Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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Channel: NPR Music

Views: 13,115,001

Keywords: NPR, NPR Music, National Public Radio, Live, Performance, tiny desk, tiny desk concert, tony desk, tiny concert

Id: 4sZ2_aGsLKU

Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/TheLeftAlone]

Took me a while to realize that the background wasn't real but made out of cardboards

[u/[deleted]]

Everything I Wanted is the song that pushed me into a fan of Billie's. It is heartbreaking, yet comforting all at once.

[u/lobo_generoso]

this was super nice, wish they switched things up a little so the absence of the drums on "my futuqre" wasnt replaced with emptiness. still, super cute performance. i legit thought they were at the irl tiny desk lol.

[u/impeccabletim]

I missed hearing Billie’s live voice. This was such a treat.🥺💖

[u/lobo_generoso]

music theory time, do yall consider "everything i wanted" to be lydian? or just regular major?

[u/heisuntmara]

can we take a moment to appreciate how much her voice has evolved? she's always had an amazing voice but she literally gets better every time she does a new live performance

[u/catlover79969]

2 songs???? Just 2???

[u/McIgglyTuffMuffin]

Aug. 26, 2020 | Stephen Thompson -- It didn't take long for Billie Eilish to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world, sweep the Grammy Awards' major categories and release the latest James Bond theme. And today, at just 18, she and her brother, Finneas, have accomplished what no one has been able to do for five and a half months: perform a Tiny Desk concert in what certainly appears to be the NPR Music offices.

Of course, due to safety concerns, even the NPR Music staff can't set foot in the building that houses Bob Boilen's desk. But if you look over Eilish's shoulder, there's no mistaking the signs that she's appearing at the Tiny Desk in its present-day form: On the last day before staff began working from home, I took home the Green Bay Packers helmet that sat on the top shelf — the one Harry Styles had signed a few weeks earlier — for safe keeping. In this performance, that spot is empty.

So how the heck did they do it?

Honestly, it's best that you watch the whole video to experience the extent of the technical feat — which, in the spirit of Eilish's Saturday Night Live performance, they're willing to share with you. And thankfully, we still have our ways of photographing the desk, even if the room has fallen silent.

So settle in for a welcome jolt of Tiny Desk innovation, not to mention two of the excellent standalone singles Billie Eilish has released in the past year: "my future" and "everything i wanted." And, seriously, be sure to watch until the very end.

SET LIST

"my future"

"everything i wanted"

MUSICIANS Billie Eilish: vocals, keys; Finneas: keys, guitar

[u/[deleted]]

I was a little disappointed that there was so much talking and only two songs. I feel like a lot of artists with a huge following who come on Tiny Desk spend a lot of time talking (Taylor Swift and Harry Styles did the same). Beautiful performance though