♪ We need to talk. Can
you think out loud? ♪
♪ You drop out before
the chance is lost. ♪
Hey, what's up?
It's your girl Tayla
Parx and I'm here to play
a game of Song Association with Elle.
I'll be given a word and
then I'll have 10 seconds to
think of a song that has that word in it.
(sighs)
I'm hoping I do good.
(chuckles)
But before we get into the game,
make sure that you check out my album,
"We Need to Talk" on every
streaming platform you know.
♪ Me, me, me, me, me, me, me ♪
But a little bit less grand usually,
a little bit more ugly
when I'm on my tour bus
(giggles)
- [Tayla] Slow.
♪ Slow dancin. ♪
♪ I like, I like, I like romancin' ♪
♪ I like, I like, I like don't panic ♪
♪ But I think I'm a typical girl. ♪
My own song, "Slow Dancing".
(giggles)
So literally, with my song "Slow Dancing",
I-I-I've had, I've had this
kind of identity crisis.
I grew up all my life thinking
"I'm a tomboy and this is the only thing
that I am and that's the
only thing that you can be."
Until I realized,
"No, wait a minute."
I like certain things
that are associated with
typical girly-ness, I guess.
Like dates and pearls and the color pink
and all of these things.
I literally woke up and was like,
"Okay, maybe I like lashes and
all of these other things."
So, instead of having to decide between
my masculinity and my femininity,
I was like, "Wait a minute."
"Slow Dancing" is my
discovery of those both
existing as one for me.
- [Tayla] Baby.
♪ Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo, ♪
♪ Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo, ♪
♪ Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo, ♪
♪ Baby shark. ♪
Obviously I think of 'Baby Shark'
doo doo doo doo doo doo
Um, you know, it's
become one of the biggest
songs of-of the decade and honestly,
you know, I wish I wrote it.
I first thought that "Baby Shark"
was a joke and then I realized,
"Wait a minute."
"I get the genius behind it."
As a song writer, all of
the ways that you can just
sing it all over, and over, and over,
and over again, every age range.
I'm here for it, they really
did that with that song.
- [Tayla] High.
♪ Had to have high, high
hopes for a living. ♪
♪ Shooting for the stars when
I couldn't make a killing. ♪
♪ Didn't have a dime but
I always had a vision. ♪
♪ Always had high, high hopes. ♪
Definitely "High Hopes"
Panic! At The Disco is what I think of.
I was at a time at my life where
I really needed to hear that.
It was my birthday, I was
working on my birthday.
I was in a hot tub in Aspen,
but still, it was work.
(laughs)
- [Tayla] Close.
(hums)
(clock ticking)
I actually think of
(buzzer)
"Love On The Brain",
Rihanna because she says,
♪ It's just to get close to you ♪
- [Tayla] Down.
- Down, down, down, down.
Oh!
♪ It's going down, I'm yelling timber. ♪
♪ You better move, ♪
Like, that definitely, I
think of that song, Kesha.
(chuckles)
- [Tayla] Ride.
- I don't know this one.
(hums)
Um, I'm gonna be making that song.
I'm like,
♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride. ♪
That's not a real song.
Yet.
(laughs)
(buzzer)
Um, I don't know that one.
The first song that I
ever, ever recorded was
probably my song in-in 'Hairspray'
♪ I'm tired of coverin' up all my pride. ♪
♪ So give me five on
the black-hand side. ♪
♪ I've got a new way of movin' ♪
♪ And I got my own voice ♪
I haven't sang that song
literally since I was like
13 or 14, so that just took
me a blast to the past.
But that's probably the
first time I was ever in a
like actual studio and recorded a song and
it was also like, the
first Grammy nominated
project that was around.
- [Tayla] Love.
(hums)
I have a song that I
released that's not apart
of my album at all but
it's called 'I Love You'
and it literally goes,
♪ I love you, I love you, I love you, ♪
♪ I love you, I love you, I love you, ♪
And I literally wrote it
because it was literally
the first time that I was like,
"Uh, fine. I'm gonna say I love you but
don't make me say it out loud."
Um, that, I-I think of
that because it's one
of the earliest time,
songs that I ever released.
- [Tayla] Fall.
♪ Cause some people only find. ♪
♪ One in a whole lifetime. ♪
♪ The rest are just too
afraid to fall and ♪
♪ makin' up their minds ♪
Um I wrote that song in my bedroom, um
and literally was just
playing the chords and
saying that, you know
I think the-the thing
most people back of- from
being in love is just
the fear of it all, myself included.
The fear of being that
vulnerable with somebody,
the fear that it might be unrequited.
Um, it's, it's definitely
a thing that I-I felt like
I need to write a song about and saying,
You know what?
