Dua Lipa has released the latest single from her highly-anticipated third album, Radical Optimism. âIllusionâ arrives with a Tanu Muinoâdirected music video shot at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc in Barcelona. Watch Lipa perform at the luxe pool amid dancers, high divers, and synchronized swimmers below.
The picturesque swimming pool in the âIllusionâ clip was also the site of Kylie Minogueâs âSlowâ video shoot from 2003. Muinoâs visual culminates with Lipa climbing a structure inspired by traditional Catalonian human towers, called castells.
Lipa co-wrote âIllusionâ with Caroline Ailin, Danny L Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Kevin Parker, who contribute across the album. The single was co-produced by Harle and Parker.
ââIllusionâ was the first song Caroline, Danny, Tobias, Kevin and I worked on together, and it really broke the ice for the recordâ Lipa said in press materials. âItâs about knowing what youâre getting yourself into, but staying for the hell of it. The jokeâs on them, itâs the fun of playing someone at their own game because ultimately you wonât fall for an illusion.â
âIllusionâ follows the Radical Optimism singles âHoudiniâ and âTraining Season,â both of which landed with visuals. The 11-song follow-up to 2020âs Future Nostalgia (and its subsequent remix record) is out May 3.
