Dua Lipa Dublin review: Relentlessly high-energy set is a victory lap for pop royalty
Midway through her crowd-pleasing set, Dua Lipa plays one of her emblematic songs, Physical. It is a veritable workout anthem and the British-Albanian superstar gives it her all. It's a five-minute all-singing, all-dancing, all-running performance that would have lesser mortals in a crumbled heap at the end.
The thing is, though, that Lipa maintains this relentlessly high-energy routine for virtually all of her two-hour show. For the modern day pop behemoth, you have to be as much of an endurance athlete as a singer, and when it comes to calorie-burning heroics, Dua Lipa is in a league all of her own.
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