British singer Dua Lipa covers the April 2020 issue of Vogue Australia, promoted as “the authentic voice of music’s new pop icon.” Lipa announced Monday March 23 that she’s moving up the release date of ‘Future Nostalgia’ to this Friday, March 27 from April 3.

“I’m really exccited for you all to hear it and, you know, make of it what you will,” the singer said on Instagram Live. “I hope it brings you some happiness, and I hope it makes you smile, and I hope it makes you dance. I hope I make you proud.”

Photographer Charlie Dennington is behind the lens for Vogue Australia with styling by Jillian Davison./ Hair by Anna Cofone; makeup by Samantha Lau

Noelle Faulkner catches up with the pop star in Sydney for Dua Lipa on fame, the feminist wave in music and her love-hate relationship with social media.

She excitedly surrenders to taking a look at her new Tik Tok account, focused on a highly addictive dance routine created by 19-year-old Filipino-Australian TikToker Hannah Balanay, to the tune of Dua Lipa’s latest anthem of independence ‘Don’t Start Now’. The #DuaLipaChallenge, as it’s sometimes known, is one of the biggest viral dances on the platform. The song itself features in at least four million TikTok videos – and it’s less than six months old.

“This is incredible – I can’t believe it. They’re all so good,” Lipa says. Unlike the negativity found on Twitter and Instagram, the online tribes of (mostly female) creators dancing in their bedrooms with friends on TikTok encompass everything Lipa’s music stands for: community, freedom, empowerment, acceptance, creativity and sentimentality, writes Faulkner . “It’s important to me to show unity between women,” she says. “We should be seeing more girls, more diversity, more togetherness. For so long, people have pitted women being against each other. That’s not how it should be.” Lipa not only makes music for celebrating your girl gang, her entire creative output is based on it.