{"id":5423,"date":"2020-11-08T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=179897"},"modified":"2020-11-09T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:59:31","slug":"dua-lipa-dont-start-now-election-victory-song","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-dont-start-now-election-victory-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa, Play The Sound of Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like most Americans this past election week, the editors at GRAZIA have felt like they have been in a clingy, new relationship with the calculator on their phones. It\u2019s a notion best expressed by this clever TikTok video,<\/a> and defined as the act of maniacally adding and subtracting electoral votes to and from that magic number of 270.<\/p>\n

But at 11:24am on November 7 (ET), the calculators stopped as CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer called the presidential race for Joe Biden<\/a>, the first of the networks to declare a winner \u2013 and, in the process, denying President Donald Trump a second term. According to Deadline<\/a><\/em>, NBC News followed CNN\u2019s announcement that same minute, then MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, the Associated Press \u2013 and finally, FOX News at 11:40am.<\/p>\n

By 11:41am, Dua Lipa\u2019s mega 2020 track \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d reverberated around the main streets and parks of those states that bled blue. Lipa \u2013 who has just released her new “Fever”<\/a> music video with Ang\u00e8le \u2013 was thrilled to see her 80s-inspired dance song bringing so many people joy on the weekend as the streets erupted in celebration, namely those in an unseasonably warm New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cOmfg NEW YORK ILY!!!\u201d the 25-year-old British singer captioned the video<\/a> below in an Instagram post to her 54.5 million fans.<\/p>\n

\u201c[‘Don’t Start Now’] is about moving on,\u201d Lipa said in an interview<\/a> in late 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s about finding confidence in that and not letting anyone get in the way of your happiness. I think it\u2019s always important to remember that your happiness should come first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another hot spot for \u201cDon\u2019t Start Now\u201d was Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Los Angeles, as seen here on Lipa’s Instagram story.<\/p>\n