I'm at a point in my life
where I'm not gonna be,
you know, childish about
this and I-and I wanna have
that communication for
better and for worse.
Whatever happens, I'm unafraid.
- [Tayla] Care.
♪ I care. ♪
♪ I know you don't care too much, ♪
♪ But I still care. ♪
Beyoncé.
(tongue click)
Look, Beyoncé,
you know as-as a young,
black woman from Texas,
I love Beyoncé for more
reasons than just the fact
that she is a very successful
black woman from Texas,
as an entertainer, um
as a artist, as a performer
in so many different ways.
But for her, I think all
around, just an incredible,
like even when thinking
of those songs like the
fact that song is from
an album years ago and
the word care makes me
think of that specific song,
um because I could just
feel her, I could feel
her when she was singing that.
- [Tayla] Right.
(hums)
♪ I'm not saying you're right, ♪
♪ I'm not saying you're wrong, ♪
♪ I'm just saying right now
I wanna get along, baby ♪
♪ I don't wanna fight. ♪
My song with Florida Georgia Line, "Fight"
(giggles)
- [Tayla] Break.
♪ Prayin' to a god that
I don't believe in. ♪
♪ Cause I got time
while she got freedom. ♪
♪ Cause when a heart breaks no
it don't break even, even. ♪
I think it's by The Script, um, ah, right?
Okay, yeah, yeah, it's by The Script and
I-I think of that song, I don't know why.
I-I think it's just
lyrically one of the best
songs I've ever heard, um from the verse,
to the hook, the-the melody as well and
like, incredible song.
- [Tayla] Blame.
♪ Neither of us have to
shoulder the blame. ♪
♪ You could be mad as hell, ♪
♪ I'd still love you the same, baby ♪
♪ I don't wanna fight. ♪
♪ I don't wanna fight, tonight. ♪
- [Tayla] Want.
♪ I want you, and you,
and you, and you, too ♪
Aye!
♪ Can you really blame me wanting you? ♪
Hey!
♪ And you, and you, and you, too baby. ♪
Definitely my song, "I Want You".
(giggles)
Man, I wrote "I Want You" probably now,
3 years ago and it's
very interesting because
I-I think in my life I was just in a place
where I don't wanna be in a relationship,
I don't wanna be tied
down to anybody, anything,
like I just kinda wanna
do my thing without
having to explain it and
that was the perfect way
to start off my album, "We Need To Talk"
because that was the story.
Each of my albums are-are
concepts in the way
that if you listen from the top,
the beginning to the end,
I'm telling you my story.
This is what I went through.
So it started off,
"I want you, and you,
and you and you too."
Until it was,
"Okay, maybe I only want you."
And then you go into the
"Me vs. Us" phase and
the "Read Your Mind"
until I eventually get
my heart broken with "Easy".
- [Tayla] Talk.
♪ We need to talk. ♪
Hey!
♪ We need to talk. ♪
♪ Can you think out loud? ♪
♪ Use your mouth. ♪
♪ Before the chance is lost. ♪
♪ We, we, we, we need to talk. ♪
Definitely I think of the title track from
my album, 'We Need To Talk'.
Um, it was super key for me to-to write
a song about communication
and we're all in this
"talking phase" and-and
with my whole generation,
more situation-ships than relationship and
I think that communication is key, um
when you have so much
noise going on around you
both on social media and-and
in your personal life,
from strangers, from people you know.
Um, communication is key.
So that is a big reason why I named
my album, "We Need To Talk".
Kinda tying back into, you
know, the rest of it with
"Read Your Mind" and all
of these other things that
kinda tie back into
"Communication is key".
- [Tayla] Next.
♪ Thank you, next. ♪
♪ Thank you, next. ♪
♪ Thank you, next. ♪
♪ I so, I so grateful for my ex." ♪
Definitely think of the girl
anthem, "Thank U, Next",
ah, that I was able to
do with Ariana Grande.
It was really awesome to kind of be a part
of somebody literally, you know,
building themselves up after
falling apart, you know?
Which is such a beautiful
kind of place to be in
when your-when your creating
an album but I think general,
in life because that
means that you're always
re-inventing and you- that
means you're always growing.
So to be a part of that
process with her was,
ah, I'm really thankful for it.
Thank you, next.
(chuckles)
- [Tayla] I think I did pretty good!
I think-I think I
know-I-I-I think I know the
Tayla made songs pretty well and also some
other things that aren't
Tayla made but that are
just freaking awesome songs um and yeah.
Yeah, yeah I like this one.
Thank you guys for checking
out my Song Association,
make sure you guys like and subscribe
and then also make sure
you check out my album,
"We Need To Talk" so
that maybe we could play
a little Song Association at the tour.
(upbeat music)
