{"id":792336,"date":"2019-01-24T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783871"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:56:55","slug":"dua-lipa-rules-dystopian-wasteland-in-new-swan-song-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/dua-lipa-rules-dystopian-wasteland-in-new-swan-song-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa Rules Dystopian Wasteland in New \u2018Swan Song\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dua Lipa<\/a> powers through an uncertain future in her cinematic new song \u201cSwan Song,\u201d featured in Robert Rodriguez\u2019s new cyberpunk action film, Alita: Battle Angel<\/em><\/a>. The James Cameron-produced movie hits theaters on February 14th.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t lie \u2014 I\u2019m scared to open my eyes\/\u2019Cause what if I find nothing at all?\u201d Lipa croons over muted electronics, airy synths, stabbing brass samples and vocal chants. Later, she builds on that feeling of urgency in the pre-chorus: \u201cYou know the time is running, running out\/Only I see the diamonds, diamonds breaking down\/I won\u2019t stay quiet, I won\u2019t stay quiet\/\u2019Cause staying silent\u2019s the same as dying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lipa also stars in the song\u2019s video, set on the streets of the film\u2019s Iron City. The singer rummages through ruins, performs choreography and martial arts, runs from a massive robot and gazes into a mirror at the film\u2019s titular CGI protagonist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clip\u2019s director, Floria Sigismondi, said in a statement that she wanted the visual to tap into the film\u2019s themes of self-discovery. \u201cWhile in the film, Alita is quite literally on a journey to discover who she is,\u201d she said. \u201cHer story serves as a really powerful allegory for any girl who doesn\u2019t yet know her own power. I wanted to play with that same profound notion by dropping Dua into a facet of Alita\u2019s world and allowing Alita to serve as a surrogate that leads her on a journey to discover she\u2019s stronger than she ever could have imagined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following her debut LP, 2017\u2019s Dua Lipa<\/em>, the singer has collaborated on singles with Calvin Harris (\u201cOne Kiss\u201d) and the Diplo-Mark Ronson project Silk City (\u201cElectricity\u201d<\/a>). She\u2019s nominated for two Grammys<\/a> at the 2019 ceremony: Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording (for \u201cElectricity\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dua Lipa powers through an uncertain future in her cinematic new song \u201cSwan Song,\u201d featured in Robert Rodriguez\u2019s new cyberpunk action film, Alita: Battle Angel. The James Cameron-produced movie hits theaters on February 14th. \u201cI can\u2019t lie \u2014 I\u2019m scared to open my eyes\/\u2019Cause what if I find nothing at all?\u201d Lipa croons over muted […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 21:10:15","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}