Following the release of her self-titled debut album in 2017, Dua Lipa started working on new material for her second album in January 2018, and in April she issued a collaboration with Calvin Harris on the 'One Kiss' single, which topped the UK Singles Chart for eight weeks, and which went to become the biggest selling song of 2018 in the UK. It was later reported that she would be releasing collaborations with other artists, with the first one being 'Electricity' with Mark Ronson, which came out in September. In January 2019 she released the single 'Swan Song' as part of the soundtrack to the 2019 film 'Alita: Battle Angel', and later announced that she'd spent the preceding year in the writing process for her second studio album, which would be a "nostalgic" pop record that "feels like a dancercise class". Following the release of its lead single 'Don't Start Now', her second album, 'Future Nostalgia', and its accompanying tour were announced in December 2019. The single peaked at number two on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, where it earned the longest top 10 stay for a British female artist. The second single leading up to the release of the album was 'Physical', which came out in January 2020, and following one more single, 'Break My Heart', 'Future Nostalgia' was issued in March to widespread critical acclaim. It peaked at number one on the Official UK Albums Chart the following week in April 2020, while four of the album's singles entered the top ten of the Official Singles Chart, making her the first British female artist since Vera Lynn to have three top-ten singles in a single calendar year. As with her previous album, Lipa had amassed a vast stock of music that she could pick and choose for inclusion on her second album, and once again they are too good to just be thrown away, and so here is the first of three collections of rejected songs from 2020.
Track listing
01 Ball & Chain
02 Firestarter
03 Better This Way
04 Guilty
05 25-8
06 Talk About It
07 Naked
08 All To Myself
09 Act Of God (feat. Ant Clemons)
10 Delicious
11 Whay I Like
12 If It Ain't Me (feat. Normani)
13 Secrets
14 Love Is Religion
Lipa writes such a great pop song and I like that her voice doesn't have to go into the stratosphere. Thanks for this and the two upcoming ones.
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely something I'm interested in. Thanks.
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