A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
FINNEASI really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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