The final time Olivia Rodrigo carried out a Tiny Desk live performance, it was two years in the past, in a abandoned DMV workplace, again when pandemic precautions meant artists sadly could not play the actual Desk. However this yr, the singer-songwriter returned, bringing a handful of songs from her wildly enjoyable sophomore album to the NPR Music workplace. “It is a lot cooler to be right here,” Rodrigo says. “I used to be saying earlier, I’ve by no means been starstruck by a room earlier than.”
Most of the songs on GUTS, which earned a particular suggestion on NPR Music’s Greatest Albums of 2023 listing, blow out Rodrigo’s sound into colourful, grungy pop-rock match for a stadium, like “love is embarrassing,” carried out right here with Rodrigo on jangly acoustic guitar. However the artist builds her set out with GUTS cuts that match the intimate setup, just like the searing “vampire,” her backup vocalists cooing eerily round every of her strains, or the potent ode to feminine jealousy, “lacy,” which Rodrigo explains began out as a poetry train in a university class. By the top of her set, she’s utterly alone on the piano for the sobering “making the mattress,” and it isn’t troublesome to see why she’s considered one of pop’s most promising rising performers.
SET LIST
- “love is embarrassing”
- “vampire”
- “lacy”
- “making the mattress”
MUSICIANS
- Olivia Rodrigo: piano, guitar
- Hayley Brownell: drums
- Moa Munoz: bass
- Daisy Spencer: guitar
- Ashley Morgan: vocals
- Elizabeth Gaba: vocals
- Julia Gartha: vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producers: Suraya Mohamed, Bob Boilen
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
- Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Elizabeth Gillis, Maia Stern
- Audio Assistant: Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Tiny Desk Crew: Hazel Cills
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
- Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
