“My songs tend to have very slow but stable growth over time,” she suggests, smiling. “There’s always something that’s a little weird about them that the more you listen to them, people want to listen to them more. They grow slowly, but they stick around. And that’s all I want: I think the longevity is more important than the instant-hit thing.” Lipa never intends it that way — the phenomenon just keeps happening. And now she feels confident enough to know when she’s delivered the goods. “I’ve realized that the things that I like aren’t obvious as pop songs,” she tells me. “They’re pop songs, for sure, but the way that the melodies are — or the way that I like the arrangement to be — it’s just not regular in a pop song. It takes people a second to get it.”
