{"id":117655,"date":"2024-05-05T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/05\/dua-lipa-gives-us-everything-as-host-and-musical-guest-on-saturday-night-live\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T18:01:15","slug":"dua-lipa-gives-us-everything-as-host-and-musical-guest-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/05\/dua-lipa-gives-us-everything-as-host-and-musical-guest-on-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa gives us “everything” as host and musical guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dua Lipa<\/strong> pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0on May 4, and she\u00a0announced<\/a> that she was determined to make us forget that “Go girl, give us nothing” meme that’s dogged her career <\/a>for years. “Tonight, I promise, I’m gonna give you everything!” she declared — and proceeded to pretty much do it.<\/p>\n

In addition to performing two songs from her new album Radical Optimism<\/em> — “Illusion<\/a>” and “Happy for You<\/a>” — Dua also appeared in every single sketch and prerecorded piece, skipping only the cold open and Weekend Update<\/em>. She also showed off a variety of accents, including Southern and New York. Here are a few of them:<\/p>\n

A return of the character<\/a> from the Ana de Armas<\/strong> episode: Young Spicy, a producer who wants voiceover artists to record sexy intros for his tracks. Dua and Ego Nwodim<\/strong> play the women, who sing increasingly insulting things about him.<\/p>\n

A Challengers-<\/em>inspired sketch<\/a> where Dua plays a woman who collects Sonny Angel<\/a> figurines, and pits one of them — hilariously played by Bowen Yang<\/strong> — against an actual guy she has a date with.<\/p>\n

A prerecorded piece inspired by The Elephant Man<\/em><\/a>:<\/em> Dua plays a woman in London in 1897 who falls in love with a hideously disfigured playwright, only to find out he’s secretly sexting a bunch of other women with multiple secret phones.<\/p>\n

A sketch about a Southern TV morning show<\/a>, where Dua plays a hilariously clueless “culture critic” who attempts to explain the Drake<\/strong>\/Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> feud.<\/p>\n

A return of the jingle-singing duo<\/a> from the Jenna Ortega<\/strong>-hosted episode: Dua is the tough-talking head of a flooring company, who hires them to create a song based around the company’s impossible-to-remember phone number.<\/p>\n

Of note: Dua’s “Illusion” performance was introduced by Troye Sivan<\/strong>, for whom Dua opened back in 2016.<\/p>\n