On May 3, Dua Lipa released Radical Optimism, her third studio album. Both crowds and reviewers have praised the record. The Levitating hitmaker has spoken out about receiving intense criticism for a dancing video that went popular on the internet, only days after its release. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter recalled how painful it was for others to say she wasn’t deserved of her success.
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Dua Lipa remembers how embarrassing it was to be made fun of for her dancing moves
In a recent interview, Dua Lipa talked about receiving a lot of backlash for her dancing moves in the Guardian magazine. The singer talked candidly about going through “two years of humiliation.” With the release of her second album, Future Nostalgia, she then made a notable return.
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“When people took that snippet of me dancing online and just turned it into a meme, and then when I won the Best New Artist Grammy and people were like, ‘She’s not deserving of it, she’s got no stage presence, she’s not going to stick around,'” the singer of Levitating said to the publication, reflecting on the difficult time. Those were painful things. It was degrading. I was forced to unfollow me on Twitter.
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“The thing that made me the happiest — performing and writing songs — was also making me really upset because people were picking apart everything that I’d been working on, and I had to learn all that in front of everyone,” Lipa said during the same chat. She added that the constant blowback had just begun when she was between 22 and 23 years old.
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“In the public eye, I was discovering who I was as an artist, as a performer,” she continued. I was still growing up and only 22 or 23 years old when all of that was going on. You must develop a thick skin. You must possess resilience. She continued by saying that while the criticism did not directly impact her, it was a setback.
