Mark Ronson & Dua Lipa Answer Your Questions

Dua, as someone who greatly admires your ability to be such a light in the world, what drives you to engage in such dark, intense novels, Hunter? Wow. Well, I think Mark's book is an exception. Right. It's not so dark, but I, there's darkness in the world, but I think we find the light in it. And I think that we need all kinds of stories that are all important. You know, I think there's something about stories that just make you feel something. It's just about a connection. I don't think it's necessarily about something dark. It's just about real human experience that I think for me really, that draws me in. And sometimes those can be heavy hitting and always the most joyful but I think you need those stories those stories too I think it incredibly important we always talk about we in the studio it it it so much harder to write a happy song that feels meaningful or interesting because it's like those emotions like the the weight always comes from the a little bit of the trauma and of the power and the sadness and that thing or it's something we always talk about right when making music totally totally all right I've got one for you okay if you could bring back one new york establishment whether it be a club a restaurant a bar that's no longer open what would it be and why from maggie okay um it wouldn't be a club because clubs are evolved and they're just different but there is this one restaurant um that i remember as a kid it's called it was called gino's on the upper west on the upper east side on 61st in lexington and it was the best spaghetti i've ever had in my life and i'm just sad that I can never show that to my daughter. So bring back Gino's. Bring back Gino's, yeah. I love that. They didn't take any reservations. The only person who could just walk up without reserving a table was Frank Sinatra I mean that makes a lot of sense But yeah it was a legendary place How do you decide what would be your next read out of so many cool books Upasana There's never any like rhyme or reason to the books that I choose. I kind of, I read lots and then it's just something that I connect to. And I think some books just need a conversation around it. I think that's really what it is. It's like some of them need to be talked about at length in a different way. And so that's just how I feel in the moment I read something. And I'm like, yeah, this is something that I want to dive in deeper. And I want to learn more about it. And I want to speak to the authors, you know, all authors are inherently such brilliant storytellers. And so the conversations that I get out of them are really amazing and unique. And I kind of get that from reading a book immediately. I'm like, yeah, this is a conversation I would love to have. Cool. What do you think the night reveals about people that the daytime hides? And how does that idea play into night people? Well I think there one thing that I just say like in the chapter I get a little bit more into compulsion addiction what made us all go out And there a difference between people who enjoy a night out and night people Like I love people enjoy night out. I'll DJ for anybody. But night people and we were my little crew or people I knew were this, you know, kind of like cracked. I don't want to be general. and like we were all the misfits and the rejects and the vampires but like everybody just had baggage and a little trauma and something that just we weren't sleeping through the day like the lost boys but it was this feeling that um night gave everybody a little bit of extra if you were shy it gave you some extra swagger if your day if you're if you didn't like your life in the day night was a chance to sort of start all over again daytime was almost like the opening act. So for that kind of night people, it's like the people that really become their best selves after the sun goes down.