Dua Lipa (25,007 views)

[ama]

Dua Lipa
Vocal Range: G♯2 – A5

Significant High Notes:
A5 ("Love Again")
G♯5 ("Hallucinate", "Scared To Be Lonely")
G5 ("Dreams", "Future Nostalgia", "Not My Problem")
F♯5 ("Love Again", "Scared To Be Lonely")
F5 ("Demeanor", "High", "Physical")
E5 ("Dreams", "If Only", "Love Again", "New Rules", "No Goodbyes", "Not My Problem", "Scared To Be Lonely")
E♭5 ("Bad Together", "Begging", "Boys Will Be Boys", "Break My Heart", "Hallucinate" Live in the Lounge, "Last Dance", "Law Of Attraction", "Prisoner", "Want To", "We’re Good")
D5 ("Be The One", "CAN THEY HEAR US", "Don’t Start Now", "For Julian", "Future Nostalgia", "Genesis", "Good In Bed", "Hallucinate", "IDGAF", "I’d Rather Go Blind (Live)", "If It Ain’t Me", "Last Dance", "Levitating", "Love Again", "Physical", "Swan Song", "That Kind Of Woman", "Thinking 'Bout You")
C♯5 ("Fever", "Garden", "Hallucinate", "High", "Homesick", "Hotter Than Hell", "IDGAF", "I’d Rather Go Blind (Live)", "Room For 2", "Scared To Be Lonely", "Un Día (One Day)", We’re Good")
C5 ("Bad Together", "Begging", "Be The One", "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)", "Boys Will Be Boys", "CAN THEY HEAR US", "Cool", "Dreams", "Genesis", "IDGAF", "If It Ain’t Me", "I'm Not The Only One" iHeartRadio Live Sessions, "I’d Rather Go Blind (Live)", "Kiss and Make Up", "My Love", "New Love", "New Rules", "No Goodbyes", "Physical", "Running", "Swan Song", "Thinking 'Bout You")
B4 ("Bad Together", "Break My Heart", "Don’t Start Now", "Dreams", "Garden", "Genesis", "IDGAF", "If Only", "Last Dance", "Levitating", "Love Yourself" Capital Session, "Lost In Your Light", "New Rules", "No Goodbyes", "Room For 2", "Running", "Tears Dry On Their Own" Acoustic, "That Kind Of Woman", "Thinking 'Bout You", "Want To", "We’re Good")
B♭4 ("Begging", "Be The One", "Boys Will Be Boys", "Cool", "Demeanor", "Garden", "Hallucinate", "Here", "High", "Homesick", "Hotter Than Hell", "If It Ain’t Me", "Last Dance", "New Love", "Pretty Please", "Prisoner", "Swan Song", "Thinking 'Bout You")
A4 ("Be The One", "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)", "Don’t Start Now", "Electricity", "Fever", "Genesis", "Golden Slumbers" Acoustic, "Good In Bed", "Here", "IDGAF", "I’d Rather Go Blind (Live)", "If Only", "Lost In Your Light", "My Love", "New Rules", "No Goodbyes", "Not My Problem", "Physical", "Room For 2", "Stay")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Electricity", "Future Nostalgia", "Garden", "If It Ain’t Me", "Levitating", "Lost In Your Light", "Love Again", "My Love", "New Rules", "No Goodbyes", "No Lie", "One Kiss", "Physical", "Room For 2", "Running", "Somebody To Love Me", "Stay")
G♯3 ("Cool", "Demeanor", "High", "Homesick", "Hotter Than Hell", "Last Dance", "New Love", "Running", "Stay", "Un Día (One Day)", "Want To", "We’re Good")
G3 ("Begging", "Be The One", "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)", "Break My Heart", "CAN THEY HEAR US", "Future Nostalgia, "Genesis", "Golden Slumbers" Acoustic, "Good In Bed", "Kiss and Make Up", "No Goodbyes", "One Kiss", "Stay", "Thinking 'Bout You")
F♯3 ("Fever", "Homesick", "Hotter Than Hell", "I’d Rather Go Blind (Live)", "If Only", "Love Again", "New Love", "Room For 2", "Somebody To Love Me")
F3 ("Bad Together", "Cool", "Dreams", "Good In Bed", "Hallucinate", "I'm Not The Only One" iHeartRadio Live Sessions, "New Love")
E3 ("Break My Heart", "For Julian", "Genesis", "Golden Slumbers" Acoustic, "If Only", "Love Yourself" Capital Sessions, "Room For 2", "Scared To Be Lonely", "Tears Dry On Their Own" Acoustic, "Thinking 'Bout You")
E♭3 ("Bad Together", "Hotter Than Hell", "Love Yourself" Capital Session, "New Love")
D3 ("Blow Your Mind (Mwah)", "Break My Heart" Acoustic demo, "CAN THEY HEAR US", For Julian", "Golden Slumbers" Acoustic, "Good In Bed", "IDGAF", "Last Dance", "My Love", "Room For 2", "Thinking 'Bout You")
C3 ("Good In Bed", "Last Dance", "Law Of Attraction", "No Goodbyes")
B2 ("For Julian", "Love Yourself" Capital Sessions)
B♭2 ("Law Of Attraction", "Pretty Please")
A2 ("Physical")
G♯2 ("Pretty Please")
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• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
• Blue marks head voice notes or high falsetto.
• Bold marks impressive notes or passages.

