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Remember in Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/a> when Larry David gets so mad about being banned from Mocha Joe\u2019s that he opens a coffee shop called Latte Larry\u2019s next door to spite him? Well, pop singer Alessia Cara<\/a> just did that, but with desks. The organization she\u2019s mad at is NPR, as it has yet to bring Cara in for one of its iconic Tiny Desk Concerts series. \u201cWell tiny desk said no to me a couple times so I exercised free will and built my own!\u201d Cara tweeted on June 9. \u201c\u2018Giant desk\u2019 out June 10th. 6 songs live from an office with these cool cats.\u201d Today, she released it.<\/p>\n Cara\u2019s video opens with a logo that looks suspiciously like NPR\u2019s logo, reading \u201cA CARA Production.\u201d (Vulture has reached out to NPR for comment, but it has not yet responded.) \u201cTiny Desk has refused to have me on now, many times,\u201d the 2018 Best New Artist winner<\/a> says as the video begins. \u201cSo I decided to make my own. Tiny Desk, my desk is bigger than yours.\u201d Admittedly, this is not true. The actual desk she has in the video looks more like a side table than a desk. I could even describe it as actively small. It\u2019s unclear why she wouldn\u2019t call this a \u201cTinier Desk\u201d concert or something along those lines, given that NPR\u2019s desk is actually pretty large, as far as desks go.<\/p>\n Cara then went on to do a straightforward acoustic set of her music, beginning with 2021\u2019s \u201cMiddle Ground,\u201d then showing off a bunch of songs from her new album, Love or Lack Thereof. The NPR-esque \u201cCara\u201d logo stays on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen the whole time. Even when she sings her major hit \u201cStay,\u201d originally made with megaproducer Zedd, and strips away the electronics to showcase her voice, it\u2019s hard not to get the idea that this concert was made with anger in its heart out of your mind.<\/p>\n The best moment is the finale, \u201cHere,\u201d her song about being bitter and annoyed at a party you don\u2019t want to be at. The track\u2019s main complaint is very similar to Cara throwing her own concert at home. \u201cSo holla at me, I\u2019ll be in the car when you\u2019re done \/ I\u2019m standoffish, don\u2019t want what you\u2019re offering \/ And I\u2019m done talking,\u201d she sings. It\u2019s a telling final track. \u201cThank you so much for listening and watching the first episode \u2014 and maybe the only episode \u2014 of Giant Desk,\u201d Cara says as the video ends. Though she\u2019s made it through a vocal marathon, Cara still sounds a little peeved that she had to do all this for herself. Maybe it\u2019s her team \u2014 Brooke Dubek<\/a> would have gotten her on that desk.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n