♪ Where are you ♪
That's the first one that comes to mind.
♪ I'm so sorry ♪
Hi, I'm Finneas.
I'm here to play a game of
song association with ELLE.
Basically, I'm gonna get given a word
and I'll have 10 seconds to
sing that word in a song.
I'm probably like arrogantly
excited about this.
But before we get started,
you can check out my
new album Blood Harmony,
after you finish this video,
on Spotify or Apple Music
or right here on YouTube.
(upbeat music)
- [Female] Do you have any vocal warm-ups?
- No.
Friend.
(ticking)
♪ Can we still be friends ♪
I like that song, it goes...
♪ And I heard about your mamma ♪
♪ Did she get that job she wanted ♪
That one, or...
♪ You've got a friend in me ♪
♪ You've got a friend in me ♪
Play.
(ticking)
It's cheating a little
bit, but I would do...
♪ Too sad to say but I hope you stay ♪
♪ Don't hide away come out and play ♪
Which is a song I helped write.
You know know what the other one would be?
♪ Swinging in the backyard ♪
♪ Pull up in your fast
car whistling my name ♪
♪ Open up a beer take it over here ♪
♪ Play a video game ♪
♪ I'm in his favorite sundress ♪
♪ Watching me get undressed ♪
♪ Take that body downtown honey ♪
Love.
(ticking)
♪ Must be love on the brain ♪
(humming melody)
I just saw some live
performance of Rihanna
singing "Love on the Brain",
on, like, an awards show the other day,
it was like so gangster.
She's just like throwing her arms up
and, like, just killing it.
♪ We always go into it blindly ♪
♪ I needed to lose you to find me ♪
♪ This dance that was killing me softly ♪
♪ I needed to lose you to love me ♪
♪ To love love me ♪
♪ To love love me ♪
♪ To love me ♪
♪ I needed to lose you to love me ♪
♪ Sang off-key in my chorus
'cause it wasn't yours ♪
That's a really good song.
That's a really good song that
I didn't write a single word of.
I just helped on the
production of that song.
Kiss.
(ticking)
♪ 'Cause your kiss your
kiss is on my list ♪
Isn't it list?
Or is it lips?
I feel like it's list.
♪ Started out with a kiss ♪
♪ How did it end up like this ♪
♪ It was only a kiss ♪
♪ It was only a kiss ♪
♪ Now I'm falling asleep
and she's calling a cab ♪
♪ And he's having a smoke
and she's taking a drag ♪
Oh, god.
"Mr. Brightside".
It's like the best song.
I watched some, like, poll thing,
like, what's like the
modern "Bohemian Rhapsody",
and it was like all of
these songs like, you know,
battle royale-ing into,
basically just "Mr. Brightside"
'cause it's so, just like, unbelievable.
Truth.
♪ I put the sing in single ♪
What's the...
I remember like every
part of "Truth Hurts"
except the part where
she says truth hurts.
Where does she say truth
hurts in that song?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
♪ Truth needed something more ♪
♪ And the Minnesota Vikings ♪
♪ Truth hurts needed
something more exciting ♪
So good.
Bad.
(ticking)
♪ 'Cause I'm bad ♪
♪ I'm bad ♪
♪ I'm really really bad ♪
♪ The whole world's off ♪
(mumbling)
♪ Who's bad ♪
(humming melody)
♪ I want your love and
I want your revenge ♪
♪ You and me could have a bad romance ♪
♪ I want your love and
all your lover's revenge ♪
♪ You and I could have a bad romance ♪
♪ Oh whoa oh oh oh whoa oh ♪
♪ Caught in a bad romance ♪
♪ Rah rah ah ah ah ♪
That like crazy intro.
So cool.
I wasn't even, like,
consciously not doing "Bad Guy".
♪ So you're a tough guy ♪
♪ Like it really rough guy ♪
♪ I could never get enough guy ♪
♪ Chest always so puffed guy ♪
♪ I'm that bad type ♪
♪ Make your mamma sad type ♪
♪ Make your girlfriend mad type ♪
♪ Might seduce your dad type ♪
♪ I'm the bad guy ♪
♪ Duh ♪
(humming)
Yeah, this is why Billie sings those.
It's better.
What's the hardest easiest thing
about writing for my sister?
I think the hardest thing,
that we're challenging
ourselves, you know?
We never try to repeat ourselves.
