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. DaytonSouthall
    Mar 31, 2020
    10
    Perfect pop record!
    Seriously this album has no skips, full of high energy bops. Dua has a bright future.
  2. Jfr9
    Mar 31, 2020
    10
    I was expecting a good album but like I've been listening to this straight since it came out. It's so good that I can't just stop, I want to explore all the tracks and absorb all the little this. Dua really knows what she came to do, THAT. your legit not ready to really levitate with this album
  3. Aefrosk
    Mar 31, 2020
    10
    Art! This is so good from the beginning to the end: Art! this deserves a Grammy, tbh
  4. JKeibli
    Mar 31, 2020
    10
    Love every single track on the album. It's just an artpiece. Congrats Dua!!
  5. Peachtito
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    Álbum perfeito, muito nostálgico e ao mesmo tempo trás muito do que esperar no futuro com batidas marcantes e melodia forte
  6. katrinaxo
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    all of the songs on future nostalgia are bops!
    album of the year definitely
  7. cris05
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    best album that ive ever heard in my life, all bops and to whoever said this album is not it, u are definitely deaf. periodt.
  8. flubflum
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    Everything about this album is perfect! From how the production is on each track to how the songs are placed strategically to give you a story. I love this album and this album deserves to be loved to everyone.
  9. Wepdiaz8
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    Best album of 2020 so far! Dua lipa manages to deliver in every track. She’s making a new era of pop music
  10. Angel198913
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    It’s so beautiful, this album it’s pop perfection, beginning with Future Nostalgia to Boys Will Be Boys, the sounds, lyrics, and the beautiful voice by dua it’s phenomenal I
  11. Scoders21
    Apr 1, 2020
    10
    Our girl ascended to the throne, grew up and became an even more beautiful and inspiring woman!
  12. njames
    Apr 2, 2020
    10
    A perfect mixture of enhanced pop and disco music. Certainly would not go out-of-date for the next 30 years and still would enjoy it. Levitating and Hallucinate are two of more of her masterpieces.
  13. montgomeryyy
    Apr 2, 2020
    10
    Fresh. Pop perfect. Takes you to the past with your feet on the future. This album is so strong.
  14. Amandakakak
    Apr 2, 2020
    10
    Best album of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  15. edulopes_
    Apr 2, 2020
    10
    TODAS as faixas são extremamente boas, para escutar várias vezes sem pular uma, simplesmente sensacional. AOTY VEM!
  16. Scipio555
    Apr 3, 2020
    10
    This is a brilliant Pop album that put smile on your face in days lilke this. it's clever, smooth, and the futuristic disco is just amazing! every song is candidate of being a summer smash! just love it. I opened metacritic account just so I can express how much joy I had listening to this and to recommend every each of you to just listen to this pop brilliance of album.
  17. gelxwx
    Apr 16, 2020
    10
    sophomore albums are either make it or break it, but future nostalgia never disappoints. with a similar concept to Taylor Swift — 1989, she successfully pulled-up a classic, disco-pop, bass-filled, nostalgic-sounding record.

    Cool is a song with a romantic summer-vibe on it, Levitating is a love-at-first sight type of song with bubbly disco beats, Hallucinate is about being crazy with    sophomore albums are either make it or break it, but future nostalgia never disappoints. with a similar concept to Taylor Swift — 1989, she successfully pulled-up a classic, disco-pop, bass-filled, nostalgic-sounding record.

    Cool is a song with a romantic summer-vibe on it, Levitating is a love-at-first sight type of song with bubbly disco beats, Hallucinate is about being crazy with someone while dancing in a 90s music fest, and Boys Will Be Boys is a ballad about female empowerment.

    this record is a time-traveling experience while delving into heartbreaks and falling in love again (Love Again), with empowering break-up songs (Don’t Start Now), and just full-on being wild at a party (Physical)

    hands down 5 out of 5.

    favorites:
    • Physical
    • Cool
    • Love Again    … Expand
  18. Vinis
    Apr 3, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Perfeita. Um dos melhores álbuns dos últimos anos. Sonoridade, estética, conceito! Dua Lipa tem tudo para ser a diva pop da década. E esse álbum diz isso.… Expand
  19. JoaoSouza
    Nov 25, 2020
    10
    Future Nostalgia delivers quality from beginning to end, with songs that are faithful to the theme and above all songs that make you want to listen to the album more and more times
  20. AaronE
    Sep 2, 2020
    10
    Dua Lipa demuestra porque sin duda es la promesa del Pop al traernos esta obra de arte, muy variada que nos recuerda mucho a la biblia que nos dio Madonna Confessions On A Dancefloor Launch Graphics.

