Dua Lipa Says Some Artists Are ‘Ruthless’ in Sharing Their Private Lives
“It’s something that I just naturally hold back,” singer-songwriter tells Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes
Dua Lipa attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/The Recording Academy
You won’t hear Dua Lipa getting into the nitty gritty about her experiences with love anytime soon. In her 60 Minutes interview Sunday with Anderson Cooper, the British singer-songwriter shared that she prefers to not go deep in her lyricism for the sake of getting “people’s attention.”
“It’s something that I just naturally hold back,” she said in the interview. “Some people are just so ruthless with their own private life that they decide to put it all out in a song because they know that it’s gonna attract people’s attention.”
“For me, it was always important to make music that people really loved, not because I was putting someone out on blast,” she added. “Not because I’m doing it for the clickbait at maybe someone else’s expense.”
Lipa’s explanation was in response to Cooper pointing out that critics think “they don’t have a sense of who you are” from her music. Ahead of the release of Radical Optimism this year, Lipa spoke to Rolling Stone about the sort of energy she wanted to transmit in the music and the lyricism.
“I wanted it to be fun, but also I think it was the theme for the record. Sonically, I wanted to live in this psychedelic, organic, Brit-pop world. It’s something that I’ve been influenced by,” Lipa said at the time. “There was just so much freedom in that era in the way that people made music and in the experimentation of it. That’s just what I wanted to do. I just wanted to dive into a different place sonically and try out something new.”
The new interview with 60 Minutes comes several days after the singer announced a 2025 arena tour, set to kick off in Australia next March. She’ll head to North America in September of next year.
“I think people are quick to forget. I was on tour up until the end of December. I felt like I missed out on so much time with my family and friends. It shows how short our attention span is, which is why music comes out so much faster,” she told Rolling Stone during a cover story announcing the new LP era. “You make the album, you promote it, you go on tour, you do the same thing, and that’s so amazing, but I think there’s going to come a point where maybe I want to take just a little bit longer [in between].”
From Rolling Stone US.
