Dua Lipa had to leave social media after dancing meme went viral

Dua Lipa reveals she was forced to quit social media following the backlash over her viral 2017 dancing video.

talking to Guardian In preparation for his new album, radical optimismThe 28-year-old singer reflected on the consequences of becoming a meme all over the internet.

“When people took that bit of my dancing online and turned it into a meme,” he shared, “and then when I won the Best New Artist Grammy and people were like, ‘She doesn’t deserve it, put her on stage. No presence found. , She’s not going to stick around.”

“Those things were hurtful. This was insulting. I had to remove myself from Twitter. new rules The singer added.

Dua explained that she was still in her early stages of becoming an artist and a music artist, which made it difficult to deal with the scrutiny at such a young age.

“In the public eye, I was figuring out who I was as an artist, as an artist. All this was happening when I was 22, 23 years old and still growing up. You have to build tough skin. You have to be flexible,” the pop star shared.

“There was never a time when I couldn’t get out of bed because I thought about what people thought about me. I didn’t care that much. But that was when it grew the most for me,” she said.