For her subsequent album, Dua Lipa pursued perfection. And, as historical past tells us, perfection takes time and laborious graft.
The British and Albanian star opened the 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles with a efficiency of “Coaching Season” and “Houdini,” the primary singles from her forthcoming third album.
Lipa stayed on in L.A., and stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Dwell on Thursday evening (Feb. 8) for a chat about her writing course of.
“Coaching Season” and “Houdini,” we discovered, made the minimize from nearly 100 songs penned for the undertaking, every of which lives in treasured guide which Lipa confirmed to Kimmel.
“It’s acquired each single track I wrote for this album,” she says of the guide. ”I wrote 97 songs.” Are any of them horrible? “Heaps,” she admits. “About 80 of them.”
“Coaching Season” and “Houdini” aren’t amongst them.
Because the 2020 launch of her hit sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, Lipa has grown in confidence.
“The second I write a track, I do know its good or not or whether or not its shut,” she tells Kimmel. “Each track on this album not like any of the opposite data I’ve made, I’ve gone in and I’ve re-written it time and again, till I felt prefer it was excellent, which I didn’t actually have the arrogance to do on my earlier data.”
Earlier in her profession, she continues, no matter was written on the day “was just about what everybody heard.”
This time, “I’m rather more assured in myself as a songwriter and as a performer and the way I need issues to be and sound and look.” On the brand new assortment, she “went in, digged a bit deeper, and I modified issues to the purpose that it felt excellent to me. And I really feel happy with it.”
Throughout her look as Kimmel’s visitor, Lipa talked fangirling Katy Perry, examined some Albanian expressions with the host, and defined how she has meticulously stored notes since she “was tiny,” accumulating on paper her “concepts, plans and desires.”
What she didn’t talk about was the album title, its tracklist or launch date. “As a result of I wish to preserve it a secret for a bit bit longer,” she says. “I can’t reveal my secrets and techniques.”
The forthcoming LP is the followup to Future Nostalgia, which logged 4 weeks at No. 1 on the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart, received finest pop vocal album on the 2021 Grammy Awards, and featured “Levitating,” the No. 1 hit on Billboard’s 2021 year-end Scorching 100 Songs chart.
Watch the late-night interview under.
