'Future Nostalgia' review: Dua Lipa's latest is pop music at its most ebullient


By AGENCY

Dua Lipa at the Annual Grammy Awards on January 26,2020, in Los Angeles. Photo: AFP

Is it wrong, right now, to be as happy as Dua Lipa's second album makes you? Is this any time to celebrate pop music at its most ebullient, when we should be bullish on meditation? Shouldn't we be focusing our attention on weightier matters than how to all guiltlessly throw ourselves a solo disco party?

Yet, as she sings here: "I know that I seem a little stressed out... I wanna feel a different kinda tension – yeah you guessed it, the kind that's fun." To which we may respond: TELL US ABOUT IT, DUA.

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The exact right record at the exact wrong time

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