    Te cagaste en Hongomila Feobello
  21. juliaamartinsp
    Apr 3, 2020
    10
    the songs are absolutely amazing and they just fit perfectly while listening the album in a roll. it also showed how strong and potent is her voice!!
  22. ramiagus
    Apr 3, 2020
    10
    Dua serves disco beats and pop perfection. Every single track is different from the other. There are some stand-out tracks for me, they are "Hallucinate", "Don't Start Now" and "Good in Bed". Special mention to "Boys Will be Boys". Must listen
  23. kikoonunes
    Apr 17, 2020
    10
    This album is so well done, one of the best sophomore albums ever. Dua really said i´m one of the main pop girls with this masterpiece!
  24. leonhill_
    Apr 4, 2020
    10
    a classic pop album. not many artists can release an album where every track is grammy worthy.
  25. xMiguelx
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Dua delivers as usual that unique, deep and truthful voice that makes you distinguish her as soon as she starts singing. Throughout the album we can actually discover that her voice is the real protagonist and I do really appreciate it. Her singing feels natural and raw but it is not. She achieves to have a voice that just feels true to what she is singing and makes the listener connectDua delivers as usual that unique, deep and truthful voice that makes you distinguish her as soon as she starts singing. Throughout the album we can actually discover that her voice is the real protagonist and I do really appreciate it. Her singing feels natural and raw but it is not. She achieves to have a voice that just feels true to what she is singing and makes the listener connect better and deeper with the song. My recommendation? Just let her voice flow into you and move you, get lost in it.

    This album serves as an example of a cohesive work that has been executed beautifully and thoughtfully, no detail was unfinished or unpolished. No song is a filler, she has chosen carefully to make every song count and thrive on its own. I can almost tell how many instrumentation was used in every song. The production is rich, beautiful (and expensive) but does not feel too much, its just the perfect companion and makes Dua's voice shine. It is an example of how sometimes, natural, minimalist but complex work perfectly.

    The lyrics are pretty straight forward as Dua is. However, it's due to its simplicity that we find the beauty and connection with them. Lyrics are bold, fearless, sexy and empowering. Dua has told many times she's not afraid to speak her mind and this album is a clear example of it. She starts and ends strong in the album; a bold, empowering "Future Nostalgia" to make clear she has not come to play but to show how it's done (and she shows it very well) and a melancholic, real and deep "Boys Will Be Boys" to end it to keep things real and getting us back to Earth after levitating with her album. Personally I do appreciate that the last song was "Boys Will Be Boys" as if Dua is telling us through the majority of the album to enjoy, be empowered and feel sexy but ends with a strong "never forget what reality is like". Very clever move Dua!

    All in all, I personally believe this album will lead the way of a new era for pop music and Dua will be a perfect and strong bold outspoken fearless leader, as it is a recap of every good sound that has been and a perfect start to pave the way for the new decade of pop. I perfectly see this album giving Dua's first Grammy for "Album Of The Year". Mark my words.    … Expand
  26. merald92
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    An amazing pop album, probably one of the best I have heard in years. It deserves all the praise it is getting.
  27. franjusinski
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Dua’s new album is just flawless. Lipa has progressed so much as a woman and as an artist. The album show that Lipa is grown and independent woman who is rising to the stars and becoming world’s new biggest pop star.
  28. Agfa12
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Fantastic¡¡ this album is the past, present and future, i stan with dua the new main pop girl, love from mexico
  29. Danxiiito
    Apr 6, 2020
    10
    Amazing! Super great and dance pop realness album, sounds like confessions on the dance floor
  30. emanzahir
    Apr 7, 2020
    10
    favorite album so far. up beat pop dance. u can listen to the album on repeat all day and not get bored of it. dua lipa did it AGAIN. Hope she gets nominated and also win major music awards because she deserves it!
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88

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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