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Dua Lipa expressed a really explicit sort of gratitude on her reflective new album.
The pop star, 28, launched her third studio album, Radical Optimism, on Friday, Might 3, which options the nostalgic track “Maria.”
On the observe, Dua offers due to a girl named Maria, an ex-girlfriend to a person romantically hooked up to the singer within the track’s narrative.
“Maria, I do know you’re gone,” Dua sings within the track’s refrain. “However I really feel ya once we’re alone / Even after I’m right here in his arms / I do know you’re someplace in his coronary heart.”
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Whereas the lyrics don’t specify who Maria as soon as dated, Dua is at the moment courting actor Callum Turner. Previous to that relationship, she dated mannequin Anwar Hadid from 2019 to 2021 and was briefly along with director Romain Gavras in 2023.
Dua continues all through the track, “Maria, Maria / I do know you’re someplace in his coronary heart.”
Within the second verse, Dua finds a kinship with Maria, singing: “I’m higher too from those that I’ve misplaced / Now he’s the whole lot I’d ever need / I wanna thanks for all that you just’ve finished.”
Throughout the track’s bridge, Dua tells Maria she is “grateful for all of the love you gave.”
Dua not too long ago opened up concerning the track’s that means, calling it a “full, private, maturing second.”
“While you undergo a break-up, you go, ‘OK, that particular person is gonna go and be so a lot better for another person now,’” she mentioned throughout an April 17 interview on The Zach Sang Present. “I really feel like no matter occurred right here, they’ve discovered they usually’re gonna put it into motion within the subsequent relationship.”
Dua theorized “everybody has finished that, or somebody has finished that for them.”
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“With each relationship, you develop and also you develop into hopefully a greater model of your self from the experiences that you just’ve had,” she continued. “‘Maria’ is actually about being grateful to the ex and being like, ‘Thanks for doing that as a result of all of us develop, all of us be taught. And now I’ve this one who’s simply meant for me on this means.”
Dua acknowledged that “Maria” is a little bit of a microcosm for the whole album, however argued the total physique of labor is deeper than that.
“It’s additionally about shedding your self and discovering your self within the midst,” she mentioned. “Typically it’s important to really feel such as you’re underwater. It’s important to be actually outdoors of your consolation zone to search out your self.”
Radical Optimism is out there now.
