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Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia Results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
BlueCrystalTear (8)
CasanovaZelos (10)
VeryInsane (14)
MetalmindStats (16)
Seanchan (20)
ChichiriMuyo (22)
neonreaper (24)
Johnbobb (24)
Raetsel_Lapin (26)
Mr Lasastryke (34)

General Album Comments

Seanchan: Very interested to see the reaction to Future Nostalgia. It's so damn pop I think it's going to be pretty mixed, a few who love it, a few who hate it because it's not their style, and a few who think it's just "fine" but that it's been overplayed.

CasanovaZelos: Future Nostalgia is probably my favorite mainstream pop album ever. 4 songs in my all-time top 1000 (even my #1 album only has 3!) and another not too far outside it. The remaining songs are all fairly good except for one obvious dud. The pacing is fairly strong outside of petering out at the end, largely alternating between the mega hits and the backing tracks to never lose steam. A pure pop album hasn't been this good since Thriller.

ChichiriMuyo: A lot of people would probably sleep on this album, but as far as dance-pop goes it shows a lot of range and intellect. You can hear bits and pieces of decades worth of inspiration that went into this work scattered throughout. The most stand out to me was the moment when a sample best known from 1997's "Your Woman" (White Town) plays, though it is itself a slightly altered sample from 1932's "My Woman" (Lew Stone & his Monseigneur Band). Generations on generations of collected knowledge. Is it perfect? Certainly not. Is it art? Absolutely. If there's one thing Andy Warhol got right it's this - something can be both art and a product meant for mass consumption.

Seanchan: No surprise, since this is my nomination, but I think this album is fucking great! I've probably listened to it a dozen times in the last 6-8 months and it hasn't gotten old. It's just an album I can turn on and enjoy, front to back. It's poppy, it's upbeat, it's got some cool beats. It's exactly the type of thing I enjoy listening to.

I'm not going to break down each song, but I will say there's a distinctive gap in my mind between the top 3, the middle 4, and the "bottom" 4. And even though I have Boys Will Be Boys ranked last, I "enjoy" the message of that song. Its lyrics resonate because they're sadly still relevant. I know it's a movie about older times but I couldn't help but think of that song when I watched the movie The Last Duel.

Mr Lasastryke: Dua Lipa's debut was good but Future Nostalgia is a huge improvement. This is an album filled with instant classics and it justly won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. There are no bad songs to be found here.

I absolutely adore "Levitating", it might be my favorite song of 2020. I love the chord changes and spacey feel of the song. "Cool" perhaps best exemplifies the retro '80s synthpop sound of this album. "Pretty Please" is so funky, it could have been a lost Prince track. "Good in Bed" doesn't make my top 3, but I still think it is a fantastic pop song and I'm not sure why people seem to be really down on it? I hope it's not because we're offended by a young woman singing about sex in 2022 >_>

The only two songs that keep this album from being perfect are "Love Again" and "Boys Will Be Boys". "Love Again" is fine but it doesn't leave much of an impression on me; I thought White Town utilized this sample better. The baroque pop of "Boys Will Be Boys" is uh... kind of a weird choice to end the album on, after all the pop-disco-funk music, and unfortunately, it's not a particularly great baroque pop song. Still, amazing album!

MetalmindStats (responding to Mr Lasastryke's comment on Good in Bed): To be clear, I personally am offended by anyone, young or not, woman or otherwise, singing about sex! /s

In all due seriousness, there's not a single song here I don't like (with my top seven being outright great IMO), and something has to be last. Also, that something was never going to be Boys Will Be Boys; for me, its placement and deviation from the rest of Future Nostalgia only enhances its impact.

VeryInsane: Kinda forgot how strong this album was

Johnbobb: Dua Lipa really isn't the type of music I normally go for but something about her voice is just so addicting

BlueCrystalTear: I went into this with doubts since I'd only ever heard "Levitating" before this, but found this ripe with catchy hooks and fun, lively beats. The ones toward the bottom for me were simply less memorable; my top 7 were all ones I can recall after listening, and it's a mighty big feat for an album to pull that off after two listens. The others aren't bad, just dwarfed.