And I think the easiest thing is just
that our chemistry with each other,
because we're literally, like, related,
is so effortless, and I
don't, like, we don't,
there's no ice-breaking
ever, which is awesome.
A favorite song that I've
written with my sister
is probably the song, "I Love You".
I think that song is
gonna age really well.
Fantasy.
(ticking)
♪ I could be your fantasy ♪
♪ On a private island ♪
♪ Something ever happen ♪
It's that really good Alina Baraz song.
I think she's so cool.
Close.
Probably that really
dope Tove Lo Nick Jonas.
♪ Space is just a word made up ♪
♪ By someone who's
afraid to get too close ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
I hope there were high
fives in the writers room
when that happened.
Only.
♪ Started out with a kiss ♪
♪ How did it end up like this ♪
♪ It was only a kiss ♪
I'm gonna just see if I can
work in "Mr. Brightside"
to every one of these.
♪ You say I'm crazy ♪
♪ 'Cause you don't think
I know what you've done ♪
♪ But when you call me baby ♪
♪ I know I'm not the only one ♪
That song made me wanna be a producer.
I've told Sam that and I've told Jimmy,
who was the primary
producer on that album,
just made me want to make my own records.
The first song I ever
really remember writing
was called "Reason",
and I think the chorus was like,
♪ I don't need a reason ♪
♪ I don't need a reason ♪
And then there was some other line that,
I mean like I don't remember all of it,
but that was the first one.
It's funny, when you first write songs,
like I was like 11 or 12 years old,
and you're always writing
about like some heavy,
deep stuff that you know nothing about.
Like the first line of that song was like,
♪ I've been running for so long now ♪
Which is like, from where to where?
You're 12 years old.
Should have been like I've been in
the back seat of my mom's
van for so long now.
That would have been
the only authentic line.
Miss.
(ticking)
♪ Don't waste your time on me ♪
♪ You're already the
voice inside my head ♪
♪ I miss you I miss you ♪
That's a sad song.
There's great, great lyrics in that song.
♪ Where are you ♪
That's the first one that comes to mind.
♪ I'm so sorry ♪
So great.
Tom comes in that song
like he was on a balcony
and he jumped off the
balcony onto the song.
Like that's how heavy
he comes into that song.
And meanwhile Mark is just
in the song like hello there.
And then Tom just (bleep),
like drop kicks the song.
Sun.
(ticking)
♪ Here comes the sun ♪
♪ Here comes the sun and I say ♪
♪ It's all right ♪
Beatles, man.
Out.
(ticking)
(laughing)
♪ And it's one two three
strikes you're out ♪
♪ At the old ball game ♪
That's literally the first
one that came into my head.
Felt like an ABC point but thank you.
Higher.
(ticking)
♪ Abra abracadabra ♪
That's the first one 'cause
it's like something desire.
♪ Fire got higher ♪
That's the line.
♪ I wanna reach out and grab ya ♪
That's one of those songs
that I grew up listening to
and being like mm, yes.
And then I didn't understand that like
in the zeitgeist it's like a lame song.
But I loved it.
That's the difference
between like popular opinion
and just like authentically
listening to something.
I feel like we spend so much of our time
consuming things with like the knowledge
of how our friends all
feel about them already.
People are like, "Dude
did you check that out?
"It's like not good.
"I don't like the finale."
And you're like, "Oh
yeah that was terrible."
Innocently consumed (bleep) more often,
like you probably have a
more positive opinion of it,
because you'd form your own opinion.
You wouldn't be trying to like seem cool
to all your peers.
So (bleep) you.
Abracadabra rocks.
Mine.
(ticking)
(laughs)
♪ Mine ♪
♪ Hands on your body ♪
That Bazzi song where he's like,
♪ I think I had too much Hennessy ♪
Like right at the start of that song.
The song is like a minute
and 12 seconds long.
It's so short.
♪ Yo so you so (bleep)
precious when you smile ♪
You say mine that definitively
in a hook like that,
you own that word.
Eyes.
♪ No fair ♪
♪ You really know how to make me cry ♪
♪ When you give me those ocean eyes ♪
I don't really listen to radio ever,
so the first time I ever heard
a song like out somewhere
was at a yogurt place.
And the woman was like, "Sir."
And I was like, "No pictures please."
And she was like, "You have to pay."
I'm kidding, I didn't say no pictures.
I was like, "Do you want a picture?"
(laughs)
Thank you so much for watching
and I wanna thank Elle for
having me on song association.
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