Dua Lipa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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Published 2020-12-04
Dec. 4, 2020 | Abby O'Neill -- With a genuine smile stretched across her face, Dua Lipa seems overjoyed to reconnect with her band for their only performance since their tour in support of her sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, was cancelled in March. Glowing from the inside out and accentuated by the apricot hues of a backdrop in a London studio, Dua and her backup vocalists and band bring life and warmth into households in need of "levitating" and some pep in their step this winter. This vibrant four song set of dance hits, all from Future Nostalgia, will surely have you cutting up the floor in your kitchen while quarantining in the cold weather.
While we can't film our Tiny Desk concerts at NPR's D.C. office during the pandemic, our "home" series has created opportunity for global megastars like Dua Lipa to bring her uptempo dance joints all the way from London. Of Kosovar Albanian descent, Dua Lipa was raised in the UK and rose to super stardom in the three years since her eponymous debut album dropped in 2017. NPR Music featured her in our docu-series Noteworthy at the onset of her career. It's been extraordinary to witness her colossal takeover of the pop music landscape. Dua sums the times during her intro of "Love Again": "It's about manifesting good things into your life, when things aren't quite going your way."
SET LIST
"Levitating"
"Pretty Please"
"Love Again"
"Don't Start Now"
MUSICIANS
Dua Lipa: vocals
Matthew Carroll: bass
Alex Lanyon: guitar
Naomi Scarlett: vocals
Ciara O'Connor: vocals
Izzy Chase: vocals
Matt Maijah: vocals
CREDITS
Video: Ceremony London, James Barnes
Audio: WFB Live, Will Nicholson
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Abby O'Neill
Video Producer: Morgan Noelle Smith
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Associate Producer
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Maia Stern
Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
All Comments (21)
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this is the best thing that has every taken place inside of a papaya
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The bassist is SO groovy, he deserves more praise
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The bass playing is incredible
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The back vocals are super talented!
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not enough people are talking about the guy doing the lower harmonies. his voice melted like chocolaaaaate with the ladies ah
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The dude is killing his harmonies like I can hear him idk but he getting it
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Dua's musicians are impeccable, they play very clearly, the bassist breaks it. tremendooooo groooove!!! YAAS!.
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A bass, a guitar, 4 vocals and Dua playing and singing on a track. That's it. But they're all so extraordinary talented. WOW!!!
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Whoever did the musical arrangement deserves a trillion in raise
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So much nicer live and not over- produced. Everybody's layin' it down perfectly.
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I'm not usually into pop but Dua Lipa is so good, she's gorgeous, and those bass lines are fire
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as long she keeps this insane bass lines in her songs i'll be here.
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Whomever is handling the sound engineering on these tiny desk concerts needs a raise EVERY SINGLE TIME!
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This version of “Love Again” is amazing. Shows how good the writing it is. On repeat
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Give that bassist and guitarist some credit. When there are no pads and keys to hide behind, they are still killing their parts.
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why is nobody talking about the bassist and guitarist?!? they literally killed it
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I'm a 38 year old combat vet that was in Fallujah who loves linkin park, AIC and shi... just came across this, told my gf to play and now we freakin love it. You guys got us to like Dua, Swift and Post. What a wonderful world ✌️
