Future Nostalgia trivia: 50 facts about the new Dua Lipa album

Future Nostalgia is the second album by singer Dua Lipa. The album is heavily influenced by ’80s and ’90s disco music.

Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new album.

1. Future Nostalgia is the second studio album by English singer Dua Lipa
2. It was released on 27 March 2020 by Warner Records
3. It was leaked in its entirety two weeks before its original release date, 3 April 2020
4. Dua Lipa stared working on the album in early 2018
5. Lipa enlisted writers and producers such as Jeff Bhasker, Ian Kirkpatrick, Stuart Price, The Monsters and the Strangerz and others
6. She wanted to create a “nostalgic” pop and disco album with influences from dance-pop and electronic music
7. The album is inspired by artists such as Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Moloko, Blondie and Outkast
8. The album was preceded by three singles and one promotional single
9. “Don’t Start Now” was released on November 1, 2019, as the album’s lead single, attaining both critical and commercial success
10. The song became her first top three entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
11. The title track was released as a promotional single on December 13, 2019
12. “Physical” and “Break My Heart” were released as the second and third singles, respectively
13. To promote the album, Lipa announced the Future Nostalgia Tour, commencing in January 2021
14. Upon its release, Future Nostalgia received widespread acclaim from music critics
15. With many praising its cohesiveness and production
16. Musically, Future Nostalgia has been described as a disco, pop, electro and dance-pop record with influences of funk, house, dark synth-pop and R&B with Lipa’s vocals
17. Lyrically, the album has themes of moving on, empowerment, equality and emancipation
18. Described by Lipa as a “dancersize class”
19. She took inspiration from music in the 80s, 90s and 00s to create a “timeless modern-retro dance sound”
20. The album’s standard edition contains 11 tracks
21. It opens with its title track, which is a “playful and fun” pop and electro song with influences of disco and funk
22. In the song, Lipa sings about female empowerment and confidence while “talk-singing” compared to Kesha
23. The following track and lead single, “Don’t Start Now” is a blend of multiple genres including disco, nu-disco, pop, dance and Eurodance
24. The song sees Lipa addressing an ex-lover about moving on from a relationship
25. “Cool” is a joyous synth-pop ballad where Lipa “turns up the heat about being in the throes of a hot romance”
26. “Physical” is a “powerful club-ready banger” that blends many pop subgenres including synth-pop, power pop, futurepop and dark pop rock
27. Lyrically, the song sees Lipa “feeling ‘diamond rich’ with her new lover, so keyed up on the honeymoon phase that she can’t sleep”
28. The “dancefloor ready” “Levitating”, is a disco song where Lipa was compared to The Spice Girls
29. The song features a “rubbery bassline” and “syncopated handclaps” where Lipa sings about a love that is “written in the stars”
30. “Pretty Please” is a “stripped-back” song that emphasises the bass, guitars and synths of the song
31. It has been described as “70s disco to late ’90s/early ’00s dance-pop” as well as a “seductive slow burner”
32. “Hallucinate”, which was compared to the styles of Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga, is a beach-pop, dance-pop and house song
33. The song has been described as a festival opener and club closer
34. The “dizzying dance-floor filler” “Love Again” is a “pro-love” song that takes form in electro-swing pop, dance-pop and disco
35. “Break My Heart” is about the “shoulda, woulda, coulda’s” about Lipa’s relationship choices and being unable to resist the temptation of pursuing love
36. The song has been described as dance-pop and disco-pop in a “retro-futuristic” style
37. “Good in Bed”, Lipa describes as about “when good sex is the only thing that was holding two people together”
38. The song was lyrically compared to Lily Allen and musically to Lizzo, being a funk-pop song
39. The closing track, “Boys Will Be Boys”, sees Lipa “take aim at sexual harassment, double standards and what it is really like to be a woman”
40. Musically, the song is a baroque pop ballad
41. Lipa also announced the Future Nostalgia Tour in support of the album
42. The tour is scheduled to begin on 3 January 2021 in Newcastle, England
43. It consists of 21 announced shows
44. She also headlined the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on 29 February
45. She was scheduled to perform at the Glastonbury Festival on 26 June and Sziget Festival on 5 August
46. Future Nostalgia received widespread acclaim from music critics
47. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 89
48. Based on 16 reviews
49. Indicating “universal acclaim”
50. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 8.5 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus