KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 -- Pop sensation Dua Lipa was on radio channel Apple Music 1 to talk to Zane Lowe about her new album Radical Optimism and how writing songs for it was therapeutic.

On the title of the album, she said: "It was a term that my friend told me, I was doing an interview with him, and he was like, "You know what the world needs? Is radical optimism." And I lived with that thought for so long, and it just became more and more prevalent as time went on."

The singer said she felt that she was finally in a place to be speaking at length about her album in a way she hadn't done before.

"Finally, I'm at a place in my career where I feel really confident. It took me so long to get to this place. We're doing the tell-all. This is...