Dua Lipa Says Future Nostalgia Is All About Evolution

Dua Lipa's sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, drops in 2020 plus it looks to be a bolder and funkier version of the singer than we've previously seen. In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's Beats 1, Dua Lipa spoken about how Future Nostalgia's going to be different from anything that she's ever done.


Future Nostalgia's first two songs are leagues wilder than anything we've heard from Dua Lipa before. The album's self-titled centerpiece is a category five storm of disco that continuously grows because the song goes on; "Don't Begin Now" is similarly vibrant and funk-tastic. It's like the singer went to sleep in 2019 and woke up in an alternate reality where the 1980s have been extended for four decades.


Dua Lipa says in her new interview that she made this change for herself. Any time I began (making) Future Nostalgia, I had a number of people be like, 'All right, you sure this is what you wish to do?' Because of course it is so different from the last record and the last record had the success it did, nevertheless I felt as an artist, I had to grow and I had to mature," she revealed. Immediately after touring for so long, I wanted it to be more instrumental and I felt more comfortable in the studio, so I sort of went in and gave my two cents on what I would want the production to sound like, which wasn't something that I did on my first record."


If you listen to either "Future Nostalgia" or "Don't Begin Right now you'll hear Dua Lipa's conviction about being a powerful woman. On "Don't Begin Right now she's within the past, pressing forward with all of her strength and, on "Future Nostalgia," she's discouraging nervous suitors from even attempting to attract her interest. She's an alpha.


This concentrate on the power of girls was also central to the album's creation. "I discussed about like females in Saudi Arabia and the rights and the things that happen or like if I'm supporting different charities and talking about certain things, especially girls protesting about women's rights," she mentioned in the conversation. "I'm never going to shy away from that and I feel like I have to be a voice for my audience as well because they gave me that platform for that reason."


Check out the entire interview up above.