Taylor Swift Performed Acoustic Songs From Lover 'Because They All Started Out That Way' On 'Tiny Desk'
Today's the day (October 16).
Taylor Swift's concert for
NPR's Tiny Desk is currently out, so the possibility to immerse yourself in nearly thirty minutes of acoustic songs from both
Lover and
Red is finally here. There were no backup musicians, just Taylor, a piano, and the guitar. It was nostalgic, magical, and breath-taking.
It began with Taylor's very anti-pastel suit. She made white and burgundy plaid the definitive fall trend to follow as she introduced herself to the crowd of more than 300 visitors packed into the tiny space. Soon after a humble and sheepish greeting, she thanked fans for liking her new album,
Lover, and revealed that trim be performing acoustic versions of the songs. "It's one of these albums where I wrote everything on one musical instrument first so it's really fun to pick songs to do acoustically because they all began out that way," she said.
She kicked things off with "
The Man", yet not before a key introduction. "It's a song that I've wanted to write conceptually for a very long time," she began. "We have a little bit of a double regular in our society. It's something that I've thought about 700 million times a day for the last ten years of my life. She then launched into "The Man" with such gripping, sunny energy because the crowd sang along (in this Tiny Desk, you could actually hear them at certain points).
Subsequently, she headed over to a piano to play "
Lover." "As soon as I wrote it, I knew it could be the title track," she mentioned. She then went on to explain the method of creating songs and why it's harder on sometimes as instead of others. With "Lover" though, she was prepared to pull the idea out of her brain and use it musically. You can hear it in her soft timbre as she played the tune stay in mesmerizing style, her voice radiating via hall because the song crescendoed in the chorus.
After finishing the song, she took off her white and burgundy plaid suit jacket to reveal a lush burgundy sweater. It was shiny and somehow luxurious, practically blinding, and even more confirmation that burgundy is the color of this fall. She launched into "Death By A Thousand Cuts" soon after explaining it being inspired by being current companions breakups as well as situations that played out onscreen. She brought the guitar back out and her voice grew higher and softer. The gentle plucks of the musical instrument grew into giant swipes and grand notes that matched her soaring singing.
Most Tiny Desk performances are capped at three songs. Nevertheless it's Taylor. Who's going to have a problem if she squeezes in just one more for the sake of the thrilled audience? She took things back to what she described as her "autumn" album,
Red, with an efficiency of "
All Also Well." She dubbed it "a sad song about fall" and went to the piano again, ending the efficiency on a wispy and fervid note.
Check out Taylor's epic Tiny Desk efficiency up above.
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