Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer In the promotional blitz running up to her third album “Radical Optimism,” Dua Lipa continuously waxed intellectual about self-realization and the freedom that comes from growth, spurred by situations both good and bad. “I think it’s important that we just learn to walk through the fire and not hide away from it,” she told Variety in March. “That’s just optimism.
It’s probably the most daring thing we can do. Sometimes.” It’s an ethos she applies to the album at large. “Optimism” is a blast of pop savvy, imbued with romantic tales of reckless abandon and the trappings and benefits that come with it.
But the heady explanations she soldered onto the album in interviews weren’t really necessary; the maturity of “Optimism” speaks for itself, mainly in the production, performance and songwriting, which sees Lipa at her most realized.
If her last album “Future Nostalgia” was about escapism, then “Optimism” is about confronting the realities that make us who we are, and the often harsh truths that come from it.
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