\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\tDua Lipa<\/a>‘s “Levitating” is continuing to rise to new heights, with the song’s high-energy visual recently surpassing a billion views on YouTube. It marks her third music video to reach the milestone, following 2017’s “New Rules” and “No Lie.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tDua Lipa Reveals She’s Engaged to Callum Turner: ‘It’s Very Exciting’\t\t\n\t\n<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\n<\/time>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\tDirected by Warren Fu and filmed in partnership with TikTok, the “Levitating” video finds the pop star stepping into a galactic portal that looks like a retro elevator inside. Modeling a shimmery blue dress and sparkles on her eyelids — matching the lyric, “Glitter in my eye, shining just the way you like” — Lipa and some friends dance along to her smash hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tAlso joining Lipa in the elevator is collaborator DaBaby, whose remix of the track helped propel it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> in 2021. Eventually, the gang reaches their final stop on the ride up, getting off the lift once it arrives at a gravity-defying, ring-shaped disco dance floor in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t“You want me, I want you, baby\/ My sugarboo, I’m levitating,” Lipa sings on the dance-pop track. “The Milky Way, we’re renegading\/ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tOne of several major singles from the singer’s 2020 Future Nostalgia <\/em>album, “Levitating” was one of the defining songs of the year it was released. (As of 2025, it’s also the ninth-biggest Hot 100 hit<\/a> of the 21st century, beating out massive smashes such as Harry Styles’ “As It Was” and Post Malone’s “Circles.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tA lot has changed since then. In addition to getting engaged <\/a>to actor Callum Turner and releasing 2024 album Radical Optimism<\/em> in the years that followed the mammoth success of “Levitating,” Lipa has also distanced herself from DaBaby since the rapper’s homophobic rant <\/a>at Rolling Loud in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t“I\u2019m surprised and horrified at DaBaby\u2019s comments,” she wrote in a statement<\/a> quickly after the hip-hop star spread insulting misinformation about the gay community and HIV\/AIDS on stage. “I really don\u2019t recognize this as the person I worked with.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tAdd your view to more than a billion others by watching Lipa’s “Levitating” music video above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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