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- With all my songs, I don't really know any different,

so I have to talk about personal experiences.

I guess it's not necessarily just about one person.

It's really about finding happiness

and being confident in that and not allowing anyone

to take that away from you.

Dua Lipa has become one

of the biggest names in pop.

From the moment she released her first single in 2015,

there was no limit to what she would achieve.

Her catchy pop tunes and smooth, sultry vocals

have made her music appeal to a wide audience,

gaining her fans across the globe.

Her commitment and positivity towards her goals

and music career have made her the deserving winner

of countless awards, including two Grammys.

Dua Lipa's popularity quickly expanded

between 2015 and 2018.

By 2018, she had become the first female artist

to hit one billion views on YouTube

on her hit single "New Rules."

- If you're not a female artist

that's by a piano or by a guitar,

people are instantly gonna think you're manufactured

or you don't write your own songs

or you don't make your own music,

and I feel like we have to spend a lot more time proving

to the world that this is us.

Two years on,

"New Rules" has over two billion views.

Her music brings an essence of confidence

and authenticity which her fans adore.

- When I get up on stage, I do what I feel.

I dance the way I feel like just my body moves,

and I like to perform in different ways.

I find myself headbanging and throwing kicks and jumping up

and down rather than having like a set choreography.

I feel like for me, that's way more organic.

If I just go into the studio and I write fiction,

although it's my words,

if I don't have the story to back it up with,

no one's gonna believe it.

And I think that's also a big part of my songwriting

as well and why I feel like I do it the way I do it.

With a long lasting career ahead of her,

Dua Lipa has cemented her legacy

in pop from such a young age.

- When I think of it and what I would like to say

to my younger audience is that no matter

what you decide to put your mind to,

you should always work really hard for it.

Always believe in yourself because one thing

that I know is I always had to believe

in myself first before anybody else,

and that was the one thing that I felt really carried me

and helped me build my confidence and really helped me learn

who I am as an artist and as a person.

Dua Lipa was born in London, England

to Kosovo-Albanian parents.

She has always praised her parents

for being positive influences on our life, even to this day.

- Being from two places at once,

I feel like I represent both Kosovo

and I feel like the UK at the same time.

I've seen my parents work my whole life.

I've seen them go to work during the day,

go to university in the evening, take us to school,

be parents, be there for us, at the same time,

get an education, working multiple jobs.

I've seen them adapt to whatever was thrown at them,

and, at the same time, make us feel

like we weren't missing out on anything.

And I think watching them work so hard has been so ingrained

on me that I'm I guess a little bit of a workaholic.

I feel like I can't stop until I get

what I want or I am where I wanna be,

and I actually thank my parents for that

because they've always told me that you have

to work really hard to get a little bit

of luck and you make your own luck,

and that's the best advice that I think I've been given.

She clarified with fans that,

while Dua Lipa may sound like somewhat of a stage name,

it is, in fact, her birth name,

and Dua can be translated to mean love in Albanian.

Well, I guess when I was younger,

I didn't really appreciate my name

as much as I guess I do now,

because especially when I was living in London,

I was like, "I just want a normal name."

I'm really proud of it, and it has such a lovely meaning,

and my grandmother,

it was like my grandmother's favorite name,

which is why my dad gave it to me.

And I never actually got to meet her

because she passed before I was born,

so I always feel like I get to keep a piece of her with me.

Dua's father had a large musical influence

on her as he was the lead singer

and guitarist of a Kosovan rock band.

Her father continued to play music at home,

which inspired her to get involved with music herself.

She started singing at age five.

She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School

until the age of 13 when she moved

from London to Kosovo with her family.

- It was quite exciting for me

'cause I'd finished.

All my friends are going to different schools.

I was not going to the same school as my closest friends

from primary school anyway, so I was like,

"I guess I'm just going into a different country."

And I was really excited because I have family

in Kosovo that I'd never met before.

And so, yeah, I went down.

