“But my mind is running wild, could you help me slow it down?” The bass skips and dribbles like fingers drumming on your shoulder at a non-existent party, another fantasy. “I wanna feel a different kind of tension / Yeah, you guessed it, the kind that’s fun,” Lipa’s honeyed voice drips. For months of shutdown, I’ve used Don’t Start Now as a portal into a dancefloor future, dreamed of plinking down Levitating’s elastic bass into a crowd, imagined the high of mass physical touch hitting with the barreling intensity of Hallucinate.īut for this summer of reopening limbo, there’s Pretty Please, the album’s sticky, desirous middle track, a sweating cocktail of a song about slipping into reprieve. When Dua Lipa dropped her disco-refracted sophomore album Future Nostalgia in the frenzied early quarantine of late March, what would’ve become a dance club staple instead landed as a panorama of endurable fantasy.
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