{"id":114650,"date":"2025-11-02T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:04:06","slug":"watch-brandi-carlile-play-songs-from-new-album-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114650\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Brandi Carlile Play Songs From New Album on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a> was the musical guest on last night\u2019s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Miles Teller. Backed by a full band, Carlile performed two songs from her new album Returning To Myself, \u201cChurch &amp; State\u201d and \u201cHuman.\u201d During \u201cChurch &amp; State,\u201d she recited Thomas Jefferson\u2019s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists. Watch Carlile on SNL below.<\/p>\n<p>Last night marked Carlile\u2019s fourth time as musical guest and her third SNL appearance this year alone; she was among the performers at February\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-david-byrne-lady-gaga-devo-and-more-perform-at-snl-50-the-homecoming-concert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL50: The Homecoming Concert<\/a> and, in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-jack-black-host-elton-john-and-brandi-carlile-perform-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/7104-elton-john\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elton John<\/a> to play songs from their 2025 collaborative album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/elton-john-and-brandi-carlile-announce-album-shares-new-song-who-believes-in-angels-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who Believes in Angels?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/bad-bunny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> hosted Saturday Night Live\u2019s 51st <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season premiere<\/a> last month alongside musical guest <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/doja-cat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doja Cat<\/a>. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/role-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Role Model<\/a> made his SNL debut and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-and-nobodys-son-on-saturday-night-live-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> pulled double duty, hosting for the first time and performing songs from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/a>. This week\u2019s episode is set to feature Nikki Glaser and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/sombr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sombr<\/a>. Then, on November 15, Glen Powell will be joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/olivia-dean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandi Carlile was the musical guest on last night\u2019s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Miles Teller.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,437,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-114650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}