Dua Lipa “digged a bit deeper” and wrote 97 songs for brand spanking new album
Dua Lipa has mentioned she wrote 97 songs for her upcoming third album.
In a brand new interview on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, Lipa opened up about her technique of writing the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Future Nostalgia’. Up to now, the pop star has launched the only ‘Houdini’ and previewed ‘Coaching Season’ throughout a efficiency on the Grammys 2024.
Now, the singer has revealed that she wrote 97 observe for her new file, even giving Kimmel the pocket book that accommodates “each single track I’ve written for this album”. The ebook has the dates ‘2021’, ‘2022’ and ‘2023’ written alongside its cowl, and options doodles of flowers, nautilus shells in a checkerboard sample, and the phrase ‘LOVE’ drawn within the top-right.
Lipa additional revealed that there have been “heaps” of songs within the pocket book that have been “horrible”: “About 80 of them.”
She continued: “The second I write a track, I do know it’s good or not or whether or not it’s shut. 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 over and over, till I felt prefer it was excellent, which I didn’t actually have the boldness to do on my earlier data.”
Lipa mentioned beforehand that no matter she wrote on the day “was just about what everybody heard”. Her new album, nonetheless, has seen a shift within the singer’s writing course of: “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.”
Lastly, Lipa revealed 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.”
The singer has been slowly teasing hints of the sound of her new LP. Beforehand, she referred to as the album “psychedelic pop-infused”, citing Primal Scream, Large Assault, Oasis, Blur, Moby and Gorillaz as influences.
Kevin Parker additionally shared what it was like working with Lipa, calling her a “brutal editor”: “’Houdini’, for instance, took months to get proper.”
In different information, Lipa has mentioned her “uncooked” new album tries to “seize the essence of youth and freedom and having enjoyable”.