Future Nostalgia
by Dua Lipa
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Mar 27, 2020
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8.8

Universal acclaim- based on 4390 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 356 out of 4390
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  1. alegrepsamuel
    Mar 20, 2021
    10
    Dua Lipa is an amazing artist and this album proves it. She will absolutely be the next A-list of our generation.
  2. vinithl
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    O álbum é incrível, todas as faixas são muito boas e apresentam uma relação em comum.
  3. thaisfragoso
    Mar 20, 2021
    10
    O álbum que conseguiu agitar essa triste e entediante quarentena. Um feito que sempre será lembrado no pop.
  4. Iampaulovitor
    Mar 20, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Something so good that I can't explain, that's the bottom line, Dua Lipa is the next generation… Expand
  5. mynameisagata55
    Mar 20, 2021
    10
    dua lipa lendaria esse álbum perfeito zero defeitos grammy winner te amo dua lipa futuro do pop
  6. TheAllReviewer
    Mar 20, 2021
    10
    Jumping into this album, I had pretty high expectations, I mean— it’s Dua Lipa, she could slap the most mediocre pop beats on a song and still make it so enticingly addicting. ‘Future Nostalgia’, the sophomore album of Lipa’s career, shows more than just artistic growth, it shows growth in the Pop Music genre as a whole. Not a lot of artists can master the ‘nostalgic 80s’ sound; TaylorJumping into this album, I had pretty high expectations, I mean— it’s Dua Lipa, she could slap the most mediocre pop beats on a song and still make it so enticingly addicting. ‘Future Nostalgia’, the sophomore album of Lipa’s career, shows more than just artistic growth, it shows growth in the Pop Music genre as a whole. Not a lot of artists can master the ‘nostalgic 80s’ sound; Taylor Swift failed to do so with her 2014 LP “1989”, using synth to self-proclaim her album as “80s inspired”. ‘Future Nostalgia’ is so perfectly crafted and loquaciously detailed that you forget that it’s just a pop album. This album is disgustingly good, and in the best way possible. Even the weakest tracks, ‘Good In Bed’ & ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ both still have the quintessential throwback sound that’s not too cheesy and not too serious. This album could very well be ‘pop perfection’. The highlights of this album are ‘Don’t Start Now’, ‘Love Again’, ‘Levitating’, ‘Break My Heart’, and ‘Hallucinate’, which are all powerhouse ethereal disco/dance & funk records that showcases how grossly intelligent Dua Lipa & her producers really are, pulling some deep samples onto ‘Love Again’, making it almost too unnoticeable, yet doesn’t try to hide it. I could say this is the best pop album of all time, but that would be giving Ms. Lipa too much credit (although she very well damn deserves it) — this album probably just saved pop music as a whole, and definitely revived what is (in my opinion) — ‘The Disco Renaissance of the 2020s. If I could rate this any higher than a 10, I would do it in an instant — I mean, how can you not get up and just move some joints to this perfectly crafted record. Dua Lipa has completely solidified herself as this decade’s new pop force— and not a Katy Perry pop force, a pop force the general public has not seen since the likes of Donna Summers, Madonna, and Kylie Minogue. This album is too good.… Expand
  7. Ricardoaguilar
    Mar 19, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El álbum perfecto, lo mejor que he escuchado durante la cuarentena, Dua Lipa es el futuro no muy lejano del pop… Expand
  8. eddgarus
    Mar 19, 2021
    9
    Con su segundo trabajo discográfico, Dua Lipa logra posicionarse como una de las artistas más prometedoras de la industria musical. El álbum encapsula una variedad de sonidos específicos que nos transportan automáticamente a las décadas de los 80's y 90's, donde una mezcla entre el disco, funk y dance inundaban la mayor parte de clubes nocturnos. Dua se hace valer de este recurso, laCon su segundo trabajo discográfico, Dua Lipa logra posicionarse como una de las artistas más prometedoras de la industria musical. El álbum encapsula una variedad de sonidos específicos que nos transportan automáticamente a las décadas de los 80's y 90's, donde una mezcla entre el disco, funk y dance inundaban la mayor parte de clubes nocturnos. Dua se hace valer de este recurso, la nostalgia por el pasado, para reinventarse a sí misma y a toda la escena pop en general.

    Desde himnos bailables y llenos de energía, como lo son "Don't Start Now" y "Physical", hasta canciones con una atmósfera más relajada y sofisticada, "Pretty Please" y "Boys Will Be Boys", el álbum está lleno de joyas musicales que seguramente se convertirán en clásicos.

