Dua Lipa Reveals Adele Sent Her Message Before Glastonbury Headline Show
Dua Lipa has looked back on her amazing year, including headlining Glastonbury and releasing her latest album, Radical Optimism, in a new interview with Billboard UK.
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“It’s honestly been the best year of my life,” Lipa reflected. “I’ve done things that I’ve wanted to do for so long… There came a point in the year where I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to sit down and write some new dreams and new plans and other things I wanted to do,’ ” she says. “I feel like I ticked so many of my boxes this year. It’s amazing.”
One of those moments was headlining Glastonbury festival back in June. “It was so beautiful. I had so many messages from previous headliners,” she said. “You sort of earn this badge of honor in that moment, and it felt like I joined the coolest club in the world… [Adele] said, ‘I’ve been thinking about you all day and just wanted to wish you luck for tonight. Don’t forget to soak it all in.’ Looking back at that Pyramid was me trying to do that.”
Lipa also looked back on the release of her worldwide hit album, Radical Optimism. “Future Nostalgia doing what it did allowed me to grow as an artist, to push boundaries and change. It allowed me to have the confidence to make Radical Optimism,” she said. “It gave me the freedom and confidence to be like, ‘You know who I really want to make an album with? Kevin Parker. And I want to do something a bit different; I want to work with Danny L Harle and experiment with my sound, do a different vocal performance and make pop music but allow that to live in another sonic world.’ It’s been fun to shape-shift.”