Dua Lipa on Reclaiming Her Viral Dance and Working with Elton John | The Tonight Show

How are you doing? I feel great. You look fantastic. Thank you. Only for you. I mean, come on. You know, I always make a big effort when I come on the show. I love it. I love you, bud. Thank you for having me. You helped us out when we didn't have a show. We didn't have an audience. I was doing it from my home. And you were so cool. You zoomed into me in my home. But I think, I want to say, you were the first artist to make a performance, a video. Yeah, I set up a green screen in my living room. Yes. You made a whole video. For The Tonight Show. And I just couldn't believe it. I was like, I can't believe I have to set up a green screen and do this. But you were the first artist to do that. It was amazing. Thank you for doing that. It turned out so good. It's always kind of scary, you know, kind of getting in the zone. Everyone kind of followed your thing and started doing what you were doing. So I can't thank you enough for that. And congrats on your future nostalgia tour. Just played The Garden. Oh, my gosh. The Madison Square Garden. What was it? Tari, talk to me. It was surreal. It really exceeded all my expectations. I think when you go to a place like New York, you always feel like maybe people are going to be a bit more critical. But everyone just kind of rode the wave with me. It was amazing. They were all up for it. The floor was shaking. It was brilliant. When Madison Square Garden rocks, it just rocks. It's like this studio. Studio 6B. Here we go. This is it. People were talking about the tour. Crazy, awesome reviews. Congrats. They love the costumes. They love the dancing. And on social media, they're loving one dance in particular. And, yeah. And I love that you did this. Because can I explain it or you want to explain it? I mean, you can start and then I'll riff off it. I want to say it's like in 2017-ish, around that time, you did a dance that people, some haters got online and said, this is a lazy dance or something. It's uninspired. It was kind of like, oh, she looks like she's trying to put a shoe on in a rush or something. Why do people just have to be so mean? I think it's okay. You know, do you know what? When I look back on it, and the reason I guess why we're talking about it is because I've brought it back. I'm doing it on my tour. I'm reclaiming it. Because there was a moment where actually it caused me a lot of grief. Like I was being bullied online. It wasn't very nice. But now I'm like, you know, I can look at it from a different perspective. I look at it, I look back on it with such fondness because it helped me grow into the artist that I wanted to become. It made me work harder. I did more rehearsal. I just wanted to become a real performer. And I think that was kind of the thing that I needed to. And now you open, is it Don't Start Now? Yeah, Don't Start Now with it. With that dance. And everyone goes nuts because it's like, yeah, see, don't make fun of this. Now I'm doing this every show. So get ready. Could you show me the move? I don't know if I can do it in these boots. But you know what? Snow, boots, rain, wind, shine, whatever. You can do anything, man. Okay. All right. That's it. This is embarrassing. This is me doing it. That is me doing it. That is me doing it, by the way. So bad. Now look at mine. That, see, that almost hurt me. That's how old I am. Oh, my God, how sad. But I love that you did that. I love that you put it out there. I just think you're cool. I also, I want to talk about Elton John while I can talk to you. Because that was the greatest move of all moves. Cold Heart. I'm like, oh, my gosh. And it went into number one. It did. And wait, so what's it like working with Sir Elton? I mean, I have so many. I'm so lucky to have so many pinch-me moments in my life. Yeah. And that's definitely a massive one. He's somebody I've looked up to my whole life. So to get to do this song together, to recreate his iconic songs. You crushed it, though. It's just a massive honor. I'm so grateful. And adding Rocketman in there, too. I'm like, yo, so good. It's just amazing. And I get to perform it night after night. And it's just, it's a dream come true. I really, in that moment, I really just kind of soak it all up. And I go, I can't believe everything that's happening to me. And then he gave you a very nice gift, a memorable gift. He did give me a very lovely, memorable gift. Sir Elton John put a ring on it. He put. Before all this gets into, like, the press or whatever. You married Elton John? No, I didn't. I didn't. I think David would fight me. Yeah, he would. Yeah, of course. Yeah. But he gave me a very beautiful ring that belonged to him as just kind of like a token when we performed together for the first time. And it was just an app. I was just. How cool is that? Yeah, I actually kept it at home, locked up in a safe. Because I just don't think it was safe back then. No, not at our show. No, no, no, no. I'm famous for this. I want to talk about you're always, again, doing something new and different. And you have a new thing called Service 95. It's a concierge newsletter. Now, that basically means it tells you cool places to eat that you've been to. It tells you what you're doing on tour. Also, it interviews activists and people doing stuff to change the world. It's fantastic. I signed up for it. Thank you so much. Service95.com. You just type in your email. Boom, off you go. And it's in 11 different languages. It is. Yep. And our podcast is also translated in three different ones. Hopefully, over time, we'll get to do more of that. It's just, it was really a platform and a hub where I could share so many different sides, like so many different of my interests and things that I felt like we can all learn something new from in the process of learning myself, exploring. It's all about people who just want to be a little bit more curious. Kind of putting a mixture from, like you said, recommendations. There's art in there. There's art. There's music. There's fashion. There's activism. There's all kinds of articles, thought-provoking stories. And it's just something where I feel like I just want to kind of challenge people's opinions and give people a different perspective and give different people a voice. And I just, I'm enjoying it so much. It's been so fun to curate it. And I've got an incredible team that work with me on it. And are you enjoying your podcast as well? I'm loving the podcast. I mean, at your service. It's really fun. Yeah. At your service. At your service with Dua Lipa. And you interview, you interview everybody. Yes, I do. Do you like interviewing people? I really do. I really like the research element of it. And like, again, the whole learning experience has been really, really fun. Well, you're always up for something fun. Every time you come on the show, you do something cool. And tonight, we have a really cool thing that we're going to try. You're going to meet one of your biggest fans. But we'll talk about this. More Tonight Show after the break. Come on back.