Dua Lipa for The Sunday Times: CULTURE

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"The pop sensation on why her new album, Future Nostalgia, can help us through difficult times"

 

Last Monday Dua Lipa announced that her second album was going to come out early. “I hope it brings you some happiness,” she said, with ideal timing.
This month, in a review of Lady Gaga’s enormously enjoyable comeback single, Stupid Love, one critic wrote that the song filled “a void in our downcast landscape”, adding that the only other artist like Gaga right now is the British pop star Lipa. Her music, the review said, is “big, bright, heart-on-sleeve. There’s an appetite for this kind of exuberant sound.”
Lipa gasps when she hears about the Gaga review and looks delighted, if shocked, even a little daunted, which is not her natural mode. The comparison between the two singers makes sense, though. Lipa's eponymous debut album won her Grammys and buoyed millions with its sassy, indefatigable resilience. Fast-forward to the just-released second, Future Nostalgia, and she is aiming for even greater highs. Like Gaga's at its best, it is music for endorphins, designed to never make you sad.
“For me,” Lipa says, “there should always be some sort of a happy ending.” We met earlier this month, in that brief window when we knew coronavirus was about  to get serious but were still meeting face to face. It was a bump of the elbows for us before we sat down for tea on a banquette in a London club. She has a husky voice and, at 5ft 8in, is poised, sitting rather still in a baggy jumper, her huge leather jacket taking up a seat of its own. A Keith Haring figure is tattooed on each of her thumbs. Another tattoo reads “This means nothing”, so probably means everything. Think James Dean playing Wonder Woman and you have a sense of her cool and purpose, which is to do exactly what pop stars are on this blighted planet to do — cheer us up.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dua-lipa-interview-the-pop-sensation-on-why-her-new-album-future-nostalgia-can-help-us-through-difficult-times-wbknqlwj2

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Truly like a work of art

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Triple threat strikes again. 

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Can someone tell me what’s the quote from her arm tattoo?! 

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Is this God?

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7 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

Can someone tell me what’s the quote from her arm tattoo?! 

'This means nothing', truly a Reverse ARTPOP Warholian Experience

 

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Ahh, the flavor.

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She's such a 

 

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Hugo Comte is the only photographer she is allowing to do editorials with her? Every ****ing editorial is shot by him. 

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There is part of interview:  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dua-lipa-interview-the-pop-sensation-on-why-her-new-album-future-nostalgia-can-help-us-through-difficult-times-wbknqlwj2
Last Monday Dua Lipa announced that her second album was going to come out early. “I hope it brings you some happiness,” she said, with ideal timing.
This month, in a review of Lady Gaga’s enormously enjoyable comeback single, Stupid Love, one critic wrote that the song filled “a void in our downcast landscape”, adding that the only other artist like Gaga right now is the British pop star Lipa. Her music, the review said, is “big, bright, heart-on-sleeve. There’s an appetite for this kind of exuberant sound.”
Lipa gasps when she hears about the Gaga review and looks delighted, if shocked, even a little daunted, which is not her natural mode. The comparison between the two singers makes sense, though. Lipa's eponymous debut album won her Grammys and buoyed millions with its sassy, indefatigable resilience. Fast-forward to the just-released second, Future Nostalgia, and she is aiming for even greater highs. Like Gaga's at its best, it is music for endorphins, designed to never make you sad.
“For me,” Lipa says, “there should always be some sort of a happy ending.” We met earlier this month, in that brief window when we knew coronavirus was about  to get serious but were still meeting face to face. It was a bump of the elbows for us before we sat down for tea on a banquette in a London club. She has a husky voice and, at 5ft 8in, is poised, sitting rather still in a baggy jumper, her huge leather jacket taking up a seat of its own. A Keith Haring figure is tattooed on each of her thumbs. Another tattoo reads “This means nothing”, so probably means everything. Think James Dean playing Wonder Woman and you have a sense of her cool and purpose, which is to do exactly what pop stars are on this blighted planet to do — cheer us up.

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34 minutes ago, magnolia said:

There is part of interview:  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dua-lipa-interview-the-pop-sensation-on-why-her-new-album-future-nostalgia-can-help-us-through-difficult-times-wbknqlwj2
Last Monday Dua Lipa announced that her second album was going to come out early. “I hope it brings you some happiness,” she said, with ideal timing.
This month, in a review of Lady Gaga’s enormously enjoyable comeback single, Stupid Love, one critic wrote that the song filled “a void in our downcast landscape”, adding that the only other artist like Gaga right now is the British pop star Lipa. Her music, the review said, is “big, bright, heart-on-sleeve. There’s an appetite for this kind of exuberant sound.”
Lipa gasps when she hears about the Gaga review and looks delighted, if shocked, even a little daunted, which is not her natural mode. The comparison between the two singers makes sense, though. Lipa's eponymous debut album won her Grammys and buoyed millions with its sassy, indefatigable resilience. Fast-forward to the just-released second, Future Nostalgia, and she is aiming for even greater highs. Like Gaga's at its best, it is music for endorphins, designed to never make you sad.
“For me,” Lipa says, “there should always be some sort of a happy ending.” We met earlier this month, in that brief window when we knew coronavirus was about  to get serious but were still meeting face to face. It was a bump of the elbows for us before we sat down for tea on a banquette in a London club. She has a husky voice and, at 5ft 8in, is poised, sitting rather still in a baggy jumper, her huge leather jacket taking up a seat of its own. A Keith Haring figure is tattooed on each of her thumbs. Another tattoo reads “This means nothing”, so probably means everything. Think James Dean playing Wonder Woman and you have a sense of her cool and purpose, which is to do exactly what pop stars are on this blighted planet to do — cheer us up.

Thanks! I'll add it to the topic