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"Training Season" is a song by English singer Dua Lipa from her third studio album, Radical Optimism (2024). Lipa wrote it with Caroline Ailin, Danny L Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr., and its producer, Kevin Parker. Warner Records released it as the album's second single on 15 February 2024. A disco-pop song with influences of Eurodisco, "Training Season" details the demands Lipa makes of her romantic partners as she chides bad dates and underscores her self-worth.
Music critics believed "Training Season" had commercial potential and a catchy production, grouping it in the album's memorable and uptempo segment along with the other singles. The song debuted at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number twenty-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. It reached number one on airplay charts in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey and the top ten in several other countries, receiving diamond certifications in Brazil and France and multi-platinum in Australia and Canada.
Vincent Haycock directed the music video, which depicts Lipa in a cafe listening to voicemails from former partners while surrounding men try to capture her attention. Lipa premiered the song at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards before its release and later performed it at the Brit Awards 2024 and the Time 100 Gala. She included it on the set list of her 2024–2025 concert tour, the Radical Optimism Tour, and sang it at festivals, including the Glastonbury Festival 2024.
Dua Lipa began writing songs intended for her third studio album in 2021. A large part of the songwriting had been completed by January 2022, and half of the album was finished by March. Lipa decided to move away from the disco sound of her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020), and write material evocative of 1970s-era psychedelia. The follow-up album began to take shape in July 2022, when Lipa met Kevin Parker, a psychedelic songwriter and leader of the psych-rock project Tame Impala. She invited him to a studio session with her longtime collaborator Caroline Ailin, electronica producer Danny L Harle, and folk-pop musician Tobias Jesso Jr. at 5DB in London. After becoming comfortable with each other, they completed a song the same day and three by the weekend.
Lipa had been taken out on a series of unimpressive dates and considered one of them "the final straw". The following morning, in November 2022, she joined Ailin and Jesso Jr. in a studio and declared that "training season is over". They wrote the song "Training Season", which was composed by Harle and Parker; Martina Sorbara, Nicholas Gale, Shaun Frank, Steve Francis Richard Mastroianni, and Yaakov Gruzman also received credits due to an interpolation of the composition "Tokyo Nights". Lipa expanded on the dual meaning of the title of "Training Season", stating that it is about both informing men that she will no longer be training them how to treat her as well as the completion of her own personal growth.
Lipa ended up writing 97 songs for the album; 8 of the 11 tracks finally included were written with Ailin, Harle, Jesso Jr., and Parker. Lipa released the song "Houdini" as the lead single in November 2023. She wore a sweater with the caption "Training Season" in an Instagram photo and posted a TikTok video of her singing the chorus in a car in January 2024. She premiered the song at the Grammy Awards on 4 February. Warner Records released it as the second single from the album 11 days later, accompanied by extended, instrumental, and a cappella versions. The following day, Warner Music Group sent "Training Season" for radio airplay in Italy and made it available on physical formats like 7-inch, cassette, and CD in various countries. Warner Records promoted the song to contemporary hit radio stations in the United States. In March, several other versions were released. The album title was revealed to be Radical Optimism (2024) that month, and "Illusion" (2024) was released as the follow-up single. In November 2025, "Training Season" was used in an NBC Sports advertisement starring Lipa that promoted the 2026 Winter Olympics.
"Training Season" is 3 minutes and 29 seconds long. Parker produced, programmed, and engineered the song, with engineering assistance from Cameron Gower Poole. In addition to playing bass guitar, drums, guitar, keyboards, and percussion, Parker also provided sound effects. Harle handled drum programming, and Ailin and Poole provided vocal production. Recording took place at 5DB Studios in London, Woodshed Recording in Malibu, and Parker's home studio in Los Angeles. Parker, Ailin, and Jesso Jr. contributed background vocals. Josh Gudwin mixed the song, and Chris Gehringer handled mastering at Sterling Sound in New York City.
"Training Season" is a disco-pop song with influences of Eurodisco. It has also been characterised separately as a disco and pop song. The track employs a hook, disco beat, guitar syncopations, synthesizers, and live drums. "Training Season" includes girl group harmonies and a dancefloor pulse. Critics compared the song's disco-pop sound to "Houdini" and Future Nostalgia. They believed it represented Radical Optimism's sonic palette of synths, organic basslines, and guitar flourishes better than "Houdini", while Robin Murray of Clash felt that it adds "some trippy, Tame Impala aspects to her glossy pop mixture". Features of "Training Season" received comparisons to the work of ABBA: its piano line to "Dancing Queen" (1976), the Middle Eastern-influenced melody to "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (1979) and "Voulez-Vous" (1979), and its robustness to "Lay All Your Love on Me" (1981).
