Dua Lipa has reflected on the hate she received after her 2019 Grammys win.
The 28-year-old hitmaker has opened up about the criticism she received after winning the Best New Artist award at the 2019 Grammys.
“I think everything comes in stages and waves. There can be a moment where people really like love you and you feel so supported and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is great.’ Especially in the beginning, I was doing interviews and people were like, ‘How do you deal with hate?’ I’m like I don’t get any,” Dua said in an upcoming interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, via Rolling Stone. “And then that changed really quickly.”
The Training Season hitmaker explained that after she won the award, social media users claimed that she “wasn’t deserving”.
“‘She’s got no stage presence. She can’t do this. She’s not well equipped. She won’t be here next year though.’ There was a lot of that and that fuelled me in a way,” Dua told Zane, according to the publication. “I try not use criticism as this revenge thing but it does push you in a way.”
“Whenever I see or feel or read anything that goes against what I know is coming … I just kind of take a step back and I just go, ‘All of this is background noise and I should just stick on my path,'” the singer continued. “Because every time someone has doubted me, I’ve proved them wrong. This is fuelling me, this is pushing me to be better, to work hard.”
Dua added that she gets a “real kick out of proving people wrong”.
The Houdini singer’s interview will be released on Wednesday.
