By anjali
Dua Lipa has completed the process of “training” her potential partners! The 28-year-old three-time Grammy winner has recently dropped the second single from her forthcoming third studio album.
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About Training Season
The new track, “Training Season,” comes after she released “Houdini” in November 2023 and performed a medley of the upcoming single, “Houdini,” and her Grammy-nominated song, “Dance the Night” (from the Barbie soundtrack) at the 2024 Grammys.
The pop singer released a press statement revealing the inspiration behind her newest song. “I had been on a string of bad dates, and the last one was the final straw,” Lipa said. “The next morning, I arrived to the studio to [songwriters] Caroline [Ailin] and Tobias [Jesso Jr.] asking me how it all went and I immediately declared ‘TRAINING SEASON IS OVER,’ and like the best ‘day after’ debriefs with your mates, we had a lot of laughs and it all quickly came together from there.”
“And while it is obviously about that feeling when you are just absolutely done telling people…men specifically in this case, how to date you right; it is also about my training season being over and me growing with every experience,” she continued.
“I have never felt more confident, clear or empowered. And while it may be that training season is never over for any of us, you start to see the beauty in finding that person to experience it with. You stop looking for the trainees and become more interested in having someone where you are and someone to grow with.”
TRAINING SEASON
— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) January 25, 2024
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Vincent Haycock’s Direction and Dua Lipa’s Album Insights
Vincent Haycock directed the upcoming music video, which begins with a series of apologies and pleas for a second chance from past lovers. It continues with clips of the singer “surrounded by men vying for her attention as the room begins to spin into chaos,” per the press release.
Lipa, Ailin, Jesso Jr., Danny L. Harle, and Kevin Parker from Tame Impala all contributed to writing the track. Parker and Harle also worked as the producers for the song.
Before the release of “Training Day,” she revealed in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she had “crafted 97 songs” for the project in a physical notebook bought from CVS.
“I started writing for this album in 2021, and I just wanted to write my ideas down,” Lipa told host Jimmy Kimmel. “So, I went down to CVS, and I just bought a random notebook. Had I have known how important that book would’ve been, maybe I would’ve gotten a more fancy one.”
