Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert
My job is to be a musician and make music and do what is authentic to me and reflect my inner world in the most personal way possible. In songwriting, the most personal is the most universal. It's about using my own emotions as a connective tool.
Mélissa Godin • Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion
Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope. Only art can take the holler of a returning soldier and turn it into a shared expression and a deep, collective experience. Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so it can be
... See moreBrené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
I want to watch more NPR tiny desk concerts; I feel like they capture the essence of the artist beyond their music genre or celebrity status, going back to the basic fundamentals of sharing music with an intimate group of people (and this experience is then shared with millions on the internet of course). Inspired by the tiny desk version of ‘home’
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