Natalie Imbruglia, \u2018Torn\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"MELBOURNE,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dua-lipa-natalie.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Naomi Rahim\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tFact: Artists born between the years 1994 and 2004 are obsessed with Ednaswap\u2019s \u201cTorn,\u201d which became a megahit for Natalie Imbruglia in 1997. You can see the alt-pop banger covered by everyone from One Direction<\/a> to Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> to Olivia Rodrigo, who brought Imbruglia onstage<\/a> to belt it out in 2022. So it made sense for Lipa to take on the late-Nineties classic<\/a>, and she had a blast doing so, throwing her feather boa up in the air and celebrating Imbruglia in her native Australia. The line \u201cIllusion never changed\/Into something real\u201d is also fitting, considering that Dua went on to perform her own song \u201cIllusion\u201d later that evening. This is how she feels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nINXS, \u2018Never Tear Us Apart\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"SYDNEY,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-rollingstone-2022\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
![\"SYDNEY,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/never-tear-us-apart.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Don Arnold\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\t\u201cIn Australia, there\u2019s an abundance of incredible artists that I\u2019ve been so inspired by my whole life,\u201d Lipa told the crowd during her first of three nights in Sydney. \u201cEvery time I think back to these songs, they\u2019re so ingrained in British culture. I feel like it just brings us closer together, even though we\u2019re on opposite sides of the world. This is a song that I always go back to \u2026 I hope you know it.\u201d The Qudos Bank Arena erupted as she began belting this beloved Eighties power ballad<\/a>, taking lines like \u201c\u2019Cause we all have wings\/But some of us don\u2019t know why,\u201d to extraordinary heights (seriously, check out that part at 2:40, you won\u2019t regret it). It was only the sixth night of the tour, and Lipa was just getting started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nEnrique Iglesias, \u2018Hero\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"MADRID,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hero-dua-lipa.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Aldara Zarraoa\/Redferns\/ABA\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tWould you dance, if I asked you to dance? During the first of two evenings in Madrid, Lipa serenaded a packed Movistar Arena to Enrique Iglesias\u2019 \u201cHero<\/a>\u201d \u2014 sung entirely in Spanish. At the five-minute mark in the video above, the crowd cheers as she brings the chorus to a soaring climax: \u201c\u00a1Porque salvarte a ti mil veces!<\/em>\u201d Iglesias released the massive hit on Sept. 3, 2001, and it became an uplifting anthem for many after 9\/11. Nearly 25 years later, it\u2019s now beloved amongst millennials, including the very pop star onstage, beaming at her sea of fans singing along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nScorpions, \u2018Winds of Change\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"HAMBURG,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/winds-of-change.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gregor Fischer\/Redferns\/ABA\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\t\u201cIn the Scorpions we have this kind of saying: Love, peace, and rock & roll,\u201d guitarist Rudolf Schenker told us<\/a> in 2015. \u201cThe love stands for \u2018Still Loving You.\u2019 The rock & roll stands for \u2018Rock You Like a Hurricane.\u2019 And the peace? That\u2019s for \u2018Wind of Change.\u2019\u201d Amen, brother. No one understands this motto better than Dua Lipa, who covered the 1990 power ballad during her second night in Hamburg, right after she demolished \u201c99 Luftballoons\u201d on Night One (seriously, this woman has taste). In the future, we\u2019d love to see her cover other hits from the German hard-rockers \u2014 she would totally kill \u201cNo One Like You.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nAerosmith, \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"LIVERPOOL,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dua-lipa-list-1.