Rapper Megan Thee Stallion and singer Dua Lipa are two of the most popular artists in music, so it was solely a matter of time earlier than the 2 hitmakers got here collectively for a collaboration. “Sweetest Pie” is an early contender for 2022’s track of the summer season, and Megan admitted that it was an concept of hers for for much longer earlier than its launch.
Megan Thee Stallion teamed up with Dua Lipa for ‘Sweetest Pie’
Megan’s want to hyperlink up with Dua Lipa for a track dates again to June 2021 when she revealed that she needed to work with the British pop star. “I like Dua Lipa. She’s so hearth,” the rapper stated. “I actually do wish to do a track with Dua Lipa. I noticed this mashup on Twitter and it was hearth.”
Dua Lipa posted the clip of Megan exhibiting love on her Instagram Tales and expressed her pleasure about doing a track collectively. “I like you @TheeStallion,” she stated. “Let’s get it!!!!”
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Megan Thee Stallion needed to work with Dua Lipa for a very long time
Megan defined in a March 2022 interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music simply how the collab with Dua Lipa took place. “I’d all people making mashups of me and Dua’s songs and I’m like, ‘No, this sounds too good. We have now to make a track.’”
Megan reached out to the “Levitating” singer about engaged on a monitor collectively. “I used to be like, ‘Dua, I really need us to do a track, however I received to search out that proper beat. It must be excellent,’” she recounted. “So I didn’t simply ship her no any monitor. I waited until I had the proper one and I really feel like we each got here to a mutual settlement that it was greatness. And now we received ‘Sweetest Pie.’”
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The music video for ‘Sweetest Pie’ was a tackle ‘Hansel & Gretel’
The uptempo track had an equally candy music video, as Megan and Lipa gave their very own tackle the traditional story of Hansel & Gretel.
“I see that the ‘Sweetest Pie’ video scared some folks or creeped them out a lil bit… lol MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,” she stated in a tweet. “What number of occasions do I’ve to say I like horror movies/aesthetics?”
One reply to her tweet was a critic calling the video “satan worship,” however Megan defended the video and her stylistic decisions behind it.
“The symbolism of the video was how when males come for me I eat they ass up each time,” she stated in her reply. “And even when y’all go on y’all’s witch hunts attacking ladies for no matter causes y’all make up we nonetheless rise from the ashes stronger than ever.”
