How to Party Alone
Is it any coincidence that the No. 1 song in the country is about loneliness and empty streets—or that it’s making people dance like Richard Simmons in their bedrooms?
Dua Lipa had happy news to share, but she was crying. “I’ve been welling up a little bit over the past couple of few weeks,” the popular British singer said in a shaky voice on an Instagram livestream from what appeared to be her kitchen. “Just the uncertainty of everything. And I’ve been a little bit conflicted about whether it’s the right thing to do because people are suffering.” She put her manicured fingers over her eyes and sharply inhaled. The next words were a whimper: “I really don’t want to do this.”
, one could guess, meant putting out disco songs amid a deadly pandemic. In the live-stream, Lipa went on to announce that her second album, , would be released March 27th, a week ahead of schedule. She smiled when she