    Future Nostalgia llega a desmentir el mito de que las segundas partes no son tan buenas como las primeras, de hecho logra superar por mucho a su predecesor trabajo "Dua Lipa" al grado de que podría considerarse como un proyecto demasiado ostentoso y pretensioso. Sin embargo, la británica opta por desafiar sus propios límites y explotar al máximo su creatividad como artista para mostrarnos una nueva faceta de ella, la de popstar.

    Tracks favoritos:
    1. Physical
    2. Hallucinate
    3. Don't Start Now
    4. Break My Heart
    5. Love Again    … Expand
  9. Kijhy
    Mar 19, 2021
    7
    75/100

    good album
    last 2 tracks are kinda bad, especially the last one
    pretty please, love again are average; levitating, bmh, physical, cool and hallucinate are good
  10. SHADOWCRAFT
    Mar 16, 2021
    0
    Does not feel original and nothing we did not hear before. Unfortunately this is what sells today
  11. alexisbarajasiv
    Mar 12, 2021
    10
    This is a great album each song sounds perfect and each one has its purpose without a doubt this is the new pop sound that will last for years.
  12. indirapravianti
    Mar 10, 2021
    10
    This album is perfection. My favorite album of 2020. There's not a single song in this album that I dislike. Dua successfully brought the nostalgic vibes in her pop-electric album. Pure perfection.
  13. dualipafan15
    Mar 9, 2021
    10
    she is the best i think that she really do the best album of 2020, the singles choose the non singles is just amazing and out of this wordl
  14. Leandro1015
    Mar 9, 2021
    10
    Amazing, Fantastic, ART, it's a totally great album, I don't know what else to say. Future Nostalgia is an album that I can't stop listening to, I do it every day, I'm obsessed. With it, she won my heart, I hope she wins the Grammy for Album of the Year or Best Pop Vocal Album, 'cause she totally deserves it. Physical, Levitating, Don't Start Now, Break My Heart, and Fever are my top 5Amazing, Fantastic, ART, it's a totally great album, I don't know what else to say. Future Nostalgia is an album that I can't stop listening to, I do it every day, I'm obsessed. With it, she won my heart, I hope she wins the Grammy for Album of the Year or Best Pop Vocal Album, 'cause she totally deserves it. Physical, Levitating, Don't Start Now, Break My Heart, and Fever are my top 5 favorite songs.… Expand
  15. Yesiica
    Feb 18, 2021
    10
    Album on the year. This album is perfect, from the theme to the sounds, it takes us to a disco track and with Future Nostalgia The Moonlight Edition showed us an album and a spectacular era.
  16. Biel_13
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    So good omg, a masterpiece, every music have a important history, good vocals and so much rich elements
  17. bubblepopelectr
    Feb 8, 2021
    10
    Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique
  18. LISOCHIKOTOSA
    Feb 7, 2021
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This was just a great pop album. I liked Dua but i did not think her debut was good, apart from a few catchy singles. This album is much more cohesive and consistent and it borrows from the same era of dance pop and synth pop. The songs are well written and the choruses and hooks are just so good. Most of the songs are about love in various forms or situations. The opener , Future Nostalgia is a nice pop song about a female alpha, a feminist banger it is. Don't Start Now is my favorite song by Dua ,a disco jam which is also really empowering.I think the bridge on this one is so good, just makes me wanna dance. Cool has a really nice bass and some R&B feeling to it as well. The chorus is larger then life. Physical, another highlight for me has an anthemic chorus and some very great production, i love the spoken lines as well. Levitating is another highlight with a giant chorus and post chorus and the bridge is so memorable. Pretty Please is also a very slick song with some nice guitars, in which she begs for attention from a new lover. Hallucinate is a disco song in which she describes how a lover is making her go crazy with love. Love Again also deals with the feeling of being in love again after a horrible heartbreak. It sounds very classical and has some violins i think. I love it ! Break My Heart also talks about the same subject matter of a new love, feeling vulnerable at the beginning of a new relationships. While i like the production and overall subject matter of Good in Bed, i don't care much for the repetitive chorus. Its a song about a couple that uses sex to fix the problems in their relationship instead of facing those problems head on. Its unique in being the only song about this issue on the album. I do like the shift in subject matter at the end with this song and also the last song, Boys will be boys. I love the moody nature of the song and balladry, the chanting chorus and the drums at the end. It deals with themes of sexism, double standards and toxic masculinity . These are very heavy themes in comparison with the rest of the album it is such a befitting ending to a great album.… Expand
  19. PretentiousGeek
    Jan 27, 2021
    8
    Irresponsibly high quality disco revival whirlwind. Aside from that one song (great messaging I am a thorough endorser of misandry) whose sappiness does nothing for me, what a delightful sophomore effort.

