’t wish to “alienate” them [her fans], though she’s creating a brand new sound that could be knowledgeable much less by the home and disco beats beneath songs like ‘Bodily’ and ‘Hallucinate’ than by Nineteen Seventies-era psychedelia.”
Final month, Mark Ronson revealed that he has already heard “some” of Dua’s new album.
The studio wizard – who introduced Dua on board for the hit ‘Dance The Evening’ for the ‘Barbie’ soundtrack – has hinted at what followers can anticipate from her third studio effort.
He informed Vulture: “I’ve heard a few of it and it is unimaginable.”
Referencing the music video for ‘Dance The Evening’, he steered that one key second could possibly be an enormous trace of what is to return.
He added: “I feel that’s why there’s the disco ball that smashes within the video, proper?
“This seems like her triumphant stomp on that period of her music into no matter she does subsequent.”
Followers are nonetheless ready for a launch date for the upcoming document.
Dua backtracked after telling Sir Elton John the gathering was “50 per cent finished” in March final yr.
Nonetheless, in December she admitted the document had “taken an entire flip”.
She informed Selection: “Once I was chatting with Elton, I actually felt like I used to be midway finished.
“But it surely’s taken an entire flip as I’ve carried on working, and I actually really feel now that it’s beginning to sound cohesive.
“So I’m going to maintain writing within the early months of the brand new yr and see the place that takes me.”
She admitted the document is “totally different sonically” from what’s come earlier than and teased that the title would make “every part” clearer to her followers.
She added: “The album is totally different – it’s nonetheless pop however it’s totally different sonically, and there’s extra of a lyrical theme.
“If I informed you the title, every part would make sense – however I feel we’ll simply have to attend.”
