Third single, supposedly coming TOMORROW It leaked a while ago and samples or heavily borrows from INXS' Need You Tonight
Physical hasn't made a huge dent globally (best peaks so far outside the UK are #12 Belgium and #14 Australia) so maybe they thought it got a bit buried by Don't Start Now and the better option was just to press on.
They're clearly going ahead with the album then. I guess her audience will be very streaming-heavy so it won't matter so much.
I would say get that third concurrent top ten single but considering how long it took Physical to crack it maybe not. Based on limited listening, and assuming it is much the same as the leak, I would say Break My Heart is excellent again but maybe more 9/10 rather than 10/10 like the previous two. That said, I expect to be full on looning once more before too long.
Well I guess this might not be coming today then (just watch Dua spring a mid-afternoon surprise!). Might be nice for Physical to have another week to breathe anyway, poor love doesn't look like it will even get a telly performance now.
still haven't heard this but i wish the sample had been ub40's don't break my heart instead. does don't start now have a chance at #1 in us?
@ameraal @Pipo @VoR @northernlad @FetchFugly thoughts please ladies! the video in my opinion is a bit of a weird match for the song, but the song itself is a strong 8
The song is fine but I cannot get excited about HER. It's almost as if there's no one to stan currently so the girls are latching on to anyone that's half decent.
Come thru ANTI-QUARANTINE QUEEN! I am LIVING for the 10+ social closeness realness! The song itself is pop greatness. I feel sorry for the gayz who just can't SEE it.
The song is great; lovely disco strings again and nice use of the sample (to be fair I did get Queen when I first heard the demo but it so obvious once you know). The video has moments of maximum fabulosity, but while I usually do appreciate the doing us a favour, half-arsed approach she has it doesn't always quite come off here.
give it a week am, you'll love it. the album is here 07 Future Nostalgia 11 Don't Start Now 07 Cool 11 Physical 09 Levitating 08 Pretty Please 08 Hallucinate 10 Love Again 08 Break My Heart 04 Good In Bed 07 Boys Will Be Boys That middle section of the album is quite phenomenal. Love Again is my favourite right now (and Dua's apparently) - the most disco thing here
This has 92 on Metacritic (!) right now. It was at 98 before Pitchfork's review (a 7.5) dragged it down. Also its release date is March 27th. The last two Album of the Year Grammy winners (Billie Eilish and Kacey Musgraves) were released March 29 and March 30 respectively. Just sayin!
OMG not Miss Dua sampling White Town’s Your Woman on Love Again Love Again in particular sounds like an obvious smash single, surely the next one after Break Your Heart? The critics are loving this perfectly executed album campaign QUEEN!
Can confirm that listening to Your Woman IMMEDIATELY after Love Again is LIFE CHANGING Almost like Eamon and Frankee but GOOD!
Love Again really is something else, definitely has to be the next single This album deserves to be in more living rooms than Corona
This album is clearly just PACKED with singles! It sort of reminds me of Good Girl Gone Bad or Dangerous Woman in THAT RESPECT (although Dangerous Woman barely picked the songs that should have been singles ) Break My Heart is such an earworm too. I wasn’t fussed at first, but it’s going round my head now.
The "Break My Heart" pre-chorus is so good. The rest of song is still growing, but overall I think it has more hit potential than "Physical".
