Dua Lipa brought out Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker for a cover of ‘The Less I Know The Better’ during her show in Sydney.
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The duet came midway through the set, when Lipa said, “I get to sing one of my favourite songs ever with one of my favourite artists,” before Parker walked out on the stage. The pair then started singing the 2015 song together.
Lipa and Parker have worked together closely before, as he was one of the main producers on her latest album ‘Radical Optimism‘. This wasn’t the first time the duo sang together, as the pop singer previously brought Parker out during her headlining slot at last year’s edition of Glastonbury, with the two duetting on the song then.
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In an interview with The Guardian, published in July, Parker spoke more about that moment, saying that it was “way more wild than I thought it was gonna be”.
“The nicest thing about it was that it was Dua headlining Glastonbury, which is something she has wanted to do since she was a kid,” he added. “I felt like I had a seat in someone’s dream that they were living – I was just happy to be a part of it.”
Lipa’s tour of Australia is in support of ‘Radical Optimism’ and during her gigs down under, she’s recently covered Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’ and AC/DC’s ‘Highway To Hell’.
Parker isn’t the only Australian guest Lipa has brought out, as she was joined by Vance Joy for a cover of ‘Riptide’ at one of her recent Melbourne shows, and by Troye Sivan for a duet of ‘Rush’ at another.
Lipa will be heading over to the UK for even more live shows this summer, kicking off the run with two huge concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 20, 21) followed by two dates at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on June 24 and 25.
In other Dua Lipa-related news, she won the dismissal of a lawsuit that had accused her of copying her 2020 hit track ‘Levitating’ from two other songs. Back in 2022, the pop star was sued by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer who claimed that Lipa had plagiarised their songs – 1979’s ‘Wiggle And Giggle All Night’ and 1980’s ‘Don Diablo’ while creating ‘Levatiating’.
As per BBC, Yesterday (March 27), US Judge Katherine Polk Failla went on to rule that Lipa’s song and L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer songs only had generic similarities along with non-copyrightable musical elements which had been previously used by the likes of Mozart and the Bee Gees in their 1977 hit ‘Stayin’ Alive’.
