![]() ![]() All while adorned in a hot pink Balenciaga catsuit that perfectly reflects the vibrant, energetic nature of the show. A bombastic, confidently in-your-face show, Dua provides an opening of back to back, relentless smash hits, including ‘Physical’, ‘New Rules’, ‘Break My Heart’ and ‘Be the One’. As the lights dimmed and Dua entered the stage, the real party began. Yet, this carefully curated playlist was but an aperitif for the main course. If anything, I felt less like I was in an arena with 11,000 people and more like I’d rented out the best club in Ibiza for me and my friends to enjoy an eternity of dancing. The pre-show music perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Future Nostalgia – a care-free, unceasing celebration of life. The pre-show soundtrack is an inspired love letter to early 00’s dance, featuring Modjo’s ‘Lady’, Madison Avenue’s ‘Don’t Call Me Baby’ and Spiller & Sophie Ellis Bextor’s ‘Groovejet’ (amongst many, many more). ![]() For someone like me, who frequently attended shows pre-pandemic, this was two years of bottled up excitement finally bubbling up to the surface. For many, including myself, this was the first concert we’d been to in years. Even before Lipa enters the stage, the passionate energy from the crowd is reverberating around the arena. So, when the Future Nostalgia Tour was finally able to go ahead, not only does it feel like a full circle moment, it feels like the stars aligning for a superstar at the top of their game. The show was an exuberant triumph, but a livestream cannot fully compensate for the energy and thrill that comes with experiencing music live. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Lipa was forced to reschedule the tour multiple times over the past two years.ĭua had put together a livestream concert in 2020, titled Studio 2054, where she was joined by special guests, including the one and only Kylie Minogue. But there was always one key element missing – a tour. ![]() From the audacious, full-throttle ‘Physical’, to the record breaking, pop-music-at-it’s-best, disco euphoria of ‘Levitating’, to the dreamy, bilingual ‘Fever’, a collaboration with Belgian artist, Angèle, Future Nostalgia filled the airwaves, charts and zoom parties of homes across the world. A heady, jubilant celebration of disco, pop and dance music – the soundtrack to a party that seemingly never ends – Future Nostalgia was the antidote the world needed when the future was shrouded by fear and uncertainty. However, amongst the chaos and dread of what has seemingly become every day life in the 2020’s, there has been a light, or perhaps more suitably, a disco ball, that has shone a dazzlingly and unceasingly – Dua Lipa.Ī beacon of hope and escapism, Dua Lipa’s sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, was released just as the world had gone into lockdown back in 2020. To say the last two years have been tumultuous is well… an overwhelming understatement.
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