Houdini by Dua Lipa debuts with 8M views on YouTube within 14 hours of its release

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Houdini by Dua Lipa debuts with 8 million views on YouTube within 14 hours of its release.

According to information, Houdini by Dua Lipa has gotten over 8.5M views on YouTube.

Disco jeopardy comes crackling through the synth lines, pulsing, wriggling and fizzing against one another, wearing the sparks of their raw electricity on their sleeves. Two thirds of the way in, the melodramatic chords come splashing, ABBA-esque, down the octave – before a cool, kazoo-esque effect (think Seventies Stevie Wonder) arrives towards the end to send your speakers vibrating.

The track comes bubbling up from a cauldron of distortion, before Dua Lipa takes a breath, nods a brief “OK” and that elastic bass line snaps to attention. Its stomp and phrasing half-conjures the ghost of The Jackson’s 1980 hit, “Can you Feel It?”. Aptly titled, the song finds the singer in the role of a romantic escapologist (ie easily able to extricate herself from entanglements), throwing down the gauntlet to her latest mark. “Catch me ‘fore I go… Maybe you could be the one to make me stay?”

The “Houdini” video shows Lipa dance in front of a mirror in a studio. The star is joined by a group of backup dancers, who all sport the same red colored hair.

Lipa shot the video at the English National Ballet in London.

“Houdini” is the first song to debut from the singer’s forthcoming third album and is co-written and produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker. There’s some daftness in the lyrics, too. “Time is passing like a solar eclipse,” warns the singer, like the heroine in a scientifically-ropey Hollywood blockbuster. What does she mean by this? That there’s only a moment of darkness for her lover to snare her? The average solar eclipse takes hours and, at its peak, offers around seven minutes of total black-out. That’s twice the length of this song. But pop is no place for pedantry – especially not when it comes to a singer whose lockdown hit, “Levitating”, saw her laughing in the face of gravity.

“So it begins… thank you for your patience. The first release from my upcoming album,” Lipa wrote on Instagram. “feeling so filled with love and joy to get to do this with ‘the band’ (@tameimpala @dannylharle @carolineailin @tobiasjessojr) and to share this moment with the world.”