British singer crams eight songs and six band members into NPR’s cubicle for 23-minute performance
PinkPantheress radically reimagined her own songs and stuffed a full band into a cubicle for her Tiny Desk Concert, which NPR Music shared Friday.
The British singer managed to cram eight tracks (and six band members) into the space of 23 minutes, delivering unique spins on tracks like “Pain,” “Illegal,” and “Girl Like Me.”
“So these are obviously very different renditions from the originals of the songs I have,” PinkPantheress said before shouting out her backing band, which helped breathe new life into the tracks with their live instrumentation. “These songs sound so sick in this way.”
The Tiny Desk concert boasted three tracks — “Girl Like Me,” “Illegal,” and the closing “Tonight” — from PinkPantheress’ recent mixtape Fancy That, which was named one of Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2025 So Far. The gig also gave fans a preview of the singer’s upcoming An Evening With PinkPantheress tour that kicks off next month in Brooklyn.
The NPR Music gig and the upcoming shows mark a return to the road for PinkPantheress, who previously canceled all of her scheduled 2024 appearances last year. “I was full up. There was something that I needed to address, and so I had to leave,” the musician told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 earlier this year. “And I did that for my own good. And obviously it was a very sad moment for people that wanted to see me but couldn’t see me. But obviously, what goes around comes around, and I’ll be back again.”
