Dua Lipa looked nervous as she arrived at the NRJ radio studio in Paris on Sunday morning.
The pop star, 28, looked incredible in a casual dress that featured a printed black T-shirt and a pair of skinny blue denim mom jeans.
She added a cool black leather jacket over the ensemble and elevated her figure with a pair of black heels.
Styled her red locks in a half-up, half-down hairstyle, the Dance The Night hitmaker further accessorized with a pair of statement silver earrings.
Their third studio album Radical Optimism was released on May 3 and is their first full-length studio album release in four years since Future Nostalgia, which was released in 2020.
Dua Lipa looked nervous as she arrived at the NRJ radio studio in Paris on Sunday morning.
The pop star, 28, looked incredible in a casual dress that featured a black graphic T-shirt and a pair of skinny blue denim mom jeans.
The beauty also took to Instagram to reveal to her fans that Radical Optimism became the number one album to stream on the official charts earlier this week.
It comes after Dua revealed earlier this month that her rise to stardom over the years has not been easy as she discussed with Apple her dilemmas with fame and how she deals with hateful comments.
The 28-year-old singer joined Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to talk about her new era and her work, Radical Optimism.
Speaking about her newfound confidence, the Houdini singer recalled, “I’m finally at a place in my career where I feel really confident.” It took me a long time to get to this place.
‘We are telling everything. This is the first time I talk about something, the title of the album, the album and the songs individually.
She goes on to admit to Zane that songwriting is also a form of therapy for her: “Writing these songs, it’s a form of therapy for me.”
“Writing your thoughts into a melody and then letting other people consume them is a very vulnerable thing to do.
The pop icon also revealed that she knew what the title of her album would be from the beginning.
‘I knew the title ‘Radical Optimism’. It was a term that my friend told me, I was doing an interview with him, and he said, “Do you know what the world needs? It’s radical optimism.”
Their third studio album, Radical Optimism, was released on May 3 and is their first full-length studio album in four years since Future Nostalgia, which was released in 2020.
And the beauty took to her Instagram earlier this week to reveal to her fans that Radical Optimism became the number one album to listen to on the charts.
“And I lived with that thought for a long time, and it became more and more frequent as time went on.”
The beauty went on to mention how she has faced a tremendous amount of criticism since finding fame.
‘I think everything comes in stages and waves. There may be a moment when people really love you and you feel very supported and you think, oh, this is great.
‘Especially at the beginning. She was doing interviews and people were saying, “How do you deal with hate?” And I’m like, “I don’t get any hate. It’s cool.”
“Then that changed very quickly and I remember even when it was the best new artist nomination at the Grammys and I had won it, there were people online saying, she doesn’t deserve it.”
‘She has no stage presence. She can’t do this. She is not well equipped and she will not be here next year.
‘There was a lot of that. That drove me in some ways. I try not to use criticism as revenge.
“So I think every time I see or feel or read something that goes against what I know is coming, or what I’ve been doing, or how hard I’ve been working or whatever, I just take a step back. and I just say, okay, this is all background noise and I should move on.
‘Because every time someone has doubted me, I have proven them wrong.
‘And for me, this is feeding me. This is pushing me to be better, to work hard. And I really enjoy proving people wrong.
Dua continued to reveal her struggle to find her voice as she grew up within the industry.
She revealed: ‘I never thought about the idea of being famous. So it’s interesting. As I grow in the industry and see the different sides of it, I ask myself, “Okay, what things do I keep to myself? What things do I put out there?” It is the writer’s dilemma.
It comes after Dua revealed earlier this month that her rise to stardom over the years has not been easy as she discussed with Apple her dilemmas with fame and how she deals with hateful comments.
‘In a way, I had no inhibitions. She was jumping, experimenting and trying something new. In a way, she was very afraid of…
‘Or it just took me a while to find my voice, writing things that were personal to me, but always in code, never wanting to fully put myself out there just because I felt like I needed to keep something to myself.
She also added that with her latest album she has managed to be more “honest” and “open” than she had ever been before.
She revealed: “With this album, I feel like I’ve managed to show a lot more honesty and be really open in a way that I think I’ve never had the opportunity to do before.”
‘I went back to every song that’s on the album, rewrote it and changed it, and my perspective changed and my story changed.
“The way I looked at different scenarios or different things that happened in my life changed and it was a beautiful experience to not be afraid to say, ‘Actually, you know what? “I’m willing to expose this.”
She added: “There’s a song, which is the last song on the album called ‘Happy for You.’ And I love that song because, to me, it’s about seeing someone that you were with move on and being very happy for that person.” .
“I probably wouldn’t have been able to write that song on my first or second record because I don’t feel like I would have grown as a person or as an artist to be able to see someone I loved move on.” . Or it would have been difficult for me.
The Grammy Award winner also addressed her “non-negotiables” for any relationship and opened up about her “hurtful” past relationships.
She revealed: ‘In terms of relationships, I needed to get to this place to find what I really needed. You have to be in the act of forgiving, growing and learning, and being okay with the past so you can move forward with what comes next.
“So, for me, ‘Happy for You’ is a beautiful, happy song, because it reflects a lot of my journey.
Speaking about her newfound confidence, the Houdini singer recalled, “I’m finally at a place in my career where I feel really confident.” It took me a long time to get to this place.
She also added that with her latest album she has managed to be more “honest” and “open” than she had ever been before.
“I think with every relationship, with every experience you learn about yourself, you learn about the things that hurt you, what you expect, what you should also be willing to give.
‘I think, again, it all goes back to that exchange of vulnerability.
“I think I’ve had relationships that have been really painful, especially in the beginning, where I feel like they’ve made me feel like I’m not good enough or they’ve made me lose trust and I’ve had to find that again.
‘You learn about your own non-negotiable issues. I think that’s something important. Of course, it’s about the right person, but it’s really about the right relationship.
‘You find that in friendships and also in love relationships, in your non-negotiable things.
‘What are you willing to give up? Someone says, “Oh.” Maybe you have an upset or something, or you see that someone is disloyal. I say, “That’s non-negotiable.”
“I want someone who is loyal, open and honest, and that’s what I’m willing to be in return, too.”
