Dua Lipa, End of an Era | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 52nd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “End of an Era” performed by Grammy-winning pop artist Dua Lipa. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 52^nd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “End of an Era” performed by Dua Lipa.

“In the clouds, there she goes / Butterflies 🦋, let them flow (End of an era).” Grammy-winning, English Albanian pop singer/songwriter Dua Lipa began a new era with her third studio album, Radical Optimism. Following up a juggernaut (Future Nostalgia was the sugar, honey, iced tea) is a challenge.  Much less heralded and less hyped than Future Nostalgia, Radical Optimism still had some genuine bops, including “End of an Era”. “End of an Era” is the album opener. Lipa, Danny L Harle, Caroline Ailin, Kevin Parker, and Tobias Jesso Jr. wrote “End.” Harle and Parker produced it.  The backdrop is lit with its dope, percussive groove, assertive rhythmic guitars, and the colorful, gorgeous keys and synths.  The fuel for the fire is evident from the start before Dua sings one note. Let the new era begin!

“What is it about a kiss that makes me feel like this? / Makes me an optimist, I guess,” Dua Lipa sings in the first verse, continuing, “I always jump too quick, hopin’ this one might stick / Hopelessly romantic.” Those pesky but all too relatable matters of the heart.  To all the hopeless romantics out there, Dua Lipa is speaking to us! Done with it, in the second verse, she’s turning over a new leaf.  She admits, “One chapter might be done, God knows I had some fun./ New one just begun.” Preach, sis! In the chorus, the centerpiece, the crème de la crème of “End of an Era,” her radical optimism shows:

“The sweetest pleasure

I feel like we’re gonna be together

This could be the end of an era

Who knows, baby? This could be forever, forever.”

Indeed, Dua Lipa, indeed! She shows us this new era on the post-chorus where her head is in the clouds, and she has butterflies.  On the bridge, she asserts, “I’ve lost all my senses /… Is this my happy ending?” As always, Dua Lipa brings the heat vocally – she’s ready-made for pop music with her husky, robust instrument.  Over the sleek, rhythmic backdrop, she excels. The “End of an Era” is pretty sweet!