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Dua Lipa review – dance-pop icon keeps the energy hotter than hell
Amid exercise videos, confetti cannons and guest star Jamiroquai, Lipa maintains an old-school superstar steeliness as she works up a sweat in the summer heat
Despite relatively lacklustre sales of her third album, last year’s Radical Optimism, its second single, Training Season, whips up an early frenzy as 12 dancers spread themselves across the stage, a stomping Lipa inspecting them like a drill sergeant. From there it’s a gallop through some of recent pop’s hardiest bangers – Electricity, Be the One, a delirious Physical complete with mock exercise video intro – all performed with Dua’s unique rasp and occasionally rigid but refreshingly old-school superstar steeliness. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImageBy the encore, complete with a pummelling remix of New Rules that briefly crashes into the electronic duo Bicep’s breakbeat heater Glue, and Don’t Start Now’s glorious kiss-off, Lipa’s a sweaty mess like the rest of us.
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