I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
FINNEASA 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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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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 way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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