So what's the story of Dua Lipa's hit song "Levitating"? The Future Nostalgia track began with, well, nostalgia. "I wanted to touch on my childhood influences," Lipa explained on the podcast Song Exploder. "And a lot of my childhood influences are really songs and music that my parents listened to. A lot of Jamiroquai, Prince, Blondie. And when those songs are played now ... all I wanna do is dance".
But those aren't the only throwbacks that influenced "Levitating." The song was also inspired by... Austin Powers! "We had the visual of being in an Austin Powers movie," she added on the podcast. "And having Mike Myers doing some random levitating dance ... that was just helping give us like, a mood." Lipa also noted she ordered doughnuts for her production team while working on the song, and they all "started writing" and "were literally levitating from the sugar rush." That jolt of energy clearly made its way onto the song!
"It's about having fun and meeting someone and falling in love and thinking, 'You've probably met me at the perfect time, let's just go for it.'" Lipa told Apple Music, per CapitalFM. "It's the feeling when love makes you feel like you're levitating. It's otherworldly."
Meanwhile, "Sugar Boo," a pet name from the tune, isn't a reference to boyfriend Anwar Hadid. Per Song Exploder, it's actually a "joke" name Dua Lipa gave one of the track's producers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah!
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