The music from Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism sounds very modern. Despite this, one of the album’s creators explained how Motown songs inspired it. He picked out one Smokey Robinson tune in particular as a model for the songs on Dua Lipa’s newest record. Notably, Robinson said he had a lot to say about his legacy as a musicians.
A producer compared Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ to a Smokey Robinson song
Lipa is a high-tech, modern pop star. Her music is filled with synthesizers and the latest genre trends. However, even the most forward-thinking pop stars can look to the past for inspiration. The classic hits of Motown inspired the construction of songs from Lipa’s Radical Optimism if not its sonic palette.
Danny L Harle is one of the producers of Radical Optimism. During a 2024 interview with Grammy.com, Harle discussed one of the concepts behind the album.
A producer compared Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ to a Smokey Robinson song
Lipa is a high-tech, modern pop star. Her music is filled with synthesizers and the latest genre trends. However, even the most forward-thinking pop stars can look to the past for inspiration. The classic hits of Motown inspired the construction of songs from Lipa’s Radical Optimism if not its sonic palette.
Danny L Harle is one of the producers of Radical Optimism. During a 2024 interview with Grammy.com, Harle discussed one of the concepts behind the album.
- 5/9/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
So much of modern music feels like it was created by a computer algorithm to appeal to as many people as possible while having little artistic value. Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism is the antithesis of that. The album’s producer discussed his history of working with avant-garde musicians and why he brought the same energy to working with the “Levitating” singer.
The connection between Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ and Charli Xcx
Danny L Harle is a songwriter and producer who has worked with artists such as Charli Xcx and Rina Sawayama. More recently, he was one of the producers of Lipa’s Radical Optimism. During a 2024 interview with Grammy.com, he was asked if he approached Radical Optimism differently than his work with underground singers.
“Not at all,” he replied. “My approach to this stuff, especially these days, is that I can just do my thing. I’m...
The connection between Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ and Charli Xcx
Danny L Harle is a songwriter and producer who has worked with artists such as Charli Xcx and Rina Sawayama. More recently, he was one of the producers of Lipa’s Radical Optimism. During a 2024 interview with Grammy.com, he was asked if he approached Radical Optimism differently than his work with underground singers.
“Not at all,” he replied. “My approach to this stuff, especially these days, is that I can just do my thing. I’m...
- 5/9/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Saturday Night Live host and musical guest Dua Lipa performed two entries from her third studio album, Radical Optimism, which came out Friday.
After leading off with the dance track “Illusion,” the British pop star returned with “Happy For You,” the album’s closing single.
Lipa, Rolling Stone‘s cover artist back in January, told us then of her latest album: “I want to capture the essence of youth and freedom and having fun and just letting things happen, whether it’s good or bad. You can’t change it.
After leading off with the dance track “Illusion,” the British pop star returned with “Happy For You,” the album’s closing single.
Lipa, Rolling Stone‘s cover artist back in January, told us then of her latest album: “I want to capture the essence of youth and freedom and having fun and just letting things happen, whether it’s good or bad. You can’t change it.
- 5/5/2024
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
The glass is half full: Dua Lipa has dropped Radical Optimism! On Friday, the British singer officially released her third studio album, led by singles “Houdini,” “Training Season,” and “Illusion.”
The album was co-produced by Danny L Harle, Kevin Parker, Andrew Wyatt, and Ian Kirkpatrick and features 11 tracks that came from writing sessions that date as back as 2021. Among the tracks on the album are songs such as “End of an Era,” which she told Rolling Stone last month “was just the maddest one when we were mixing it. I...
The album was co-produced by Danny L Harle, Kevin Parker, Andrew Wyatt, and Ian Kirkpatrick and features 11 tracks that came from writing sessions that date as back as 2021. Among the tracks on the album are songs such as “End of an Era,” which she told Rolling Stone last month “was just the maddest one when we were mixing it. I...
- 5/3/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
At the root of “radical behaviorism,” a concept popularized by psychologist B.F. Skinner in the 1970s, is the belief that all behavior is the result of external conditioning and can thus be controlled. Think Pavlov’s dog. The title of Dua Lipa’s third studio album, Radical Optimism, nods to Skinner’s concept, but the British pop singer’s conviction that finding joy amid the chaos of life is simply a choice is more akin to that of a self-help book or the principles of Burning Man, which emphasize an empowering sense of self-reliance and expression.
“I know the mind is quick to throw away the moment,” Lipa pronounces on “Falling Forever,” a rollicking barnburner about keeping the lovelights aflame. She dispenses similar nuggets of wisdom and affirmations—often directed at herself—throughout Radical Optimism, acknowledging her control issues on “Whatcha Doing” while at the same time finding a bit...
“I know the mind is quick to throw away the moment,” Lipa pronounces on “Falling Forever,” a rollicking barnburner about keeping the lovelights aflame. She dispenses similar nuggets of wisdom and affirmations—often directed at herself—throughout Radical Optimism, acknowledging her control issues on “Whatcha Doing” while at the same time finding a bit...
- 5/3/2024
- by Sal Cinquemani
- Slant Magazine
Dua Lipa holds hands with beau Callum Turner while heading out to Zero Bond on Thursday night (April 25) in New York City.
The 28-year-old “Illusion” singer switched up her outfit from earlier in the night, where the cute couple both attended the Time100 Gala. Callum kept on the same suit throughout the night.
While they were both in attendance, once again they did not pose for any photos together, not even inside the event.
At the Gala, Callum did meet up with Dev Patel and posed for a photo with his fellow actor. Check it out in the gallery!
If you missed it, Dua just broke a Billboard record as she holds the top three spots on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart – Congrats!
It was recently announced that Callum will be starring in a new Apple TV+ series, Neuromancer, where he will star as “a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named...
The 28-year-old “Illusion” singer switched up her outfit from earlier in the night, where the cute couple both attended the Time100 Gala. Callum kept on the same suit throughout the night.
While they were both in attendance, once again they did not pose for any photos together, not even inside the event.
At the Gala, Callum did meet up with Dev Patel and posed for a photo with his fellow actor. Check it out in the gallery!
If you missed it, Dua just broke a Billboard record as she holds the top three spots on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart – Congrats!
It was recently announced that Callum will be starring in a new Apple TV+ series, Neuromancer, where he will star as “a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named...
- 4/26/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
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