During the first of her four nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, September 17th, Dua Lipa stopped and took it all in. From a raised platform about 20 feet in the air, the pop star reflected on her love for the city and its premier venue, expressing gratitude to be back headlining The Garden once again. She had been in the exact position — literally — in 2022, on a raised platform high in the air that weaved back and forth throughout the arena as she performed “Levitating” during her “Future Nostalgia Tour.” Three years later, there she was again, high above us all, commanding us to dance. Has anything changed?

Quite a bit, but at the Dua Lipa show, it’s all relative. The star’s “Radical Optimism Tour” is an advancement from her prior US outing in some ways,

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