Name: Finneas Reveals Everyday Sounds Hidden in "Bury a Friend" and "Bad Guy"
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:01:29.000Z
Duration: 6 min 24 s
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Gerund

-Welcome to the show and thanks for talking with me.

-For those who don't know, you are a songwriter, a performer,

And you've worked with Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello,

Halsey, and most famously, I think, is probably

your number-one collaborator is Billie Eilish, your sister.

that you would be good working together, you and Billie?

-Well, I always knew she had an incredibly beautiful voice.

But I didn't want to force her into child labor.

So I kind of waited until she wanted to. You know?

You were like, "Oh, she's got something."

-Her voice was always so much better than mine.

And it's just like one of those where you're like, "Oh, yeah.

And then when she seemed interested in recording,

I was like, "Well, let's try some stuff out."

Like, where did you perform and what did you put out?

-We did one song that hopefully people don't know very well

And then we did another one that, hopefully,

-And the third one we did was "Ocean Eyes,"

which people heard. [ Cheers and applause ]

When did you realize, "Oh, we got something here"?

-Well, we put it out because we had no schedule.

We just put it out one night and then went to bed

and it had like 1,000 plays and we were like,

"I don't know 1,000 people. Do you know 1,000 people?"

Looking back, it was so gradual in terms of that.

I always feel kind of bad for someone who wakes up with

like 10 million views on their yodeling in a Walmart.

-Yeah, yeah, I understand what you're saying.

that you don't get time to appreciate little --

Your debut album, "When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"

has been streamed over 15 billion times worldwide.

But the way you put a song together is very interesting.

You told me that you would record different sounds

and Billie would record different sounds.

And you'd go, "Hey, can we use this in the song?"

Well, I mean, because computers and everything

have gotten so much cheaper and more accessible,

I feel like a lot of music producers have the same toolbox.

I always want something to set my stuff apart.

And so I'll walk around with just an iPhone will work,

but sometimes I'll bring a little mobile recorder.

And if I hear an interesting sound, I'll just record it,

and then later I'll listen through them and I'll go like,

So, like, there's a song of Billie's called "Bury a Friend."

And we both have Invisalign, dental teeth straighteners.

And she was at the dentist, and they were grinding down --

They put these attachments on your teeth,

and they were grinding down of hers with that horrible, like --

Like, whatever ASMR is, it's the opposite of that.

Like, that sound. -Yeah. It's in your head.

-She came home from one of those appointments

and was like, "I recorded it," and I was like, "Great."

So, here's the sound that Billie recorded.

-When it's in your brain, that kind of feeling.

It hurt my teeth. Alright, so that was that.

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Finneas Reveals Everyday Sounds Hidden in "Bury a Friend" and "Bad Guy"

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