Dua Lipa Drops Music Video for 'Training Season' from Upcoming Third Studio Album: Watch

The Grammy winner shared the song was inspired by going on a "string of bad dates"

Dua Lipa is done "training" her suitors!

The three-time Grammy winner, 28, just released the second single for her upcoming third studio album.

New single “Training Season” follows her November 2023 release of “Houdini” and her performance at the 2024 Grammys, where she performed a medley of the upcoming single, “Houdini,” and her Grammy-nominated song, “Dance the Night” (from the Barbie soundtrack).

Dua Lipa's new single
Dua Lipa.

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The Grammy winner sings: “You should know I need someone to hold me close / Deeper than I’ve ever known / Whose love feels like a rodeo / Knows how to just take control / When I’m vulnerable he straight talking to my soul, conversation overload / Got me feeling vertigo / I need somebody who can go there / Cause I don’t want to have to show ya / If honey you don’t let me know ya / Cause training season is over.”

The pop star shared what inspired her latest track in a press release. “I had been on a string of bad dates, and the last one was the final straw," Lipa said. "The next morning, I arrived to the studio to [songwriters] Caroline [Ailin] and Tobias [Jesso Jr.] asking me how it all went and I immediately declared ‘TRAINING SEASON IS OVER,’ and like the best ‘day after’ debriefs with your mates, we had a lot of laughs and it all quickly came together from there."

Dua Lipa's new single
Dua Lipa.

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"And while it is obviously about that feeling when you are just absolutely done telling people…men specifically in this case, how to date you right; it is also about my training season being over and me growing with every experience,” she continued. 

“I have never felt more confident, clear or empowered. And while it may be that training season is never over for any of us, you start to see the beauty in finding that person to experience it with. You stop looking for the trainees and become more interested in having someone where you are and someone to grow with.”

Dua Lipa's new single
Dua Lipa.

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The upcoming music video was directed by Vincent Haycock and opens with a string of apology and second chance requests from previous suitors. It continues with clips of the singer “surrounded by men vying for her attention as the room begins to spin into chaos,” per the press release.

Lipa, Ailin, Jesso Jr., Danny L. Harle, and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker all served as the track’s songwriters. Parker and Harle also served as producers. 

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Dua Lipa's new single
Dua Lipa.

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Ahead of the release of “Training Season,” she shared in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, that she "wrote 97 songs" for the project in a physical notebook purchased from CVS.

"I started writing for this album in 2021, and I just wanted to write my ideas down," Lipa told host Jimmy Kimmel. "So, I went down to CVS, and I just bought a random notebook. Had I have known how important that book would’ve been, maybe I would’ve gotten a more fancy one."

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