    Favourite tracks: Pretty Please, Levitating, Don't Start Now
    Least favourite: Boys Will Be Boys
  20. Manuwatermelon_
    Jan 24, 2021
    10
    Sólo puedo decir que: GRACIAS DUA LIPA POR DARNOS ESTE ÁLBUM QUE SIN DUDA HA SIDO EL MEJOR DEL 2020. ❤️
  21. LuisFurler11
    Jan 21, 2021
    10
    Dua Lipa proved through this masterpiece that not only is she someone with only a few years in the music industry, but that she truly knows what she is doing. This is reinvention, and of very excellent quality.
  22. All_ButTrU4
    Jan 17, 2021
    7
    Officially the first great pop record of our fledgling decade. A sign of artistic growth. This album is STACKED from top to bottom. It has all the greatest things about pop music. Unlike her other releases this has cohesion and versatility. The song writing is tight and manufactured effortlessly to fill the dance floors vacated by this pandemic. It's genuine feel good music with a purposeOfficially the first great pop record of our fledgling decade. A sign of artistic growth. This album is STACKED from top to bottom. It has all the greatest things about pop music. Unlike her other releases this has cohesion and versatility. The song writing is tight and manufactured effortlessly to fill the dance floors vacated by this pandemic. It's genuine feel good music with a purpose like the epic closer "boys will be boys" where she goes on a scathing dissection of patriarchy and confrontation of those who support it. This record feels breezy and like an instant classic that will be remembered amongst the likes of Kylie Minogue,lady gaga ,Beyonce, Madonna and many others.… Expand
  23. Riz_wannn
    Jan 16, 2021
    0
    Nothing stands out rather than the production Which makes the entire album sound ok.
    Nothing much vocal nothing new.
    Just a lot of edm/dance samples
  24. DiegoEspinosa
    Jan 8, 2021
    10
    One of the best pop albums released this century. Every song has its own concept that fits so well with the future theme. Dua has proven she's a main pop girl in the making.
  25. Luisslopezz
    Jan 6, 2021
    9
    very good dua lipa you have me. future nostalgia is an album that moves you with eighties rhythms and really has coherence in its sounds and its lyrics is a trip to the 80s and leaves you with a feeling of wanting more great work dua lipa I hope the next
  26. PedroMan
    Jan 4, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Masterpiece, is a new, refreshing album made and released by a POP star biggest album on Spotify in 2020 with 3,000,000,000 streams around the world… Expand
  27. PrizzBeam1
    Dec 31, 2020
    9
    This would be a perfect 10 and my favorite album of 2020 if it was not for "Boys Will Be Boys". Such a weird turn in the tracklist. Stars know it's okay to have the last track on the album NOT be a slow ballad, right?
  28. erdal220
    Dec 29, 2020
    10
    this album is one of the best albums of 2020 . Dua lipa is best album,best song is Don't Start Now
  29. pinsandpearls
    Dec 28, 2020
    3
    It's just rehashed pop music. It's fine, but overhyped. There's nothing groundbreaking and I don't see anybody really remembering this album and its generic pop five years from now. The lyrics are subpar and the "instrumentals" sound familiar -- not in a good way, but like I could mistake them for any other pop radio hit. Pass.
  30. perrydelrey
    Dec 27, 2020
    9
    POP PERFECTION! Esse álbum merece o AOTY no Grammy 2021. Dua Lipa se superou com essa obra prima.
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Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

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  1. No Ripcord
    May 13, 2020
    80
    Small quibbles notwithstanding, Future Nostalgia is the perfect antidote to quarantine-induced cabin fever.
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  2. AllMusic
    Apr 2, 2020
    90
    With this flawless effort, she manages to achieve both. Future Nostalgia could have just as well been titled "Future Classic."
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  3. PopMatters
    Mar 30, 2020
    70
    Make no mistake, her risks are still very within the context of a 4/4 pop structure, but she still finds such color and joy in her surroundings it's hard not to get swept up in her energy. Such risk-staking, however, can still lead to a few moments that could've used a bit more polish.
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