I went to Kosovo, and it was really exciting,

but obviously, I thought my Albanian speaking

was a lot better than it was

until I started going to school,

and everyone was like,

"Okay, you're definitely talking Albanian

like an English person would, fully with an accent."

But it was an amazing experience.

It was such a different kind of life.

As a teenager,

Dua Lipa began recording herself singing covers

of popular pop songs and uploaded them to YouTube.

Although her true passion was in music,

she began a modeling career around this time

and signed with an agency.

This then helped her acquire a producer and manager,

allowing her to enter the world of music professionally.

In 2014, Dua Lipa signed a record deal

with the large production company, Warner Brothers Records.

This has been called a smart decision on her part,

as the company didn't have a large female register

at that time, which meant she captured their attention

from day one and helped to change that.

In August 2015, she released her first single

titled "New Love," which was all about her struggle

to find her place in the music industry.

Her second single "Be the One"

was released to large European success,

charting in the top 10 in over 11 European territories.

Her first tour in the UK

and Europe began in January 2016

and concluded in November the same year.

Let me see all your hands up!

On February 18th, 2016,

Dua Lipa released her third single, "Last Dance,"

followed by "Hotter than Hell" on May 6th.

"Hotter Than Hell" reached success,

particularly in the UK, where it peaked at number 15.

On August 26th, her fifth overall single,

"Blow Your Mind" was released,

peaking in number 30 in the UK.

It became her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100,

debuting at number 72.

How excited are you

about the album, or are you bit with trepidation?

- I'm really excited.

I just got back from LA yesterday,

and I've been working, finishing it off,

and it's finally really comes together.

I got some really special surprises, so.

And you're gonna be performing some

of these tracks at festivals this summer,

I guess? - Yeah.

Well, some of the album will be out by then, so.

Dua Lipa's self-entitled debut studio album

was released on the 2nd of June, 2017.

- I'm excited for everyone to hear the new record.

I think, for me, again, it's also being able

to have that ongoing conversation with my fans

and my listeners with the music and also ensuring

that they have a safe space and a place

where they can come and listen to the music and hang out,

and that's what's really important for me.

Its sixth single, "New Rules,"

released in the following month,

became her first number one in the UK

and the first by a female solo artist to reach the top

in the UK since Adele's song "Hello" in 2015.

"New Rules" was met with acclaim

from music critics, with many labeling it a breakup

and female empowerment anthem.

As of March 2021, it is the most streamed song

by a British female in the UK,

and it broke the record for the most weeks

on the US mainstream Top 40 chart.

- I feel like I'm very much more in touch with who I am,

which was something that I was very,

especially when I started songwriting properly for my album.

Now I have a very clear idea of what I'm doing

and what I wanna say and who I am

and things I'm not afraid of.

Another successful single

from the album was to track "IDGAF."

Lyrically, the song is about an ex-boyfriend who intends

to get back with her before she sends him on his way.

- I think, with all my songs,

I don't really know any different,

so I have to talk about personal experiences.

I guess it's not necessarily just about one person.

It's more just like about experiences,

about things that I've spoken to with my friends

about their experiences as well.

It's really about finding happiness

and being confident in that and not allowing anyone

to take that away from you.

So the main the way I like to think about is like I work

on these songs and then once they're out into the world,

they no longer belong to me.

So whatever they wanna make of it, it's up to them.

I think art is subjective.

I think some people will also want

to pretend it's about them.

Several music critics

complimented the strong production

and post breakup lyrics of "IDGAF."

The song was viewed as a sequel to "New Rules."

She also performed

at the Glastonbury Festival that same year

to a large crowd of adoring fans.

- I never like to base success on accolades,

but on getting the recognition and getting up there

in front of my fans and my peers,

it does mean a lot, and I appreciate it so much,

and it makes me wanna work really, really hard,

and I'm excited for new music.

Sometimes, it's just the little things.

In December,

Dua Lipa was named the Most Streamed Woman

of 2017 in the UK by Spotify.

She had four singles reach the UK Top 10 in 2017

with "Be the One," "New Rules", "No Lie,"

and "Bridge Over Troubled Water,"

a charity single for the families of the victims

of the Grenfell Tower fire in London.

