FINNEAS Creates the Playlist of His Life | Teen Vogue

hi everybody this is Phineas and this is the the playlist of my life doctor maker I'm telling us right uh-huh so the first song I wanted to talk about is this song called falling slowly' by Glen Hansard Glen Hansard is an Irish singer-songwriter who was also the star of this amazing independent movie called once which I watched when I was like eight or nine and falling slowly' is this super beautiful duet he wrote that he sings with the other lead in the movie and you've probably heard it even if you don't recognize the name of the title right now and it's got like an incredible like harmony part through the whole chorus of the song it's a great like duet song it was the first song I ever performed ever for anyone I did it in a talent show when I was 11 I feel like it was on like American Idol I think the dude that beat Adam Lambert sang it on American Idol whatever his name is Adam Lambert's the winner in my opinion every year next let's go okay 21 guns by Green Day I was really late to the party on Green Day I was like ten I think one 21 guns came out maybe I was 11 I was still in the era of iTunes where there was like way pre Spotify pre Apple music and I would listen to the 30-second preview of 21 guns on repeat most days until I saved up to nine cents to to download 21 guns I just think is a really beautiful song and the chorus melody has the psych one 21 guns any light goes into falsetto like right on the guns line now I thought that was cool and live Billie's a voice it's like all Billy Joe not my sister Billy Billy Joe's voice is all ragged when he sings and he goes one 21 guns screams it because his voice is all worn out after like a three and a half hour concert on the recording it's this beautiful pure falsetto and I would bet that that was I bet that was butch vagues idea because he produced that record he's the kind of guy that would be like no interesting that really softly would be it's more emotional it's kind of the wave which talks next this is supposed to say welcome to The Black Parade and then this is it's a long-ass title so this is just the the initialism of My Chemical Romance it's one of those bands that I think I think a lot of music does this it's funny like sometimes like your favorite music ultimately the first time you hear it you're like not for me man I don't like this at all and My Chemical Romance was definitely one of those artists that like ultimately I drank in my like top five favorite bands ever ever ever the first time I heard it I was like I don't get it and then it washes over at you and you realize that it's seiken a biblical text but that's the song that's gonna endure I think when I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band and that little piano like like that's just gonna last a long time one of the reasons I love that song and it's the reason I love the ploughman's it's a concept album and the song is kind of the centerpiece of the record concept albums growing up we're incredibly inspiring to me albums like Jesus Christ Superstar and the wall Pink Floyd and American Idiot by Green Day I think like when an album has like a real narrative as a kid I just was like fascinated by that and it was it's always been my dream to make a concept album and I've I don't feel like ready to make a great concept record yet but that's definitely like on my bucket list just to make like a concept album and I think you know you can't get more high concept than Black Parade by My Chemical Romance yes boom cardiac arrest by the band bad Sun I was really trying to get my high school band to open for the 1975 one they toured in 2014 and I emailed like the promoter had a club that I knew that I 75 was playing at I said my band would be the perfect opener for the 1975 and in a more polite way of the promoter said piss off we already have an opener and the opener was disband bad sons and I was immediately filled with jealousy and envy of of bad sons with no right to have that Envy because I'd never heard of them and I listened to their song cardiac arrest and I was like this song is incredible I just listened to that song for like five months straight and it's still it's still an unskipable song to me I think the drums in the bass are just like unbeatable in that song it's just such a good group and the the structure of it is that the guitars come in in like the intro and then for the verses the guitars basically like drop out and it's just like a drum kit and a bass and the drummer miles like he plays like riffs on the drums which is kind of rare like signature like moments which I've been trying to do since I started like writing drum parts there's a song of Billy's called sani with these like drum fills that go like hmm and like I wanted to just make like Phil Collins like drum drum fills that like you'd you'd air drum to in your room and that to me cardiac arrest does a great job of that this is song called Jesus Jesus by an artist named Noah Gunderson I think a lot of these songs are like my introduction song to an artist and this was the first song of Noah as I ever heard and I think I heard it because I've known an artist named Phoebe Bridger since we were both teenagers and she posted a photo with him on her Facebook page and I was like who is this and I went to his I - I think I went to his band camp at the time and I found this song Jesus Jesus and it's just a really incredibly well-written song and I think he was brought up in the church and I think he was also brought up home-schooled I wasn't right up in the church but I was brought home schooled and he made a lot of his music with his sister Joe that was pretty interesting the whole song is walking to Jesus as if it's like mid prayer and the verse is one of the lines is Jesus Jesus there are those that say they love you but they've treated me so mean and I know you say forgive them for they know not what they do but I'm pretty sure they do but sometimes I think this song does a really great job of expressing like his sort of reservations about the church and about the world really good song my mom watches a lot of short thing this is a song that as far as I'm concerned should be on everybody's list ever is mr. Brightside by The Killers I can't really think of like songs that are more well written or played or recorded there's a production technique in like panning the instruments in this song that I think even if you have like no knowledge of music production is really enjoyable and that's kind of the goal of music production is to like be like really broad and be really direct and still make it interesting and compelling and so the way the song starts is the guitars hard panned to your left ear so you only hear the guitar in your left ear and the drums are hard band to your right ear and the vocal is super compressed it's down the middle and then once the first verse is over it all just like slams out and then it's like super high def it's such a great like way to introduce elements of the song it's so creative I was like obsessed with the production of that song this is song called the luckiest I Ben Folds I think it's the most romantic song ever there that's what I think it is he's like somebody that I've looked up to basically since like way before I ever thought I would be making music I just was like I love Ben Folds music the melody is beautiful the hook of the song is just I know that I am I am I am the luckiest that's the whole hook which is like just so incredibly like broadly like beautiful and relatable luck is Ben Folds had a daughter named Gracie folds and at one point in high school when I was very young my band played a show at Gracie school Ben watched my band do I would recommend you not have a hero of yours watch your high school band law Michelle when you're like 16 that'd be my recommendation to you don't do that well I had to put that one on because this is the place of my life very few songs have changed my life more than being involved in the creation of the song ocean eyes which my sister put out when she was 13 and I wrote and produced for her and I wrote it in like a couple hours I had a piano in the room that I grew up in I loved and I sat down and I played the chords and I sang the melody and I sang the lyrics of the first verse always like an improv which was I've been watching you for some time can't stop staring at those ocean eyes I just made it all up at once and I thought oh that's cool and then I had this idea for the hook being oh yeah I couldn't really sing it as you just heard as soon as I gave it to Billie it took on this complete life of its own with her and I was like oh yeah this is how this song is supposed to sound [Music] I'm really proud of a lot of songs that I've made there's some songs that I made that I feel kind of indifferent about they maybe haven't aged as well as I hoped they would and I don't relate to them anymore but this song basically brought Billy and I from from being completely unknown and having no career in the music industry to having an entire career in the music industry and I I'm so grateful because music matters to me more than any of the other things that I've ever found in my life and it's really a treat to get to make music all the time especially with my sister she's the best so I wanted to put that one that's the final song this is a playlist that I could put on and not skip any of the songs and I think that's like it's what you should do and playlist you should send your friends playlists that are like you know your your most refined tastes and I think these songs are all songs that have had huge influence on me as a songwriter and as a person and as a producer it's a pretty eclectic playlist but that's just kind of how I live my life with music this is Phineas and that was the playlist of my life [Music]

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Length: 10min 49sec (649 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 11 2019

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[u/avocado_qween]

Love how he crossed off his last name lol