Dua Lipa recounts the hilarious way she accepted the collaboration with Elton John; she wore a bikini and a cowboy hat

Singer Dua Lipa was recently on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night for an interview where she discussed everything from her upcoming Future Nostalgia tour, her new Service95 newsletter, and how she once answered a call on Elton John's FaceTime while wearing only a bikini and cowboy hat.

The British pop singer even turned the tables on Colbert, asking him a deeply personal question about the impact of his Catholic faith on his comedy. Interviewing, he says, is a skill he's been developing while working on the launch of Service95 and his At Your Service podcast.

Lipa, who Rolling Stone named "the emerging pop star of the pandemic era," released her acclaimed sophomore LP Future Nostalgia in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions, something the singer believes allowed fans to connect with music on a deeper and more meaningful level.

"With so much uncertainty and everything that was going on, I thought, 'You know, maybe now is the time to release this album. And I'm so happy I did," she says. "I have this whole philosophy that until the moment the music is released, it belongs to me. Once it's out, it's not mine anymore... The reaction of people, has been like that, was just mind-boggling. It was beyond anything I could have hoped for, and maybe that was actually the fate the album was destined to have."

The Levitating singer also shared the story behind how she was asked to take part in Cold Heart, her 2021 longtime collaboration with Elton John, which features interpolations from John's 1989 ballad Sacrifice, his 1972 hit Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long, Long Time), 1983 's Kiss the Bride, and Where's The Shoorah? from 1976.

I was hanging out by the pool before I went to write, and all of a sudden my phone rings, and it's a FaceTime of Elton and his husband, David, casually," she jokes. I feel like I manifested this, in a way," she explains of the collaboration. "'Rocket Man' is my drive song, it's my shower song, it's my song that I sing to myself... When they asked me to sing that part, I thought: 'Okay, it was meant to be

The long-postponed Future Nostalgia world tour kicks off on February 9 in Miami and ends on November 16 in Perth, Australia. It is worth mentioning that in the month of September it will be presented in Mexico. Lipa tells Colbert that fans should come to the shows with high expectations.

I've done a lot of research on the audience, so I feel like I know what songs people like," she explains

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