Dua Lipa is preparing to launch her forthcoming cd, Radical Optimism, and she took a seat with Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly to talk about the motivation behind the task.
“[Releasing the album] feels good. It feels for lack of a better word — radically optimistic,” she shared, prior to clarifying the concept behind the cd cover, which includes the vocalist drifting in a large open sea dealing with a shark fin. “Throughout the whole record, there’s this idea of chaos happening around and me trying to push through it in a way that feels authentic and honest to me.”
The upcoming LP functions her currently launched songs “Houdini” and “Training Season,” the latter of which Lipa states begun as a “joke” in the workshop. “I’d been on a couple of dates, like a string of bad dates,” she remembered. “I went into the studio and was like, ‘Right, I’m done. I don’t want to meet anyone. Training season is over. I’m done training these boys.’”
As a British woman, Lipa is, naturally, a follower of the Spice Girls, and exposed exactly how she never ever reached depict her preferred participant of the team on the primary school play area. “I always wanted to be Baby Spice, but no one wanted to let me be Baby Spice because I wasn’t blonde,” she claimed. “It was a playground hierarchy. It was like, ‘Alright, you get to be Posh.’”
The 11-track Radical Optimism — Lipa’s very first appropriate LP considering that 2020’s Future Nostalgia — shows up May 3. Watch the complete meeting over.
