Is it wrong, right now, to be as happy as Dua Lipa’s second album makes you? Is this any time to celebrate pop music at its most ebullient, when we should be bullish on meditation?
Shouldn’t we be focusing our attention on weightier matters than how to all guiltlessly throw ourselves a solo disco party? Yet, as she sings here: “I know that I seem a little stressed out… I wanna feel a different kinda tension — yeah you guessed it, the kind that’s fun.” To which we may respond: TELL US ABOUT IT, DUA. “Future Nostalgia” seems like the exact right record at the exact wrong time —which maybe makes it the right time after all.
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