This comes at great joy for fans, who have rooted for a collaboration between the two vocal powerhouses for a long while. Both stars announced the wonderful news via posts on their respective social media accounts.

In a post to Instagram, Lipa shared a film-like photograph of herself and Cyrus, confirming in the caption that Prisoners will be “out at midnight”. Fans reacted joyously to the post, which has obtained a whopping 806,000 likes. 

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Cyrus followed suit, posting a succession of themed photographs, and one intriguing promotional clip featuring an explosion of maraschino cherries and graffiti. The post was celebrated by fans, receiving over 544,000 likes.

This hinting via social media is not an isolated incident from the stars, who have both been teasing a collaboration for months. In October, Cyrus said their upcoming single is “perfectly a blend of the both of us”, which only heightened fans’ wild excitement. 

In May of this year, Lipa revealed that the pair had already planned to create a song together before the coronavirus pandemic. Sadly, the international lockdown restrictions prevented them from doing so. Fortunately, Prisoners is out in a few short hours!

 

 

 

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Superstar Lipa has been keeping her schedule jam-packed recently. It was announced yesterday (November 18th) that Lipa was selected as an ambassador for Puma, and will be the face of their upcoming She Moves Us campaign. The She Moves Us campaign will see Lipa joining forces with Puma for initiatives focused on female empowerment.

Lipa declared her collaboration with the fashion giants via a post to Instagram. Clearly excited, the New Rules singer wrote in the caption: “I can’t wait for you to see what I have in store for you!” The post, which gathered a jaw-dropping 2.6m likes, was welcomed warmly by Lipa’s worldwide fanbase. 

In other wonderful news, Lipa is set to perform a one-off livestream concert this month. An ode to the golden age of disco, the live stream is lovingly titled ‘Studio 2054’. Lipa will deliver ‘Studio 2054’ from a huge warehouse.

FKA Twigs will perform with Lipa during ‘Studio 2054’, which will be live-streamed from a huge warehouse on November 27th. Tickets for ‘Studio 2054’ are on sale now. More information regarding this can be found here.

The latest release from Dua Lipa is Fever, in which she recruited Belgian singer-songwriter Angele. Lipa released Fever on October 29th.

Lipa shared the music video to Fever via her official YouTube channel on November 6th. Since then, the Fever video has received over 14 million views. 

In the video, Lipa and Angele walk through an unnamed city, running, laughing, and causing trouble. The fun Fever music video can be watched in full here. 

Prisoners will be out at midnight tonight.

A ten-track album, The Universal Want contains songs like Broken Eyes, Carousels and Cathedral Of The Mind. The Universal Want marks over a decade since Kingdom of Rust, which Doves premiered way back in 2009. 

Packed full of soaring instrumentation, riffy guitars, and anthemic choruses, The Universal Want proves that Doves’ aptitude for making catchy sad music is still very much there, despite an eleven-year break. 

In a recent interview with NME, Doves drummer Andy Williams talked about the album’s token song, Broken Eyes, and how they managed to finally finish the track. Williams stated that “We’ve had it for many years, but never managed to finish that song.” The music video for Broken Eyes can be watched in full here.

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Our brand new album ‘The Universal Want’ is out now! Featuring the recent singles ‘Carousels’, ‘Prisoners’ and our new single ‘Broken Eyes’. Watch the video for ‘Broken Eyes’ now at https://Doves.lnk.to/BrokenEyesVideoIN – swipe up in our latest story to watch. You can stream, download and get signed copies of the album from https://Doves.lnk.to/TUWIN – link in the bio. dovesdovesbandtheuniversalwantbrokeneyescarouselsprisoners

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Williams revealed that it only took a simple reworking to finish Broken Eyes after pulling it out of the archives. Williams relayed that “at the start of this new album writing process in 2017, we were going through the hard drives and came across this great song again. We approached it in a much more simple way. With the clarity of time, it was a lot easier to finish it this time.”

Jez Williams, Doves guitarist and brother of Andy Williams, added “We had to change the words to this one. There are a couple of songs on the record that after a decade and a bit of hindsight, we knew where we went wrong. ‘Broken Eyes’ was originally called ‘Cocaine Eyes’. We realised that we couldn’t have a band like us talking about cocaine eyes, because it just looks silly.”

Jez Williams also spoke on Doves’ songwriting process, explaining the band’s fluid, unstructured approach to making music. Williams said that “When we get together, we don’t have a mandate – that would be the beginning of the end,” he said. “We don’t even talk about it. We’re there in the moment and going with what sounds new. The song will dictate where we’re at.”

Whilst The Universal Want contains yearning, sometimes depressive themes in their lyrics, the band maintains that the album can’t be all doom and gloom. Andy Williams stated that “It can’t just be us moaning on. There’s got to be light. It doesn’t wash well for me with middle-aged bands coming out with adolescent lyrics. It’s good to register that life is a struggle, but to offer some kind of help.” 

 

 

 

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We’ve noticed that some of you are experiencing delivery issues with your order for the album. We asked about it and have received this explanation: “Unfortunately there have been issues with the record label’s warehouse and a number of pre-orders from the official website are late going out. We are really sorry this has happened. Please check your email if your album hasn’t arrived yet, orders are shipping and will be with you soon’ Thank you for your continued support! A post shared by Doves (@dovesofficial) on Sep 11, 2020 at 12:42pm PDT

Doves took to Instagram to share the arrival of The Universal Want. Featuring a snap of the album and a snippet of Broken Eyes playing in the background, the post was received wonderfully from fans, gathering over 4,000 likes and views. 

The full tracklist for The Universal Want can be found below:

1. Carousel
2. I Will Not Hide
3. Broken Eyes
4. For Tomorrow
5. Cathedrals Of The Mind
6. Prisoners
7. Cycle Of Hurt
8. Mother Silverlake
9. Universal Want
10. Forest House