Dua Lipa brands some Britpop bands’ past behaviour as “obnoxious”
nme.comDua Lipa has said that some bands from the Britpop era, including Blur and Oasis, past behaviour was “obnoxious”.Lipa sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss her forthcoming album.
In the profile, journalist Brittany Spanos wrote how some of the ‘Levitating’ singer’s inspirations for the album include Britpop legends like Oasis and Blur, as well as ’90s rock and electronic acts like Moby and Gorillaz.Spanos went on to mention that some of those Brit-pop acts, including Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn in particular, haven’t been the nicest to female pop acts. “I haven’t had any encounters with them, actually,” Lipa told the publication.She continued: “Sometimes you have to separate the art from the person.… It’s more like the music element, the aspect of it that I’m really connected to.
The way that [some Brit-pop artists] acted, the things that they’ve done, they’re obnoxious for sure. That’s their whole thing.”Lipa then went on to reflect on that era and its toxic masculinity. “There’s so much toxicity in the way people wanted their artists or their musicians,” she said.
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