- 2025-02-13
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MUSIC
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girl in red Performs at NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Norwegian singer-songwriter girl in red appeared on NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert to perform “Phantom Pain”, “Summer Depression”, “Too Much” and “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend”.
This marks her debut on Tiny Desk Concert as a musical guest.
girl in red said, “Thanks for having me. And thank you for letting me be here this really cool. This is such iconic little thing I wasn't expecting it to be in a big building, though I thought I was going to go into a little house or something. So I was like, wait this is like really American. I thought it was going to be like this, like big corporate. Anyways love that.”
“Phantom Pain” and “Too Much” were featured on her sophomore album “I'm Doing It Again Baby!”, which was released last April.
“Summer Depression” and “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” were taken from the 2018 EP “Chapter 1”.
Especially, “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” is the song that inspired her to start making music as girl in red.- “Phantom Pain” via Apple Music
“Generally on this record, we’re operating with a lot of craziness. And similarly to ‘DOING IT AGAIN BABY,’ this is the crazy version of feeling good, the crazy version of being into someone and being smitten. This is about when I met my girlfriend three years ago, but before we called each other girlfriends, we were dating, just not officially. It turned out she wasn’t really free to date, so she cut me off the day after we had met and we were making out. The song is about the heartbreak I had that week, because I was so heartbroken and I didn’t even know her. It’s hilarious because it’s impossible to have heartbreak for someone that you don’t love yet—you don’t know them. So I thought it was fun to play with phantom pains—it’s like you have pains from somewhere in your body that doesn’t exist anymore but it’s heartache phantom pain.” -
“Summer Depression”
“It's kind of the contrast of there being an expectation that you're going to have such a good time in the summer, but then you don't. I've seen how cool other people were, and how crappy I think I was. If you're not with friends, then it's like double outside all the time.”
“Too Much” via Apple Music
“I think ‘Too Much’ is fun to have right after ‘DOING IT AGAIN BABY’ because that song is about being a lot and then ‘Too Much’ is about being confronted with the world again, or people around you who think you’re a lot. On the emotional journey of the album, this is where there’s a little bit of a dip because there’s a bit of sadness in here as well as ‘No, I’m going to be exactly how much I need to be.’ I feel like it’s an empowering song [about] not letting anyone dampen you or tone you down—a really hooky pop song and with fun stuff in there but also a sad song. It was really important to have different energies and different feelings on the album.”
“I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend”
“I was in love with a girl who wasn't in love with me. It was summer, we were at a concert and I was trying to find her in the crowd. When I finally saw her, she was wearing a red sweater. That moment, it was incredibly hopeful, but at the same time damn sad. I knew she was never going to fall in love with me. I just had to get this feeling out, so that's why I made the song "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend". And this experience inspired me to make music as girl in red.”
Photo by Sofia Seidel - source : NPR
