# Talk:Break My Heart (Dua Lipa song)

For future reference, here is what the majority of sources have said:
Disco

Billboard: disco-funk anthem "Break My Heart"
MTV: disco-pop territory
God is in the TV: another blissful release of disco ecstasy
Stereoboard: It's a disco-drenced dance-pop offering
Soundigest: "Break My Heart" is yet another disco track
The Singles Jukebox: mixing it into a disco
Warner Music NZ press release: Dua Lipa has shared her new disco-infused single Break My Heart
Apple Music review: life-affirming disco ("Don't Start Now," "Break My Heart")
Gay Times: merging elements of disco and funk
Dance-pop

The A.V. Club: her latest dance-pop track "Break My Heart"
Slant Magazine: pouring it into sublime dance-pop
Stereoboard: It's a disco-drenced dance-pop offering
The Singles Jukebox: so many great dance pop tracks
LOVI33 00:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

If you have the genres, use them in the article. Also, you are still intepreting genres, being "funk drenched" or having "elements" of a genre, does not mean it's part of a genre and is interpreting a source poorly. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:07, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

This factually incorrect statement keeps getting re-added to the article. There is no sample of the INXS song "Need You Tonight" in "Break My Heart." It has a similar musical passage around the words "I would've stayed at home/'Cause I was doin' better alone" and repeated three times - and the writers of the INXS song were given songwriting credit as a result, to avoid any lawsuits. This is not unprecedented - the Rolling Stones credited k.d. lang and Ben Mink when they discovered a similarity in the chorus of "Anybody Seen My Baby?." 
It's arguably interpolation, inasmuch as the instrumentation in this passage is reminiscent of that of the INXS song's guitar line (edit: But not really - there's no attempt to sound like the distinctive guitar sound in "Need You Tonight"; it is simply that two bars of the chorus are musically identical). But there is no sample - a reuse of a portion of the actual recording. -ProhibitOnions (T) 08:31, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

ProhibitOnions, I am unsure why this is here. This is not a discussion, it is a fact. Not only do multiple reliable sources confirm it, but the Future Nostalgia liner notes do as well. Plus what you mentioned above is mentioned in the background. Even though it was accidental, it is still an interpolation and INXS were given a publishing credit and writing credits. LOVI33 21:58, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
It is not a sample. Dua Lipa did not record the song aiming to sound like INXS, so it's a coincidental soundalike, nothing more. We have sources that inaccurately call it a "sample" - but we have the artist herself, interviewed in reliable media saying it was not that at all. As I said above, it maybe counts as interpolation, but generally that means trying to recreate the sound of a separate recording without sampling it, and in this case, as Dua Lipa herself says, there was no intent to imitate INXS, and that the similarity was brought to her attention AFTER the song was finished. So, not a sample, and interpolation, only accidentally. Hence my rephrase. -ProhibitOnions (T)
ProhibitOnions, the fact that it is accidental is irrelevant, an interpolation is an interpolation. Please provide a source on the fact that an interpolation has to be intentional. Interviews by artists are not the most reliable source. One example could be when Lipa stated that her song "Love Again" samples White Town, when it in fact samples Al Bowlly. The Future Nostalgia liner notes are 100% the most reliable source, and they confirm it as an interpolation. Plus, the fact that it was accidental is already mentioned in the "Background and release" section, the lead doesn't need to include everything about the article. That's why I removed it, not because I didn't like it but because It wasn't notable for the lead. One other thing, please avoid using citations in the lead, a lead is meant to summarize the article. LOVI33 23:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
I didn't take out the mention of interpolation, it was further down in the article, but largely irrelevant in the intro. More important, if we are discussing the unusual songwriting credits, is to explain how it happened that the writers of a 1987 song, one of them long deceased, came to be credited. As with other cases, this was simply coincidence, as Dua Lipa confirms. Me, I thought that portion of the song was far more reminiscent of "God Is a Dancer," released only a few months earlier, but I guess INXS had better lawyers. -ProhibitOnions (T) 00:21, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
ProhibitOnions, firstly, the interpolation is extremely relevant in the lead. I don't want to start an edit war but the entire reason INXS is credited isn't really notable. According to WP:LEAD, the lead section should show why the article is notable and summarize it's most important points. How I usually do it is 1st paragraph: Writers/Release/Samples/Composition, 2nd: Critical reception/Commercial performance 3rd: Promotion. For now, I am going to remove the citations from the lead per WP:LEAD as it is already sourced in the article, but honestly, what you've added isn't notable for the lead. LOVI33 01:19, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Break My Heart (Dua Lipa song)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "RIAA":
From Dua Lipa discography: "American    certifications – Dua Lipa". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
From Saint Jhn: "Gold & Platinum — Saint Jhn". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
From Music video: "About the Awards - RIAA". riaa.com. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
From List of music recording certifications: "RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 26 May 2008.
From Music download: "For Students Doing Reports". RIAA. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 18:54, 26 October 2022 (UTC)