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Dominic Lipinski\/Getty Images\/ABA\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tClearly, as the last few items on this list show, Lipa is a pro at covering power ballads \u2014 it\u2019s a shame she didn\u2019t cover Night Ranger\u2019s \u201cSister Christian\u201d in San Francisco in October. But she did bless us in Boston with this rendition of Aerosmith\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing,\u201d co-written by Diane Warren for the 1998 movie Armageddon<\/em>. You have to respect her choices: She could have covered \u201cJanie\u2019s Got a Gun\u2019\u201d or \u201cLivin\u2019 on the Edge\u201d or even \u201cDream On,\u201d but instead she selects this late-Nineties tear-jerker, about a guy who likes to hear his girlfriend breathing in her sleep. We\u2019re here for it, Dua.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nDonna Summer, \u2018Bad Girls\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dua-lipa-list.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tIn a move that showed both her versatility and her command of music history, Lipa went from covering Aerosmith on Night One in Boston to Donna Summer on Night Two. \u201cShe\u2019s a disco diva<\/a>,\u201d she said of the late legend. \u201cDo we have any bad girls <\/em>in the crowd tonight?\u201d She had an absolute blast with this one, dancing around in her sparkly all-black attire, boa resting on her shoulder. Lipa covered a lot of disco on this tour, from Chic<\/a> to Earth, Wind & Fire<\/a>. But her \u201cBad Girl\u201d moment was the peak, reminding us that she just might have another Future Nostalgia<\/em> up her sleeve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nAlicia Keys, \u2018No One\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"AMSTERDAM,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/noone.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images\/ABA\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tLipa\u2019s four nights at Madison Square Garden featured renditions of Blondie\u2019s \u201cOne Way or Another<\/a>,\u201d Chic\u2019s \u201cLe Freak<\/a>\u201d (with Nile Rodgers himself), and Lenny Kravitz\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Over \u2019Til It\u2019s Over\u201d<\/a> (with Kravitz). But the first evening \u2014 where she covered Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cNo One\u201d \u2014 was the highlight of her time in the Big Apple. It\u2019s a full-circle moment for Lipa, who sang the massive 2007 hit when she was just 12 years old<\/a>; that video lit up the screen at MSG, before the present-day Lipa took over. And aside from its significance, she just absolutely kills it here, with her lower register matching Keys perfectly. Consider this our official plea to have her tackle\u00a0\u201cFallin\u2019\u201d during her next Garden run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nAriana Grande, \u2018One Last Time\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/one-last-time.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tLipa kicked off two nights in Miami with a cover of Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine\u2019s \u201cConga<\/a>.\u201d For Night Two at Kaseya Center, she paid tribute to another Floridian: Ariana Grande. \u201cI feel like everyone kind of knows and remembers exactly where they were when this song came out,\u201d she told <\/a>the audience. \u201cSo if you know it, please sing along.\u201d She then launched into a propulsive, magnetizing \u201cOne Last Time,\u201d which even Grande herself reposted. You can tell which covers Lipa\u2019s fans are more familiar with. When it came to Grande\u2019s 2015 hit, they knew every word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nFleetwood Mac, \u2018The Chain\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"LONDON,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-chain.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Samir Hussein\/Getty Images\/Dua Lipa\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tWhat better way to kick off four nights in California than by covering one of the most quintessential California bands of all time? \u201cI think about so many artists and creators that come here to this city to find themselves, to find their sound, to find who they are,\u201d Lipa told the Kia Forum in Inglewood. \u201cTo, like, go to Hollywood and figure out what makes them unique and what makes them special and what gives them that little bit of magic. And this next song is by a band who have done exactly that in Los Angeles.\u201d She chose Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cThe Chain\u201d from Rumours<\/em>, going full Lindsey Buckingham while her band supported her on backing vocals. Honorary mention goes to her cover of the Mamas and Papas\u2019 \u201cCalifornia Dreamin\u2019\u201d<\/a> on the following night. Lipa did a wonderful job on that one, but it\u2019s no Mac \u2014 chain keep us together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nLionel Richie, \u2018All Night Long\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/all-night-long.