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Posted: 2024-05-05T20:22:16Z | Updated: 2024-05-05T20:22:16Z

Dua Lipa is reflecting on the emotional trauma she endured after the internet poked fun at her dancing skills and immortalized her into a meme.

The humiliating meme kicked off years ago after Lipa posted her 2018 BRIT Awards performance of New Rules on YouTube. In the comments section, a viewer chided her writing, I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing! which spawned the viral phrase.

Fans quickly ran with the cheeky comment, subsequently using it to describe various low-energy performances from other musicians.

Unfortunately for Lipa, the meme attached itself to her longer than she hoped after clips of her looking bored while doing an aggressive hip swivel during a separate performance sparked more online hate.

In a new interview with The Guardian , the Albanian singer opened up about how the hurtful incident left her in shambles.

When people took that snippet of me dancing online and just turned it into a meme, and then when I won the Best New Artist Grammy and people were like, Shes not deserving of it, shes got no stage presence, shes not going to stick around, she explained. Those things were hurtful. It was humiliating.

Lipa said she even had to take myself off Twitter because she was devastated that people were picking everything apart that Id been working on, and I had to learn all that in front of everyone.

The pop star, now 28, said that being in her early 20s at the time of the failed performance required her to develop unshakable confidence.

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