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Dua Lipa shared a connection for fans aft canceling her Radical Optimism circuit halt successful Jakarta, Indonesia, connected Nov. 9 owed to information concerns astir the stage, saying it "truly pains" her not to perform.
By Leah Degrazia Nov 09, 2024 2:42 AMTags
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Dua Lipa had to marque a hard decision.
The "Don't Start Now" vocalist was "heartbroken" to stock that she canceled her Nov. 9 amusement successful Jakarta, Indonesia, implicit fears that the signifier would beryllium excessively unsafe for performing.
"I americium present successful your astonishing state and acceptable to perform," Due wrote successful a Nov. 8 Instagram Story, "but I americium gutted to stock that it has been determined that it is not harmless for the show to transportation connected owed to information issues with the staging."
And the 29-year-old—who was acceptable to instrumentality the signifier astatine Indonesia Arena arsenic portion of her Radical Optimism tour—acknowledged that galore of her fans had been waiting for the performance for a agelong time.
"It genuinely pains maine that we cannot execute for you all," Dua continued, "especially aft specified a agelong clip since my past show successful Jakarta."
Closing retired her message, the Grammy victor assured fans that they would person refunds for their tickets.
"I emotion you all," she added, "and genuinely can't hold to beryllium backmost unneurotic successful the aforesaid country with you singing and dancing our hearts retired arsenic soon arsenic possible."
Dua archetypal embarked connected her Radical Optimism circuit successful November, six months aft she released her 3rd medium of the aforesaid name.
For the "Houdini" singer, her Radical Optimism record was inspired by a tendency to find the positives successful each her beingness experiences—even the challenging ones.
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"It was conscionable truthful overmuch astir learning from each experience, taking everything arsenic a acquisition oregon seeing it arsenic a acquisition successful immoderate way," Dua told Variety successful a May interview, "whether it was bully oregon whether it was bad, and conscionable appreciating that adjacent from immoderate atrocious situations, thing large tin travel of it, oregon I tin turn to beryllium a amended oregon stronger idiosyncratic from each of it."
She added, "At immoderate moment, beingness is truthful unpredictable and radical and things tin astonishment you each the time, and I deliberation a prime of excavation that I like—if I tin say—is conscionable remaining open-hearted adjacent erstwhile things don’t spell close and not shutting down and being like, 'This is thing that truly wounded maine and I’m ne'er going to spot anyone successful my beingness ever again.'"
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