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Dua Lipa Has Donuts To Thank For Her Smash, “Levitating” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest do releap as one of the biggest hits
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Speaker 1: of her career with her disco infused hit Levitating. But
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Speaker 1: the song wouldn't exist if it wasn't for one key
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Speaker 1: ingredient donuts. Yeah. Songwriting heavyweight Sarah Hudson, who's co written
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Speaker 1: hits like Katie Perry's dark Horse and Igazelia's hits Read
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Speaker 1: Oora his Hits, remembers being in the studio with Doing
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Speaker 1: Company trying to come up with a new song. She
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Speaker 1: tells songwriter Universe. We tried a bunch of ideas, but
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Speaker 1: there wasn't anything we love. Then Dua was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: wondering donuts, but she ordered all these different donuts. We
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Speaker 1: ate so many that we all have this sugar rush
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Speaker 1: and started to get all this energy just bouncing off
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Speaker 1: the walls. We were literally just dancing and singing, having
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Speaker 1: the best time writing that song. The energy you feel
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Speaker 1: when you listen to it, that's the energy that we
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Speaker 1: had writing it. Sarah also mentions in the line in
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Speaker 1: the song when Das sings my sugar boo, I'm levitating
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Speaker 1: is a direct reference to the donuts they were eating.
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