OVERVIEW LYRICS LISTEN OTHER RECORDINGS PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR I heard that you're settled down That you found a girl and you're married now I heard that your dreams came true Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you Old friend, why are you so

SET LIST:
"Linger"
"Tomorrow"
"Ode To My Family"
"Zombie"
"Raining In My Heart"

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The Cranberries - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

SET LIST
"good 4 u"
"traitor"
"drivers license"
"deja vu"

MUSICIANS
Olivia Rodrigo – vocals, guitar, keys
Heather Baker - guitars
Hayley Brownell - drums, guitars
Arianna Powell - guitars
Moa Munoz - bass, guitar

Olivia Rodrigo - NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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Belgian dance-pop superstar Stromae puts on one of the best live shows in the world — here’s a two-song set from 2015, presented as evidence — but his stage presentation is tough to strip down. To say nothing of the light show, Stromae’s throbbingly impeccable arrangements involve the extensive use of pre-recorded tracks, all of which are frowned upon at the Tiny Desk. So, given a simple three-word assignment (“no preset sounds”), his team set about re-creating Stromae’s music so that it could be performed in real time.

This involved more gleaming tech than we could have ever imagined when we launched Tiny Desk concerts nearly 15 years ago — veritable banks of laptops, mixers and synthesizers, with multiple producers working out of frame — but damned if every sound in this set wasn’t crafted and played live on the spot. Stromae and his team had to come a day early for hours of setup and rehearsals, and even the band’s clothing was handpicked from the singer’s fashion line, but what they produced felt loose-limbed and organic in the spirit of the series.

It helps that, as heard on this year’s outstanding Multitude, Stromae’s songs draw from a deep well of lived emotion. Backed by three members of the Bulgarian women’s choir Yasna Voices, Stromae kicked off his set with “L’enfer,” a wrenching acknowledgement of suicidal thoughts. The song’s chorus, translated to English, reads, “Sometimes I’ve had suicidal thoughts and I’m not proud of it / Sometimes you feel it’d be the only way to silence them / All these thoughts putting me through hell.”

From there, Stromae’s song selections conveyed lighter moods, but even his most danceable tracks contain undercurrents of darkness and conflict: “Santé” is a toast to those who can’t celebrate, “Alors on danse” (from 2009’s Cheese) embraces dancing as a way to drown out life’s hardships and “Mon amour” attempts to reassure a lover against a backdrop of infidelity and dysfunction. On its own, each track is a heady cocktail of painstaking craft and hard-won joy. Taken together, they form a portrait of a world-class showman at the height of his powers.

SET LIST
“L’enfer”
“Santé”
“Alors on danse”
“Mon amour”

Stromae - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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SET LIST
"BOOM BAP"
"BOILED PEANUTS"
"DENIAL IS A RIVER"
"CATFISH"
"NISSAN ALTIMA"
"BULLFROG"
"HIDE N SEEK"
"Black Girl Memoir"

MUSICIANS
Doechii: vocals
Tyler Victoria: guitar
Dee Simone: drums
Tatiana Tate: trumpeter, arrangement
Hammondgal: keyboards 
DJ Miss Milan: vocals
BREN'NAE: background vocals
Emmani: background vocals
Keschia Potter : saxophone
Zuri Appleby: bassist
SlimWav: musical direction

TINY DESK TEAM
Producers: Ashley Pointer, Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel, Wendy Li
Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
Production Assistant: Elle Mannion
Photographer: Alanté Serene
Tiny Desk Team: Maia Stern, Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

Adele - NPR Tiny Desk Concert

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