Dua Lipa has to “write a lot” to find the good stuff.
The pop superstar keeps jotting down thoughts even if they aren’t good ideas and eventually inspiration comes to her.
Speaking to Vanity Fair about her songwriting process, she said: “When I’m in the writing process and I’m in it, the inspiration just kind of comes, I think. I have so many conversations with other artists, and some people go, ‘Oh, if I’m not feeling inspired, I just take a break or whatever.’ And I think that’s great. For me, I write myself into a good idea. I have to write a lot to feel like I’m getting to the place where I want to be, so I don’t really give myself the opportunity to not be inspired. It’s just kind of like, ‘Write, write, write. Something’s going to be good, something’s going to be absolute s***’ And you just have to take it.”
When she didn’t like what she had written, the ‘Houdini’ hitmaker used to beat herself up.
She shared: “Well, it took me a long time to get there. I used to be really, really hard on myself if I felt like I wasn’t getting to where I needed to be. Like, ‘Oh, I’m rubbish at this and I just can’t do it.’ I just kind of realised that it’s okay. If it’s a s*** day, it’s a s*** day, and that’s all right. You just keep writing until you get something good.”
So far fans have heard the lead single ‘Houdini’ and ‘Training Season’ from the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Future Nostalgia’, which is due out later this year, and saw Dua “digging deeper and deeper”.
Speaking on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards earlier this month, she told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “I feel like with every album, I get to grow more and learn more about myself and I become more free as a songwriter and as a performer and as an artist.
“So, this one, I’m just like digging deeper and deeper. I love it. I’m proud of this one.”