- This goes hard. Whoa.
♪ ...mine?♪ - (exhales) Did you hear that?
- Comes off as a little generic to me, but hey,
if you enjoy it, great.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- ♪ You call me all friendly ♪ - Is this Dua Lipa?
- Dua Lipa! She's dope.
- (inhales deeply) Pause, pause, pause, pause, pause.
I am so obsessed with Dua Lipa right now.
You don't understand. - ♪ So I cut you off ♪
- ♪ I don't need your love ♪ ♪ 'Cause I already cried enough ♪
♪ I've been done ♪ - Okay, so it's a breakup song.
- ♪ I cut you off ♪ ♪ I don't need your love ♪
♪ So you can try all you want ♪ - This goes hard. Whoa.
- ♪ Your time's up ♪ - Her music's just so catchy.
- ♪ You say you're sorry ♪
♪ But it's too late now ♪ - (snaps along)
♪ So save it, get gone, shut up ♪
- She don't give a damn.
- I love artistic music videos. They're so fun.
- These aesthetics are really nice and pleasing.
- ♪ ...don't give a [bleep] ♪ ♪ About you ♪
- Ooh.
- ♪ No, I don't give a damn ♪ - Oh my gosh.
(chuckles) - ♪ You keep reminiscing
on when you were my man ♪ - I'm low-key hyperventilating.
Oh my goodness. I love her so much.
- Comes off as a little generic to me, but hey,
if you enjoy it, great. - (FBE) Okay, so we're gonna
show you a few more videos in a minute, but that was the video
for "IDGAF," the latest music video to be released by Dua Lipa.
- Dua Lipa, yes. - She has the quality
to be a true pop star and a really great artist
that's here for a long time. - ♪ Talkin' in my sleep at night ♪
♪ Makin' myself crazy ♪ ♪ Out of my mind,
out of my mind ♪ - Ah! This is the song
that started it. - The Rules, right? Okay, yeah.
This one's kinda catchy. - ♪ But my love ♪
- Ah, this is my jam. You guys don't understand.
Her voice is so pretty!
- ♪ One, don't pick up the phone ♪ - She's so perfect.
It's honestly crazy.
- ♪ Two, don't let him in ♪
♪ You'll have to kick him out again ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Three, don't be his friend ♪
♪ You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the morning ♪
- (sings along) ♪ And if you're under him ♪
♪ You ain't getting over him ♪ ♪ I got new rules, I count 'em ♪
- Ooh, I love this. - Love this one even more.
- ♪ I gotta tell them to myself ♪ - Yeah, that's cool.
- This is such a great message, too. Don't let this boy ruin your life.
Just let him go and then move on and do your thing.
- ♪ When you're gone ♪ ♪ Oh baby, all the lights go out ♪
- Never heard this, but I'm already into it.
- Aw, this is so cute!
- ♪ So that I can show ♪ ♪ That I won't let you down ♪
- I love her style. - She dresses really nice.
- ♪ I could be the one ♪ - Oh my gosh!
I feel like I would love to just hang out with her.
- Her sound is actually unique, so it is different.
- ♪ Will you be mine? ♪ - (exhales) Did you hear that?
- Those three songs, they're all different,
and I think it shows that she has...
a variety of things she can do.
- I don't think this is intended for my demographic.
I think it's meant towards young teenage girls.
- ♪ I know it's hard ♪ - I love this song!
Oh my god, turn it up.
- ♪ ...that money can buy ♪ ♪ Tell me I'm too crazy ♪
♪ You can't tame me, can't tame me ♪
♪ Tell me I have... ♪ - Her voice is really deep,
and I LOVE that.
- (sings along) ♪ If you don't like the way I talk,
then why am I on your mind? ♪
- ♪ If you don't like the way I rock... ♪
- She's so badass.
- ♪ We fight and we argue ♪ - (snaps along)
- ♪ You'll still love me blind ♪
- This one's [bleep] groovy.
- ♪ Guaranteed I can blow your mind, mwah ♪
- Dude.
She's the future.
- That's one of my favorites of her too,
and the video is just so fun, you know, with your girls
and just hanging.
- ♪ Over and over ♪ ♪ Waves of running... ♪
- I like this one.
- Oh, whoa. Did not see that coming.
- Why is she flying?
- (sings along) ♪ I wanna stay right here all night, baby ♪
- (Miguel) ♪ Oh, now... ♪ - (squeals softly)
I completely forgot that Miguel was in this.
- Gotta do a collab if you have a good voice,
you know, find another guy with a good voice, do a duet.
- (Dua and Miguel) ♪ Midnight ♪ - Really good duo.
It really works.
- She's not trying to be this fireworks show of a person.
She's just so chill.
- (Dua and Miguel) ♪ One taste and I'm hooked on it ♪
- Wow. She's on another level.
- I'm not an avid listener to any type of music,
but hers I'm definitely gonna look into.
I'm definitely gonna go on my Spotify when I'm done.
- (FBE) Well, at just 22 years old, Dua Lipa's career has--
- 20-- wait, what?! 22?!
