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Pop superstar Dua Lipa is everywhere you look these days.
The 27-year-old English-Albanian musician rose to fame in 2017 with her eponymous debut album and hasn’t looked back.
Her follow-up album, Future Nostalgia, went platinum and topped the charts in the UK while peaking as high as No. 3 in the United States.
As if that weren’t enough, Lipa’s song “Dance The Night” was the lead single from the blockbuster Barbie soundtrack.
Oh, and she even makes a cameo in the film as Mermaid Barbie.
But the fame and fortune almost never happened. Lipa’s parents lived in Kosovo just prior to the Yugoslav Wars and later fled for London.
“In ’92, they moved to Kosovo as, like, the war in Bosnia was happening. My mum’s half-Bosnian, so her mum was in Sarajevo at the time. But they moved to London as, like, the situation started getting really difficult in ex-Yugoslavia. Yeah, I guess something that people, like, forget all the time is, you know, people don’t really want to leave their country unless they really have to,” she explained in an interview with NPR. “You know, it’s really out of necessity. They had lots of friends who also left Kosovo for London. And so they had, like, a community of, like, young Albanians that moved from Pristina to London and, you know, they were working in bars and restaurants. And my parents were working at this pub in Baker Street called The World’s End. Yeah. You know, they had a great time in London, but they always had that kind of idea in the back of their mind that they would always want to come back to Kosovo at some point…”
Thankfully for us all, things worked out.
She’s now one of the world’s biggest stars. And she showed as much with a viral social media post on Sunday.
Lipa tweeted out pictures of herself in a see-through red dress with the caption “charging my crystals.” The post blew up immediately.
The post quickly garnered nearly 100,00 likes and 6,000 retweets. Oh, and 1,600 bookmarks (ya heatens!).
We should all just consider ourselves grateful at this point. For the music and the, erm, social media presence.