Best of 2021: H.E.R.

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Willie looks back on his memorable interviews of the year. The multi-talented musician H.E.R. has worked to avoid becoming a package for pop cultural consumption, with her name and signature sunglasses meant to make the audience focus on the music and not on her. In this “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the artist to talk about her meteoric rise from child prodigy to the heights of the music world, including winning a Grammy, an Oscar and performing at the Super Bowl.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with a special edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.5	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:10.2	The good people at NBC News and the podcast network asked me to choose my favorite conversations
0:15.5	from 2021.
0:17.6	It was a tough task, but I've done my best.
0:19.9	I think you'll agree that her was one of the hottest artists on the planet in 2021.
0:26.0	She just was nominated for eight Grammys.
0:29.4	Over this year's album, we'll see how she does at the upcoming Grammy Awards.
0:33.1	This year she already had won a Grammy and Oscar and performed at the Super Bowl.
0:38.2	She and I got together over the summer on the eve of her concert on the today's show
0:42.0	Plaza and she was getting ready to get back out on stage after a year at home.
0:47.4	We got together at this restaurant at Hudson Yards in New York City on the 101st floor
0:53.6	overlooking all of New York City.
0:55.2	A beautiful setting for someone who was establishing herself in the moment and now is firmly established
1:01.9	as one of the best and most respected artists in all of music.
1:05.6	I hope you enjoy my conversation right now from this past summer with her on the Sunday
1:11.3	Sit Down Podcast.
1:13.5	Thanks for doing this, her.
1:14.5	Great to see you.
1:15.5	Great to see you.
1:16.5	I want to tell you right out of the box, this is the highest elevation we've ever done.
1:19.4	One of these interviews, 101 stories.
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