Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism (May 3, 2024) • Page 22

Need tour dates already!

 

Actually loving this extended version! Let’s the songs breathe a bit more.

 

Extended versions are cool to hear once, but are largely unnecessary, imo.

 

I think they are pretty interesting overall, and actually give the album a pretty different vibe for me overall. I wouldn't say I like this better overall, but it is cool to have it breathe a bit more and kinda give you more of a spacey vibey cool background music feeling, hard to explain. Some cool new things, some that doesn't add much, but overall pretty cool these exist

 

A lot of it felt very “insert extra shit after the fact” to me, rather than “this is what the songs were to begin with and we trimmed them down.” Like, on “These Walls” (my favorite song on the initial album and the one I’ve listened to most) there are just seemingly random breaks in the vocal line where you’d never naturally expect a break to be. But they added one to insert more “vibes”? Idk, the whole thing felt cynical and bordering on AI to me.

 

Some of these would be cool to come across in a playlist but if I want to listen to this album it's definitely the succinct 36:35 version

 

I still really like the extended versions of "Training Season" and "Houdini."

 

Honestly a bit confused about the slow drip feeding of tour dates. People have speculated the delay in announcing a full tour is because of the so-called tepid response to the album and her team waiting to see what size venues she can do (not saying that as my opinion, just what I have seen others say), but she had a huge crowd at Glastonbury so I’m surprised she didn’t announce a UK tour and only announced one Wembley date. People want to see you live Dua! The perfect time to sell a tour is right after a very prominent performance (Glastonbury).

 

Holiday week so likely next week but time is definitely right now.

 

Right but not in the UK, which I know doesn't apply to most of us here, but still. You would think they would want to capitalize off of the Glastonbury performance at least some way other than just one stadium date.

 

Yeah when is she gonna dua US tour

 

Yeah I'd think so as well. I imagine she can still do arenas but if they are around the ACL date her team is pushing it a bit if you want to sell out all those places. Unless it's a limited run of 10-15 cities.

 

I think she can still do arenas for sure, but I think with the tepid response to this era (compared to the last/compared to other acts like Sabrina Carpenter who is having her moment right now like Dua was having last era), they are being cautious. No one wants a The Black keys situation where you have to downgrade from arenas or cancel dates (not saying she would ever be in that situation, but her team is probably playing it safe just to be 100% sure)

I have seen some speculation that the U.S. tour will be announced after she headlines Austin City Limits in October so we shall see!

 

Dua will absolutely still do arenas and sell just fine.

 

Fake news because this could never happen to an artist as unsuccessful as Dua.

 

Wild that there's no US tour news, maybe ACL is truly a one-off.

 

Probably going to be next year, possibly around a Coachella performance?

 

I’m guessing a U.S. tour is next year at this point. It seems like there’s a huge lull going on right now with her which I am surprised about, you would think in the few months after an albums release there would be lots of promo, more music videos, new singles (These Walls should be a smash right now IMHO) but it seems like they aren’t doing any of that at the moment. Maybe when a tour is announced the more promo side of things will pick up.

 

We must simply allow artists to tour when they feel like touring lol

 

Shocking how quiet this era has become. Still digging the record but there’s literally no hype around her in North America right now.

Very much hoping she’s going to reimagine her Euro festival set for ACL but I doubt it.

 

let's have the flop convo again it's been at least a week

 

I just want to see the live show, if it’s downgraded to smaller venues in NA even better.

 

Just feels like the "flop" narrative for this album is set, regardless of how in touch with reality that is. I'm curious how it will affect her career going forward.

 

the flop convo feels more relevant now that the vinyl has been discounted to $8 at Target (which i sadly couldn't find locally)