Training Season

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"Training Season"
A photo of Dua Lipa hanging from a metal pole by her arms and legs.
Single by Dua Lipa
from the album Radical Optimism
Released15 February 2024 (2024-02-15)
Genre
Length3:29
LabelWarner
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)
  • Danny L Harle
  • Kevin Parker
Dua Lipa singles chronology
"Houdini"
(2023) 		"Training Season"
(2024) 		"Illusion"
(2024)
Music video
"Training Season" on
YouTube

"Training Season" is a song by English-Albanian singer

UK Singles Chart and at number six on the Billboard Global 200
. Elsewhere, the song reached the top ten in various countries, including Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Lebanon, Luxembourg, and New Zealand.

Background

Earlier in 2023, Dua Lipa announced her upcoming third studio album would be released sometime in 2024 with a new sound that sees her moving away from the disco sound of Future Nostalgia (2020), embracing more of 1970s-era psychedelia.[1] After having deleted all of her Instagram posts in October 2023, Lipa posted a picture of herself with red hair captioned "miss me?".[2] Following the single "Houdini" (2023), Lipa released "Training Season" as the second single from her upcoming album on 15 February 2024.[3]

The singer previously teased the song title through a picture she shared on Instagram, wearing a sweater with the caption "Training Season" during a rehearsal.[4] On 24 January 2024 Lipa shared an instrumental snippet of the song through WhatsApp. She announced the single the following day through her social media.[5] Written by Lipa, along with Caroline Ailin, Danny L Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr., Kevin Parker, Martina Sorbara, Nick Gale, Shaun Frank, Steve Francis Richard Mastroianni, and Yaakov Gruzman, the song was produced by Parker and Harle.[6]

On 25 January, Lipa shared a clip of "Training Season" on TikTok. Its lyrics, which she conceived after going on mediocre dates, are about her denouncing unimpressive suitors. The clip featured Lipa singing lyrics over a pounding beat: "I need someone to hold me close, deeper than I've ever known/ Whose love feels like a rodeo, knows just how to take control". She elaborated on the dual meaning of its lyrics, stating that it is about both informing men that she will no longer be training them about how to treat her as well as the completion of her own personal growth.[7]

Composition

Variety's Jem Aswad compared "Training Season" to the work of ABBA and described its instrumental as a "powerful disco beat", and he further wrote that the song's melody "swerves into Middle-Eastern scales".[8] Consequence's Mary Siroky wrote that song's disco-pop sound calls back to "Houdini", while its "focused, self-assured lyrics" recall back to her 2017 single, "New Rules".[9] It has also been described as a "dance track based off a series of bad dates".[10]

Music video

Vincent Haycock directed the music video for "Training Season", which was released alongside the song.[11]

Live performances

Lipa performed "Training Season" live for the first time at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on 4 February 2024, before its official release.[12] On 2 March 2024, she opened the Brit Awards ceremony with the performance of the song.[13]

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Training Season"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[80] Silver 200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and format(s) for "Training Season"
Region Date Format(s) Version Label Ref.
Various 15 February 2024
  • Original
  • extended
  • instrumental
  • acapella
 Warner [6]
Italy 16 February 2024
Radio airplay
 Original [81]
Europe
  • Original
  • instrumental[a]
 [82][83][84]
United Kingdom [85][86][87]
United States [88][89][90]
Australia February 2024 [91][92][93]
United States 20 February 2024 Contemporary hit radio Original [94]
Various 4 March 2024
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 Live at the BRIT Awards 2024 [95]
Extended instrumental [96]
United Kingdom CD and cassette bundle Original [97]
Various 15 March 2024
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 London sessions [98]
22 March 2024 Acoustic version [99]
29 March 2024 Chloé Caillet mix [100]

Notes

  1. ^ Of the physical editions, only the 7-inch single includes the instrumental version.

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