Dua Lipa talks "Dark Pop" and her "Nineties/Noughties" role models | News
Thursday, December 14, 2017 6 a.m. EST
It's already topped the chart in the U.K., and now "New Rules" has become
Dua Lipa
's biggest U.S. hit to date. The song is about resisting the temptation to get back together with your ex, and its female-empowerment lyrics and sassy attitude show the influence of Dua's biggest musical inspirations:
Pink, Christina Aguilera
and
Nelly Furtado
.
"It was always them that I was so fascinated by...that whole Nighties/Noughties era that was just so amazing and so colorful and sassy," Dua tells ABC Radio. "And it was just something so amazing to look up to. And I guess I just go back to those pictures of Pink and Christina, like, on the MTV EMA red carpets in the 2000s, and their outfits...that whole style is coming back now. It’s amazing."
Dua describes her current style as "Dark Pop": a mix of that early-2000s pop sound, and the music she listened to at age 13, when her Albanian parents moved her from London back to their home country of Kosovo.
"I started listening to a lot of hip-hop,
J. Cole
and
Kendrick Lamar
and even
Tupa
c and
Biggie
," she tells ABC Radio. "All I wanted to do was to make a pop song that somehow could be a hip-hop song as well, or take the 'flowy-ness' or the 'rap-yness' and put those in the verses, and still have a pop chorus."
But Dua says there's one artist who does "Dark Pop" even better than she does.
"
Sia
!" she says. "I think she does amazing Dark Pop. She's, like, Queen of Dark Pop, absolutely."
Dua will kick off a North American tour in February, and at the end of that month, she'll head to New Zealand and Australia to open shows for
Bruno Mars
.
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