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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Dua Lipa Performs at NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
British singer-songwriter Dua Lipa appeared on NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert to perform “Levitating”, “Pretty Please”, “Love Again” and “Don't Start Now” from London.
This marks the first time Dua Lipa has performed at Tiny Desk Concert. Dua Lipa shared on social media, “Our @nprmusic TINY DESK is out now!! Live from London 🧡 I've always wanted to do one of these and i'm so happy I got to do it with my band! We hope you enjoy our performance!!”
Four songs are included on her sophomore album “Future Nostalgia”, which was released back in March.
The album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums chart and No. 4 on the US Billboard 200. Also, the album was nominated the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. While "Don't Start Now" is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.- Dua Lipa told Apple Music about “Levitating”, “This is the first song I wrote where I really felt I had everyone on board with the concept of the album. When I was writing it, I felt like I was in Austin Powers and was like, 'If I do a video for this, Mike Myers has to be in it.' It had to be fun and bubbly but with lyrics that felt really smart. This is about me exploring happy songs and doing something that's not 'dance crying.' It's about having fun and meeting someone and falling in love and thinking, “You've probably met me at the perfect time, let's just go for it.” It's the feeling when love makes you feel like you're levitating. It's otherworldly. Things get quite Daft Punk-y here, but it's playful, and the middle eight is almost like my British version of Blondie's rapping. I felt like I needed to get my British side across as well on this record, because sometimes people don't actually know where I'm from.”
She said of “Pretty Please”, “This is the first moment you really get to take a breather on the record, especially after 'Levitating,' which is so full on. It sounds cool and chill, but it's about the opposite. I like playing with sounds and concepts in that way. The song is about promising someone—or yourself—that you're going to be really chill in the early stages of the relationship, but then realising that “Yeah, that's just not me.” The lyrics that opens it is “Somewhere in the middle / I think I lied a little.” It kind of sums it up.”
“Love Again” sampled the trumpet motif from the 1997 UK number 1 song “Your Woman” by White Town. She said, “A relationship hadn't worked out for me, and I wrote this when I felt like there was no light. It was a song for me, to give myself a little cuddle, and was about being hopeful that I would fall in love again. We already had these beautiful strings, then [Miami producer and songwriter] Clarence Coffee Jr. had the genius idea of adding in a sample of “Your Woman” by White Town. That really gave the song the push it needed, because we definitely needed a more dancey element. I wrote it at a difficult time, but sometimes songs help you get out of certain situations. It's like cheap therapy, and I think this is my favourite song on the record.”
“Don't Start Now” sampled Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive”, which was released in 1978. She said of the song, “I chose to put this song out first so I could close one chapter of my life and start another. Into a new era with a new sound! It's about moving on and not allowing anyone to get in the way of that. It also felt like a natural first song choice as I made it with the brilliant same crew I made “New Rules” with.”
- source : NPR
