Miley Cyrus: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Miley Cyrus: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.
Miley Cyrus has always understood that music is theater. So it’s no surprise that, visiting the imaginative space that is the Tiny Desk, she transforms it into something both fantastical and true to her topsy-turvy Mileyness.
Cyrus ruled preteen hearts on the small screen before mastering pop stardom’s big stages, and throughout her career she’s played with sound and image in unexpected and even controversial ways. And she’s never balanced pop’s glorious artifice with her own soulful authenticity more self-assuredly than she does on her latest album, the rock and roll manifesto Plastic Hearts.
Here, the scene opens with Cyrus, dressed head to toe in rock-star faux fur, in what looks like a teenage girl’s bedroom. But the perspective in this pink-and-purple space feels a little … odd. As Cyrus sings, it becomes clear that this is her Wonderland – like Alice full of magical cake, she’s grown to exceed her surroundings. By the end of this three-song set, Cyrus reveals that it’s the adolescent enclave that grew too small for her, not the other way around.
The songs Cyrus offers are as direct and affecting as the set is whimsical. Cyrus has lately proven herself one of pop’s great interpretive vocalists, and she scores another triumph with her version of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” a hazy psychedelic anthem that she infuses with just the edge of the next day’s hangover. The two songs from Plastic Hearts that follow are her own bids at classic-rock timelessness. In “Golden G-String” Cyrus assesses her own life in the spotlight with Leonard Cohen-esque charm. And “Prisoner” is the power ballad that lets Cyrus really break out – as she leaves the tiny room — just a box, it turns out, on a soundstage – and joins her band, she’s as free and self-confident as she’s ever been.
SET LIST
“Fade Into You”
“Golden G-String”
“Prisoner”
MUSICIANS
Miley Cyrus: vocals
Stacy Jones: drums
Mike Schmid: keys
Max Bernstein: guitar
Jamie Arentzen: guitar
Joe Ayoub: bass
CREDITS
Producer: Johnny Pascucci
Director: Alana O’Herlihy
Assistant Director: Steve Bagnara
Director of Photography: Jordan Ritz
Set Design: Eamonn McGlynn
Sound Tech: Johnny Karlsson
FOH/Broadcast Engineer: Paul Hager
TINY DESK TEAM
Producers: Bob Boilen, Bobby Carter
Video Producer: Morgan Noelle Smith
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Kara Frame, Maia Stern
Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
God! Is it just me or is Miley in spite of all the fame still incredibly under appreciated??? I mean she’s channeling every rock God we’ve ever known. ⚡️
Omg! Miley ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Great songs
My favourite NPR of all time. I love you Miley Ray Cyrus always 🖤
I really cried 🧡 thank you queen for your pure feelings.omg fading into you 💛💛
I can’t stop listening to Fade Into You
😅
With every storm there comes a rainbow 🌈.
Why on earth is she dressing up and acting like a parody of all excentric artists from the 70’s? I wish she could just be herself instead of putting up som masquerade.
que lookaso papa, yo usaria la misma ropa para el video jajaja es genial! puro rock and roll
omg I love that she started off with Mazzy Star
Te amo loca
I love Miley so much
absolutely love it!
her voice is actual insanity. it brings me to tears.
Seems so effortless.
Natural positive force of nature…
prisoner gave me chills. so good
skelly vest is cool
Is she the biggest celebrity gold dealer? ‘Cause anytime I watch a video of her on YouTube, she got her fingers all artistically covered in those gold rings.
‘You dare to call me crazy have you looked around this place’ -Miley Cyrus
‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society’ -Riddu Krishnamurti
Ugh , love her voice 💖
this is amazing
Wow I haven’t read the descriptions in a while but I like how this one made it a story
I love miley but its too produced just sayin
what an amazing singer
I think it’s strange no one knew you got Abused by the gorverment and FBI
I dont know why, but I always rembember of my childhood when I listen to it.
so cool bro so cool
I’ve really grown to love Miley Cyrus. I have a lot of respect for her as an artist.
Rivers that flow. Hearts that glow. Whisper of name. Written in the sand……. Hold my hand together we take a stand…….
I love love love Mazzy Star and this was a wonderful cover!
I felt like she cried while singing this song.
i love her
The Fade into you cover was really good but nobody is talking about golden g string I literally shake and cry to her singing this 😢
i love you miley thank you for doing fade into you I cri huhu
Killed it.
I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take the breath that’s true
I look to you, and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life, you go in shadows
You’ll come apart, and you’ll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what’s not there
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
A stranger’s light comes on slowly
A stranger’s heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
I think it’s strange you never knew
Awesome
We received thousands of entries to this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, our annual search for the next great undiscovered artist to play a Tiny Desk concert. Set your reminder to join us for Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf LIVE on Thursdays at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT to get a sneak peek into our judges’ favorite entries before we reveal the 2021 Contest winner. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2PCKGkKRVZjSRYrnesjW4YwSyUtJyJy
Fade Into You was Liam Hemsworth’s favorite song and they used to listen to it together. 🥲
She is one of the coolest people on the planet
Man im so glad Iggy Pop finally did a npr tiny desk concert! rock on brother!
Damm She is awesome , this is her style !!!
Such passion and talent. Absolutely captivating.
Fade into you its stunning
Creo que acabo de entenderla y a su música y me parece sarpado
THIS….. is how it’s done!!
this is one of the most underrated tiny desk concerts. I cry every time when she screams during fade into you
I always thought she was just a spoiled brat on her way to trashland. Oh boy I never knew…indeed.Joke’s on me. I’m blown away by her talent and this classic american vibe, it’s pure gold. love from france miley❤
Yeah ima need this on apple