-Dua, it's always nice to see you.
-It's very nice to see you.
-You've been on the show a couple of times,
but we've never had a chance to really chat.
-Yes, this is my first time on the --
-On the couch. Good, I'm glad.
You always have a great time here, though, right?
We have fun. -Yes, lots of fun.
-Were we your debut?
Or we were close to your debut?
-You're my very first U.S. TV performance.
-I was? -Mm-hmm.
-And do you remember when you finished your song?
Do you remember -- You know what I'm about to say?
-I remember it so well.
I was so excited and so nervous
and I couldn't believe what had just happened.
-Yeah. -And you came up on the stage,
and you were like, "Dua Lipa, everyone!"
And I was, like "Oh, my God!" And I just hugged you.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-So hard. -Yeah,
you basically jumped on me, and, uh...
[ Laughter ] With love, nothing but love.
[ Cheers and applause ] And I appreciated that.
I really did. I appreciated that.
-It was -- I didn't really know what to do at that point.
And then I was, like -- I walked offstage and was like,
"He's never going to invite me back.
He definitely thinks I'm crazy." -No, no, I loved it.
No, I loved it and that's what started
everyone's love affair with you, and congrats.
You're winning awards. -Thank you very much.
-Two Grammys. I mean, is it exciting?
Are you freaking out? -I'm freaking out a little bit.
-Yeah. -It definitely --
It definitely made me work harder.
-It did, yeah. -You know, it's --
I definitely didn't expect anything like that
to happen on my first record.
I didn't really think my first record
was going to do what it did. -Oh, my gosh.
-I'm just so grateful for the response and the support.
-You're off to the races, buddy.
And you even have a cool nickname,
which I want to give props to Wendy Williams
for giving you this nickname.
'Cause, you know, Wendy Williams by mistake
called you, "Dula Peep?" -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
It's kind of cute. -I know.
"Dula Peep" sounds -- It should be, like a cartoon or something.
I love "Dula Peep," but now your actual fans
are calling you "Dula Peep." -It's a full thing.
-It's a thing now. -It's a thing now, yeah.
-And you're cool with it? You're fine with it?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, my whole life,
I feel like my name's always
been a little difficult to pronounce.
You never liked Dua?
-It was -- It wasn't that I --
I just didn't appreciate my name as much growing up.
-Yeah. -You know, being, like,
living in London, being born in London,
having a full Albanian name, like Dua.
People pronouncing it -- -It means love, right?
-It means love in Albanian, yeah.
-Yeah. -Pronouncing it --
I feel, like I just wanted a normal name.
I was like, Sarah, Hannah, Chloe.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-Anything. I'll take it.
-So, you spent most of your childhood
in Kosovo, though, right? -From the age of 11 to 15,
I lived in Kosovo, yeah. -Was there many concerts?
Did many people come in to Kosovo to --
-Not as many as I would have liked.
I think you'd think this was really cool,
but my first-ever show I went to was Method Man & Redman.
-Really? -Yeah.
-How old were you? -I was 13.
-You went to see Wu-Tang Clan when you were 13?
[ Laughter ] Your parents are awesome.
Oh, my God. -Well, we went --
basically, in Kosovo, people only really listened to hip-hop.
Like, it was so massive out there and the only artists
that I guess there was such a demand for were hip-hop artists.
Going to the Method Man & Redman show was kind of
my first introduction to Wu-Tang.
And then, when I went to my second show,
which was 50 Cent... [ Laughter ]
-Wow. -...I then I read the book,
watched the movie. -Really?
-Learned all the words. I went fully prepared.
-Wow. [ Laughter ]
-Massive 50 Cent fan.
-Look at you now though, you're doing this cool thing
and you're having a festival in Kosovo.
-Yeah. -And making concerts so that
little girls can go to a concert and become Dua Lipa.
Kind of, yeah. -I mean, I would love that.
I would absolutely love that.
For me, it was, like I wished when I was living in Kosovo
I had the opportunity to see some of my favorite artists
like P!nk and Nelly Furtado or --
-Yeah. -You know, and no one
really came to Kosovo. So, now we decided to start
a festival called the Sunny Hill Festival.
-Sunny Hill Festival, yeah.
Last year you had Miley Cyrus, right?
-Yeah, we had Miley Cyrus,
who was the first international female to come and perform
in Kosovo, and for me,
it was like the biggest dream come true.
Like, just seeing how happy and how excited people were
to see her onstage, and she absolutely killed it.
-Yeah. -She killed it.
She was amazing and her energy was amazing.
-She's one of the most talented people, yeah.
-She just smashed it, and I think --
I was so close to crying. -Ah.
-I was so happy and so proud. It was such an amazing moment.
-Good for you that you're doing this. I love it.
What -- you're going to be on our show tomorrow night singing.
-Yes. -Thank you so much
for doing that. -[ Laughs ]
-Let's talk about the album.
"Future Nostalgia" is the name of the album.
This is not the album cover. This is your song.
"Don't Start Now." -Yes. Yes.
-Do you know what the cover is going to look like?
-I do, yeah. I actually picked it yesterday.
-[ Gasps ] Really?
Do you know when the album's coming out?
-I do. [ Laughter ]
-This is unbelievable. I mean, uh...
Should you whisper it to me, and then I won't tell anybody?
Any hints? No. Did you write any songs about me or anything?
[ Laughter ]
-There might be a couple, that one.
[ Laughter ] -Two songs about me?
[ Laughter ] Well, you've got to --
Tomorrow, we'll see you perform,
and then come back when the album's out too.
-Yeah, and I have to say that tomorrow's performance
is a little bit different from what everyone else has seen,
because we're doing a kind of orchestral...
-Really? -...rendition of the track.
-Wow, I love that you're doing that.
-Yeah. So, it's fun.
It's, like a whole disco orchestra vibe.
-I love it. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
-Thank you so much. -I'll see you tomorrow night.