When the 2025 Grammy nominations were announced this past November, Dua Lipa's name was nowhere to be seen. Neither the singer's third studio album, Radical Optimism, nor singles “Houdini” and“Training Season” bagged any nominations for the 67th Grammy Awards, which will take place on February 2, 2025, making Lipa's name one of the most prominent on multiple snubs list.
Two months after the nominations were announced, Lipa is opening up about her snub for the first time in an interview with Billboard UK. When asked about the lack of nominations for the upcoming ceremony, Lipa simply lamented the situation but remained grateful for the project while taking the time to praise 2025's nominees.
“I’m so proud of Radical Optimism and where it’s brought me," Lipa said. “I love that album, and I’m having the time of my life performing it live, and I’ve been able to do things that I thought I could only dream of this year, so I’m really grateful.”
She continued: "Although it would have been nice to be recognized by your industry, especially as a woman, I’m so proud seeing so many incredible female artists nominated at the Grammys this year.”
Lipa's zero nominations for the 2025 Grammys were all the more surprising, considering she served as the ceremony's opening performer for this year's awards with a medley rendition of precisely “Training Season” and “Houdini.”
Dua Lipa's history at the Grammys also makes the nil nominations surprising. Since her debut in 2013, the singer has accumulated 10 nominations and three wins, including Best New Artist in 2019 and Best Pop Vocal Album for Future Nostalgia in 2021.
“Future Nostalgia doing what it did allowed me to grow as an artist, to push boundaries and change. It allowed me to have the confidence to make Radical Optimism,” Lipa said in the new interview. “It gave me the freedom and confidence to be like, ‘You know who I really want to make an album with? Kevin Parker. And I want to do something a bit different; I want to work with Danny L Harle and experiment with my sound, do a different vocal performance, and make pop music but allow that to live in another sonic world.’ It’s been fun to shape-shift.”
Lipa, who kicked off her Radical Optimism Tour this past November, also added that not getting a Grammy nod does not take away from the pride she feels for the project. “Overall I’m really happy with where I am,” she said. “I don’t think it really matters in the grand scheme of things where I am, where I want to be and where I’m going. It doesn’t change the way I feel about the record at all.”
