Radical Optimism, the new record by superstar Dua Lipa, is a great summer album. It’s filled with high-energy club bangers and dynamite melodies. Lipa’s voice is pure and true.
The record is about love. Not just any love, but a love that has been purified by judgment, grace, and experience. It’s obvious that Lipa loves sex, but it’s also clear that not just any fool is going to sink into those lovely lips.
In this way, Radical Optimism might have found an insightful interpreter in Pope Benedict. The pontiff went to be with the Lord in 2022, but he left us with Deus Caritas Est, or God is Love, his finest encyclical. Re-reading the pope while enjoying Radical Optimism offers a revelation: Pope Benedict gets what motivates Dua Lipa. Her critics do not.
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