Dua Lipa says she wanted to provide some much-needed relief during the coronavirus crisis, as she hits yet another high note in her career with the Music Award at the 2020 Virgin Atlantic Atтιтude Awards, powered by Jaguar.

Britain’s biggest pop star admits she wrestled with the dilemma of whether or not to release her shiny-as-a-mirrorball second album, Future Nostalgia, at the beginning of lockdown – before deciding it might just be the musical medicine we needed (‘Don’t Start Now’ Miss Rona, indeed).

“2020 has been such a surreal year. I had literally the best time performing at Mardi Gras in Sydney at the start of the year – it’s crazy to think that at one point we were all celebrating together. Then suddenly it’s like someone pulled the plug,”

Dua begins in her acceptance speech as we launch the Atтιтude Awards issue, out to download and to order globally from 1 December.