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

Universal acclaim- based on 4390 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,924 out of 4390
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 4390
  3. Negative: 356 out of 4390
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  1. Katerdhjet
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Each song is perfect and different, yet on the theme of the album. Dua really did i great job. I would call this album a POP PERFECTION!… Expand
  2. Onlinecriticone
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best album of 2020 so far, Dua has combined all of the best disco sounds in the 80s and make it sounds timeless and weirdly catchy at the same time.… Expand
  3. PotterheadGleek
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Future Nostalgia is the New Pop Bible, Dua is saving the pop music, she knows trap music can't be the new pop. I love her voice and specially what she did in Love Again using the imperial march of Star Wars, nice!… Expand
  4. Pyektra
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Todas as músicas se completam de um forma única! O álbum possui uma ótima indentidade que não se perde com o passar das faixas.… Expand
  5. NEWCLASSICMATER
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    The best album of the year so far I'm so impressed with Dua lipa cause she got potential and she used here.
  6. gabrielsilvf
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, tottaly unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put in a blender, **** on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it
  7. rickaye
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    One of the best pop albums in recent memory. Each song flows into each other perfectly, there’s not a single hair out of place. This album was perfectly constructed and Dua Lipa is on her way to becoming the next big pop star.
  8. Wiiiiil
    Mar 27, 2020
    1
    Album is overrated as **** Critics lost their minds when gave this 100. Her debut album is way better.
  9. ttuliox
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. álbum com músicas impecáveis, cada música foi bem pensada, cada letra bem escrita e mesma repleta de samples a mesma conseguiu encaixar sua perfeita doce e linda voz nos ritmos antigos… Expand
  10. victorugons
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Honestly, you can say this is not the best album you've heard. BUT NEGATIVE REVIEW? U NOT SERIOUS. Dua Lipa delivered an incredibly produced cohesive album and she deserves the recognition. Congrats Dua!!
  11. harveywoodhouse
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Where do I start with this album? It’s like riding a rollercoaster that never ends. Presumptuously starting with the title track, “Future Nostalgia” gives an electric feel backed with women empowering lyrics to directly address the patriarchal society of 2020. “Don’t Start Now” (the lead single of the new record), describes a heartbreak which Lipa is not taking to heart, dancing throughWhere do I start with this album? It’s like riding a rollercoaster that never ends. Presumptuously starting with the title track, “Future Nostalgia” gives an electric feel backed with women empowering lyrics to directly address the patriarchal society of 2020. “Don’t Start Now” (the lead single of the new record), describes a heartbreak which Lipa is not taking to heart, dancing through the storm. “Cool” is a fun little interlude which now shows Dua falling for someone else (we guess this is Anwar Hadid). It’s the coolest way to split up the two lead singles in the album. This song is also a double meaning, it seems as though it’s a song to let listeners cool down but in fact it’s literally the opposite. You cannot help but dance. “Physical” (the second lead single from the album) is called by Lipa as a “fun disco dance class” which is how everyone acts when they hear it. Fun and electric dancing with help from the 80s track vibe. “Levitating”, “Pretty Please”, “Hallucinate” and “Love Again” all have similar dancy vibes to them, with Hallucinate being the most viciously attacking on your joints because of its beat and rhythm. Pretty Please is more of a cool down song but still has the same vibes, calling her man pretty and begging for his love again, literally leading on to Love Again, which strings background makes the start sound like a ballad and a slower song, until the beat drops and she starts singing “I never thought that I would find a way out...But god damn you got me in love again”. Suggestingly aimed at her new lover, Hadid, the songs guitar and strings chorus hooks the listener to want more and more from this album. Moving on, “Break My Heart” (the newest 3rd single from the album) shows Lipa fully submerged in the love from her partner, even if it means he will break her heart in the future. She doesn’t think about the future in this song, only the present and the feelings she receives from him. “Good In Bed” swiftly follows on with these feelings and heightens them to next levels. It’s like going from dates (BMH) to literal sex (GIB). Good In Bed shows Dua’s maturity while also experimenting with new sound and lyrics. She has never done a song quite like this before, especially when she says “Yeah we don’t know how to talk, but damn we know how to f*ck”. Finally the outro song “Boys Will Be Boys” links back to the title track of Future Nostalgia, showing how masculinity has stretched to the fullest and now is scaring women (literally with them “putting keys between their knuckles when there’s boys around”). “I should’ve stuck to ballet” shows how Lipa is scared to be in the music industry which is based all around men in the patriarchal society we live in today (we which cannot accept is true). All in all, the sophomore album brings peace, dance and electricity all into one record. Congrats Dua!… Expand
  12. Dindonbri
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Amazing showstopping never seen before, she outdid herself here with this disco vibe pop album
  13. aurelks
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a travel to the 90´s, the production is fantastic and Dua sounds amazing as usual. Big versatility and insane instrumental. 10/10… Expand
  14. yurinr
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    não existe outra nota se não essa. conceito, coesão e aclamação, tudo de bom e um album sem defeitos.
  15. adamboucherr
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This album was one of the best pop albums i’ve heard in a long time. Really good! Really proud.
  16. c______cf_g
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    I've been stanning her since 2017 and you do not understand how much proud I feel seeing her like this. The new supreme of pop music, with a critically acclaimed studio album and beyond gorgeous visuals. I hope in fifteen or so years, we look back at her as a legend and as someone who left their indelible mark on music.
  17. jade122
    Mar 27, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. awful, the album sucks and is rubbish and i hate it, her debut is so much better… Expand
  18. Filipe_vidd
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Um hinário do POP, SÓ MUSICÃO, e ainda tem quente que vem me dizer que não está bom... Me economiza.

    Resumindo, conceito, coesão e aclamação.
  19. burakoli
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just stream levitating guys its awesome!!
    Also dua found her way. She's so good at this type of music. Bringing back 80&90's go Dua!!    … Expand
  20. Borische
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This album is so good, it’s very cohesive, but different at the same time, so glad she brought back the disco music because I loooovve it
  21. krisss13
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    the sophomore album is beyond my imagination. It is such a masterpiece. Surely coming for album of the year in 2020 Grammy !!
  22. pablolho
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    At the moment, ALBUM OF THE YEATR. We can she her talent, she's brilliant. Thanks Dua for this album.
  23. Rafapixelado
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    One of the greatest dance pop albums of all time. Behind Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna and The Fame by Lady Gaga, this album will make history as the beginin of a new fresh breath to the dance pop era. Welcome to the divas club Dua!!!!!!
  24. Sierralevine28
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    I love this album so much. Levitating is by far my favorite, i also really like Hallucinate
  25. Nezar
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    Very futuristic, eclectic, busy, steamy, flirty. The best pop album of the century. I man not kidding.
  26. DRHowardF
    Mar 27, 2020
    1
    Boring and repetitive. This album is full of fillings. Only Don’t start now and physical are the best songs from it. When you listen to it once you don’t want to listen to it again. Lipa tries to bring back the 80’s sound but she lost her way in the process.
  27. juakomenes
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    vino a salvar el pop y lo hizo, una obra de arte, we love, album of the year definitely
  28. Julia1290
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    The best album of the year!! Bop after bop. There isn't any bad song in it.
  29. JuanPBarahona
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    This is the best pop album i’ve ever heard. It’s honestly a masterpiece. Dua Lipa really reinvented pop
  30. alejomoonlight
    Mar 27, 2020
    10
    this is the future of music, periodt she just gave us the album of the year
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Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  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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