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{Questionable notes}
C6 ("Cool")
F♯5 ("Levitating")
G♯2 ("Hallucinate")
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_{Questionable notes are any notes with a questionable significance/existence, including vocal fry, uncontrolled slides, very short notes, and notes with a suspicious origin.}

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{Notewatching Credits, Special Thanks & Other Info}
_{Thanks to darby , who gave me his permission to make this thread.}

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{Vocal Range Timeline}
_{Dua Lipa (2017) : C3 - G♯5
Future Nostalgia (2020) : G♯2 - A5}

[luxiouskorsay]

C3 & A2
From Physical Stems

[damonkarma]

Whaaat an A2 that is hard for tenors my god

[billieeilishstann]

I thought her range was F2-F5-D6

[ama]

She might have a G♯2 and a B♭2 in Pretty Please, though I’m not sure about the origin of these notes. But the F2 from Cool is pitched, that’s for sure. She might also have some A5s, and a C6 in Cool, but again, I’m not sure about the origin of that note, it might just be an overtone. She has no D6 anywhere. I’ll check those suspicious notes soon enough, I just have to get a few things done before that.

[kokope]

Can you link the G♯2 and a B♭2 in Pretty Please?

[ama]

G♯2: 1:41
B♭2: 1:29
I think they’re the only legit notes in the second octave on the album (with Physical).

[Leimont]

I would say the B♭2 is definitely there but the G♯2... idk, it's hard to tell if it's actually her for me
I would also recommend linking the extremes.

[ama]

The extremities will be linked when I have access to my laptop, so probably tonight or tomorrow. Maybe you didn’t notice before, but the old extremities before her range expanded were linked.

[kokope]

A male vocalist has singing credits for Pretty Please so that G♯2 is most definitely not hers.

[ama]

I know that Ian Kirkpatrick has singing credits as a backing vocalist (he’s the producer of the track and plays most instruments), but I honestly don’t think it’s him singing that part. It sounds like Dua and I’d be very surprised if it was someone else, because she has a distinctive tone.

[gegemnzs27]

i agree with ama. and even if its not Dua, it sounds more like a female voice in that part to me

[Baronessa]

That G♯2 is significantly stronger than the "Physical" A2 so I'd probably still be a bit suspicious of it.

[ama]

All of the backing vocals in the pre-chorus and then the chorus sound like Dua to me. She has a strong lower register, so I still believe it’s her. Maybe someone could extract the backing vocals so we can figure out if it’s really her or not?

[gegemnzs27]

hey i don't know how to extract backing vocals from a song, but i found this isolated version on yt: youtu.be/Y1-zXDs9eRo its easier to hear the background vocal, and it sounds like Dua in my oponion

[luxiouskorsay]

She's an amazing contralto

[ama]

I’d say she’s a mezzo with an amazing lower register and an underdeveloped higher register

[rtim]

She is a featuring artist in the new Miley Cyrus, Prisoner

[mcturbo]

Some nice lows in the beginning

[Smitty.]

Jan 23, 2021 19:23:54 GMT mcturbo said:

Some nice lows in the beginning

Damn Those Are some nice C3s

[luxiouskorsay]

Jan 23, 2021 19:23:54 GMT mcturbo said:

Some nice lows in the beginning

OMG, Those C3 should be bolded, they're so Strong

[aphelion]

I hate to say it but I think that A5 should be removed. I managed to partially isolate them and noticed they had a very chipmunk-like quality to them, and after pitching them down an octave they turned out to just be the main vocal pitch shifted up. It’s a pretty common technique to duplicate the main vocal and pitch it up an octave to add some clarity to the vocals and I think this is a prime example of how that gets in the way of notewatching

[1999]

Hallucinate - Boldworthy E♭5. The performance is full of C♯5s all around as well.

[ama]

To me, there’s nothing really impressive about the E♭5, and I think I won’t even count it because it’s technically off key

[luxiouskorsay]

May 3, 2021 15:01:22 GMT ama said:

To me, there’s nothing really impressive about the E♭5, and I think I won’t even count it because it’s technically off key

The Bb4 is the good note