You want some actual chutzpah to call your sophomore album Future Nostalgia. Dua Lipa can speak it, stroll it, sing it, dance it.
The British pop artist is creating future nostalgia with a swag of hits together with “Levitating”, “Bodily,” her “Chilly Coronary heart” collaboration with Elton John, and others.
Regardless of the pandemic conserving most of us locked up and distanced from our buddies, Lipa has had all of it her personal manner in pop music. In recent times, she’s bagged three Grammy Awards, profitable for Greatest feminine Solo Artist, and Album of the 12 months on the Brit Awards, and “Levitating” triumphed because the No. 1 hit on Billboard‘s 2021 year-end Sizzling 100 Songs chart.
Together with her delayed Future Nostalgia Tour rebooted and able to hit the highway, Lipa will get to train these hits to affected person followers across the globe.
On Thursday night time (Feb. 3), Lipa stopped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert to debate her dwell present, sporting next-to-nothing when Elton known as to do enterprise, and extra.
The forthcoming world tour is “massively totally different” to the trek that was deliberate for 2020, she tells Colbert. For starters, the album dropped in March 2020, across the time when the WHO declared the pandemic. Lockdown, it turned out, was a great time for tens of millions to do little else however stream Future Nostalgia. “This time I’ve performed numerous viewers analysis and I really feel like I do know what songs folks like…it’s the easiest of,” she says of her dwell present.
“Chilly Coronary heart” returned Elton John to the highest of the charts within the U.Okay. and Australia after a protracted absence. The music, remixed by Aussie digital manufacturing trio Pnau, had an ungainly origin.
Lipa was hanging in Los Angeles, writing songs for a brand new album when Elton known as, pitching the music. On Facetime. “I used to be in a bikini and a cowboy hat,” she recounts. “I wouldn’t have it every other manner. It was excellent.”
In the course of the chat, Lipa flipped the script and performed host for a second, partaking with Colbert in a deep-and-meaningful about how his religion overlaps with comedy.