When you are already number one, you can seize some opportunities. Keeping her 2020 pandemic home safe NPR small table Concert still holds record as most viewed small table Dua Lipa returned to the packed public radio offices on Friday (October 25) for her second stripped-down show, which has been viewed more than 130 million times, highlighting this year’s tracks radical optimism album.
Ahead of the four-song drop, Dua explained in an interview with NPR’s Ari Shapiro that she turned the up-tempo album track “Happy For You” into a stripped-down piano and ballad , represents the song in its “purest form,” stripped of its bubbling electronics. “That’s the thing right now, I think you feel a little different about the song,” she said. “It’s really fun that you hear the lyrics in a different way and think about it and get back to basics.”
She also talks about how the common phrase “if these walls could talk” was flipped into “anthropomorphic”[ing] Walls, because no one knows you better than the four walls in your room.
The mini-concert kicks off with an unplugged, meditative “training season,” highlighted by acoustic guitar and electric piano, soft bass and angelic harmonies, before the singer’s seven-piece band picks up the tempo, (gently) rocked the entire festival. radical optimism Single.
“I’ve always wanted to come down and sit at my desk,” Dua told the assembled NPR staff with a smile. “We made one at home small table In 2020, so it feels really special,” she added, cheekily wondering if anyone had seen that record-setting little show. She then slipped into the chilly “These Walls” before setting “Happy For You,” saying she’s always been inspired by the way artists reimagine songs for the series.
That’s why she also changed the arrangement of the song, about how happy she is that her ex has a new girlfriend, swapping the original’s wistful dance-pop vibe for a skeletal, emotionally edgy keyboard and vocal arrangement The song brings a new poignancy to the wish – You are the best lyrics.
“Even the hardest parts are the best/I know where you are now and you picked up the pieces/and you gave them to someone else,” she sings, accompanied by keyboardist George Ward’s tender accompaniment. The session ended with “Houdini,” the album’s first single, whose airy, upbeat vibe likely had NPR staffers shuffling back to their desks with big smiles on their faces.
Look at Dua’s small table It is shown below.
