The British pop paragon tops off a triumphant year with a retro-futurist dance-party live stream complete with Kylie, Elton John and a pole-dancing FKA twigs
It opens with a gaggle of lithe people milling about on a set last seen on Top of the Pops circa 1983. It ends with a long shot of Dua Lipa and her many dancers, promenading their way through the seemingly endless, neon-lit club spaces that make up the singer’s Studio 2054 live stream.
They strut through giant hula hoops, the scene for Break My Heart, past a pink and gold boudoir, the setting for Un Día – her collaboration with J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Tainy – and under dangling geometric shapes, ending up where Lipa’s live band is playing. Some dancers are on roller skates. American house DJ the Blessed Madonna – who oversaw Lipa’s Club Future Nostalgia remix album – is behind real decks, fading the outgoing strains of Lipa’s smash hit Don’t Start Now into Abba’s Gimme Gimme Gimme. It’s all happening at Printworks, a multiroom club space and sound stage in London’s Docklands, where real newspapers were once made and make-believe now flourishes.