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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2021 21:16:13 GMT
Taken from her second studio album 'Future Nostalgia' released in 2020, which featured the hit singles 'Don't Start Now', 'Physical', 'Break My Heart', 'Hallucinate' & 'Levitating' 24kGoldn's "Mood," featuring Iann Dior, rebounds from No. 7 for a seventh total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The song resurges as a sleighful of holiday hits drop on, or depart entirely from, the survey. Plus, The Weeknd's former No. 1 "Blinding Lights" returns to the Hot 100 at No. 3, marking the highest re-entry in the chart's history, and Dua Lipa's "Levitating," featuring DaBaby, soars to the top 10 for the first time (27-10).
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2021 4:35:51 GMT
Dua Lipa - ‘Don’t Start Now’ on SNL When Dua Lipa guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! last August, one standout skit set the net ablaze. Who-a Lipa? saw one of Britain’s most famous musicians quizzing a group of pensioners, none of whom had any idea what a Dua Lipa was, let alone that they were talking to one. “That’s terrible,” one woman grimaces, as a giggling, disguise-free Dua holds up an image of herself in a yellow tartan crop top. “If I had a daughter, I wouldn’t want her to go out in that.” The stunt worked, of course, because of how major the two-time Grammy, two-time MTV Europe Music Award and three-time Brit winner has become – a singer who emerged from one of her industry’s toughest years as a pop behemoth. How did she do it? “With my work, I’m always like, ‘OK, what’s next?’” she says, with a hint of the trademark husk she’s known for in her vocals. This restlessness, the 25-year-old admits, is partly because, when we speak, it’s the start of Britain’s second implemented lockdown. Plans to meet in person have been shelved and we’re on Zoom, me cross-legged on my bed, Lipa perched on a sofa in her London home, a series of tasteful framed prints behind her, including Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Sugar Ray Robinson). The camera isn’t the best quality and the room is dimly lit, yet her Colgate smile and Insta-ready skin are positively glowing. http://instagram.com/p/CJlhH5IM1pp Dua was one of 2020’s rare winners. Although her UK and European tours were postponed, November saw her deliver a “multidimensional” concert experience, called Studio 2054, shot in a warehouse and live-streamed across the globe. Five million tuned in for the original broadcast – a record-breaking figure in live-streaming history. In the same month, her long-teased duet with pop powerhouse Miley Cyrus, “Prisoner”, dropped to much fanfare, as did the release of the extended version of her record-breaking album Future Nostalgia. The first lockdown was challenging – she arrived back from a curtailed Australian tour to a flooded flat last March, meaning she and her boyfriend, model Anwar Hadid (brother to Gigi and Bella), spent isolation in an Airbnb. While artists such as Lady Gaga and Sam Smith postponed their albums due to the pandemic, Lipa’s risky decision to release her sophomore studio album wasn’t entirely her own. After it leaked online, she was left with little choice but to bring its launch forward.
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2021 21:04:18 GMT
You’ll never be as good a dancer as Dua Lipa, but as she says herself, that’s no excuse not to try. February’s cover star has turned her hand to teaching for Vogue U, British Vogue’s new home school series, and she’s here to share some of the skills she’s mastered as one of the world’s hottest performing artists: from summoning stage presence; to tips on learning choreography (“your best bet is to get really famous, then people will give you a little bit more time to pick it up”); to signature moves like the fox, squid, bobsleigh, fox combination. Watch the video for Dua’s dance lesson in full, and remember: attitude! http://instagram.com/p/CJolBQPn6Qd Initially, she feared her shimmering 1970s disco meets ’80s and ’90s pop bops would come off as tone-deaf. (“I’ve been a little bit conflicted about… whether it’s the right thing to do during this time, because lots of people are suffering,” she said during a teary Instagram Live.) In actuality, it was an unexpected panacea – a perfect mix of retro-tinged, new-era earworms to dominate bedroom listening for months. It became the most-streamed album by a British woman in a single day, and it cemented Lipa as an international star. It simultaneously brought three singles – “Don’t Start Now”, “Physical” and “Break My Heart” – into the top 10. The last British woman to achieve that was Vera Lynn, in 1952, and Lipa did it with a number one album to boot. Calculated in sheer numbers (more than two billion YouTube views for her 2017 single “New Rules” alone), Lipa’s career might seem almost clinically successful, yet her real secret is an emotional one: the ability to connect. The “smile through the pain” ennui of Gen Z is her speciality, and she describes her oeuvre as “dance-crying” music or “dark pop”. On this album, however – and its thrilling new additional tracks – “dance” and “pop” take precedence. “I had to fight inner demons,” she tells me. “I wanted to write songs that were more sad, more about heartbreak, because I thought that writing happy songs would turn into cheesy songs. I had to fight that because I was like, ‘I am happy. I deserve to be happy.’ I should be able to write about that without the fear of feeling like I’m compromising my authenticity because I’m not crying about something or someone.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2021 7:20:23 GMT
You’ll never be as good a dancer as Dua Lipa, but as she says herself, that’s no excuse not to try. February’s cover star has turned her hand to teaching for Vogue U, British Vogue’s new home school series, and she’s here to share some of the skills she’s mastered as one of the world’s hottest performing artists: from summoning stage presence; to tips on learning choreography (“your best bet is to get really famous, then people will give you a little bit more time to pick it up”); to signature moves like the fox, squid, bobsleigh, fox combination. Watch the video for Dua’s dance lesson in full, and remember: attitude! http://instagram.com/p/CJq96p6M-Vl
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2021 5:58:48 GMT
Dua Lipa x Angèle - Fever (Vantage Remix) [Official Audio]
Dua Lipa has released a brand new single titled ‘Fever’, featuring Belgian singer Angèle.
The track, which dropped today (October 30), is the first new music the star has released since her ‘Future Nostalgia’ album arrived in March, followed by it’s subsequent remix record.
READ MORE: Dua Lipa: “If somebody told me not to discuss issues I’m passionate about? I wouldn’t listen” The pair had been teasing the new track’s release earlier this week by sharing candid pictures of themselves together on their respective social media pages.
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