- Music
- 13 Dec 24
"I've wanted to do this my whole life," the pop star said of appearing on the web series.
Billie Eilish is currently embarking on an arena and stadium tour, but she’s also making time for small venues - well, tiny ones, that is.
On Thursday, the pop superstar’s appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk web series went live, showing Eilish, her brother and producer Finneas and a few band members cramming into the show’s iconic office space to perform a short, four-song setlist.
Eilish kicked things off with two tracks from her most recent album, Hit Me Hard and Soft: ‘The Greatest’ and ‘L’Amour de Ma Vie’, two stripped-down songs that deftly match the intimacy of the set.
“This is nerve-racking for me,” she told the crowd gathered at NPR’s office in Washington, D.C., during a pause. “This is so cool. I’ve wanted to do this my whole life, so I’m a little shaky.”
“We’re gonna do an old one,” Eilish said before bursting into ‘I Love You’, off her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. “This is one of our favorite songs that we’ve written… The first time I fell in love, it was very scary, and it’s funny how that fear never goes away, the feeling of falling of whatever.”
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Eilish went on to close out the show with her three-week Billboard Global 200-topping single ‘Birds of a Feather’, which recently earned three nominations ahead of the 2025 GRAMMYs for best pop solo performance as well as song and record of the year.
The Tiny Desk performance comes as Eilish is getting ready to wrap up the North American leg of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, which kicked off in late September. Eilish comes to 3Arena next summer for two sold-out dates on 26 and 27 July.
Watch Eilish’s Tiny Desk gig below.