Dua Lipa Is Feeling Optimistic As She Shares 'Album Moments' From Radical Optimism

Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa delighted her fans by sharing sneak peeks from her upcoming album Radical Optimism on Instagram. While sharing the video, which was a collage from different shoots, Lipa wrote, “Album moments. I hear you… feeling optimistic about this week.” This will be her third album, following her self-titled debut Dua Lipa (2017) and Future Nostalgia (2020), which won a Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

In less than 24 hours, Dua Lipa’s post gained over six lakh views. On March 14, Lipa announced her new album, Radical Optimism, scheduled for release on May 3.

Radical Optimism will have 11 tracks, namely: End of an Era, Houdini, Training Season, These Walls, Whatcha Doing, French Exit, Illusion, Falling Forever, Anything for Love, Maria and Happy for You. Two of these tracks are already out as singles. Lipa released Houdini in November 2023. It secured No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 11. Her second single from the album, Training Season dropped in February and charted at No. 27 on Billboard. Both Houdini and Traning Season are produced by Kevin Parker and Danny L. Harle.

In a statement about the album announcement, Lipa said, “A couple years ago, a friend introduced me to the term Radical Optimism. It’s a concept that resonated with me, and I became more curious as I started to play with it and weave it into my life. It struck me, the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm. At the same time, I found myself looking through the music history of psychedelia, trip hop, and Britpop. It has always felt so confidently optimistic to me, and that honesty and attitude is a feeling I took into my recording sessions.”

Lipa teased the new album back in October 2023, when she deleted all posts from Instagram and shared a photo with deep red hair as opposed to her signature black hair. She captioned the photo, “Miss me?”

While talking to Allure about what prompted her to have red hair for the new album, Lip said, “It was just me in the studio while I was listening to the music for the new record, and I feel like I just saw the colour red a lot and I wanted to dye my hair and do a little change.” Back in August 2023, Lipa spoke about Radical Optimism with T Magazine, she described it as her most personal album so far. She added that the album will be pop music but with a “more of a lyrical theme”.