Rolling Stone have ranked the 250 greatest songs of the 21st century so far and, at number 94, is Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating.”
.@DUALIPA reacts to her song "Levitating" making it onto Rolling Stone's "The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far" list đ
"It really came about after eating a copious amount of donuts…it was just a pure sugar high." https://t.co/OlCLq0sQ5S pic.twitter.com/9D6zB3wS5U
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 8, 2025
Thereâs no rulebook for how to write a pop smash, but Dua Lipaâs method sounds close: Get your best friends in a room (helpful if theyâre ace songwriters Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, and Stephen Kozmeniuk), scarf doughnuts, pull tarot cards, and aim for Prince. âWe were literally levitating from the sugar rush,â said Lipa. âThis is about me exploring happy songs and doing something thatâs not âdance cryingâ ⊠Itâs about having fun and meeting someone and falling in love.â Released in the spring of 2020 as lockdowns killed nightlife, âLevitatingâ couldnât serve its club destiny â which made it more essential, not less. A disco bliss-bomb for dark times, it ruled charts for 77 weeks. No one knew when normal life would return, but it seemed, as the song goes, we met her at the perfect time. âS.G.
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