Dua Lipa is ready to dance the night away at the 66th Grammy Awards ceremony.
This evening, the Barbie singer stepped onto the red carpet at Los Angeles’s Crypto.com Arena looking utterly glamorous in a shaggy metallic chainmail gown—a custom Courrèges design—which featured long sleeves, a daring V neckline, and hip cutouts. She upped the ante with her big accessory: a sapphire-and-daond embellished Tiffany Co. necklace shaped like two fish curling around her neck.
Lipa’s disco anthem “Dance the Night,” which featured in a pivotal scene in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster Barbie, has been recognized in two categories tonight: Best Song Written for Visual Media and Song of the Year.
The pop superstar broke down the making of the track, which she cowrote with producer Mark Ronson, in a late-2023 interview with Deadline.
“What I like to do best is dance-crying, it’s really my favorite genre ever,” Lipa said. “The idaof having this juxtaposition of really, really happy moments, but not only are there underlying thoughts of death, but at same time, you’re trying to juggle this idea that Barbie is not trying to upset anyone, she’s having these thoughts, she doesn’t know who to go to, she’s trying to smile through the pain; all these things are happening, and it’s all confusing, how do we narrate that?”
She continued: “We spoke about the fact that that Barbie essentially has this existential crisis and her whole life goes upside from that point on. How does this song become the turning point for the film that in a way narrates what’s coming next?”
