To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
FINNEASAll my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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