you can hear it in a song like scary monsters and nice sprites. [finneas] dubstep to me was like the most recent time that a really new element of music took over in kind of a mainstream way. it had the same feeling to me as, like, whoever was overdriving their guitar amp for the first time. [music] and i remember listening to it, riding the bus on a choir tour in 2011, just being like, wait for the drop. [music] [nate] with the bass drop, it s all about increasing the tension, making them anticipate the release of that drop. 10, 9, 8, 7 [nate] in a way, it was ripe for parodying, not only the music itself, but kind of the culture. the dj and the state of pure adrenaline that concertgoers would encounter when they reached this moment of,
really tamed edm. what do you mean? [jason] what do you mean? is what you d call tropical house, which is basically genteel, caribbean-light dance music, with, like, edm elements, influenced by reggaeton and dancehall. and so tropical house became huge in the 2010s. couldn t find you anywhere when you broke down, i didn t leave ya [hanif] where are u now? was written as a traditional justin bieber ballad. and skrillex and diplo bring it into, you know, the kind of electronic music, um, era, just going in a totally different direction. i was like, diplo, skrillex? uh, i don t really know if that s, like, where i want to go. and they, they did it. i was like, oh my gosh, this is blowing my mind. i need you the most [finneas] skrillex added tropical house textures and energy to that record that it needed to really evolve. and that was so cool, to watch somebody take all these skills that they had honed
i m the bad guy duh with billie eilish, you feel as if she s whispering right in your ear, and that intimacy in the age when social media overtook everything, that tangibility of the voice is kind of part of the point. you really know how to make me cry when you give me those ocean eyes i m scared [finneas] billie s voice is my favorite voice. every time billie says anything in a song, i believe it. and that s, to me, the mark of, like, a really, like, genius vocalist. i could lie, say i like it like that like it like that [finneas] to me, the magic of billie was her ability to communicate herself. there was just this pathway of communication that felt deservedly authentic. i don t wanna be in the pop world or the hip-hop world or the r&b world or whatever [bleep] think. you know, i want it to be like, what kind of music you listen to?
[music] [nate] and you had dubstep, which was a subgenre of edm, with this just annihilating bass texture. you can hear it in a song like scary monsters and nice sprites. [finneas] dubstep to me was like the most recent time that a really new element of music took over in kind of a mainstream way. it had the same feeling to me as, like, whoever was overdriving their guitar amp for the first time. [music] and i remember listening to it, riding the bus on a choir tour in 2011, just being like, wait for the drop. [music] [nate] with the bass drop, it s all about increasing the tension, making them anticipate the release of that drop. 10, 9, 8, 7 [nate] in a way, it was ripe for parodying, not only the music itself, but kind of the culture.
but he wasn t a match [amanda] and thank u, next busted that wide open in terms of confessions. even almost got married and for pete, i m so thankful today, fans get so much more from an artist. you know, it s like they see their whole life. -look at my meal. -[man] what did you get? [laughs] vegan. [benny] with billie, she was showing everyone every part of her. she was the anti-pop star pop star. i m the bad guy duh with billie eilish, you feel as if she s whispering right in your ear, and that intimacy in the age when social media overtook everything, that tangibility of the voice is kind of part of the point. you really know how to make me cry when you give me those ocean eyes i m scared [finneas] billie s voice is my favorite voice. every time billie says anything in a song, i believe it. and that s, to me, the mark of, like,