Dua Lipa Celebrates 8th Anniversary of Her First Song ‘New Love’: ’19 Year Old Me Would Be Very Happy’

“New Love” appeared on Lipa’s self-titled 2017 album, which helped earn the singer a Grammy Award and spawned the hits “New Rules” and “IDGAF”

Before Dua Lipa earned acclaim from massive hits like “New Rules,” “Levitating” and “Dance the Night,” she debuted with the single “New Love” in 2015.

In celebration of the synth-pop song’s eighth anniversary on Monday, the Grammy winner took to her Instagram Story and shared a clip from the “New Love” music video alongside a heartfelt note about making the track.

“8 years ago I released my first song that I wrote with @wyattish [Andrew Wyatt] and @emilehaynie [Emile Haynie] (and video!),” said Lipa, 27, in the post’s caption. “19 year old me would be very happy to know we’d get this far.”

“New Love” didn’t hit the charts upon its release, but song garnered buzz online and helped develop Lipa’s fanbase. “When I showed ‘New Love’ to people, they’d say, ‘Oh, I didn’t expect that,'” she told Elle in 2015. “I loved that reaction, so I went with it.”

After the debut single dropped, Lipa earned success in Europe with follow-up songs “Be the One” and “Hotter Than Hell” before notching her first charting track in the United States with 2016’s “Blow Your Mind (Mwah).”

“With every song, the momentum was building, but only tiny little bits,” she told The Guardian in 2020 of rolling out her debut album. “I was doing new things, I was learning what was expected of me, how to be in front of a camera, how to better the last performance.”