is equally comfortable rocking a stadium packed with 60,000 or an NPR office crammed to the rafters with 300 Swifties craning to see the pop icon play a set of stripped-down songs for her Wednesday morning Tiny Desk Concert debut. Looking business casual in a checkered suit and burgundy velvet shirt, Swift opened her four-song solo acoustic run by explaining the day's set-up.
"I just decided to take this as an opportunity to show you guys how the songs sounded when I first wrote them," she said, apologizing for showing up alone with no dancers and quipping about the impeachment buzz in D.C.
The strummy jam that included a precision-strike hair toss during the Leo DiCaprio line was followed by a piano version of the album's title track, which she set up by describing those days when you show up to the studio and the ideas don't come. "Lover" was not one of those, however, as it flowed out almost all at once in the middle of the night when Swift was in her pajamas.
The emotionally bare take on the title track was followed by a slight jab at all the journalists who've asked her over the years "what will you ever do if you get happy? What will you write about?" When she thought about it, though, a hint of worry crept in about not being able to write her beloved break-up songs.
Cue a folky, acoustic guitar version of "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and the set-ending beloved, "autumn-y" "All Too Well" from 2012's
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