- It's been really lovely, and it's been really nice,

and it's given me the opportunity

to tour all over the world.

And I've announced some dates in the US,

and I'm just really grateful for it all,

so I'm looking forward to everything.

We're almost at that time

where we start going, "Been a good year.

What about next year, 2018?"

- Well, next year I'm really touring until April 2018,

but in between whenever I have time I'm writing

for the next album.

I'll be releasing new music, new videos.

So yeah, I'll be around.

Even as these bigger shows,

how do you feel about that step up in terms of the capacity?

- It's surreal to get to announce shows like that,

but it's really cool.

It makes me a bit nervous. I'm excited.

I've already started planning 'cause every show,

I want it to be like a step up production wise,

and I want to bring a whole new new show

every time people come to see it,

so I'm really looking forward to it.

In January 2018,

Dua Lipa received nominations

in five categories at the Brit Awards,

more nominations than any other artists that year.

She was nominated for British Album of the Year

for "Dua Lipa," British Single of the Year

and British Video of the Year for "New Rules,"

British Female Solo Artist, and British Breakthrough Act.

She went on to win British Female Solo Artist

and British Breakthrough Act.

This was the first time that a female artist

had received five nominations.

Dua took this opportunity when receiving the awards

to make a statement about women in the music industry

and show her feminist side.

- But I've always been so, so in love

with so many incredible female artists,

and I've always looked up to them and they've been there.

But I think now we're at a time where people

are really paying attention to us,

and so we're screaming real loud.

Even by seeing the nominations in different categories

at award shows, it's changed drastically.

Every year, it changes and gets better in our favor,

and I think that's a nice feeling.

For men, getting older and an industry is celebrated,

whereas for women, we're instantly being put down or,

"Surely she can't be still doing pop music

because she's getting older,"

or whatever I guess the dialogue is,

but it's quite upsetting because why can't we?

As a female artist, well, in general,

for all female artists,

when we start something in our careers,

we wanna have longevity and we don't want the reason

of us aging to be the reason we stop working

or people stop being interested in us.

We still create very interesting things.

We still have a lot to say.

We still have a lot to bring to the table.

But why is it so different for us?

And I think it's a lot to do with the conversations

that are still being made on social media

and being made online, and those aren't allowing us to grow

and aren't allow us to be ourselves

whereas we portray that very much so

when we're speaking in front of a camera.

It's as if like me coming out now and being like,

"I support women and I'm doing this,"

but then I go on social media and I'm talking about

or comparing two women against each other or why one

isn't better than the other or that kind of thing.

It's very hypocritical,

and so it's trying to get away from that.

Dua Lipa started working on music

for her second album in March 2018.

In April 2018, she collaborated with DJ Calvin Harris

to release the single "One Kiss,"

which topped the UK singles charts,

becoming her second number one.

She provided the vocals for the track

and is also credited as a writer.

When you hear that "One Kiss"

has been streamed more than one and a half billion times?

- My goodness. - That slightly mind blowing?

- You're the first person to have told me that,

so I'm like, "Oh my God."

It is mind blowing.

It's crazy, and it was one of those songs

where I know when we did it, I was like.

I constantly kept listening to it before it came out,

I was like, "I just don't know if people are gonna get it.

I don't know if people are gonna get it."

And it's that nervous, exciting,

anxious butterfly feeling that you get

before you put something out,

and I think you only get those feelings

when you really believe in something

and you really want other people

to feel the same way about it as you do.

So I'm excited that they did,

and I'm grateful that they did,

and we got a Brit for it, which is pretty cool.

The single went on

to become the biggest selling song in the UK

of 2018 and topped the chart for eight consecutive weeks.

Dua also collaborated on another track with Mark Ronson

and Diplo's newly formed super duo Silk City.

They released the track "Electricity" in September 2018,

which was extremely popular with the fans.

Dua Lipa won Best New Artist

and Best Dance Recording for her collaboration

on "Electricity" at the 61st annual Grammy Awards.