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Training Season
"Training Season" is a song by English singer Dua Lipa from her third studio album, Radical Optimism (2024). Lipa wrote it with Caroline Ailin, Danny L Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr., and its producer, Kevin Parker. Warner Records released it as the album's second single on 15 February 2024. A disco-pop song with influences of Eurodisco, "Training Season" details the demands Lipa makes of her romantic partners as she chides bad dates and underscores her self-worth.
Music critics believed "Training Season" had commercial potential and a catchy production, grouping it in the album's memorable and uptempo segment along with the other singles. The song debuted at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number twenty-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. It reached number one on airplay charts in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey and the top ten in several other countries, receiving diamond certifications in Brazil and France and multi-platinum in Australia and Canada.
Vincent Haycock directed the music video, which depicts Lipa in a cafe listening to voicemails from former partners while surrounding men try to capture her attention. Lipa premiered the song at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards before its release and later performed it at the Brit Awards 2024 and the Time 100 Gala. She included it on the set list of her 2024–2025 concert tour, the Radical Optimism Tour, and sang it at festivals, including the Glastonbury Festival 2024.
Dua Lipa began writing songs intended for her third studio album in 2021. A large part of the songwriting had been completed by January 2022, and half of the album was finished by March. Lipa decided to move away from the disco sound of her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020), and write material evocative of 1970s-era psychedelia. The follow-up album began to take shape in July 2022, when Lipa met Kevin Parker, a psychedelic songwriter and leader of the psych-rock project Tame Impala. She invited him to a studio session with her longtime collaborator Caroline Ailin, electronica producer Danny L Harle, and folk-pop musician Tobias Jesso Jr. at 5DB in London. After becoming comfortable with each other, they completed a song the same day and three by the weekend.
Lipa had been taken out on a series of unimpressive dates and considered one of them "the final straw". The following morning, in November 2022, she joined Ailin and Jesso Jr. in a studio and declared that "training season is over". They wrote the song "Training Season", which was composed by Harle and Parker; Martina Sorbara, Nicholas Gale, Shaun Frank, Steve Francis Richard Mastroianni, and Yaakov Gruzman also received credits due to an interpolation of the composition "Tokyo Nights". Lipa expanded on the dual meaning of the title of "Training Season", stating that it is about both informing men that she will no longer be training them how to treat her as well as the completion of her own personal growth.
Lipa ended up writing 97 songs for the album; 8 of the 11 tracks finally included were written with Ailin, Harle, Jesso Jr., and Parker. Lipa released the song "Houdini" as the lead single in November 2023. She wore a sweater with the caption "Training Season" in an Instagram photo and posted a TikTok video of her singing the chorus in a car in January 2024. She premiered the song at the Grammy Awards on 4 February. Warner Records released it as the second single from the album 11 days later, accompanied by extended, instrumental, and a cappella versions. The following day, Warner Music Group sent "Training Season" for radio airplay in Italy and made it available on physical formats like 7-inch, cassette, and CD in various countries. Warner Records promoted the song to contemporary hit radio stations in the United States. In March, several other versions were released. The album title was revealed to be Radical Optimism (2024) that month, and "Illusion" (2024) was released as the follow-up single. In November 2025, "Training Season" was used in an NBC Sports advertisement starring Lipa that promoted the 2026 Winter Olympics.
"Training Season" is 3 minutes and 29 seconds long. Parker produced, programmed, and engineered the song, with engineering assistance from Cameron Gower Poole. In addition to playing bass guitar, drums, guitar, keyboards, and percussion, Parker also provided sound effects. Harle handled drum programming, and Ailin and Poole provided vocal production. Recording took place at 5DB Studios in London, Woodshed Recording in Malibu, and Parker's home studio in Los Angeles. Parker, Ailin, and Jesso Jr. contributed background vocals. Josh Gudwin mixed the song, and Chris Gehringer handled mastering at Sterling Sound in New York City.
"Training Season" is a disco-pop song with influences of Eurodisco. It has also been characterised separately as a disco and pop song. The track employs a hook, disco beat, guitar syncopations, synthesizers, and live drums. "Training Season" includes girl group harmonies and a dancefloor pulse. Critics compared the song's disco-pop sound to "Houdini" and Future Nostalgia. They believed it represented Radical Optimism's sonic palette of synths, organic basslines, and guitar flourishes better than "Houdini", while Robin Murray of Clash felt that it adds "some trippy, Tame Impala aspects to her glossy pop mixture". Features of "Training Season" received comparisons to the work of ABBA: its piano line to "Dancing Queen" (1976), the Middle Eastern-influenced melody to "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (1979) and "Voulez-Vous" (1979), and its robustness to "Lay All Your Love on Me" (1981).