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tLipa has brought countless legends onstage with her throughout the tour \u2014 especially in California, where she enlisted Gwen Stefani for No Doubt\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Speak<\/a>\u201d and Billie Joe Armstrong for Green Day\u2019s \u201cWake Me Up When September Ends<\/a>.\u201d Ranking her onstage collaborations would require a separate list altogether, but we\u2019d like to shout out her performance with the one and only Lionel Richie. She brought him out during her third night in Inglewood, for a rapturous \u201cAll Night Long.<\/a>\u201d It turned the Kia Forum into a dancefloor, with the crowd ecstatically singing along. The performance sums up Lipa\u2019s entire cover series of the tour \u2014 a joyful look back at music history, through the lens of one of today\u2019s most exciting pop stars. Dare we call it radically optimistic?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\t<\/p>\n
\n\tFact: Artists born between the years 1994 and 2004 are obsessed with Ednaswap\u2019s \u201cTorn,\u201d which became a megahit for Natalie Imbruglia in 1997. You can see the alt-pop banger covered by everyone from One Direction<\/a> to Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> to Olivia Rodrigo, who brought Imbruglia onstage<\/a> to belt it out in 2022. So it made sense for Lipa to take on the late-Nineties classic<\/a>, and she had a blast doing so, throwing her feather boa up in the air and celebrating Imbruglia in her native Australia. The line \u201cIllusion never changed\/Into something real\u201d is also fitting, considering that Dua went on to perform her own song \u201cIllusion\u201d later that evening. This is how she feels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn Australia, there\u2019s an abundance of incredible artists that I\u2019ve been so inspired by my whole life,\u201d Lipa told the crowd during her first of three nights in Sydney. \u201cEvery time I think back to these songs, they\u2019re so ingrained in British culture. I feel like it just brings us closer together, even though we\u2019re on opposite sides of the world. This is a song that I always go back to \u2026 I hope you know it.\u201d The Qudos Bank Arena erupted as she began belting this beloved Eighties power ballad<\/a>, taking lines like \u201c\u2019Cause we all have wings\/But some of us don\u2019t know why,\u201d to extraordinary heights (seriously, check out that part at 2:40, you won\u2019t regret it). It was only the sixth night of the tour, and Lipa was just getting started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tWould you dance, if I asked you to dance? During the first of two evenings in Madrid, Lipa serenaded a packed Movistar Arena to Enrique Iglesias\u2019 \u201cHero<\/a>\u201d \u2014 sung entirely in Spanish. At the five-minute mark in the video above, the crowd cheers as she brings the chorus to a soaring climax: \u201c\u00a1Porque salvarte a ti mil veces!<\/em>\u201d Iglesias released the massive hit on Sept. 3, 2001, and it became an uplifting anthem for many after 9\/11. Nearly 25 years later, it\u2019s now beloved amongst millennials, including the very pop star onstage, beaming at her sea of fans singing along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn the Scorpions we have this kind of saying: Love, peace, and rock & roll,\u201d guitarist Rudolf Schenker told us<\/a> in 2015. \u201cThe love stands for \u2018Still Loving You.\u2019 The rock & roll stands for \u2018Rock You Like a Hurricane.\u2019 And the peace? That\u2019s for \u2018Wind of Change.\u2019\u201d Amen, brother. No one understands this motto better than Dua Lipa, who covered the 1990 power ballad during her second night in Hamburg, right after she demolished \u201c99 Luftballoons\u201d on Night One (seriously, this woman has taste). In the future, we\u2019d love to see her cover other hits from the German hard-rockers \u2014 she would totally kill \u201cNo One Like You.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tClearly, as the last few items on this list show, Lipa is a pro at covering power ballads \u2014 it\u2019s a shame she didn\u2019t cover Night Ranger\u2019s \u201cSister Christian\u201d in San Francisco in October. But she did bless us in Boston with this rendition of Aerosmith\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing,\u201d co-written by Diane Warren for the 1998 movie Armageddon<\/em>. You have to respect her choices: She could have covered \u201cJanie\u2019s Got a Gun\u2019\u201d or \u201cLivin\u2019 on the Edge\u201d or even \u201cDream On,\u201d but instead she selects this late-Nineties tear-jerker, about a guy who likes to hear his girlfriend breathing in her sleep. We\u2019re here for it, Dua.