I get very excited obviously for the recognition,

especially for something like the Grammys

to be a British artist and to know

that people are listening to my songs over there

and that people are coming to the shows

and they know my name, and it means a lot to me.

Being British and having your music heard

over in the states is quite a big deal,

at least it is for me because it gives me

so much opportunity to be able to tour there,

and not only just in America but to be able to go over

to Australia and New Zealand then go

to Asia and South America,

and it's really, it just opens so many doors

to be able to tour worldwide.

I very much split my time between London

and Los Angeles or New York in order

to have my music be heard out there.

You need to dedicate a lot of time and a lot of effort

and lots of, you have to do the groundwork.

I think I really, really took the time

and especially when I was touring on my first album.

I think I went around America three times,

just as I did with everywhere else in Europe.

I worked really hard.

I'm so grateful for the recognition,

but I've still got lots of work to do.

Dua Lipa's second album,

titled "Future Nostalgia," and its accompanying tour

was announced in December 2019.

- When I kept thinking about it,

I know that everybody's like,

"The second album is always the hardest album."

But I've tried to take my mind away

from that and just have fun with it.

People are just constantly releasing songs

and releasing music.

It's just like this is the body of work

where I just wanna show this is what I love.

This is what I do,

and you can just constantly keep putting stuff out.

And it's gotta be fun. You can't be too stressed about it.

You can't get yourself in this vicious cycle of like,

"Oh, will this go on the radio. Will this be?"

So it's all about just being proud

of what you put your name to,

and that's just what I'm doing.

The first single "Don't Start Now"

was released around the same time and peaked at number two

in both the UK singles charts and the US Billboard Hot 100.

Dua's second single leading up

to the release of the album was "Physical."

It was released on the 30th of January, 2020,

and the song's music video was released a day later.

The music video for "Physical"

was nominated for Best Art Director

at the Berlin Music Video Awards in 2020.

"Future Nostalgia" was released on March 27th

to widespread critical acclaim following the release

of the record's third single, "Break My Heart,"

on March 25th.

Since March 2020 was around the time

of the beginning of the worldwide COVID pandemic,

Dua Lipa considered pushing the release date back in hopes

of being able to promote the album outside of isolation.

However, that didn't quite go as planned.

The album originally had a release date of April 3rd

but was leaked a week early,

giving her no choice but to deliver fans her new album.

- I just feel like when I was making my last album,

like towards the end of it, everything was like

or the way that I was describing, it was like,

"Oh, well my album, I make dark pop,

and that's just what it is."

I really fell in love with the whole concept of dance crying

because I was like, "I wanna make people dance."

But if you listen to the lyrics a bit more,

I feel like it could also make you cry.

It's very emotional. It's very real.

It's something that's happening in my life.

"Future Nostalgia" just came from so much happiness

and joy and dancing, and that was just the only message

that I wanted to push forward.

And I feel like it really radiates that

and the energy of it is that,

and I didn't feel like I wanted to sit

on a piano and make a ballad.

I was like, "I just wanna keep going.

Let's just keep dancing. Let's just do it."

There was nothing holding me back in that,

and creatively, that wasn't where I was at.

Releasing the album during the pandemic meant

that there would be no tour or no talk show appearances.

However, it just so happened to be the perfect time

to deliver new music.

- When I was making it, obviously,

I had the idea that it was gonna be listened to

in the club, in a bar, people going out, getting ready.

I had very different ideas for it

when I was making this record,

but I definitely feel like it still served its purpose.

It's served for me as a form of escapism, and I feel like,

although it was scary when releasing the record

'cause it was at such an uncertain time,

we didn't know how long we would be in this situation,

for how long the pandemic would last,

we never thought that we'd be a year in

and still with the same lockdown measures

and stuff like that.

But I feel like it also just came at the perfect time

for everybody to be able to have like or, in my eyes,

I hope that people had it for them be

like a source of escapism when they're at home

and dancing in the kitchen.

For one second, if you close your eyes,

maybe you think you're outside

clubbing or something.

