Dua Lipa covered Ariana Grande‘s ‘One Last Time‘ over the weekend – check out footage below.
The singer has been making a habit of covering a song from a local artist at every show on her current ‘Radical Optimism’ World Tour – which kicked off its North American leg at the start of this month.
Saturday night (September 27), saw Lipa play Miami’s Kaseya Center, marking her return to the city after first opening her ‘Future Nostalgia’ tour there in 2022. To mark the occasion, she took on fellow pop star Grande’s track, taken from 2014’s ‘My Everything‘.
Back in 2018, the two joined forces on a track titled ‘Bad To You’, which was ultimately leaked and never officially released. Lipa later praised Wicked star Grande, but explained the collab never got off the ground because of their schedules.
“I love Ari, I love everything she does,” she said at the time. “But the timing wasn’t quite right.” She added that their crammed calendars meant neither singer was able to go back and finish their respective parts.
After clips of her take on ‘One Last Time’ circulated, many were quick to note Lipa seemed to have altered the song to fit her voice, singing the track in a lower register than Grande’s – you can check out footage below.
The tour has also seen big-name artists join Lipa for versions of their own songs. So far, these have included Nile Rodgers for ‘Le Freak‘ in New York City, Chaka Khan for ‘Ain’t Nobody’ in Chicago, Jamiroquai for ‘Virtual Insanity’ in London, Neil Finn for ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ in Auckland, and Kevin Parker for ‘The Less I Know The Better’ in Sydney.
Her two Wembley shows in June later became the subject of a mini-documentary titled Dua Lipa – The Beat Before (Wembley Stadium), which chronicled behind-the-scenes footage and fan vox-pops from the gigs.
In other Dua Lipa-related news, both she and her talent agency recently responded to claims she sacked her agent after he reportedly signed a letter calling for Kneecap to be removed from the Glastonbury line-up.
“It is always Free Palestine,” she wrote. “But exploiting a global tragedy in order to sell newspapers is something I find deeply troubling.”
Lipa has long been outspoken about Palestine. In 2021, she criticised an ad in the New York Times that labelled her, as well as models Bella and Gigi Hadid – both half-Palestinian – as Antisemitic, and, in 2023, was one of a number of celebrities to sign a letter to then-US President Joe Biden calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Last May, she shared her support for the #AllEyesOnRafah campaign in a bid to garner support for people living in cramped refugee camps in the city without humanitarian aid. She wrote on her Instagram Stories, “Burning children alive can never be justified. The whole world is mobilising to stop the Israeli genocide. Please show your solidarity with Gaza. #AllEyesOnRafah.”
A month later, she said she was “willing” to “be met with a backlash” over her comments, describing them as being “for the greater good”.
She’s also pressured Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to take action, being one of over 300 figures to sign Choose Love’s open letter urging him to “end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza”. Following his response, the non-governmental organisation hit back, saying, “We need actions not words for the children of Gaza.”
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