I’m scared
Because at the end of the day this represents me and no one else
I don’t know it’s a weird concept but
it’s like
I just want it to be a hundred percent authentic
And a hundred percent real
Do it through once and I’ll tell you where
it starts
Okay one more time?
Yeah
If we don’t mess this whole thing up
Guaranteed I can blow your mind
Mwah
Cool
Cool
And tonight I’m alive, ain’t no dollar
sign
Guaranteed I can blow your mind mwah
And tonight I’m alive, ain’t no dollar
sign
Guaranteed I can blow your mind mwah
This whole year has just been like
Jam-packed full of like things
That I’ve always dreamed of doing
Performing in Glastonbury to doing
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
To now putting out my record
You’ve got to work really really hard
And I feel like it’s not just for music
It’s for anything that you do in life
My dad always used to say you need to work
Really really hard to get just a tiny bit of luck
I didn’t think having a career like
this
Was possible I didn’t think that it’s
something
That was like in my reach
My earliest memories of music
My father’s a musician
I was always surrounded by music
I’ve kinda had like ups and downs
With trying to find myself
This one
Well I was really young
I remember waking up really early in the morning
And seeing foxes in the back garden
I have really really vivid memories of just
Going into the living room in my little
Barbie belly top or like anything I could
find
And dance around
This is so embarrassing
I remember driving to school and singing along
To the Stereophonics, Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams
It was always just a part
of
What I was brought up into
I was too young to really understand the lyrics
And really know what they were talking about
But as I grew older I’d still listen to
those
Same albums over and over again and the lyrics
Would start making sense to me
It was honest, and truthful, and you know
It wasn’t sugar coated they were really
just singing
About stuff that they new and I admired that
Hey this is Dua this is my third cover
Which I’m going to be putting on YouTube
When I started putting covers up online it
was
When I had just moved back to London
When I was fifteen
I did Ain’t No Other Mountain by Christina
Aguilera
I did Super Duper Love by Joss Stone
Price Tag by Jessie J I don’t know
I just did like loads
But they were the kind of videos
Where it was like hey I’m Dua Lipa
And I’m fifteen years old and this is
My cover of Super Duper Love by Joss Stone
mwah
It’s kind of how everything started
You know from doing these covers
It was just when I started taking music seriously
And I had this tiny little demo track
On my laptop and then I started just contacting
A few different people and just
Getting like random demos here and there and
They all sounded so different cause I just
Didn’t know what my sound was
Waiting for the right time
But I like the baby
Is it all set up in the booth?
Okay
Dua was always an easier proposition
Than most because she has such a clear idea
Of what she liked and just as important
What she didn’t like
I kept on going into studio sessions going
I want to make a song that sounds a bit like
J Cole mixed with Nelly Furtado
Try and like merge the two together to have this like
Hip hop influenced pop
You know I was writing a lot and the first song that I wrote
Where I was like oh this could be something
Was Hotter than Hell
That’s when labels started getting interested
He calls me the devil
I make him wanna sin
Every time I knock he can't help but let me
in
Must be homesick for the real
I'm the realest it gets
You probably still adore me
With my hands around your neck
Can you feel the warmth? Yeah
Once that happened I signed my deal
I was told that I could quit my job
At the restaurant and I think that was like
The craziest moment of my life
And my friends would be like oh what are you
doing today
Oh I’m just getting to the studio and that’s
it
It seemed like such a dream
Cause we're hot like hell
Does it burn when I'm not there?
When you're by yourself
Am I the answer to your prayers
One more time one more time one more time
Everything comes from me from the
Set list to every song to what I write about
To how I want my record to sound
I’m a hundred percent involved in it
It’s scary and it’s exciting
And I feel like I owe that to myself but also to my fans
When people send me letters
And they say that my music has touched them
Or made them feel a certain type of way
That makes me really happy
I want people know that we all
Go through the same things in one way or another
It makes me feel like I’m in the right place
And I’m doing what I should be doing
It pushes me to work harder
It pushes me to make sure that the next thing
I put out
Is better than the last thing I did
I believe when people listen to the whole
record
They’ll get a much clearer idea
Of the kind of person that she is
She’s worked really really hard for
Two years or whatever and has had
All these dreams and all these expectations
And it’s starting to become a reality
I’m bringing who I am as an artist
And I wanna put out there everything that
Is completely me one hundred percent
You know if you take away all the production
It’s just the bones of a proper song
It can be just on piano and it will
Sound exactly the same and I feel like
It’s really about authenticity
In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth
For what it's worth I think that he might've
created you first
Just my opinion your body is the one paradise
That I wanna fly to every day and every night
I've been sick and tired of running
Chasing all of the flashing lights
These late nights don't mean nothing
So I just wanna apologize
I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry yeah
I need your love and I'm dying for the rush
'Cause my heart ain't got enough
I need your touch
This is getting serious
Tell me that it's not the end of us
How can we go back to the beginning?
How can we go back to the beginning?
Without you, I’ve got no air to breathe
in
How can we go back to the beginning?
It’s a massive milestone for me
From doing these covers
To making an album
To actually get to do this as a career
It’s been like a really this is so cheesy
But really magical process
Just got to keep going
No rest for the wicked
Dreams do come true
Where I'm coming from, yeah
Is a darker side of me that makes you feel
so numb
'Cause we're hot like hell
Does it burn when I'm not there?
When you're by yourself
Am I the answer to your prayers
I'm giving you the pleasure of heaven
And I'll give it to you
Hotter than hell