And so I think it was perfect just the way it is.

I think some things are just meant to be,

and hopefully, when the time comes,

we can go back out and dance to these songs

whenever the time is right.

I'm grateful that it served as like a form of escapism,

at least, during this time for myself and people around,

and my whole idea behind it was to still be able

to create a fun world for people to enjoy even

while they were at home, and, and I feel lucky

that I had the opportunity to do that.

"Future Nostalgia"

became the most streamed album by a woman

and fifth most streamed album overall on Spotify in 2020.

The album debuted at number two

on the official UK Albums Chart

but then peaked at number one

on the official UK Albums Chart the following week

in April 2020 while four

of the album's singles entered the top 10

of the official singles chart.

- You always have to believe in yourself

before anybody else because that's the one thing

that's always gonna push you

in your confidence and move you forwards.

And I think that's yeah, for any young girls,

people are I guess gonna champion you

until you get to where you want to be,

and then people are gonna try and bring you down

or bring you down a couple pegs.

But I think you have to remember that hard work

and your dedication and your passion

for what you do got you to where you wanna be,

and no one can take that away from you.

The album's closing track,

"Boys Will Be Boys" showed Dua Lipa once again

demonstrating her feminist side.

As she said, she wrote the song intending

to start a conversation about toxic masculinity

and the growing pains girls experience.

- I think for women,

self policing each other is second nature.

For as long as I can remember myself going out

with my friends alone, you would always send the text

or you would always ask your friends to make sure

that they'd message you when they get home

or share your little Uber location thing

that there's always this thing where we've just had to look

out for each other and look out for ourselves a lot more.

When I wrote "Boys Will Be Boys," it's very real.

You put your keys through your knuckles.

This is something that I've done literally

on my way back from school for three-minute walk

from the bus station to the flat that I was living in.

It wasn't far at all, but because it was nighttime

and I was all on my own,

I put my keys between my knuckles like Wolverine,

thinking that just in case something was to happen,

I would be protected or I would be able

to look after myself.

Or you'd walk down the street on your phone,

and whether you were actually talking to someone

or whether you were pretending to talk to someone,

you were still trying to protect yourself in some way.

I definitely feel like having a platform

is such a privilege.

I definitely try and speak up about things

that are incredibly important to me.

I want to be able to be a voice

for those that have trusted me,

and because I talk about so much about female equality

and female empowerment, it was just a song that I felt

like writing in that day in the studio.

And I was like, "Well, this is just what happens."

And what I felt when I was making "Boys Will Be Boys"

is more so that I'm hoping that the younger generation

will start asking questions and will be like,

"Oh, why does this happen or why do you think she did this?"

What sounds like quite a pretty song, again,

you're like hearing the lyrics and you're like,

"Oh, this is something very real," and it's, again,

us masking the things that we have to do.

The lyric, they cut deep in so many ways,

but then it's, again, masking it with something pretty.

But I hope that it just starts a conversation,

and obviously, the conversation's already happening,

and I think they need to continue to do so.

At the time of the album's release,

Dua Lipa became the first British female artist

since Vera Lynne to have three top 10 singles

in a single calendar year with Lynn having three in 1952.

She eventually overrode this record

with the single "Levitating,"

which also peaked within the top 10

on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,

becoming her third top 10 in the US overall.

Dua Lipa was also featured on "Prisoner,"

a song from Miley Cyrus's seventh studio album,

"Plastic Hearts."

The single was released on the 19th of November 2020

alongside the music video.

In 2021,

after a year of COVID lockdown rules and social distancing,

the annual Brit Awards took place in May,

held with a limited audience as a part of a trial

to have a large crowd in a venue

without any social distancing.

The ceremony had a live audience

of over 4,000 key workers from London.

- It's all very surreal. It feels so nice to be home.

It feels so nice to be in a room filled with people.

It feels so nice to be celebrating British music.

It's just been really, really exciting throughout,

and I feel so honored and so grateful

to have this opportunity and to be here tonight

and for everybody to do it safely, and hopefully,

this is like the first step into the new normal,

so it feels brilliant.

