Dua Lipa has stolen the Jack Harlow show from DojaCat.
After revealing his crush for DojaCat by confessing it on an Instagram live with her,
rumors started flying and their names trended on the internet but now the star has dropped a
whole new song named after Dua Lipa! And word on the streets, she’s not completely happy about it!
So why did he write the song “Dua Lipa”? And what did she exactly say about the song? are
we gonna hear about another Taylor Kanye drama? It’s pretty much known now that Jack Harlow isn’t
afraid of naming names and he enjoys dropping some names in his songs! Not just names of stars but he
even mentioned Minnesota Vikings, the football team, in his song with Drake “Churchill Downs”.
And he’s not the only one! Maroon 5 mentioned the great Mick Jagger, for example.
On Friday, (May 6), Harlow launched his new album,
'Come Home The Kids Miss You'. The album includes features such as Drake,
Lil Wayne, Pharrell, and Justin Timberlake among others. And it also features Dua
Lipa but not by her voice...by her name! On his new track, titled "Dua Lipa," Jack Harlow
didn't hold back when it came to his feelings and admiration toward his fellow musician.
So, even before his album was out, the "Dua Lipa" lyrics went viral, prompting
fans to speculate if Dua Lipa was flattered or maybe a little scared out by the music.
First teasing the chorus online on May 1, Jack raps the lyrics “Dua Lipa, I’m tryna do more
with her than do a feature,” perhaps suggesting that he’s got his eye on the British pop star.
The lyrics seemed creepy and gave a lot of fans “stalking” vibes!
As one fan tweeted (Kid Animal : The song Dua Lipa by Jack Harlow is creepy,
he sounds like a stalker.) Loid Whoreger wrote:
(Jack Harlow really wrote a reader x Dua Lipa fanfiction,
said “yea this is gas” and uploaded it online.) Jack Harlow though, has stated that he went
to Dua Lipa to seek her approval for his new song, which bears her name.
While Lipa has yet to officially recognize the song, Harlow said on The Breakfast Club podcast
that he did reach out to her privately before the release of the song to get her blessing.
“I wanted to get her blessing, so I FaceTimed her and played it for her because I didn’t
want her to be blindsided by that or feel like creeped out or anything,” he said.
“If she had said, ‘Yo, I hate it. I don’t want it to come out,’ it wouldn’t have come
out,” Harlow explained before revealing Lipa’s reaction to the track. “She was like, ‘Oh, I mean
it’s not my song. I suppose it’s OK.’ She was just kinda thrown off and she just kinda let it go.”
"Dua Lipa, I'm trying to do more with her than just a feature," the song says,
although Harlow insists he wrote it because he "admires" her.
In another interview with Sirius, Harlow said Lipa was “so confused. She was like ‘what the
hell?’ but she gave me her blessing. Said it was totally fine with her.”
It seems like Dua was just trying to be polite as it is literally not her song
as she explained to him on the face time but she didn’t say that she was happy about it!
Fans accused Harlow of being disrespectful to Lipa on Twitter, and fans of the drama
presented their own interpretations of her lukewarm response to his song.
"Dua Lipa does not deserve this objectification," wrote one Harlow critic. Another person analyzed
her reaction saying, "So basically she thought it was bad but didn't want to hurt his feelings."
it's also no surprise that when Jack Harlow spoke about Dua's reaction to "Dua Lipa" last week,
many started having flashbacks as they couldn’t help but connect it to Kanye
West and Taylor Swift's famed song-lyrics feud. “I think I've seen this film before and I didn't
like the ending,” one Twitter user wrote, amassing nearly 130,000 likes from equally terrified fans.
“I’m boutta to listen to dua lipa by jack harlow to make sure he didn’t set her up
like kanye did taylor,” wrote another. “dua lipa’s reputation era is coming,”
added someone else, referring to Taylor’s sixth studio album in 2017.
There are a lot of similarities here! After releasing the song "Famous," in which Kanye
calls Taylor the B-word and raps about how he made her famous, Kanye received a lot of anger
from Taylor's supporters. "I made that b***h famous," he said, seemingly referring to his
interruption of her VMA award speech in 2009. But the major similarity here is that Kanye
claims that he got Taylor’s “blessings” about the line after having an hour of conversation with her
which Taylor denied later that he told her the same line in the same context.
And that led to the whole “snake saga” when Taylor and Kim threw sneaky shades back and forth calling
each other “snake”. And so did their fandoms! So it’s no wonder that fans are having flashbacks
and speculating that the situation between Dua Lipa and Jack Harlow must be awkward now,
especially since she has never said that she was happy about the lyrics.
However, Jack Harlow went on to explain that the two musicians have spoken since then
and that conversations are now "less awkward." “We’re good. We’ll see how the record does. I
think when the song comes out, she’ll grow to appreciate it even more,” Harlow said.
Jack Harlow revealed earlier this year at the 2022 Grammy Awards
that he has "nothing but admiration" for Dua Lipa. While other fans were just jealous of Harlow!
piggy drippin wrote: (So when jack harlow shoots his shot to dua lipa it’s hot,
but when I DMed her multiple times last year it was “stalking”???? What gives!)
Another couldn’t stand the idea of Harlow having a chance with the star: (jack
harlow cant steal my wife dua lipa like that) While Ally kind of gave him the excuse. She wrote:
(I just spent an hour creeping on Dua Lipa's twitter. And I completely
understand why Jack Harlow wants to do more than just a feature. he has my approval.)
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