Dua Lipa preparing to release her upcoming album, Radical Optimismand sat with her Advertising signTetris Kelly to discuss the inspiration behind the project.
“[Releasing the album] it feels good. She feels for lack of a better word — radically optimistic,” she shared, before explaining the concept behind the album cover, which shows the singer floating in a wide-open ocean with a shark fin. “Throughout the record, there's this idea of chaos going on around me and trying to overcome it in a way that feels authentic and honest to me.”
The upcoming LP features her already released singles “Houdini” and “Training Season,” the latter of which Lipa says started as a “joke” in the studio. “I was on a few dates, like a series of bad dates,” she recalls. “I went into the studio and said, 'Right, I'm done. I don't want to meet anyone. The training season is over. I'm done training these boys.”
As a Brit, Lipa is, of course, a fan of the Spice Girls and revealed how she never got to portray her favorite group member in the primary school playground. “I always wanted to be Baby Spice, but nobody wanted to let me be Baby Spice because I wasn't blonde,” she said. “It was a playground hierarchy. He was like, “Okay, you've got to be Posh.”
The 11 track Radical Optimism — Lipa's first proper LP since 2020 Future Nostalgia — arrives May 3. Watch the full interview above.
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