Diplo Reveals The Process Behind His Grammy Winning Hit with Dua Lipa

Silk City (Diplo & Mark Ronson) simply shared a giant Grammy win with Dua Lipa. Together, they made the magic that's “Electricity,” which scored them Best Dance Recording at this 12 months’s ceremony.


Not solely that — Dua Lipa took house the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Now, Diplo is opening up about how he and Dua Lipa acquired linked up within the first place. Their dialogue began years in the past, earlier than the pop star blew up. He was blown away by her expertise and it was solely a matter time earlier than they put out a collaboration.

We don’t at all times get to listen to the sentimental aspect Diplo, however right here it's. He opens up in an Instagram submit:

I randomly dmed @dualipa three years in the past on twitter after I heard be the one. she had solely jumped out nowhere, was simply beginning out, and had a extremely bizarre title to me. I had a tune known as “my love” for main lazer with wizkid and wale that we needed her to be on.. she is a one a form artist that may be on any style any model. 2 years later she’s change into one the largest pop stars on the earth. once we had been writing “electrical energy” we despatched her a demo and she or he came visiting and helped us write and end the file and she or he smashed it. she was the one voice we needed on this tune.. a deep / full voice and a very good performer. after 6 months electrical energy has moved from a membership tune to a radio tune to a real basic and each night time I see it shifting extra individuals and develop even larger. she acquired one other award sunday for finest new artist and it was very nicely deserved.. love you Dua for being round for me since day one.

Hopefully this gained’t be the final time we hear from this dream crew!

Dua Lipa & Diplo

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I randomly dmed @dualipa 3 years ago on twitter after I heard be the one. she had only jumped out nowhere, was just starting out, and had a really weird name to me. I had a song called “my love” for major lazer with wizkid and wale that we wanted her to be on.. she is a one a kind artist that can be on any genre any style. 2 years later she’s become one the biggest pop stars in the world. when we were writing “electricity” we sent her a demo and she came over and helped us write and finish the record and she smashed it. she was the only voice we wanted on this song.. a deep / full voice and an excellent performer. after 6 months electricity has moved from a club song to a radio song to a genuine classic and every night I see it moving more people and grow even bigger. she got another award sunday for best new artist and it was very well deserved.. love you Dua for being around for me since day one.

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