Megan Thee Stallion Wanted to Collaborate With Dua Lipa Long Before Their Song ‘Sweetest Pie’
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion and singer Dua Lipa are two of the hottest artists in music, so it was only a matter of time before the two hitmakers came together for a collaboration. “Sweetest Pie” is an early contender for 2022’s song of the summer, and Megan admitted that it was an idea of hers for much longer before its release.
Megan Thee Stallion teamed up with Dua Lipa for ‘Sweetest Pie’
Megan’s desire to link up with Dua Lipa for a song dates back to June 2021 when she revealed that she wanted to work with the British pop star. “I love Dua Lipa. She’s so fire,” the rapper said. “I really do want to do a song with Dua Lipa. I saw this mashup on Twitter and it was fire.”
Dua Lipa posted the clip of Megan showing love on her Instagram Stories and expressed her excitement about doing a song together. “I love you @TheeStallion,” she said. “Let’s get it!!!!”
Megan Thee Stallion wanted to work with Dua Lipa for a long time
Megan explained in a March 2022 interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music just how the collab with Dua Lipa came about. “I would everybody making mashups of me and Dua’s songs and I’m like, ‘No, this sounds too good. We have to make a song.'”
Megan reached out to the “Levitating” singer about working on a track together. “I was like, ‘Dua, I really want us to do a song, but I got to find that right beat. It has to be perfect,'” she recounted. “So I didn’t just send her no any track. I waited till I had the perfect one and I feel like we both came to a mutual agreement that it was greatness. And now we got ‘Sweetest Pie.'”
The music video for ‘Sweetest Pie’ was a take on ‘Hansel & Gretel’
The uptempo song had an equally sweet music video, as Megan and Lipa gave their own take on the classic tale of Hansel & Gretel.
“I see that the ‘Sweetest Pie’ video scared some people or creeped them out a lil bit… lol MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,” she said in a tweet. “How many times do I have to say I love horror films/aesthetics?”
One reply to her tweet was a critic calling the video “devil worship,” but Megan defended the video and her stylistic choices behind it.
“The symbolism of the video was how when men come for me I eat they ass up every time,” she said in her reply. “And even when y’all go on y’all’s witch hunts attacking women for whatever reasons y’all make up we still rise from the ashes stronger than ever.”
