Dua Lipa is ushering in a brand new period. After weeks of cryptic teasing, the three-time Grammy winner has lastly unleashed her extremely anticipated new single, “Houdini.”
On Nov. 1, Lipa introduced the track’s title and launch date within the caption of a publish displaying the quilt artwork. The announcement arrived after weeks of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it teasers sporadically posted to Lipa’s social media pages, a nod to the elusive air of Harry Houdini, the enduring Hungarian-American escape artist and illusionist from whom the track’s title derives.
With its twinkling synths and pounding drums, “Houdini” finds Lipa starting to maneuver away from the nu-disco love affair she started on 2020’s Future Nostalgia. “Do you consider it night time and day?/ Possibly you might be the one to make me keep,” she sings. The brand new single options manufacturing and writing contributions for a slew of notable names together with Kevin Parker, Tobias Jesso Jr. and Lipa herself.
“Houdini” marks Lipa’s first solo non-soundtrack single in two years. For the reason that launch of Future Nostalgia — which spawned a number of Billboard Sizzling 100 hits together with “Don’t Begin Now” (No. 2), “Levitating” (No. 2) and “Break My Coronary heart” (No. 13) — Lipa has appeared on only a handful of official releases. The newest of these releases is “Dance the Evening,” her Barbie soundtrack smash that could possibly be a contender for a track of the yr and report of the yr nomination on the 2024 Grammys. The Mark Ronson-produced banger climbed to a peak of No. 6 on the Sizzling 100 and topped each the Grownup Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts.
Take heed to “Houdini” and watch the music video above.
