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Before that moment, she too had been weighing a delay. And then a bot alerted her label, Warner Records, that the album had leaked a week early. Everything was supposed to culminate with a well-timed media blitz-including a Saturday Night Live appearance on March 28 and the release of this cover story about, well, now. The buildup to a planned April 3 release had started in earnest last fall with the album’s first single, “Don’t Start Now,” essentially a sequel to “New Rules,” about moving on and heading directly to the club.

Promoting a big pop album in isolation, remotely-let alone a high-pressure, highly anticipated sophomore album-is new territory for any artist, and a path few would choose (Lady Gaga, Haim, Alicia Keys, and many others have postponed their spring and summer releases due to the coronavirus), but ultimately, it wasn’t up to her. By now, almost anyone who pays even the slightest attention to pop culture is familiar with Dua Lipa’s career trajectory, from her days of posting covers to YouTube and SoundCloud to a serendipitous referral to Lana Del Rey’s manager Ben Mawson to a 2017 self-titled debut album featuring the catchy breakup tune “New Rules.” Next came the internet nickname “Dula Peep,” courtesy of Wendy Williams, followed by two Grammys in 2019 (Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording). It wasn’t supposed to be this way, of course. “It’s nice to see the earth almost replenishing a little bit. Spotting the pink supermoon a few nights ago helped, too. But the sunshine streaming in from the skylights feels good. It’s hard to stay positive when there’s so much suffering, she adds.

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Watch her full interview on Fallon below.“London tends to be one of those places where it’s always gloomy and rainy-and that’s not to say that the weather won’t change in a couple of days, but now the trees are fully blossoming, the sky’s completely blue,” she says. Living in London, having a full Albanian name like Dua and people pronouncing it.I feel like I just wanted a normal name: Sarah, Hannah, Chloe, anything, I'll take it.' Which, no Dua! The people love your name and the many different, wonderful iterations it can take.

She explained that she's used to having her name mispronounced: 'I mean my whole life, my name's been a little bit difficult to pronounce. Well, Lipa has finally given a more definitive stance on the nickname, and she thinks it's.kinda cute? During her most recent visit to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, she acknowledged the moniker with a laugh, and saying, 'It's a full thing, it's a thing now,' while adding that she's cool with people using it. At the time, even Lipa herself weighed in wondering, ' Is this a new kanye song?' She made the gaff during a red-carpet recap of the Billboard Music Awards, and since then fans, non-fans and stans alike have lovingly adopted 'Doola Peep' (and its many spelling iterations) as a term of endearment for the pop singer. Of all the beloved cultural artifacts cable television mainstay Wendy Williams has gifted to the internet over the years - the memes, reaction photos, and just plain hilarious news bits - perhaps the most enduring was her hilarious mispronunciation of Dua Lipa's name as 'Dula Peep,' back in 2018.