What the hot performances of Dua Lipa and Madonna teach us
Let's compare the famous performance in which Madonna kissed Britney and Christina with the duet between Dua Lipa and ST. Vincent
Music
February 16th, 2019
February 16th, 2019
Last Sunday, 10 February, Alicia Keys hosted the 2019 Grammy Awards. On the stage of the Staples Center in Los Angeles many of the hottest artists of the moment have alternated: from Lady Gaga to Jennifer Lopez, from Childish Gambino to Travis Scott, from Post Malone who sang with Red Hot Chili Peppers to Cardi B, before woman in history to win in the Best Rap Album category. All great that the public applauded, but the couple that attracted attention was the one formed by Dua Lipa and St. Vincent. The two singers performed together with a medley of their two pieces, Masseduction and One Kiss, linked by the notes of Respect by Aretha Franklin. Beautiful, sexy and glamorous, they looked like mirror images, twins separated at birth (St Vincent on Twitter talked about Shining twins): both in Versace dresses, same haircut, same sulphurous and lascivious mood.
The first to be framed is Annie Clark. She begins to sing and behind her appears a shadow that whispers "nuns in stress positions" or "Lolita is weeping". Now the two girls are side by side and play seducing themselves and all those who look at them. As a result, this has become one of the best and most talked about moments of the evening that many have made a comparison with the now hyper-competitive performance of the MTV VMA in which Madonna first kissed Christina Aguilera and then Britney Spears. You'll probably remember it all. It was 2003, Britney and Christina dressed as brides pay homage to the historical performance of Miss Ciccone of 1984, which, at some point, reaches the stage and kisses passionately on the mouth, giving life to the most iconic love triangle in the history of TV and not only.
Now someone wonders if Dua Lipa and St. Vincent have drawn a certain, perhaps unconscious, inspiration from the three pop stars, to understand it we have compared the two live moments, that's what we understood.
- In the first case, it was a queen of pop who, with a kiss, crowned two more. During the Grammys, we only saw two good colleagues duet and flirt.
- Dua and Annie are much better dressed and much more glamorous than their "adversaries" were. Their contrasting styles make the same "ugly" effect when you browse through an old photo album and see your middle school look shiver with fear.
- Both performances are beautiful shows and both are not only LGBT friendly, but women's representation.
- The socio-cultural and media impact of Madonna, Spears and Aguilera was and is so large and invasive compared to that of the two Grammys colleagues to make the iconic vintage performance, something that the recent one will never be.
