Dua Lipa's Unborn Nostalgia stint confirms she's Britain's stylish pop star

Dua Lipa's unborn

The star will also play Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham and London on her stint

"This is the stylish welcome home ever,"says Dua Lipa, a couple of songs into the first UK show of her world stint.

"We have been staying so long, so long to put this show on. We have moved it and heldup it and eventually we are then."

Moments Before, the 26- time-old had walked down the the catwalk of her vast stage, sluggishly raising her hands to the air as she soaked up the adulation of suckers who'd awaited two times to see her at Manchester's AO Arena.

By the time Dua's alternate reader ( also named Unborn Nostalgia) arrived the ensuing March, the world was in lockdown and the stint was on ice.

The songster fretted about releasing an reader of upbeat cotillion-pop while people were suffering.

"I am not sure if I am indeed doing the right thing,"she told suckers in a tearful Instagram live,"but I suppose the thing we need the most at the moment is music, and we need joy and we need to be trying to see the light."

Her instincts were right.

Rather of reminding us what we would lost, the reader cast forward to a time when we would be pressed against each other again, singing these songs in sweat- soaked accord. Or, to use Dua's own words, she would had a" presentiment that we fell into a meter where the music do not stop for life"-and Unborn Nostalgia came the most- streamed reader of 2020.

Indeed so, Covid restrictions played annihilation with her stint. It was heldup and tallied three times, forcing Dua to find ways to keep her music alive-a remix reader, a spectacular live- sluice and a constant teardrop of new songs, including the map- beating Elton John duet Cold Heart.

All the while, expectation for the musicales grew, and the roar that saluted the star on Friday night was a curious admixture of excitement and relief.

The singer swapped out the ungallant bodysuit she wore on a date in the US for pink bones in the UK

Dua opens by performing Hot Streak's 1980s breakdance classic Body Work ("Music Makes You Lose Control"), signaling her intention to celebrate the abandonment of the dance floor.

She took to the stage in a bright pink Balenciaga corset, joined Physical's washed-synth beats, threw shapes on the ballet stage, and then walked down the runway with some '80s-inspired aerobics moves.

With 12 tireless leaps, the star sang her greatest hits - New Rules, Break My Heart, Love Again, Be The One, with a slight dip in energy status for the upcoming 40 flashes.

The staging was pleasantly restrained for a pop show, forcing the focus onto Dua's emotional lyrics and allowing the band to extend her songs for maximum dancefloor impact.

Break My Heart was mashed up with Justice's Dance, while Hallucinate was stretched with rudiments of Daft Punk's Technologic. Indeed the womanish- commission ditty Boys Will Be Boys segued into a clattering festival remix, incorporating a sample of Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl.

It's a trick Dua espoused from Madonna- placing her music directly into the pop canon- paying homage at the same time as asserting her dominance. In lower hands, it would be an exercise in hubris but the platinum-plated successes of Unborn Nostalgia resisted the comparisons.

The choreography was just as clever, drawing on decades of cotillion history. New Rules gained a Gene Kelly- inspired marquee routine, while Cool saw Dua ringed by two comber-disco skaters.

Choreographer Charm La'Donna, who starred in this year's Super Bowl halftime show, performed Bob Fosse's presidential routine on "The Illusion" and brought the New York warehouse vibe to cotillon's hit Electricity. At one point, she actually threw a little corn coke.

But near the end of the mainline, Dua reprises the famously awkward, funky, writhing moves that spawned the 2019 "Dua Can't Dance" meme. ("I like her lack of energy," said one viewer. "Come on girl, give us nothing").

This time she upped the ante, proving that not only has she improved her stage skills, but she can also laugh at herself.

The star's Mugler-designed stage costume comes with a charger

Since 2019, she has converted into a fostering, confident pantomime, who can casually throw down a gigantic megahit like New Rules two songs into her set, safe in the knowledge she has a dozen other tracks the followership know just as well.

For Friday's homestretch, she appeared in a Thierry Mugler catsuit, sutured with chargers that turned her into a mortal glitterball, as she floated above the followership singing Levitating. Back on the ground, she whipped her hair furiously to Future Nostalgia's title track, before taking a palm stage around the disco-funk of Do not Start Now.

Not for the first time, the suckers drowned her out. nearly as if they'd spent the lockdown learning the words and were eventually getting the chance to live out their fantasy. Over on stage, Dua was passing the same thing.

She did a full 180, baby. And look at where she ended up.

Check out the full set list below…

1. “Physical”
2. “New Rules”
3. “Love Again”
4. “Cool”
5. “Pretty Please”
6. “Break My Heart”
7. “Be the One”
8. “We’re Good”
9. “Good in Bed”
10. “Fever”
11. “Boys Will Be Boys”
12. “Club Future Nostalgia Medley”
13. “One Kiss”
14. “Electricity”
15. “Hallucinate”
16. “Cold Heart”
17. “Levitating”
18. “Future Nostalgia”
19. “Don’t Start Now”