She's just a year older than me?!
- (FBE) Dua Lipa's career has had a steady rise
since she began covering songs on YouTube in her early teens.
- Oh, she started off on YouTube.
- I actually found some of those not too long ago,
and I'm like, you've been great since the beginning!
- YouTube has been such a big outlet
for so many new talent.
- (FBE) Well, recently, The FADER put out a documentary
where Dua Lipa talks a little bit more
about her start on YouTube. And so, we're gonna
show you a little clip from that now.
- Aww! I'm so excited.
- (Dua) Hey, this is Dua. - She's so cute!
- (Dua) ...which I'm going to be putting on YouTube.
- That's her? - (Dua voice-over) Once I started
putting covers up online, it was when I had just moved back
to London when I was 15. - Oh, she's British.
- (Dua) They were the kind of videos where I was like,
- (both Duas) "Hey, I'm Dua Lipa, and I'm 15..."
- She looked so different when she was younger.
- Wow. - God, she looks so young.
- (Dua voice-over) It's kind of how everything started.
- Oh my gosh! I didn't know she was from London.
- To go from just having a little dream
and putting it out somewhere, you know, and have it seen,
and then to become a megastar from it
and get to live your dream, it's just like, wow.
- I always appreciate people who started off early
and then have kept at it.
Might not be a huge fan of the music,
not a huge fan of the whole thing, but I can respect the work ethic.
- (FBE) So according to Spotify's year-end figures,
Dua Lipa was the most-streamed woman of 2017 in the UK.
- Well, I'm not surprised there.
- I streamed her a lot here in the US.
- (FBE) Her self-titled debut album spawned seven top 40 UK singles.
- That's amazing. She deserves it.
- (FBE) Her popularity is rising here in the US,
and she's currently even set to perform on SNL.
- Oh, wow. - Girl power!
- (FBE) What is it about Dua and her music
that has given her the ability to cross over from UK to US?
- I have no idea to be honest. I just don't have the same tastes
as the top 50, you know, list.
- It doesn't sound like the regular formula
of what is a popular song. It really sounds different,
but also at the same time modern.
- What she's talking about, you know, is very woman empowering,
and it's reflecting all the issues from right now.
- (FBE) At the age of only 15, Dua convinced her parents
to have her return to London all by herself
after the family had moved back to their native country, Kosovo.
- That's scary.
- That's lucky. My parents would've been like, "Hell no."
- (FBE) Dua's return to London was spent alone,
studying theater and pursuing her music career.
As college students getting your first taste
of independence, how do you think you'd do
if you were 15 and all alone
in a country pursuing your dreams? - I can't even last a day
on my own, so I don't see how a 15-year-old
can honestly stay in a country.
- I'd have to be really dead set on knowing
what I wanna do. It's really impressive
that that early on, she was like, "Okay,
this is what I wanna do. I'm gonna take it seriously."
- Anyone that has dreams, they should go into it,
because you need to take the risk
if you feel like you can learn from it.
- She must be really smart to be able to take care of herself
as a 15-year-old. It shows how dedicated
and how much she wanted it.
- I moved to Costa Rica when I was around that age,
and I know for me, it was super hard.
And I had my mom with me. You're so young,
and there's still so much you need to know about life,
but I feel like that has probably helped her mature a lot,
and her now being 22, look at her.
- (FBE) So lately, we've seen a rise in independent musicians
getting their start on online music platforms
like YouTube or SoundCloud. - The world has opened
to so much possibilities. There's a new artist popping out
every single day. - (FBE) Do you think
that this is a new way that all music
is gonna be released, or do you feel like
we still might see the traditional route
continue to be the primary way to do things?
- I feel like because of how much we use the internet for everything
like news, social media, all those types of things,
it's kind of the easiest way for it, and I feel like that's gonna be
how it's more adapted to where everybody's gonna start
as some YouTube sensation.
- The traditional way, I think that's done.
- People that don't have their resources exactly
to pay a record label to work for them,
they can do it themselves.
- It's just gonna be a one out of every so often
it happens on YouTube, because people do still take
the music-- they still take the music industry serious.
- It's gonna go both. I don't think one's gonna
necessarily overtake the other.
But it's cool, 'cause it's a new avenue.
- I don't think it's necessarily diminishing the route they have.
It's adding another-- kind of throws a fork in the road.
There's new routes that are being made,
and they're just intertwining together.
- (FBE) Okay, so finally, last year Dua Lipa revealed
she hopes she can someday be a headliner
and fill up stadiums. After learning more
about her career today, do you feel like Dua Lipa
is in line to reach her goal? - Are you serious? Yes!
I wanna go to her show.
- That goal is probably gonna come even sooner than she expected.
- She has such a long career ahead of her,
and she's involved in all the stuff she does,
so I definitely see her having longevity.
- If it were up to me, I would've had her
selling out stadiums a long time ago.
I can't wait until I have the opportunity
to go to one of her sold-out stadium shows.
And I'm gonna lose my mind
the whole time there, and it's gonna be so great.
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