Dua Lipa on Radical Optimism, Glastonbury & The Met Gala!

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00:00 Future Nostalgia was my chance for me to be able to do a very polished pop, dance, disco record.

00:09 After having done that and having done 97 shows and toured and danced my ass off and had so much

00:22 fun around the world, this album was so much about how do I take what were my most favorite

00:28 things from that whole experience and create something unique. And a lot of that was the

00:33 live instrumentation, how things felt so organic, how some things felt really spontaneous and free

00:38 flowing in the moment of how they would evolve on stage. And I just I wanted to recreate that

00:47 for Radical Optimism when I was going into the studio to make this and also in terms of

00:55 like the melodies and the sounds it was so much more free flowing. I think yeah I think a lot

01:02 of the songs show that sense of resilience and maturity throughout and growing and growth and

01:08 all of that is you know the radical side of it you know it's pushing yourself to be

01:15 happy and to see things with an optimistic perspective or sometimes I say to be like

01:22 violently happy you know you have to sometimes push yourself into into that that feeling.

01:29 When I was younger I used to have a blog and I used to love like sharing what I was like cooking

01:36 or what I was making or what movie I watched or what you know just to kind of and it was really

01:41 just for my friends and I guess Service 95 that was it's always been something that I've been

01:49 passionate about but now I have the resources and the means to be able to commission stories

01:55 from journalists who can really tell these stories who will do it way better than I will that you

02:00 know be able to tell stories from all around the world not from a western not solely from a western

02:05 lens and those are things that I've always been curious about but now I'm able to do them in a

02:11 way that I could have only ever dreamed of. For me Glastonbury has always been the biggest dream

02:19 it's been my barometer every time I go into the studio when I write a song I love it's like how

02:24 is this going to sound at Glastonbury is it going to work so it's just always been on my dream board

02:32 of something that I wanted to do and I was very specific on my dream board I said the Friday night

02:37 because I knew that I wanted to stay and party for the Friday after Saturday and Sunday so you know

02:44 if you're manifesting out there be specific because it might happen and it's just yeah

02:54 that I guess that the biggest show of my career so I've been planning it for a very long time

03:01 dreaming up thinking about it we started rehearsals everything's in in lead up to that and

03:11 yeah I'm really really looking forward to it you know once Anna decides what the theme is

03:16 it's kind of like unpicking that and and seeing you know it's it's Sleeping Beauty Garden of Time

03:25 you know I guess that's either like diving into a designer's archive or speaking to them and getting

03:34 them to pull from their own favorite show of theirs and something that you know something

03:42 that's a Sleeping Beauty something that's been living in their mind for a long time something

03:46 that maybe they wanted to make and didn't or you know diving into their kind of garden of time it

03:53 can be it can be so many things I think there's going to be lots of different archive vintage

03:59 looks on the carpet this year there's going to be lots from you know inspiration being drawn and

04:07 from lots of different eras it's going to be interesting I'm I'm I'm looking forward to it

04:13 but most of all it's just fun you know going in and hanging out with your friends and dressing up and

04:19 it's going to be a fun night but yeah I love kind of unpicking

04:25 a theme and thinking about where it's going to take us.

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