« Future Nostalgia » — Dua Lipa’s Grammy-winning 2020 album — is the twirling template for her third LP « Radical Optimism, » out Friday.
Sometimes in the whimsical world of pop, it’s not so much about the tempo, but the timing — the temperature of the moment.
Such was the case when Dua Lipa — the “New Rules” breakout who went from working the runway to working the dance floor with her self-titled 2017 debut.
The 28-year-old diva seemed destined to be one of those Best New Artist Grammy winners we never heard from again back in 2019. (Think Taste of Honey, who “Boogie Oogie Oogied” into oblivion after nabbing that gramophone in 1979.)
But against all social media haters, Lipa flipped the script — right along with her perfectly tossed tresses — when she turned lockdown into a getdown with her second album, “Future Nostalgia,” as the lowest of the pandemic blues was setting in at the end of March 2020.
In fact, with such little space left on the dance floor of our minds, Lipa basically beat-blocked none other than Lady Gaga from getting into the quarantine groove when her superior set, “Chromatica,” dropped in May 2020.
