She’s probably right, just get rid of her… you don’t need that kind of negativity in your life 
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Can’t go wrong with Dua Lipa, her songs have some of the best bass lines in contemporary music!
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It’s been used in computers for a long time, now it just reminds me of that idiot from the company formerly known as twitter 
He just can’t do anything original. The only thing mildly interesting about his AI engine is that it doesn’t treat you like a child and lecture you about things.
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… to go with some of the worst lyrics 
(ahem)
" You want me, I want you, baby
My sugarboo, I’m levitating
The Milky Way, we’re renegading
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
I think she may also have stolen those lines too…
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She may have but she probably didn’t. There’s a good podcast that went over the creative process and Adam Neely took a good look at the accusations/lawsuits.
You don’t have to like it but it’s been an extremely popular/successful song, the writing group is a pretty good crew. The song is a great fusion of 70s, 80s and 90s styles, the lyrics are metaphors for space, love and happiness.
I noticed you picked the pre-chorus and not any of the verses or bridge as an indication the song has “some of the worst lyrics”… guess you had to cherry pick the “worst” part.
Here’s one of her best recent songs with a great bass line, from the Barbie Movie. I hope you hate it too 
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Well, when you talk about Dua Lipa you really have to give credit to the Dua Lipa corporation - everyone knows she is only one minor part of a venture staffed by musicians, marketers, accountants, targetologists etc.
I just feel that her songs may be polished and catchy but ultimately they are empty - just fast food for the soul. I just don’t feel satisfied when I listen to them. It’s a shame that youtube puts all the music ever written a click or two away, and this gets 180 million views 
Oh God I’m depressed
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It’s catchy. It’s fun to dance to. I don’t listen to much pop, but I’m really impressed with the writers’ ability to come up with hooks.
I don’t like pop when I hear it all over the place all the time, but it’s fun in small doses/to dance to!
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There are so SO many good songs that have terrible lyrics. So many songs with a few lines of lyrics repeated over and over and over. I think it’s a little unfair to call out a single artist when it’s so ubiquitous in music, and has been a long time. Just because someone’s a fantastic musician doesn’t mean they’re a good poet or writer. Personally, I’d much rather listen to a song that has music that slaps and terrible lyrics than one with great lyrics but terrible music. 
Everyone has different tastes. Just because you don’t like a song doesn’t mean it’s “bad”.
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Also I don’t see how having music easily accessible is a bad thing.
I think one thing that is easy for us musicians to forget is that most people who listen to music are NOT musicians. Musicians tend to look for, and at, completely different things in a song than non-musicians. There are countless songs that we musicians love that will never gain traction with the public at large.
Ultimately, I think it depends on how you define good music. A lot of musicians seem to define good music as music that is extremely technical and shows off a musician’s virtuosity. Often they’re songs I refer to as a note salad (I’m looking at you, saxophones and soloing bassists 
).
I think a lot of non-musicians define good music as something catchy, something they can sing along to, something that makes them feel a certain way, something they can dance to, and/or something that brings back memories of the past.
I think it was Adam Neely who did a great video mentioning a study that found that most people’s favorite music is music that was popular (or that they heard a lot) in their formative pre-teen years.
As a bass player, I personally think good music is something you can dance to, among other things, at least as far as what I want to play. Adman Neely’s band, Sungazer, has some amazing music that does a lot of crazy things like use weird polyrhythms, or use various kinds of tuplets to make a 4/4 song feel like something else. I enjoy it, enjoy listening to it, but you can’t dance to it, so it’s not something I’d personally want to learn on bass. Doesn’t mean it’s bad music, though.
I don’t really see any part of my life that would be enhanced with a soundtrack by Dua Lipa. The production is good and the musicianship is good etc but I’m not feeling anything when I hear it.
That’s music nowadays I guess. Most songs are background music written to be used in films or adverts…
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Ok. My life is better with dance floors (or living rooms, or parks, etc)
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I stumbeld into the concert Dua Lipa did at Glastonbury (BBC iPlayer) this year.
I totally agree. I could not eat fast enough to b@rf over this, metaphorically speaking & to use an old German proverb to express myself here ^^
Ok, watching the absolutely legendary performance of the Idles before that did not help.
But even if I had seen Taylor Swift before, it wouldn’t have changed much (except that the b@rfing would have started much earlier!).
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Same. Everything doesn’t have to be for everyone.
It’s ok to not like a musical artist or their music. But when one stoops to insulting the artist or their music (and by implication the people who like them), I think they’ve crossed the line.
It makes one wonder where the vitriol is coming from and ultimately says more about that person than the artist or music they’re insulting.
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I agree, @GingerBug . Personal taste is a right. And one is free to disagree about the degree to which a genre or artist either does or does not appeal to that individual. But personal insults, whether direct or implied, are uncalled for, especially in this forum.
Bottom line: Read the room. And if you can’t read the civility therein, exit the room for the sake of those who can. Just my take.
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Exactly. Pop music is supposed to be fun, it’s something you can listen to while you’re at work, the gym or going for a run, something that helps pace you and helps keeps other distractions out. I listen to mostly pop and hiphop at work, for about 8 hrs a day, it helps keep me motivated and i’m not distracted too much by the lyrics. I usually don’t even know who the artists are lol. Sometimes I’m actually surprised when i listen more closely and realize where they sampled a melody from or what the actual story being told is.
I listen to a lot of MFDOOM and his various personas and colabs, i love the comic book/super hero themes even though i’m not really into that stuff. I love the strong influence from 60s/70s jazz. I love that pop and hiphop usually have great basslines and there are so many current groups like dua lipa, bruno mars and older groups like outcast that also have some great lyrics too. Prototype is such a great song! Feels by Calvin Harris is another good one.
Some people have some weird ideas for what “good” music has to be since it doesn’t even need to have lyrics… sometimes the lyrics are more just a part of the music. it’s not like there aren’t popular songs in other genres that have “bad” lyrics.
I searched for “what genre has the best lyrics” and it’s either hiphop/rap, christian, folk, metal, grunge or basically whatever anyones favourite genre is . I think it’s probably opera… everyone should be listening to opera (i really don’t like opera).
One of my favourite artists for lyrics is Aesop Rock, I Iove Pigeonometry, Noregrets, 9-5ers anthem and Aggressive Stephen. I feel bad for anyone who can’t enjoy those songs
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Exactly
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My wife would say that too…if I had one. Being single has it’s own advantage and not having to treat another’s opinion as if it was marital law is a big one. If she says it again say “I think you spend too much on shoes.” That’s usually a winner.
It was a joke. She wasn’t upset about it.
I can’t take more than one woman in my life, but let’s just say this forum is the side piece we don’t tell wifey about…