


Her barrage of shimmery singles - music for “dance crying,” as she describes it - later established her as the only female artist with two albums that have surpassed 10 billion streams on Spotify. and unintentionally cementing her as the leading pop star of the pandemic. The singer had asked one of her favorite restaurants, Sushi on Jones, hidden on the second floor of a King’s Cross concert venue, to open before dinner so we could have the place to ourselves, then arrived 10 minutes early to make sure everything was as planned.Ī lot happened in March 2020, so you probably won’t recall that Lipa’s second album, “Future Nostalgia,” leaked at the beginning of the lockdowns, denying her the precise rollout she’d spent many months finessing, postponing her international tour.

“If I wasn’t as organized as I am, I would be a mess right now,” she says when we meet one drizzly May afternoon in London. But at 27, Lipa has already become the kind of multihyphenate entrepreneur who not only finishes her assignments on time but discusses strategy and efficiency with the clarity of a company founder delivering a TED Talk. It’s funny to think of a pop star - or any successful young artist - as just another striving professional. It’s due for release in 2024 and, despite the trend of musicians announcing and delaying records for years, Lipa will almost certainly meet her deadline. LET’S GET THIS out of the way: Dua Lipa is finishing her third album.
