Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2018 18:21:23 GMT
Back to the night before the night before, which really started the night before that. She invited all her friends over for a sleepover, she says, and so naturally got no sleep at all.
“Yup, couldn’t sleep. It was crazy. I was actually having heart palpitations, like from nerves. I can’t remember the last time that happened.”
She’d been nominated for five awards in total, including Best Video, Album and Single, which was the most for any female artist in Brits history and confirmed the 22-year-old as both the hottest act in the country right now – a thrilling cross between the confessional wit of Lily Allen and the dance-floor bangers of Rihanna – and something of her own internet ecosystem.
Just a few days before, she learned that “New Rules” – her breakout mega-hit – had reached one billion hits on YouTube (making her the youngest female solo artist to have achieved the feat) when she was in the car on the way to the Brits rehearsals and noticed that YouTube had been kind enough to advertise the fact on all four sides of Old Street Roundabout.
In December, Spotify announced the most-streamed artists of last year and guess who came in ahead of the likes of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Ariana Grande as the most popular female artist of 2017?
Her GQ photoshoot, meanwhile, came the day after appearing on Saturday Night Live – the definition of American acceptance – and she counts the likes Chris Martin and Mark Ronson as both collaborators and fans.
