Dua Lipa is riding the wave of another global hit with “Don’t Start Now,” the lead single off her sophomore album, Future Nostalgia.
While the track turned out to be a smash, she faced a lot of uncertainty before releasing it due to fears that it wouldn’t measure up to her previous high-water mark: “New Rules.” She told The New York Times that it was nerve-wracking writing a follow-up to “New Rules,” which peaked at No.
6 in the US and was eventually certified 5x Platinum. “A week before I was about to release ‘Don’t Start Now’ I started panicking,” she said, “because it was the first time I was like, [expletive], I haven’t asked or checked or seen if anybody even wants something like this.” Still, she was determined not to deliver a repeat
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