80s Dua Lipa

I’ve been scrolling through YouTube looking for 80s production treasures, and there’s this whole subculture of people remixing modern songs as if they actually belonged in that decade. Find a current hit, give it the right synths and drum machines, and suddenly you’re listening to what might have been a lost single from 1985. The novelty never gets old.

Dua Lipa’s New Rules was everywhere last summer. The original’s a solid track, deserved the hype. But then I found this Initial Talk remix that treats it like a genuine artifact from the 80s—the synths, the drums, the production details all clicking into place—and something about it just works better.

I’m not sure if that means the 80s version is actually superior or if I’m just seduced by how perfectly the original translates into that sonic space. Probably both. The song already had strong bones, and wrapping it in the right production just emphasizes what was already there.

I keep returning to it, which I guess is its own answer. These days that’s the version I listen to.