Dua Lipa and Trixie Mattel are both excellent musical artists — but visual art isn't their thing.
The duo teamed up for a collaboration on RuPaul's Drag Race alum's YouTube channel on Monday (March 18), where they challenged each other to draw album art for Lipa's upcoming album, Radical Optimism. “I can't draw. I can do my eyeliner because I've mastered it on my face,” the pop star admitted. “I don't like doing things I'm not good at and this is something I'm not good at.”
However, Mattel and Lipa were quick to draw, doing their best to recreate the beachy album cover that shows the 28-year-old singer floating in an ocean with a shark fin. At one point in their wide-ranging conversation, Mattel asked Lipa if it's true that she was once rejected from her school choir. “I was in elementary school and the teacher said, 'Okay, who wants to sing and try out for the choir?' So I decided to get up for the whole school and he started playing the piano, and he was on this crazy high note and nothing came out just air and the whole school started laughing. And it was like, you know what? Better luck next time. That's it. Later, I was a member of the choir, but I was on the lower spectrum,” Lipa recalls.
He then added that he “went to singing lessons at a drama school every Saturday in London and he was the teacher there who helped me build my confidence”.
Elsewhere in the interview, Lipa explained the inspiration behind it Radical Optimism album title. “It was actually a term that was introduced to me through a friend of mine,” she said. I did an interview with him and he said, I've heard this term radical optimism, and I think that's something you really need. Stuck me. It put that term in my soul and everything in my life became connected to that about staying calm in the chaos and being okay when things don't go your way.”
When it came time to reveal their paintings to each other, both Mattel and Lipa were unhappy with their work. “Checkout Radical Optimismpeople, you're going to need it,” Mattel joked.
The 11-track project — Lipa's first proper LP since 2020 Future Nostalgia — arrives May 3. Watch the full interview below.
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