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.
FINNEASI don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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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 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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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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