Dua Lipa and Trixie Mattel are each wonderful music artists — however visible artwork isn’t fairly their factor.
The duo teamed up for a collaboration on the RuPaul’s Drag Race alum’s YouTube channel on Monday (March 18), the place they challenged one another to color the album artwork for Lipa’s upcoming album, Radical Optimism. “I can’t draw. I can do my eyeliner as a result of I mastered it alone face,” the pop star admitted. “I don’t actually like doing issues I’m not good at, and that is one thing I’m not good at.”
Nevertheless, Mattel and Lipa have been quickly portray, doing their finest at recreating the beachy album cowl that options the 28-year-old singer floating in an ocean dealing with a shark fin. At one level of their wide-ranging dialog, Mattel requested Lipa if it’s true that she had as soon as gotten rejected from her college choir. “I used to be in main college and the trainer was like, ‘Alright, who desires to sing and check out for the choir?’ So I made a decision to face up for the entire college and he began taking part in on the piano, and it was on this loopy excessive observe and nothing got here out simply air and the entire colleges began laughing. And he was like, you understand what? Higher luck subsequent time. That was it. Afterward, I used to be a part of the choir however I used to be within the decrease vary,” Lipa recalled.
She then added that she “went to singing classes in a theater college each Saturday in London and it was the trainer there that helped me construct up my confidence.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Lipa defined the inspiration behind her Radical Optimism album title. “It was really a time period that was launched to me by a good friend of mine,” she mentioned. I used to be doing an interview with him and he was like, I heard this time period radical optimism, and I feel that’s one thing you actually need. It caught with me. He put that time period in my psyche and every thing in my life began connecting to that about remaining calm within the chaos and being OK when issues don’t go the best way you meant them to.”
When the time got here to disclose their work to one another, each Mattel and Lipa have been unhappy with their work. “Try Radical Optimism, individuals, you’re gonna want it,” Mattel joked.
The 11-track venture — Lipa’s first correct LP since 2020’s Future Nostalgia — arrives Could 3. Watch the complete interview under.
