Dua Lipa has admitted that collaborator Kevin Parker’s band Tame Impala’s 2015 LP ‘Currents’ “completely changed” her life.
The ‘Don’t Start Now’ hitmaker has teamed up with Kevin on her latest single ‘Houdini’ and her upcoming third studio album – with the multi-instrumentalist serving as producer alongside Danny L. Harle.
And it turns out Dua has been a long-time fan of the psychedelic outfit that inspired her new sound.
She told Triple J in an interview shared on Instagram: “In terms of things that I’m obsessed with, ‘Currents’ has been the soundtrack to my life.
“It’s one of my favorite albums ever, ever, ever. [It] was kind of like the gateway drug for me to Tame Impala. It changed my life completely and so it was very, very cool to be able to collaborate with him in this way.”
She continued: “I’ve always looked up to [him] as someone I am really inspired by and [he] has always been on my dream board of people to work with.”
Dua, 28, says she and Kevin, 37, “gelled” really well in the studio and produced some “really fun” songs for the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Future Nostalgia’.
She added: “It kind of surprised us both how well we just gelled in the studio and how well it worked and how fun it was to collaborate with each other. We’ve made some really fun songs.”
The ‘Levitating’ singer recently teased that the rest of the songs on the album are “completely different” from ‘Houdini’.
She told iHeartRadio: “All the other songs on the album are quite different, but they generally have a very psychedelic through-line. ‘Houdini’ has so much electronic variety, but at the same time it has a lot of interesting instrumentation and feels very organic as well. ..that’s something I really wanted to convey on the album.”
