Dua Lipa launched her new album Radical Optimism final Friday. Here’s an image of her acting at a shock present in NYC’s Times Square final night time to rejoice:

On the video’s YouTube web page, a commenter (who apparently since took down their remark) infamously replied to the efficiency, “I really like her lack of power, go woman give us nothing!”

The relaxation was meme historical past. “Go woman give us nothing” went viral as a catch-all phrase for a sure kind of stage presence, and 6 years later, it is principally shorthand for low-energy performances.

Would you be completely happy about such a meme being connected to your career as a performer? Because in line with a brand new interview from the Guardian, Dua certain wasn’t.

Dua referred to the meme as “hurtful” and “humiliating.” “I needed to take myself off Twitter,” she admitted.

“The factor that made me the happiest — performing and writing songs — was additionally making me actually upset as a result of folks had been choosing all the pieces aside that I’d been engaged on, and I needed to be taught all that in entrance of everybody.”

“In the general public eye, I used to be determining who I used to be as an artist, as a performer. All that was taking place whereas I used to be 22, 23 years outdated and nonetheless rising up. You should construct robust pores and skin. You should be resilient.”

Dua additionally claimed that she felt humiliated for “two years” after the meme’s origin — particularly, till she completed writing her second album Future Nostalgia from 2020 and carried out its debut single “Don’t Start Now” on the MTV Europe Music Awards.

“It by no means was like I couldn’t get away from bed due to what I believed folks considered me,” she defined. “I didn’t care to that diploma. But that’s when it was most heightened for me.”