Dua Lipa’s second studio-album Future Nostalgia fuses lively electro-pop and disco sounds from decades past with new-school production, resulting in a remarkably fresh full-length product.
While the 24-year-old notes that Madonna is one of the key inspirations for the album’s sonic stylings, she gathered influences from all across the board.
This fact is perhaps most evident by Future Nostalgia’s eighth song “Love Again,” which features a 1930s Al Bowlly trumpet sample that was made extraordinarily popular after its use in White Town's 1997 alt-pop hit “Your Woman." Jyoti Mishra, the 53-year-old mastermind behind the genre-mashing White Town project, tells Billboard that his own song was also created to be “deliberately nostalgic,” as it