{"id":974143,"date":"2019-12-20T07:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929876"},"modified":"2019-12-20T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:49:41","slug":"dua-lipa-performs-disco-inspired-dont-start-now-on-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/dua-lipa-performs-disco-inspired-dont-start-now-on-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa Performs Disco-Inspired \u2018Don\u2019t Start Now\u2019 on \u2018Tonight Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-9.45.40-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dua-lipa\/\">Dua Lipa<\/a> took her disco-inspired track \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d to the&nbsp;<em>Tonight Show<\/em> stage on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The British singer and performer was surrounded by her immediate band, several backup singers and an entire string section to recreate the song\u2019s grooving production. Lipa took charge of the mic stand for most of the performance, but she did get to hit some cowbell on the drum kit during the song\u2019s breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d will be available on Lipa\u2019s forthcoming album,&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>. She sat down for an interview with host Jimmy Fallon and discussed the upcoming project, as well as an upcoming music festival she\u2019s organizing in Kosovo, where she lived from ages 11 to 15.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsrakIxmHEY?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wished, when I was living in Kosovo, I had the opportunity to see some of my favorite artists like Pink and Nelly Furtado,\u201d she said. \u201cNo one really came to Kosovo. So we decided to start a festival called the Sunny Hill Festival.\u201d Last year, Miley Cyrus headlined the festival\u2019s first iteration.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Lipa also released&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-single-future-nostalgia-926610\/\">title track<\/a>. No release date for the album has been announced, but she told Fallon that she had just chosen its front cover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-dont-start-now-tonight-show-929876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dua Lipa took her disco-inspired track \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d to the&nbsp;Tonight Show stage on Thursday night. The British singer and performer was surrounded by her immediate band, several backup singers and an entire string section to recreate the song\u2019s grooving production. Lipa took charge of the mic stand for most of the performance, but she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:10:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}