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Lovejoy - Portrait of a Blank Slate (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Hotney 6 Streams • 3 years ago

Official Music Video for "Portrait of a Blank Slate" by Lovejoy, from the new EP 'Wake Up & It's Over' out now.
Stream here: https://lovejoy.ffm.to/wuandio

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LYRICS

He told me that much and now he’s dead
Taught me to kill my indulgences
With a sharp blow to the temple
Pick up the phone call and do everything he says
I could take a plastic camera
We could make such a pretty picture
Oh so happy. Oh, oh so happy
I’m pretty cool once you get to know me

I feel at some point I broke my mind
I’m always searching the silent type
How do you all make it look so easy?
You open your hearts up so quickly it scares me

She’s an artist, paints across my chest
Goes to parties, act like hotel guests
Wake up Monday, now it’s over
Don’t you know no-one gets what they came here for?
I could paint her, wrapped around her
We could make such a pretty picture
Oh so happy. Oh, oh so happy
I’m pretty cool once you get to know me

But I’m just the same
I’ve got a boring name
Across the world from what you want and what you came here for
So I’ll wait here for you
Said, please just let me stay
Oh, just let me stay

I guess you know now what to expect
He lives your own life in retrospect
You know it bores me? These insecurities.
Breaks you down just to act as the architect
I could wait here, by the west pier
Watched the flotsam float, slowly disappear
Oh so happy, oh oh, so happy
If only you knew just how much better things could be

Another week of action
Another hypoglycaemic reaction

But I’m just the same
I’ve got a boring name
Across the world from what you want and what you came here for
So I’ll wait here for you
Said, please just let me stay
Oh, just let me stay
Oh, just let me…

I’m sorry it’s all so predictable
I’m sorry it’s all so predictable

Credits:
Director - Ted Nivison
EP / Producer - Will Noyce
Producer - Brian Niles
Production Company - bigkid
1st AD - Connor Haddad
DP - Shane Bagwell
1st AC - Luke Jamison
Gaffer - Evan Croker
Best Electric - Samuel Diaz
Key Grip - Brad Powers
Best Grip - Taylor Reick
Production Designer - Annie Becker
Wardrobe - Sailor Gonzales
Hairdresser - Denise Bugarín-Escamilla
Art Assistant - Donovan Sykes
Art Assistant - Elise Blankenhorn
Truck PA - Anton Sereda
PA - Quinton Couch
VFX - Pendulum VFX

#lovejoy #PortraitOfABlankSlate #wakeupanditsover

Little Moon, 2023 Tiny Desk Contest Winner: Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

Bob Boilen | May 30, 2023
When 2023's Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon arrived at NPR, outward expressions of joy overshadowed the inner bundle of nerves this Springville, Utah band felt. The group's winning song, "wonder eye," unanimously wowed our contest judges Sharon Van Etten, Baby Rose, Sudan Archives and Albina Cabrera. Tiny Desk senior producer Bobby Carter and I, also judges, were in awe hearing singer Emma Hardyman's 4-octave voice warming up behind the Desk. She and her husband, Nathan Hardyman, told NPR's All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro that they began writing "wonder eye" while Nathan's mother was in hospice care, and that he wrote the lyrics soon after she passed. "'wonder eye' incorporates the idea of multiple deaths," Emma shared. "I think it took the physical death to help us realize that death is really happening all the time — be it past versions of ourselves, old held beliefs, old judgments even. And to that extent, we're always grieving as well, which was also eye-opening."

Without monitors or vocal amplification, one of the toughest things for a band to do when playing at my Desk is to get the balance and sound levels right. Emma and Nathan, joined by bandmates Bly Wallentine on bass, Bridget Jackson on harp, Chris Shemwell on drums and Grace Johnson on keys, all pretty much nailed it. The band's set, which includes two unreleased songs (recorded for a new album), displays a range of emotion and creativity with a promising future. The group will be hitting the road as part of the Tiny Desk Contest tour, so if Little Moon is coming to your town, come and hear this band's unique sound.

SET LIST
"wonder eye"
"we fall in our sleep"
"kind, kind home"

MUSICIANS
Emma Hardyman: vocals, guitar
Nathan Hardyman: guitar, vocals
Bly Wallentine: bass, rainstick, vocals
Bridget Jackson: harp, vocals
Chris Shemwell: drums, percussion, vocals
Grace Johnson: keyboard, rainstick, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Audio Assistant: Hans Copeland
Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Josh Rogosin, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#tinydesk #nprmusic #littlemoon #tinydeskcontest

NIKI: Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 3 Streams • 3 years ago

NPR Music's Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These artists represent just a sliver of the cultural diversity that exists within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

Stephen Thompson | May 31, 2023
NIKI, a.k.a. Nicole Zefanya, took a circuitous route to the Tiny Desk. Born in Jakarta, she scored a major opportunity by winning a competition at 15 to open for Taylor Swift when her Red Tour took her to Indonesia. After moving to Nashville and building a following as a YouTuber, NIKI released two EPs and an album (Moonchild), then moved to L.A. and landed her song "Every Summertime" on the soundtrack to the Marvel blockbuster Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: The Album. Our own Bobby Carter heard that track and fell in love, and soon enough, NIKI and her band were breaking in the latest instrument in our in-house Tiny Desk collection: a light-blue toy piano.

That li'l piano figures prominently in "Backburner," the song that opens NIKI's Tiny Desk debut, but these songs also reflect a more serious side. "The Apartment We Won't Share," which the singer says "sort of laments the loss of an unlived life with somebody," recalls the weightier reflections of Taylor Swift, while "Before" tells the specific-but-relatable story of a long-distance love that falls apart before it can get fun. But NIKI closes her set on a breezy note, as she and her band swim in sleekly soulful, '70s-singer-songwriter vibes throughout "Every Summertime." The story of a love that grows and evolves with each passing summer, it had Bobby and the rest of us swaying, swooning and swimming in high hopes for the weeks and months to come.

SET LIST
"Backburner"
"The Apartment We Won't Share"
"Before"
"Every Summertime"

MUSICIANS
NIKI: vocals, piano, guitar
Jacob Ray: percussion, effects, guitar, vocals, music director
Kim Vi: keys, guitar, vocals
Edison Lo: bass, vocals
Fer Fuentes: drums
Andrea Ferrero: guitar, toy piano, vocals
Desiree Hazley: violin, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel, Alanté Serene
Audio Assistant: Hannah Gluvna
Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Frame, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#niki #nprmusic #tinydesk

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