Taylor Swift Performed Acoustic Versions of Her 'Lover' Songs and They're So Good
When Taylor Swift stopped by NPR Music's Washington, D.C. office, she declared tiny desk "one of my favorite corners of the Internet." Her affection for the intimate series showed in her own concert. Swift sang acoustic versions of three songs off of Lover and revived a Red-era favorite, "All Too Well."
"I decided to take this as an opportunity to show you guys how the songs sounded when I first wrote them," Swift told the group of hundreds crowded around the office. "So it’s just me. There’s no dancers, unfortunately." The Grammy winner also seized the chance to debut two songs off of Lover that she had yet to perform live—"The Man" and "Death By A Thousand Cuts."
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Swift even touched upon the inspiration behind some of her latest hits, including the societal double standards that led to "The Man" and "stumbling to the piano" in her PJs with lyrics for "Lover." During her 30-minute set she switched between the piano and guitar, sharing tidbits, like which Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talk she regularly cries to.
On breakup track "Death By A Thousand Cuts" she said, "This song is my proof that I don’t have to stop writing songs about heartache and misery, which for me is incredible news." Swift ended her performance with one of her most beloved breakup songs, "All Too Well" from her 2012 album, Red, officially branding it "a sad song about fall."
Watch Swift's full NPR Tiny Desk Concert below.
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