Dua Lipa has revealed she had to take a break from social media after a clip of her dancing became a meme.
The pop icon, 28, spoke about the time a clip of her dancing on stage during a 2017 concert went viral with fans comparing her to a pencil in a ‘pencil sharpener’.
Dua just released her third studio album Radical Optimism and said she found it “humbling” during a candid conversation with The Guardian.
One specific comment fueled more cruel comments from trolls, saying: “I like her lack of energy, come on girl, don’t give us anything!”, beneath the YouTube clip of her live performance of New Rules at the BRIT Awards 2018.
The catchphrase later became a recurring meme and was also used to comment on other celebrities such as Blackpink, Taylor Swift and Addison Rae.
Dua Lipa opened up about the ups and downs of fame, mentioning the “humiliating” experience she endured after a meme of her dancing went viral (pictured last month at the Time 100 Gala).
The pop icon, 28, recalled the time a clip of her dancing on stage during a 2017 concert was all over social media (pictured performing New Rules live at the BRIT Awards in 2018).
“When people took that clip of me line dancing and turned it into a meme, and then when I won the Grammy for best new artist and people were like, ‘She doesn’t deserve it, she doesn’t have stage presence, she’s not going to do it. “Stay,” he said.
‘Those things were painful. It was humiliating. “I had to get off Twitter.”
The Don’t Start Now singer explained that performing and writing songs was what made her “happiest”, but made her “really annoying” as people didn’t seem to notice how much she had been working on now.
‘In front of the public, I was discovering who I was as an artist, as a performer. All of this was happening when I was 22, 23 years old and still growing up. You have to develop a tough skin. “You have to be resilient,” added Dua.
The Grammy winner also said that while she never got to a point where she “couldn’t get out of bed,” it was certainly when her emotions felt “the most heightened.”
But as Dua built her name, reputation and skills, the British-Albanian star said she felt “a real kick” after her 2019 single Don’t Start Now came out.
The Barbie actress was not shy about admitting that many people began to change their minds about her acting abilities after that, making her feel like she finally proved them wrong.
Dua also spoke to Apple about her dilemmas with fame and how she deals with hateful comments, admitting that her rise to stardom over the years hasn’t been easy.
One specific comment fueled more cruel comments from trolls, saying: “I like her lack of energy, come on girl, don’t give us anything!”, about her live performance of New Rules at the 2018 BRIT Awards.
‘When people took that clip of me line dancing and turned it into a meme. Those things were painful,” she said (pictured last month).
But as she built her name, reputation and skills, the British-Albanian star said she felt “a real kick” after her 2019 single Don’t Start Now (pictured in the music video) came out.
The 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, 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.”
“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.
Dua also spoke to Apple about her dilemmas with fame and how she deals with hateful comments, admitting that her rise to stardom over the years hasn’t been easy.
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.
“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.