Reflecting on her success Dua Lipa told The Guardian the day she felt humiliated.
The pop singer recalled a viral meme from 2018 that became a turning point in her life.
Six years ago, Dua Lipa performed at the BRIT Awards, but it was evident she looked less energetic, resulting in a meme.
Watch the performance below:
The meme “go girl, give us nothing” became an awakening for Dua Lipa's pop culture evolution.
The 28-year-old singer, who has just released her third studio album, Radical Optimism, says she’s still embarrassed by that chapter of her narrative.
See the meme below:
She told The Guardian the humiliation lasted “two years”and ended when she finished writing Future Nostalgia (2020) and completed her first performance of “Don’t Start Now” at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
“It never was like I couldn’t get out of bed because of what I thought people thought of me. I didn’t care to that degree. But that’s when it was most heightened for me,” she said.
After the performance, she felt she had proved her haters wrong; “It was November 2019 when ‘Don’t Start Now’ came out, and it dawned on me that I’m finally going to get up and dance in front of people after what they have thought about me for so long...And I went back, did that performance, and everyone was like, ‘Oh, we were wrong.’ I got a real kick out of that.”
