Dua Lipa: Tiny Desk Concert

Stephen Thompson, October 25, 2024 When Dua Lipa came to visit the Tiny Desk, she had nothing to prove and much to live up to. After all, the singers Tiny Desk (home) concert, recorded in London in the aftermath of her 2020 blockbuster Future Nostalgia, still holds the record for the mostviewed Tiny Desk concert in history, her 130 million views surpassing even the likes of Mac Miller and Anderson. Paak. Four years later, the pop superstar finally graced the actual Tiny Desk, this time armed with four warm and inviting songs from Radical Optimism. Arriving in the first half of this year when the dominant storylines in music so often revolved around grievances and rivalries Radical Optimism stood out for its comparatively sunny and forgiving takes on failed and failing relationships, seduction, new love and old wounds. And, of course, it dispensed a worldbeating banger in Houdini, which joins past Dua Lipa classics (New Rules, Levitating, Dont Start Now) on her own personal Mount