The Views of Dua Lipa

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To be really honest, you know, we’re all living in one world and the world is just getting smaller and smaller. […] When you think about it, the responses in the US to climate change, to refugees, to the pandemic affect the whole world. I think it’s really important to understand that we’re all going through this together. We all want to see change, we all want to see equality and I really believe that voting is so incredibly important. The young generation needs to get out and vote and we need to make sure our voices are heard, and I know it’s not the be-all and end-all of seeing change, but I think it’s incredibly, incredibly important. That’s something that I champion a lot.

And so I think what we should do is we should all give a massive massive round of applause and give Boris a message that we all support a fair pay rise for our frontline.

Senator I wanted to ask you as someone who’s grown up with healthcare, healthcare that’s free at the point of use, I find it so hard to understand why people aren’t protesting for universal health care? [...] I think you know it’s it’s so sad the fact that during the pandemic people have lost so many jobs but then it’s completely unfathomable the fact that you also lose your health care.

Seeing the refugee situation at the moment makes me quite upset, especially everything to do with Brexit, because I feel like young kids from all over the world won’t have the same opportunities that I did.

[…] misinterpreted by [some] who promote ethnic separatism, which I completely reject. Because of my parents and their background, I feel like I’ve always been quite outspoken. It does come and bite me in the arse a lot of the time, because people just go, ‘OK, you’re a singer, what do you know?’ But I think it’s an understanding of how small the world is getting, how what happens in America is going to affect the U.K., is going to affect the rest of the world.

I’m surprised and horrified at DaBaby’s comments. I really don’t recognize this as the person I worked with. I know my fans know where my heart lies and that I stand 100% with the LGBTQ community. We need to come together to fight the stigma and ignorance around HIV and Aids.

Some of us have been fortunate to spend some precious time with loved ones but for some in the LGBTQ community the impact has been much more profound. That might be the case for young people who are getting to grips with their sexuality and making life-changing decisions about when and how to come out. A lot of my LGBTQ friends have talked to me about what a vulnerable time this was for them and how they relied on the support of their friends to get them through which was particularly important if they didn’t feel like they had the support at home.

I have a massive group of friends and [members of] my team who are part of the LGBTQ community, who have inspired me so much and taught me so much – they’re all my role models in life. […] To be able to use my platform to spread awareness, show support, talk about it, to make people feel seen, heard and safe, [to] communicate with charities and try to do my part as much as I can… I see that as my duty.

To mark the end of Pride, I did an interview on the Today Show this morning about why I support The Trevor Project. The reasons behind my support for this amazing organisation didn’t make it to the final edit which was upsetting to me as I thought it was very important for everyone to truly know about the lifesaving service The Trevor Project provides. So I am sharing the reasons for my support for them here. Getting to grips with your sexuality as a young person can be daunting under any circumstances and for some LGTBQ+ youth it can be a period of real trauma. It can be a very vulnerable time to go through and the sad fact is that some don’t survive it. The Trevor Project provides 24/7 crisis support in the US through phone, chat and text services.

June is Pride month for the LGBTQ community. We must come together to secure the safety of black LGBTQ people in jail and immigration detention. With 1 in 2 transgender prisoners sexually abused it is incredibly important to get them released as quick as possible.

I will stand by you all for your love and beliefs and I am proud and grateful that you felt safe enough to show your pride at my show. What you did takes a lot of bravery. I always want my music to bring strength, hope and unity. I was horrified by what happened and I send love to all my fans involved.

I personally, I feel very deeply about black lives matter and seeing justice for police brutality.

I just feel like, if you’re a feminist, you have to also support women in all fields of work. […] We have to support sex workers, we have to believe that that [work] is their choice and their right. It seems quite hypocritical, I think, people picking and choosing as to how they want to support women and when it suits them. That’s another form of misogyny, which really derives from the male gaze.

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you’re not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know? For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured. […] Even from school, growing up with kiss chase or whatever, it’s been ingrained in our heads that boys will be boys and its harmless fun and no big deal and to brush things off. […] I’m lucky in that I haven’t really had any sexual harassment in any way. But I think [#MeToo] is so important. [...] For lots of females, be it actresses, singers, models, no matter what it is, it’s not being able to have the right to dress and wear how and what you want and be taken seriously.