“I have created this minute down, I have wished for it, I have dreamt it,” Lipa explained to the group of what headlining Glastonbury implies to her. “When I wrote it down, I reported I truly want to headline the Pyramid stage on a Friday evening so I can get together the following two times at the very best place on earth.”

Parker labored with Lipa as a co-producer and co-author on 7 tracks off her a quick whilst ago launched album, Radical Optimism. “Dua experienced this concentrate on finding this audio, which was so elusive,” Parker beforehand stated in an interview with Elle. “But it was nice to be in the motor room of the imaginative system, instead than be concerned about staying the deal with of it. It was the working experience that I’ve been waiting for.” He described the origins of the initially 1, the bouncy “Houdini,” as beginning up with a bass line he plunked out weeks just ahead of their session that he realized could function as soon as the singer further a “moody,” post-disco melody. 

“She started off singing, and it just immediately designed sense,” he added. “This experience of early-’80s sleaze, in some weird, dim, sweaty club. Gloriously suffocating. Hypnotic.”

Of the music Parker collaborated on, a couple of grew to turn out to be U.K. greatest 10 singles like “Houdini,” “Training Season” and “Illusion.”