Dua Lipa’s 'Future Nostalgia' Grammys medley was a camp tribute to the club
Dua Lipa was guaranteed a good 2021 Grammy Awards before the night even began. Six nominations crowned a bumper year for the Albanian-English pop star, spurling out of her debut album Future Nostalgia; a disco pop behemoth for a year without dancing. The biggest gong the record is up for is Album of the Year, and Lipa made a case for its win with a medley of two of its biggest hits: "Don't Stop Now" and "Levitating".
Since Lipa has been omnipresent since the record's release in March, she performed two new versions of the tunes in a club-fantasia set. "Levitating" was heard in a kind of druggy-slow, classy re-do, with Da Baby appearing to perform his verse from a remix of the track. Lipa stood against a giant pink moon, featured on the covers of Future Nostalgia's many versions. While surrounded by meticulously choreographed dancers, Lipa's own slight versions of the moves were incredibly endearing.
The medley was an unadulterated tribute to the club; its camp extravagance, imperfect dancing and baldfaced joy. It was also a mere preview of what Lipa's live shows will look like come (a hopefully COVID Safe) 2022.
Watch Dua Lipa's performance at the 2021 Grammys below:
Channel 10 are screening the Grammy Awards live on Monday 15 March from 11AM AEDT. You can watch in HD on TV or stream the show live, or later via catch-up, on 10Play. Catch up on Dua Lipa's performance on 10Play post-show.
Written by Josh Martin, a Melbourne-based freelance music and media writer with words in MTV Australia, NME, Junkee, Crikey, etc. Follow him on Twitter @joshuamartjourn.
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