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What Dua Lipa Had To Learn About Herself Before She Could Make ‘Future Nostalgia’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Julie Pap cemented her
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Speaker 1: status as one of global pop's biggest names over the
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Speaker 1: course of the past year with her record breaking studio
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Speaker 1: live stream concert event and her Grammy nominated album Future
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Speaker 1: Nostalgia featuring three top ten singles. And while the record
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Speaker 1: begs you to move, its lyrics are cutting an honest,
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Speaker 1: which is why she describes its music as dark pop
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Speaker 1: music made for dance crying. It's upbeat, and she explains
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Speaker 1: to Vogue, allowing herself to create fun music came through
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Speaker 1: a process of self acceptance as an artist. She says,
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Speaker 1: I had to fight inner demons. I wanted to write
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Speaker 1: songs that were more sad, more about heartbreak, because I
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Speaker 1: thought writing happy songs would turn into cheesy songs. I
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Speaker 1: had to fight that because I thought I am happy,
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Speaker 1: I deserve to be happy. I should be able to
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Speaker 1: write about that without the fear of feeling like I'm
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Speaker 1: compromising my authenticity because I'm not crying about something or someone.
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