Training Season, the new single by Dua Lipa is a song about dating and self-confidence, here the meaning behind the lyrics.
Dua Lipa is back with a new catchy hit, and fans are enjoying her unique style again. Training Season was released in February 2024; a dancey beat that remains impressed in your head from the first time you hear it and lyrics that shed light on the singer’s love life. The meaning behind the song is interesting: we will explore it in this article, and you’ll also find the official video and the complete lyrics at the end.
Training Season: the meaning behind the lyrics
Training Season is a song about dating and finding the right partner for you: in the lyrics, Dua Lipa describes her dating experience so far as she had to train her partners, explaining how to love her. As a sign of her personal growth, she now considers this training season over: from now on, she wants a man who already knows how to make her happy.
This is how Dua Lipa presented the single in the press release, explaining how it was conceived:
“I had been on a string of bad dates, and the last one was the final straw. The next morning I arrived to the studio to Caroline and Tobias 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.
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. 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.”
Therefore, the lyrics in Training Season have a double meaning: they both mean, “I’m done telling men how to love me,” but also, “I want this learning phase of my life to be over and start harvesting what I deserve.” In the chorus, now Dua Lipa has finally clear what kind of man she wants:
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
When I’m vulnerable
He’s straight talking to my soul
Conversation overload
Got me feeling vertigo
And having this clear, she now focuses on understanding if he can give all this to her spontaneously, without having to explain everything in detail. That’s how true love should work: two souls matching with each other naturally, without forcing the connection, feeling happy, satisfied, and complete in the most natural way.
Are you somebody who can go there?
‘Cause I don’t wanna have to show ya
If that ain’t you, then let me know, yeah
‘Cause training season’s over
The meaning of the lyrics inside Training Season is, therefore, clear: I’m done with trial periods; from now on, if I see my man is unable to make me happy naturally, I won’t insist on guiding and training him on how to do it. I deserve someone who already knows how to love me.
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The official video and the complete lyrics
Are you
Someone that I can give my heart to?
Or just the poison that I’m drawn to?
It can be hard to tell the difference late at night
Play fair
Is that a compass in your nature?
Or are you tricky ’cause I’ve been there?
And, baby, I don’t need to learn my lesson twice
But if you really wanna go there
You should know 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
When I’m vulnerable
He’s straight talking to my soul
Conversation overload
Got me feeling vertigo
Are you somebody who can go there?
‘Cause I don’t wanna have to show ya
If that ain’t you, then let me know, yeah
‘Cause training season’s over
(Training season’s over)
I tried
To see my lovers in a good light
Don’t wanna do it just to be nice
Don’t wanna have to teach you how to love me right
I hope
It hits me like an arrow
Someone with some potential
Is it too much to ask for?
Who understands 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
When I’m vulnerable
He’s straight talking to my soul
Conversation overload
Got me feeling vertigo
Are you somebody who can go there?
‘Cause I don’t wanna have to show ya
If that ain’t you, then let me know, yeah
‘Cause training season’s over
Can you compete? Now is your time
Run when you hear that whistle blow
Are you on my team or stuck on the sidelines
Waiting for someone to tell you to go?
For someone to tell you to go
You should know 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
When I’m vulnerable
He’s straight talking to my soul (If that ain’t you, then let me know, yeah)
Conversation overload
‘Cause training season’s over
‘Cause training season’s over
Training season’s over
