Outside of Joe Wicks and suppliers of PPE with links to the Conservative party, few people did as well out of lockdown as Dua Lipa. At least, that’s the received wisdom about how an already successful pop singer’s career shot into a rarefied realm, where Madonna and Elton John offered to collaborate with her and five million people shelled out for her pay-per-view livestreamed gig.
Released just as lockdown hit, Lipa’s second album, Future Nostalgia, turned out to be exactly what people wanted to listen to in their constrained circumstances: shiny dancefloor-focused pop, thick with knowing references to the charts of the past, that conjured enticing nightlife fantasies of what might happen when they were allowed out.
