{"id":792926,"date":"2019-02-10T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=792977"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:44:42","slug":"dua-lipa-on-her-grammy-win-21-savages-arrest-and-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/dua-lipa-on-her-grammy-win-21-savages-arrest-and-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa on Her Grammy Win, 21 Savage\u2019s Arrest and New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dua-lipa-on-wins-21-savage.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo many women!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dua-lipa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dua-lipa\" data-tag=\"dua-lipa\">Dua Lipa<\/a> said on Sunday night, scanning the crowd from the stage while accepting her Grammy for Best New Artist. \u201cI guess we really stepped up this year.\u201d The comment, however offhanded, was a clear reference to Recording Academy President Neil Portnow\u2019s infamous remark at last year\u2019s show that women in the music business should \u201cstep up\u201d if they want to be more prominent as artists and executives \u2014 a comment that was widely derided and seen as an indicator of how out of touch the Grammys were.<\/p>\n<p>In the press room after the show, Lipa elaborated on the remark. \u201cBeing in the Best New Artist category and having so many female artists nominated is a big change, and it\u2019s a change that we hope to see for many years to come.\u201d She added, \u201cIt\u2019s a big difference from previous years and I feel so grateful to have been a part of the nominations and to have seen so many women on it. I was like, \u2018This is amazing!\u2019 And it felt right because these are artists I love and I felt honored to be able to share that moment with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her thoughts on fellow superstar Ariana Grande not attending the show, Lipa said she believes \u201cevery artist has their own right to decide what they want to do and how they would like to perform and be perceived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also spoke out about the absence of rapper 21 Savage, who was arrested by immigration officers last week and has been held under investigation since. \u201cI think it\u2019s quite upsetting given that he hasn\u2019t actually done anything and he\u2019s also given so much to American culture, even being a Brit,\u201d Lipa said.<\/p>\n<p>Lipa said that she is currently working on her next album, which is \u201calmost done\u201d but being kept a secret. \u201cYou\u2019ll be hearing from me soon,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-on-her-grammy-win-21-savages-arrest-and-new-music-792977\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo many women!\u201d Dua Lipa said on Sunday night, scanning the crowd from the stage while accepting her Grammy for Best New Artist. \u201cI guess we really stepped up this year.\u201d The comment, however offhanded, was a clear reference to Recording Academy President Neil Portnow\u2019s infamous remark at last year\u2019s show that women in the [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:37:32","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}