Dua Lipa not only performed at the ceremony,

but she also won two awards,

one for British Album of the Year

and another for British Female Solo Artist.

Well, being back on the Brit stage,

I wanted to do something different, something special.

So there's pressure that comes with that,

but I'm very excited.

It's different and it's fun,

and just decided to go a little bit out there

with the performance would make it very London, so.

What I wanted to do with my album

was really just grow as an artist and as a performer

and create music that I was really proud of,

something that I felt like really represented me

and who I am and helped me grow in so many different ways.

And I definitely feel like I've built a lot more confidence.

I feel like I'm becoming the performer I

always wanted to be.

I feel like I've learned so much from so many experiences,

and as a songwriter, I feel like I've gotten a lot stronger,

and there's been so many moments

that they've been really important,

and this album means a lot to me.

It was a lot about growth,

and so to be awarded for this album means a lot.

At the 2021 Grammy awards,

Dua Lipa won an award for Best Pop Vocal Album

for "Future Nostalgia."

- "Future Nostalgia" is such an important album to me,

and I feel like I've really come into myself.

I feel like I've gained so much confidence.

I feel like I've learned how to be the artist

that I've always wanted to be.

I feel like I learned so much about music in general

with my first album and the process of touring

that I knew what I wanted this album to be,

and to get the recognition

for it just means the absolute world.

It's amazing. I'm very, very grateful.

When I got nominated, I was so taken back by,

first of all, I was so honored and grateful

to have been nominated, but also,

the fact that I had already seen such a change just

in the Best New Artist category

that it was predominantly women.

And it felt like I was part of a change,

and it felt like I was a part of this new era, if you will,

and more women being given all this recognition.

And given what happened the year before,

and I know Neil Putnam even came up and spoke about it

and apologized for what he had said

when he had said it, but it was still something that,

in a time when so many women were doing so much,

it felt like we weren't being given the recognition,

and we weren't being looked out for, really.

And this year felt a little bit different,

and it felt really good to just be nominated

alongside so many artists that I love

and I listen to and I think are so cool

and give out so many incredible messages,

and I feel like it just felt good, and it just felt right,

and that's just what happened.

The ceremony was held

despite the ongoing COVID pandemic

with extra measures put in place to keep everyone safe.

- Well, obviously, because it's COVID,

everybody had to stay quite far apart.

We said hi to each other. It was really sweet though.

As I was on my way to the press room off to the Grammys,

I bumped into Beyonce and Jay-Z on their way in,

and I was just like, "It's amazing what you've done."

And she was so graceful and humble and sweet.

They both were, and they were very, very nice to me,

and it was just amazing to casually bump into them

in the hallway and just have like a little chat.

I'm like.

Also in 2021,

Dua Lipa tanned up with music legend Elton John

and Australian electronic trio PNAU

for a collaborative new track called "Cold Heart."

The club-ready single seamlessly blends together a number

of Elton John's beloved tracks,

including "Sacrifice," "Kiss the Bride,"

and, of course, "Rocket Man."

The song has since reached number one

in the UK.

Dua showed her versatility as a celebrity icon

as she made her runway debut

at Versace's Spring Summer 2022 show at Milan Fashion Week,

which was soundtrack by the tracks

from her album "Future Nostalgia."

- I feel like my work life has changed a lot,

but my personal life is still the same.

I have my friends and family.

They keep me so grounded, and to them, I'm just me.

So it's all pretty normal at home, which is really nice.

Dua Lipa is only in her late 20s

and has already achieved so much

in such a short amount of time.

Her music and undeniable talent

has gained her widespread exposure and popularity.

- I think that the one thing that I'm so, so grateful for

is that it opens so many doors for me to be able

to work with so many other people that I love,

and I get to be a bit more experimental,

and I get to try out new things,

which is always very exciting.

Her self-titled debut

was the most streamed album in Spotify history.

Now she's currently breaking daily records

for plays and streams around the world.

- The world should expect a ton more pop anthems

and dance classics from Dua Lipa.