Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review — it’s just not very interesting

Dua Lipa’s new album is suitably titled. The core appeal of this sleek, effervescent pop star is rooted in the optimism, radical or otherwise, that has shone out of her ever since she broke through in 2017 with the huge hit New Rules. Her story is cemented into modern pop lore: the eldest child of Kosovo-Albanian parents who escaped the former Yugoslavia to build a new life in London, Lipa auditioned for the choir at her primary school and, on being told she couldn’t sing, took weekend lessons at Sylvia Young Theatre School until she could. In 2008 her family moved back to Kosovo after it became independent, before she then returned to London on her own to make it. Soon she was doing