British singer crams eight songs and six band members into NPR’s cubicle for 23-minute performance<\/p>\n
\n\tPinkPantheress<\/a> radically reimagined her own songs and stuffed a full band into a cubicle for her Tiny Desk Concert, which NPR Music shared Friday.<\/p>\n \n\tThe British singer managed to cram eight tracks (and six band members) into the space of 23 minutes, delivering unique spins on tracks like \u201cPain,\u201d \u201cIllegal,\u201d and \u201cGirl Like Me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSo these are obviously very different renditions from the originals of the songs I have,\u201d PinkPantheress said before shouting out her backing band, which helped breathe new life into the tracks with their live instrumentation. \u201cThese songs sound so sick in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe Tiny Desk concert boasted three tracks \u2014 \u201cGirl Like Me,\u201d \u201cIllegal,\u201d and the closing \u201cTonight\u201d \u2014 from PinkPantheress\u2019 recent mixtape Fancy That<\/a>, which was named one of Rolling Stone\u2019s Best Albums of 2025 So Far<\/a>. The gig also gave fans a preview of the singer\u2019s upcoming An Evening With PinkPantheress tour<\/a> that kicks off next month in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n \n\tThe NPR Music gig and the upcoming shows mark a return to the road for PinkPantheress, who previously canceled\u00a0all of her scheduled 2024 appearances last year. \u201cI was full up. There was something that I needed to address, and so I had to leave,\u201d the musician told\u00a0Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year. \u201cAnd I did that for my own good. And obviously it was a very sad moment for people that wanted to see me but couldn\u2019t see me. But obviously, what goes around comes around, and I\u2019ll be back again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British singer crams eight songs and six band members into NPR’s cubicle for 23-minute performance PinkPantheress radically reimagined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,6002,69,6003],"class_list":{"0":"post-4431","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-npr-tiny-desk","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-pinkpantheress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}