Dua Lipa and her toughest moment on social media: It was humiliating for two years, I took myself off Twitter
The British singer opens up in an interview with The Guardian
Dua Lipa is an established artist. Her international success is undisputed, but it’s not all praise and neon lights in her career.
There are also delicate moments. The Briton is very aware of having starred in one of the most viral memes with her figure after her performance at the 2018 Brits Awards.
Dua Lipa frees the nip in a see-through dress for the “Barbie” Premiere
Some users criticized her, according to them, lack of energy on stage and the impact for her was severe on a personal level.
The singer, in an interview with The Guardian, has opened up about what happened.
“When people took that snippet of me dancing online and just turned it into a meme, and then when I won the best new artist Grammy and people were like, ‘She’s not deserving of it, she’s got no stage presence, she’s not going to stick around.’ Those things were hurtful. It was humiliating. I had to take myself off Twitter,” she said.
The feeling of humiliation lasted two years
The Guardian then asked the artist how long the emotional blow lasted. The humiliation received by the meme and the subsequent comments were not easy for the diva to digest.
“Until I finished writing Future Nostalgia and did my first performance of Don’t Start Now, at the MTV Europe Music awards,” she said.
“I want to say, gosh, I don’t know, two years. It never was like I couldn’t get out of bed because of what I thought people thought of me. I didn’t care to that degree. But that’s when it was most heightened for me.”
Dua Lipa has insisted that the criticizm for that meme was unfair to her: “I don’t think it was fair because it was a small snippet of a much bigger performance. I think people who had seen me play live on the first album tour would have thought a very different thing.”
