The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Musics Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. Its the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.
Dec. 4, 2020 | Abby ONeill — 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 cant film our Tiny Desk concerts at NPRs 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. Its been extraordinary to witness her colossal takeover of the pop music landscape. Dua sums the times during her intro of «Love Again»: «Its about manifesting good things into your life, when things arent quite going your way.»
SET LIST
«Levitating»
«Pretty Please»
«Love Again»
«Dont Start Now»
MUSICIANS
Dua Lipa: vocals
Matthew Carroll: bass
Alex Lanyon: guitar
Naomi Scarlett: vocals
Ciara OConnor: vocals
Izzy Chase: vocals
Matthew Allen: vocals
CREDITS
Video: Ceremony London, James Barnes
Audio: WFB Live, Will Nicholson
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Abby ONeill
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
Fill the bando up with bands
Give the lil bro them a job
You can come get rich with us
You gone eat or you gone starve
Keep a certified hittas and I pay him not to rob
Hop out 2020 Cullinan and I’m riding in a star
Know some people hate that I’m on top I bulletproof the car
All the members made three bands our pack live like they cracking cards
Joe know for a fact I keep it real he still ain’t take the charge
Why she talkin’ crazy bout me like I dont do more than my part
I can’t play with my creation give the world to my lil boy
I been saving more than I been spending that’s what I be on
I’m a human I’m not perfect I know sometimes I be wrong
[Hook]
I’m like come and put that pussy on me Dont be running from me
If I like it I spend money on it
Get whatever from me
Put six figures in your business I do real shit
I drop cash at the dealership
They’ll mail you a pink slip
She make sure she keep her nails did and her wig fixed
Went to jail and that one held me down shea real bitch
Hundred rounds in this double drum It’s a kill tent Marco been in prison for a while but he still flexin’
[Verse 2]
I told bro and them to park the car but they still wreck
I dont think nobody around still but I still check
I don’t gota hundred million I can’t chill yet
But don’t get it misconstrued yeah I get real checks
baby fucking like a pornstar we have real sex
Have nobody in our business we take real jets
Say she like when I perform so I fuck her with my chains on
And she handle her part so I let her play the main role
Ain’t have to get rich for this partner stay with the same folks
And I cant beef with none of you niggas not in the same boat
Never gone get caught up about it know how the game go
10 chain bussin’ look like rainbows
[Hook]
I’m like come and put that pussy on me Don’t be running from me
If I like it I spend money on it
Get whatever from me
Put six figures in your business I do real shit
I drop cash at the dealershipThey’ll mail you a pink slip
She make sure she keep her nails did and her wig fixed
Went to jail and that one held me down she a real bitch
Hundred rounds in this double drum It’s a kill tent Marco been in prison for a while but he still flexin’
I’m like come and put that pussy on me Dont be running from me
If I like it I spend money on it
Get whatever from me