Dua Lipa reveals she got rejected from her school choir: 'Better luck next time'

Dua Lipa might be a chart-topping, hit-releasing, international superstar now, but there was a time when she couldn’t even get a spot in her school’s choir.

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Sharing the story during a recent hang out sesh with Trixie Mattel , posted on the RuPaul’s Drag Race alum’s YouTube channel, Dua divulged the deets of her unsuccessful choir audition.

“The music teacher was like — it was an assembly — 'Alright, who wants to sing and try out for the choir?' I went, 'Y’know what? I’d like to actually do that.' So, I decided to stand up for the whole school, and he started playing on the piano,” said Lipa. “It was in this crazy high note and nothing came out — just air and the whole school started laughing.”

“And he was like, ‘You know what? Better luck next time.’ That was it. Later on, I was part of the choir, but I was in the lower range.”

Even so, Lipa shared that it was outside of her school’s formal choir where she really found her voice. “I went to singing lessons in a theater school every Saturday in London and it was the teacher there that helped me build up my confidence,” she explained.

During their conversation, the duo attempted to recreate the cover of Lipa’s upcoming album, radical optimism.

“I can’t draw. I can do my eyeliner because I mastered it on my own face,” Dua admitted. “I don’t really like doing things I’m not good at, and this is something I’m not good at.”

That being said, Trixie and Dua did their best, painting Lipa swimming alone in the middle of the ocean as a shark looms nearby.

During the interview, Lipa also explained the inspiration behind her Radical Optimism album title. “It was actually a term that was introduced to me through a friend of mine,” she shared. "I was doing an interview with him and he was like, I heard this term radical optimism, and I think that’s something you really need. It stuck with me. He put that term in my psyche and everything in my life started connecting to that about remaining calm in the chaos and being OK when things don’t go the way you intended them to.”

As their chat came to a close, revealing their paintings to one another, both Mattel and Lipa were rather unsatisfied with their work, but remaining on theme, decided to chose the route of radical optimism.

“Check out radical optimism , people, you’re gonna need it,” Mattel quipped. Which is something we'll all be able to do on May 3, when the superstar’s third album drops.

For now, you can jam out to the album’s already released singles, “Houdini” and “Training Season,” and also check out the full interview below.