Dua Lipa has taken her career to new heights this year. After the release of her third album Radical Optimism in May, she played her first-ever concert at Wembley Stadium, and in October, she performed her music with an orchestra at another iconic London venue: The Royal Albert Hall. Now, her millions of fans around the world can experience the music from that night as if they were there.
Dua Lipa Live At the Royal Albert Hall is the singer’s first-ever live album and features grand symphonic reimaginings of the biggest hits from her discography like “Levitating,” “Dance the Night Away,” and “Don’t Start Now” as well as the Radical Optimism album in its entirety. Getting to create new versions of these songs is Lipa’s way of disproving the idea that pop stars can’t make instrumentally rich music. “You're always met with some kind of pushback as a female artist, if you're not, like, with a guitar or with a piano, [they’re] just like, ‘Oh, she can't sing. Oh, it's all processed,’” she said on 60 Minutes in September. “I just think there's just a stigma around pop music.”
Lipa just wrapped up the Asian leg of her Radical Optimism Tour on Dec. 5. When reflecting on where she is today and where she’s headed in the future, the Grammy winner acknowledged that a lot has changed in the years since she burst onto the pop music scene.
“I'm definitely not the same person I was when I wrote my first album. I've evolved and learned so much… taking it as it comes, not seeing anything as bad or something as a setback. That involves a lot of growing and understanding myself, knowing my worth, whether it be in business, love, or friendship,” she told Time earlier this year. “I have different thoughts, wants, needs, and perspectives. I've done a 180 on myself… I feel the most confident at this point in my life.”
