![]() Right before the song cut off, Lipa ditched the mic for her own solo dance break that maybe sounds corny but wasn’t at all. From the crowd, Lipa looked like a long, skinny, neon green bean, shimmying to an early-show rendition of “New Rules,” her dancers following her down the stage with iridescent umbrellas. She flitted about her dancers from the mainstage to the diamond jut-out and back again, belting all along the way. The bright overhead lights seemed to cast a blinding, shimmering glow across everything that didn’t diffuse for the show’s entire nearly two-hour duration.įor all the comments and flack Lipa has caught for her lack of energy on stage, the girl never once seemed to stop moving throughout the show’s first part which encompasses an insane stretch of seven songs before her first fit change. She materialized on stage in a lime latex one-piece to kick off the show with “Physical,” complete with a gyrate-filled barre routine that stretched from one end of the stage to the other. playing a superhero-esque prelude intro-ing herself and her supporting cast of dancers - yeah, you better believe she got the budget. ![]() The maxed-out stadium buzzed with delight as the stage’s truly humongous semi-circle digital screen clicked on right at 9:15 p.m. Lipa was already a month deep into her tour when she made her stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on the evening of Tuesday, March 1, but there was no stale air about this performance. If pressure can turn coal into diamonds, then pressure turned Lipa into a veritable powerhouse supernova star, one who can belt, dance, and gyrate it out - often all three at once - with the best of them. She was, after all, the one that inspired the now-legendary comment: “I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!”įlash-forward three years, and Dua Lipa is blasting all those claims out the water with her spectacular and long-awaited live show for her critically acclaimed behemoth, Future Nostalgia. From there, the jokes quickly snowballed into other areas of her artistry, her lack of energy, lack of emotion, lack of stage presence. ![]() The criticisms stemmed from her reigning hit at the time “One Kiss” and the awkward hip-bobbing dance move that accompanied all her live performances of it. It was in 2019 when the internet's first general consensus around Dua Lipa was that she couldn’t dance.
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