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.
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
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