Dua Lipa delivers the bangers as she gets her crowning moment on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2024
The thing about Dua’s sets is that she understands the need for a set of nothing but bangers, and that’s true of her headline set tonight too.
The thing about Dua’s sets is that she understands the need for a set of nothing but bangers, and that’s true of her headline set tonight too.
Words: Abigail Firth.
Photos: Anna Barclay.
Words: Abigail Firth.
Photos: Anna Barclay.
If you were to believe what the internet’s saying, you’d think Dua Lipa was in her flop era. If you watched her Friday night performance atop the Pyramid stage, you’d know she was flying.
Dua’s crowning moment headlining the Pyramid Stage follows a career based on thriving in the face of adversity and proving people wrong ten times over. When she’s slagged off for her stage presence, she comes back with the biggest pop tour of the 2020s (until Taylor got involved, obviously). When she’s criticised for sticking to one sound, she switches it up entirely. When she’s told that exact album didn’t live up to the psychedelic, 90’s rave expectations the public had for it, she builds her Glastonbury set around them.
Anyone expecting to swing by the Pyramid and see flailing desperation will be eating their hat. From the opening tape of Primal Scream’s ‘Loaded’ into ‘Training Season’ from this year’s ‘Radical Optimism’, it’s clear this is going to be very special. She plays mega hit ‘One Kiss’ second; a bold move, but Dua’s fearless.
From then on, we’re constantly reminded of the hit machine she is. ‘Break My Heart’ and ‘Levitating’ appear in the first set, with fireworks closing it out. Her first ever single ‘Be The One’ serves for a poignant moment as Dua lives out her biggest goal, and shares the moment by getting down to the barrier for the bridge to sing it with the audience, a move that leaves her looking like the People’s Princess of British Pop.
Dua’s crowning moment headlining the Pyramid Stage follows a career based on thriving in the face of adversity and proving people wrong ten times over. When she’s slagged off for her stage presence, she comes back with the biggest pop tour of the 2020s (until Taylor got involved, obviously). When she’s criticised for sticking to one sound, she switches it up entirely. When she’s told that exact album didn’t live up to the psychedelic, 90’s rave expectations the public had for it, she builds her Glastonbury set around them.
Anyone expecting to swing by the Pyramid and see flailing desperation will be eating their hat. From the opening tape of Primal Scream’s ‘Loaded’ into ‘Training Season’ from this year’s ‘Radical Optimism’, it’s clear this is going to be very special. She plays mega hit ‘One Kiss’ second; a bold move, but Dua’s fearless.
From then on, we’re constantly reminded of the hit machine she is. ‘Break My Heart’ and ‘Levitating’ appear in the first set, with fireworks closing it out. Her first ever single ‘Be The One’ serves for a poignant moment as Dua lives out her biggest goal, and shares the moment by getting down to the barrier for the bridge to sing it with the audience, a move that leaves her looking like the People’s Princess of British Pop.
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