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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2019 2:14:12 GMT
After Taylor Swift dressed up “Lover” and “False God” with sentimental and snazzy performances on Saturday Night Live last Saturday, Swifties can prepare for more tiny concerts (hint hint). http://instagram.com/p/B3cq-3FA10K The setlist and images from the Lover artist’s visit at NPR’s Washington, D.C. offices for a Tiny Desk Concert have surfaced online, but the date of her online performance has yet to be revealed. “Lover," “All Too Well," “The Man” and “Death By a Thousand Cuts” were on the docket -- with “All Too Well” being the only throwback track off of her 2012 album Red. Morgan Noelle Smith, a video producer at NPR Music, shared another sneak peek image of Swift’s upcoming performance that showed off the singer’s dressy plaid blazer and red velvet shirt underneath. “We have a lot of people who come to perform at the desk, but it is SO humbling to see someone as famous, as huge, as ICONIC as Taylor Swift just come in, sit behind the desk, and play her music the same way it was written… just her on a guitar and at the piano,” she wrote. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2019 18:13:57 GMT
As Taylor Swift settled in for her Tiny Desk, she looked out at the 300-plus NPR employees and guests. "Wow! This is a lot of people in a tiny office!" she said. "I love it!" Then, after introducing herself, she explained her objective: "I just decided to take this as an opportunity to show you guys how the songs sounded when I first wrote them."
It should come as no surprise that someone who commands stadium stages could hold court in NPR Music's corner of our Washington, D.C. office — specifically, behind Bob Boilen's desk — but Taylor Swift was truly at home in stripped-down, solo session mode. ("It's just me. There's no dancers, unfortunately," she quipped.)
Opening with an acoustic rendition of "The Man," from her 2019 album Lover, Swift delivered a critique of gender double-standards with a sense of humor (and a perfectly deployed hair toss), Leonardo DiCaprio name-check and all. Turning to the piano for Lover's title track, with a smile, she explained the guitar-string scars of the song's bridge. Picking up the guitar again for "Death by a Thousand Cuts," Swift confronted a question that she says has haunted her career: What will you ever do if you get happy? Across the song's run-on thoughts and relentless searching, Swift offered an answer: She'll continue to excel at crafting superb story-songs.
SET LIST
"The Man"
"Lover"
"Death by a Thousand Cuts"
"All Too Well"
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Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2019 18:48:50 GMT
 In between songs, Taylor had little chats with the (extremely lucky — like, I can't get over how lucky) audience about her songwriting process and her love for writing breakup songs, amongst other things.  "I've spent quite a bit of time writing breakup songs," she joked. "Songwriting is really just a cathartic, therapeutic thing for me, and so there are a lot of things I've written about in my life that were the harder things I've had to go through." So, yes, it's safe to say Taylor has earned a reputation over the last 13 years for writing songs about love and breakups — although that's by no means all she writes about.  Introducing "Death by a Thousand Cuts", Taylor said that throughout her career she has often been asked what would happen if she ever "got happy". And while she'd always respond with the same answer — that she would get inspiration from things like movies and books — the question would follow her.  Thankfully, Taylor realised while writing Lover that she is still able to write songs about heartbreak and breakups by taking inspiration from other people's experiences. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2019 4:17:26 GMT
"Tiny Desk is one of my favorite corners of the internet," Taylor Swift told us as she settled in for her performance.
We agree. Coming Monday, Oct. 28 to YouTube, watch Taylor Swift's performance from the Tiny Desk.
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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2019 18:09:06 GMT
Taylor Swift: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert  Watch Taylor Swift play "The Man", "Lover", "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and "All Too Well" at the Tiny Desk. |
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