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.
FINNEASWorking on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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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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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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