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Billie Eilish and Finneas have built some of the defining songs of the millenia. Here we break down their approach to vocal production, all thanks to Apple…
Billie Eilish and her producer/songwriter brother Finneas have been the success stories of 21st century pop music. They have won multiple Grammys, an Oscar for the theme to the 25th Bond film No Time to Die, and countless other awards, the most recent being a Golden Globe for the song What Was I Made For?, from the film Barbie. Eilish’s chart successes have been just as major, scoring global number ones with her debut album, 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and matching it with the follow-up Happier Than Ever.
Incredibly, much of this success came about after the duo uploaded the song Ocean Eyes to Soundcloud in 2015, a song Eilish recorded with Finneas after he originally intended it to be used for his own band. A few days and a few hundred thousand plays later, and Eilish began her career proper and has never looked back.
The brother and sister have an incredibly distinct writing and production style but it’s Eilish’s vocal that we’re going to focus on in this Sound Like tutorial.
Luckily Apple gave us probably the best overview of the duo’s songwriting and production methods when they included Ocean Eyes as a demo song with Logic Pro 10.5. It’s now disappeared from the latest version (10.8) but we’ve dug the demo out and will take a deep dive into the Eilish vocal processing and even some of the song elements right here…
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