Dua Lipa stuns in a black gown as she opens the Billboard Women in Music event with a stripped-down rendition of Boys Will Be Boys… before taking home the Powerhouse Award
Grammy Award-winning singer Dua Lipa put on show-stopping performance in a black gown as she sang a stripped-down rendition of her track, Boys Will Be Boys.
As she opened the 2020 virtual edition of Billboard Women in Music on Thursday, the 25-year-old singer impressed viewers with her vocals as she was accompanied by a string quartet.
Standing on a nearly empty stage, she swayed around with a microphone and belted out a powerful chorus, which tackled sexual harassment and women’s experiences with toxic male behavior.
Making a statement: Grammy Award-winning singer Dua Lipa put on show-stopping performance in a black gown as she sang a stripped-down rendition of her track, Boys Will Be Boys
‘Boys will be, boys will be boys/ But girls will be women,’ she crooned as the silhouettes of her orchestra occasionally flashed on the screen.
The British dance-pop star, whose sophomore album Future Nostalgia is nominated for the 2021 Grammy Awards’ coveted Album Of The Year prize, later took home the show’s Powerhouse Award.
‘The award, given to an an act whose music dominated streaming, sales and radio,’ according to Billboard, was presented by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Powerful performance: As she opened the 2020 virtual edition of Billboard Women in Music on Thursday in Los Angeles, the 25-year-old hitmaker impressed viewers with her striking vocals as she was accompanied by a number of string players
Honored: Standing on a nearly empty stage, she swayed around with a microphone in her hand and belted out the powerful chorus, which tackles tackles sexual harassment and women’s experiences of toxic male behavior in society
‘What this year has made clear, more than anything else, is that none of us can go back to business as usual,’ the 79-year-old politician said in his introduction.
He continued by noting that the Powerhouse Award recipent has ‘said loudly and clearly with her actions that now is the time to fight for a better future for all.’
‘She is fighting for young people, women, refugees, the LGBT community [and] she is using her platform to bring people into the democratic process. She is raising her voice to demand real change,’ Sanders said of Lipa.
Thrilled: Upon accepting her trophy, she described described Bernie Sanders as her ‘personal hero’ and said she was thrilled to be recognized for standing in solidarity with her ‘fellow female artists and women all over the world’
Then, he nodded to the performer’s 2017 hit New Rules, as he revealed he recently spoke with her and remarked that she ‘knows the rules have to change.’
Upon accepting her trophy, she described Sanders as her ‘personal hero’ and said she was thrilled to be recognized for standing in solidarity with her ‘fellow female artists and women all over the world.’
‘We’ve still got so far to go for real equality,’ she said, after pointing out the massive gender and race gap among the producers of Billboard Hot 100’s songs.
‘We’ve still got so far to go for real equality,’ she said, after pointing to the gender and race gap on the producers of Billboard Hot 100 songs
She concluded: ‘Let’s keep celebrating the women, and keep encouraging all the young girls out there to be the powerhouses of the future.’
Lipa is an outspoken feminist, denounced sexism within the music industry, and frequently advocates for the LGBTQ community.
‘It’s important to me to show unity between women,’ she told Vogue earlier in March. ‘We should be seeing more girls, more diversity, more togetherness. For so long, people have pitted women being against each other. That’s not how it should be.’ ‘