00:00We're at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards and standing right next to me we have Dua Lipa.
00:03Welcome to Carpe Diem. We're so happy to have you.
00:05Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here.
00:07Yay!
00:08You are performing tonight, which we absolutely cannot wait to see that performance.
00:10What can you tell us about it?
00:12I'm trying to keep it a secret, but it's an extension of the music video with some elements supersized.
00:19Oh, I love that.
00:20One of my favorite things about you is that you always seem so confident.
00:24You're just such a badass, confident woman.
00:26What's your advice for other women when they need a little pick-me-up?
00:28I think just go for it is the best advice.
00:32Whenever you feel down, whenever you feel like, I don't know, unconfident, just put on your favorite dress,
00:37go out with your friends, have a good time.
00:39Honestly, it's my favorite pick-me-up ever.
00:42I love that.
00:42So you look incredible tonight, and I'm sure you had a lot of fun getting ready.
00:46What was your go-to pump-up song as you're getting ready for tonight?
00:50I kind of didn't listen to anything.
00:52Nothing?
00:53No, not today.
00:55What's your song on repeat just in general?
00:59Oh my god, this is terrible.
01:01I'm putting you on the spot.
01:01Yeah, you're really putting me on the spot.
01:03Because I've been writing a lot, and so while I'm writing, I tend to not really listen to
01:09any other kind of music just because I don't really want to be influenced by anything else
01:14at the moment.
01:15I feel you on that.
01:16So that's all part of your songwriting process.
01:18Oh, sorry.
01:19I'm meant to be much closer to you guys.
01:22We're all family.
01:24So if you could collaborate with anybody out there right now, who would it be?
01:29Frank Ocean.
01:30Oh, that's such a good one.
01:31Good answer.
01:31I could see that, too.
01:33I'm such a fan.
01:33Yeah.
01:34Everfiney, we're such a fan of you, and you really are such a style icon for us.
01:37What was your vision for getting ready for tonight?
01:40Well, there's lots of...
01:41I kind of tried to combine my performance outfit and my red carpet outfit to purple.
01:47And it was just kind of...
01:48That was the mood that I was in.
01:50That was kind of what I wanted to do.
01:51Something that would kind of fit with the storyline to the video and what I'm performing.
01:56Oh, I love it.
01:57Are you a Janet Jackson fan?
01:59More of a Michael Jackson fan, but I am very excited to see Janet perform tonight.
02:03I love that.
02:04Anybody else that you cannot wait to see tonight?
02:06Ariana.
02:07Opening the show, right?
02:09She's amazing.
02:10I love that.
02:11So another...
02:12Yep.
02:12So last good question before we have to let you go.
02:14One thing we're seeing a lot of this year is a lot of visual albums and people kind of reimagining
02:18albums.
02:18Has that influenced your music in any way when you're developing music videos or you're coming out with new music?
02:23I think it's always really exciting, you know, to be able to kind of reinvent music in a different way
02:29and kind of allow your fans to also experience a whole new dimension of what you thought of when you
02:35were creating it just in the studio.
02:36But I haven't really kind of gotten to that part myself personally, as I'm still in kind of the writing
02:41process,
02:41but I would absolutely love to be able to come together with something new and different for the next album.
02:46Oh, amazing.
02:47Well, thank you so much for stopping by for Riding 29.
02:49Have fun.
02:51Thank you so much.
02:52That was Dua Lipa.
02:53She was amazing.
02:53I loved her look, but also she's just like really...
02:56She's killing the game in music right now.
02:58One Kiss right now really is my jam, so I was kind of hoping she was going to be like,
03:01that's her jam too, but I guess you can't get ready to your own music.
03:03Well, thank you guys for watching at home.
03:05We will be here all night on the Billboard Awards red carpet.
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