When you’re already number one you can take some chances. Secure that her 2020 pandemic home NPR Tiny Desk concert still holds the record for the most-seen Tiny Desk ever with more than 130 million views, Dua Lipa was back in the crowded public radio offices on Friday (Oct. 25) when her second stripped-down show highlight tracks from this year’s Radical Optimism album.
Speaking to NPR’s Ari Shapiro in an interview before the four-song episode dropped, Dua explained that she flipped the uptempo album track “Happy For You” into a stripped-down piano and voice ballad that represented the song in its “purest form,” stripped of the bubbling electronic production. “It is what it is in the moment, and I think you just feel that song differently,” she said. “You listen to the lyrics in a different way, and it was really fun to think about it and take it back to the basics.”
The show will air on ITV1 and ITVX later this year, though no date has currently been announced
Dua Lipa played a special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night and took the opportunity to bring out Elton John for a performance of the pair’s hit single “Cold Heart.” The collaboration came towards the end of Dua’s lengthy set, which previewed her upcoming Radical Optimism Tour.
