Dua Lipa paid tribute to Selena in Mexico City Friday during the singer’s final stop of her Radical Optimism World Tour.
Throughout the globe-spanning trek, Lipa has delivered surprise regional covers at every show. That trend continued for the tour’s final leg, a run through Latin America that found Lipa performing the covers in Spanish and Portuguese.
After nearly nine months on the road, the tour concluded Friday night at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, where Lipa honored one of the country’s most beloved singers with a rendition of “Amor Prohibido.”
“I chose this song because I feel a very special connection with this artist and with her feeling of belonging to two places at the same time,” Lipa said in Spanish. “It’s something I deeply identify with, as I feel I am both Albanian and English, just as she was Mexican and American.”
The singer previously admitted of singing in Spanish, “It’s very nerve-wracking! Especially when we we’re doing them in different languages, that’s definitely — my God, my playlist was on loop, all I was doing was looking at the lyrics and listening over and over for intonations and accents and how to try and perfect things in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Czech.”
Ever since the Radical Optimism tour launched in Australia in March 2025, Lipa has covered a song tied to the city or country she’s visiting. On the United States leg of the tour, she pulled from artists native to each state, and internationally, she’s leaned into classics from the countries she’s in. The surprise songs sometimes featured special guests, like when she was joined onstage by Gwen Stefani, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Lionel Richie.
“This was my idea. It came about purely because I had done a song for the American Country Music Awards with Chris Stapleton, and it was so much fun that I proposed it to the band and to the team: How fun would it be if every night we do a different song?” Lipa previously said of the covers idea. “And everyone was like, well that’s quite ambitious.”
