Diary scribbles turned into album
Dua Lipa has revealed her upcoming album is based on her own diary extracts, making it her most personal music to date.
Dua – who this week nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for her Barbie track, Dance the Night – has spent two years working on her third studio album. She says she needed the time to gain “perspective” on her scribblings about “incidents” that she had written down in the heat of the moment. Which, we’re sure, will come as a relief to anyone who has fallen out with her recently… and her very recent ex Anwar Hadid. Speaking this week, Dua said: “Most of the album was intimately in diary form, so I write about things when they happened. “I think how you feel about something 24 hours after an incident has happened – and then when you look back at it two weeks, a month, later – your perspective completely changes. “So I think it’s important to always take a bit of a breather from something, look back on it, and then be, like, ‘All right, I’m ready’.”
Admitting the writing process had been “quite long”, with as many as 97 songs to pick from, Dua added: “When I write albums, I have to kind of get through a bunch of s**t ideas to get to the ones I feel are special.
“I feel like now I know where I’m heading.”
The New Rules singer – who recently erased all her past social media posts – went on to say she is enjoying a fresh start with a “whole new era and a new sound”.
Her first single from the album, Houdini, is about catching an admirer’s eye in a club and leaving without saying goodbye. Discussing the song on US radio, Brit Dua laughed: “I’m like Houdini at the end of the night at the club.
“The whole idea of it is it’s Houdini in the sense of, ‘OK, there are too many red flags here. I have to see those red flags for what they are, and not be like, ‘Oh, actually, I’m sure it can change…’
“What are my red flags? Gosh, it could be anything from chewing and talking with your mouth open, to little ankle socks.” Men everywhere, take note…
‘‘ My red flags? Chewing and talking, or those little ankle socks