Trent Reznor reveals which Dua Lipa song made him “Tear Up”

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Trent Reznor has revealed which Dua Lipa song recently made him “tear up”The Nine Inch Nails frontman originally made the comment during an interview with Rick Rubin, while taking part on the producer’s podcast Tetragrammaton.

In the discussion, the ‘Closer’ singer reiterated his thoughts that pop music “sucks generally”.However, later in the interview, he did reveal that there was one song by Dua Lipa that made him emotional.Explaining how he saw his daughter singing along to one of the pop star’s tracks, he said: “She is so into it and it is so cool.” He continued: “It really reminded me of the art of writing a well-crafted song — I teared up listening to a Dua Lipa track, because it was just a really well-done piece of music, you know?”Since the episode of the podcast went live, both Nine Inch Nails and Dua Lipa fans became eager to know which song the songwriter was referring to, and took to social media to ask the artist to elaborate on his comments.Now, Reznor has also taken to Instagram, and confirmed that the track in question was her 2020 hit ‘Levitating’.The response came as a reply to a fan’s comment on a recent Stereogum post, in which they claimed that they needed to know “which Dua Lipa song made Trent fucking Reznor tear up”.

Commenting directly in response to the comment, Reznor wrote that it was “‘Levitating’”, the track taken from the singer’s 2020 LP ‘Future Nostalgia’.“[My daughter’s] execution was spot on,” he added. “When she got to the ‘sugarboo’ line, it broke me.” Check out the song in question below.In other news, Dua Lipa recently released her latest track ‘Dance The Night’ — a disco-inspired single that was written for the upcoming Barbie Movie.Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film stars both.