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Ben Rogerson

“That’s the problem with really good speakers in a studio”: Dua Lipa on how high-end monitors can fool you into thinking that your songs are better than they are, and why her “favourite place to listen to music” is in the car

Dua Lipa Carpool Karaoke.

We’ve all been there. You make a track in your studio, get lost in the moment and start to think that it’s the best thing ever. Then, in the cold light of day - and possibly on a different listening setup - you realise that it isn’t.

If it makes you feel any better, it turns out that even massive pop stars experience this. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple TV’s A Carpool Karaoke Christmas, Dua Lipa says: “That’s the problem with really good speakers in a studio. It makes a lot of things sound good, and then you leave the studio and you’re like, wait a second, this wasn’t exactly how I remember this.

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