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Dua Lipa headlined the Glastonbury Festival on Friday night, and during her set she brought out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker to join her on a pair of tracks.
During her main set, Lipa first welcomed Parker for a rendition of Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better,” a track off the band’s 2015 LP Currents.
For Lipa’s final song of the evening, the Radical Optimism single “Houdini,” she was again joined by Parker, her co-writer and co-producer on the track, on guitar.
As Lipa told Rolling Stone in our February cover story, she enlisted Parker — “I was so nervous because I’m just such a fan of Kevin’s,” she said — to join the songwriting sessions for the album that would become Radical Optimism in the summer of 2022.
The sessions also included Lipa collaborator Caroline Ailin, electronica auteur Danny L Harle, and folky-pop balladeer Tobias Jesso Jr. “I remember thinking it was a genius move to get that combination of people together,” Parker says. “Like, hats off to her.”
Parker is credited as a co-writer on seven of Radical Optimism, including the singles “Training Season” and “Illusion.”
