Dua Lipa shares her two cents on online bullying.
In a revived interview with attitude magazineSinger highlights effects of social media bullying
She began by recalling, “I experienced a ton of (expletive) bullying at the end of my first record.”
“And it was definitely something that made me anxious and made me nervous and made me feel like I wasn’t good enough and made me feel like maybe I wasn’t meant to be here and on the stage,” she said.
“Even after the Grammys, some people were like, ‘Well, she’s not worth it.’ There were a lot of things, especially when you start out, like videos of me dancing and they’re like, ‘Well, she has no stage presence’ — but they’d never been to my shows, they’d never seen me perform.”
Dua also explained how “snippet” culture ignores context and allows a momentary awkwardness to escalate into a permanent label.
“They’ll take a little piece and run with it and it becomes a whole thing,” he shared.
She concluded by saying, “For a while, it messed with my mental health. You know, I’d go on stage and if someone was filming me in my head, I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, they’re filming me because they want to keep it up,'” noting, “I was like, ‘They’re going to film it so they can laugh at me or something.'”