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tIn a move that showed both her versatility and her command of music history, Lipa went from covering Aerosmith on Night One in Boston to Donna Summer on Night Two. \u201cShe\u2019s a disco diva<\/a>,\u201d she said of the late legend. \u201cDo we have any bad girls <\/em>in the crowd tonight?\u201d She had an absolute blast with this one, dancing around in her sparkly all-black attire, boa resting on her shoulder. Lipa covered a lot of disco on this tour, from Chic<\/a> to Earth, Wind & Fire<\/a>. But her \u201cBad Girl\u201d moment was the peak, reminding us that she just might have another Future Nostalgia<\/em> up her sleeve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tLipa\u2019s four nights at Madison Square Garden featured renditions of Blondie\u2019s \u201cOne Way or Another<\/a>,\u201d Chic\u2019s \u201cLe Freak<\/a>\u201d (with Nile Rodgers himself), and Lenny Kravitz\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Over \u2019Til It\u2019s Over\u201d<\/a> (with Kravitz). But the first evening \u2014 where she covered Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cNo One\u201d \u2014 was the highlight of her time in the Big Apple. It\u2019s a full-circle moment for Lipa, who sang the massive 2007 hit when she was just 12 years old<\/a>; that video lit up the screen at MSG, before the present-day Lipa took over. And aside from its significance, she just absolutely kills it here, with her lower register matching Keys perfectly. Consider this our official plea to have her tackle\u00a0\u201cFallin\u2019\u201d during her next Garden run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tLipa kicked off two nights in Miami with a cover of Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine\u2019s \u201cConga<\/a>.\u201d For Night Two at Kaseya Center, she paid tribute to another Floridian: Ariana Grande. \u201cI feel like everyone kind of knows and remembers exactly where they were when this song came out,\u201d she told <\/a>the audience. \u201cSo if you know it, please sing along.\u201d She then launched into a propulsive, magnetizing \u201cOne Last Time,\u201d which even Grande herself reposted. You can tell which covers Lipa\u2019s fans are more familiar with. When it came to Grande\u2019s 2015 hit, they knew every word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tWhat better way to kick off four nights in California than by covering one of the most quintessential California bands of all time? \u201cI think about so many artists and creators that come here to this city to find themselves, to find their sound, to find who they are,\u201d Lipa told the Kia Forum in Inglewood. \u201cTo, like, go to Hollywood and figure out what makes them unique and what makes them special and what gives them that little bit of magic. And this next song is by a band who have done exactly that in Los Angeles.\u201d She chose Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cThe Chain\u201d from Rumours<\/em>, going full Lindsey Buckingham while her band supported her on backing vocals. Honorary mention goes to her cover of the Mamas and Papas\u2019 \u201cCalifornia Dreamin\u2019\u201d<\/a> on the following night. Lipa did a wonderful job on that one, but it\u2019s no Mac \u2014 chain keep us together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tLipa has brought countless legends onstage with her throughout the tour \u2014 especially in California, where she enlisted Gwen Stefani for No Doubt\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Speak<\/a>\u201d and Billie Joe Armstrong for Green Day\u2019s \u201cWake Me Up When September Ends<\/a>.\u201d Ranking her onstage collaborations would require a separate list altogether, but we\u2019d like to shout out her performance with the one and only Lionel Richie. She brought him out during her third night in Inglewood, for a rapturous \u201cAll Night Long.<\/a>\u201d It turned the Kia Forum into a dancefloor, with the crowd ecstatically singing along. The performance sums up Lipa\u2019s entire cover series of the tour \u2014 a joyful look back at music history, through the lens of one of today\u2019s most exciting pop stars. Dare we call it radically optimistic?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\nINXS, \u2018Never Tear Us Apart\u2019<\/h2>\n
Enrique Iglesias, \u2018Hero\u2019<\/h2>\n
Scorpions, \u2018Winds of Change\u2019<\/h2>\n
Aerosmith, \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing\u2019<\/h2>\n
Donna Summer, \u2018Bad Girls\u2019<\/h2>\n
Alicia Keys, \u2018No One\u2019<\/h2>\n
Ariana Grande, \u2018One Last Time\u2019<\/h2>\n
Fleetwood Mac, \u2018The Chain\u2019<\/h2>\n
Lionel Richie, \u2018All Night Long\u2019<\/h2>\n