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Why Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” Sounds So Different Than Other Pop Songs · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. One of the signature sounds in pop
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Speaker 1: music right now is vocals drenched in rever. Reverb V
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Speaker 1: don't know it's an effect. It makes it sound like
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Speaker 1: somebody is singing in a huge hall or cave where
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Speaker 1: the voice just trails off, you know, like this. One
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Speaker 1: of the biggest hits of the year bucks the trend.
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Speaker 1: Billie Eilish's Bad Guy, where her vocals are incredibly tight,
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Speaker 1: and Crisp and her brother Phineas, who produced and co
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Speaker 1: wrote it, where they explained that that creative decision kind
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Speaker 1: of came organically with how it was recorded. He tells Billboard.
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Speaker 1: Reverb makes vocals sound better the time. It makes the
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Speaker 1: notes ring out. I have nothing against reaver, but we
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Speaker 1: wanted to make it feel like you're sitting right next
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Speaker 1: to Billy. We made this whole album in a bedroom. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: my little bedroom at my parents house had no reverb.
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Speaker 1: So we liked how the vocals felt and we just
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Speaker 1: started to embrace it. Bad Guys out now that direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood