{"id":491858,"date":"2019-11-04T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=907761"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:26:30","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-dua-lipa-dont-start-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-dua-lipa-dont-start-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Dua Lipa, \u2018Don\u2019t Start Now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DuaLipa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Prior to her new song \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now,\u201d it seemed unclear how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dua-lipa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dua-lipa\" data-tag=\"dua-lipa\">Dua Lipa<\/a> would fit into the ever-growing, increasingly more competitive pop stratosphere. Was she a smoky voiced balladeer? A go-to collaborator for EDM producers? A bubblegum pop princess? She existed in all three worlds on her self-titled debut album, but it seems that Lipa is finally finding her pop footing.<\/p>\n<p>Lipa reunited with the team behind her formidable, catchy breakthrough hit \u201cNew Rules,\u201d but \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d takes her sound to a higher level. Above one of the year\u2019s strongest bass lines, Lipa vocally struts her way through a Studio 54 fantasy. With biting sass, she tells a lover who has left her scorned that she has happily moved on. The song is the peak of pop catharsis: it unfolds into one of the year\u2019s most glamorous new tunes. You wish you could see Bianca Jagger ride into the club on a white horse as this song plays in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d is the first single off Lipa\u2019s upcoming sophomore album. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-dont-start-now-mtv-emas-907545\/\">She performed it over the weekend<\/a> at the MTV EMA\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/rsedit\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-dua-lipa-dont-start-now-disco-907761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to her new song \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now,\u201d it seemed unclear how Dua Lipa would fit into the ever-growing, increasingly more competitive pop stratosphere. Was she a smoky voiced balladeer? A go-to collaborator for EDM producers? A bubblegum pop princess? She existed in all three worlds on her self-titled debut album, but it seems that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 06:20:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}