At first blush, the notion that Dua Lipa named her comeback single after shorthand for pulling a vanishing act is a bit eyebrow-raising. Since she released her second album, Future Nostalgia, in 2020, the 28-year-old British-Albanian pop star has been an omnipresent multimedia poly-threat. Beyond that album’s ubiquitous singles, there were collaborations with Elton John, Megan Thee Stallion, Calvin Harris, Miley Cyrus, J Balvin, Angèle, Kylie Minogue and the late Pop Smoke, as well as a fashion collection with Donatella Versace. She hosts her own podcast for the BBC, edits a lifestyle newsletter, runs an online book club and is the face of umpteen brands. This year alone, Lipa has appeared on the covers of Vogue France, Dazed and the style magazines of the New York Times and the Sunday Times (and in illustrated form on the Beano’s 85th anniversary edition); until she wiped her Instagram to herald her comeback, her feed was a style bible in its own right of casually glam photo dumps from glitzy locales. She was also one of many celebrity cameos in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and she helmed the most successful song on its soundtrack, Dance the Night; a role in the Henry Cavill film Argylle arrives in February.
