♪ Oh I'm sorry, I promise. ♪
- Oh promise it's in,
Oh, I know I say the word promise in my song.
"Say it Over?"
Charlie Puth, I know you got 15 out of 15.
I know that she was helping you.
Hey, my name is Ruel and I am back with Elle
to play Round Two of Song Association.
I'll be given a word, and I'll have 10 seconds
to rap or sing that word in a song.
Yeah, I feel like I definitely set myself up for failure
with my last, my last run because I'd got 15 out of 15.
But I was also, like, a lot less competitive now (laughs)
I feel like I've grown up.
I remember going into that last one being like,
"If I don't get 15 out of 15 I'm a failure!"
(whirring sounds)
Good.
♪ Goodbye, my lover. ♪
♪ Goodbye my friend. ♪
♪ You have been one- ♪
Is that James Blunt?
Yeah.
Take.
♪ Take on me. ♪
♪ Take me- ♪
"Take on Me."
What's the name? What are they called?
Aha. Yes.
My girlfriend's uncle wrote that song randomly though,
if you, little bit of fun Fact.
Was.
♪ As it was. ♪
Harry Styles, "As It Was."
I might not,
this is actually way better than I was expecting.
I don't want to speak to you soon, though
Always.
♪ And there will always be a part of me ♪
♪ That's holding on, that still believes ♪
♪ That everything is fine. ♪
"Always," Rick's Orange County.
Time.
♪ Your time has come again. ♪
♪ Da da da da da. ♪
Our time as come.
I know it's Alex Turner and his band,
but the song's called "Our Time Has Come again."
But it's not Arctic Monkeys, it's his other one.
Yourself.
♪ It's always you against your selfish ways ♪
♪ You're suffocating ♪
♪ I can't save you now. ♪
♪ Oh, why's it always you against yourself? ♪
Me, "You Against Yourself"
New track out. Stream it now.
Please, I'm begging you.
The song's kind of like an intervention, I feel like.
It's like, you're having an intervention with someone
who's very close to you.
That if it's like a family member, or a really close friend
and you're just saying like, "Man, like. You really gotta,
you really gotta change your ways otherwise, like,
things are going to go really, really downhill for you."
And they're kind of like, "Why was it always me?"
Like, "What am I doing wrong?"
But it's like you're, you're doing wrong.
Her.
(clock ticking)
No!
Her.
Her...
(buzzer ringing) Mione Granger.
(camera person laughing)
Hermione Granger. No that doesn't count. (laughs)
Love.
♪ Love again. I'm- ♪
"Love Again," Daniel Caesar.
That's the, that's how it sung.
So I don't know any other words but I know it's-
♪ Love again. ♪
Promise.
(clock ticking)
I've got a song called "Promise."
(clock ticking)
♪ Oh I'm sorry, I promise. ♪
- Oh promise it's in,
(buzzer ringing)
Oh, I know I say the word promise in my song.
"Say it Over?"
"Let the Gross Grow."
It's another song of mine.
Similar vibes.
I mean you gave it to me. (laughs)
I didn't win (beep).
I'm a fraud.
This is all fraudulent.
Charlie Puth, I know you got 15 out of 15.
I know that she was helping you.
♪ Make a promise so I can leave. ♪
♪ Burn a forest so I can sleep. ♪
♪ Lay my headstone. ♪
♪ Let the grass grow over me. ♪
Alone.
Alone. "Alone Again," The Weekend.
How does he sing it?
How does he sing "Alone?"
See I've got the titles, I just forget how they go.
(buzzer ringing)
♪ Alone another day ♪
♪ Alone again. (laughs) ♪
That's not how it goes.
But he's got a song called "Alone Again,"
and that's kind of how it goes.
But I didn't sing it .
God, this is a lot worse.
I started off so well.
(camera person laughing)
Rockstar.
(clock ticking)
♪ I'm not a rockstar, this ain't my rock moves ♪
♪ Dun da dun na ♪
♪ So, so what. ♪
Pink, "Rockstar." Pop Star, or is it "Rockstar?"
It's "Rockstar."
Leave.
♪ She's leaving home after ♪
♪ Spending at home for so many years. ♪
Well, I guess I still always take inspiration
from other artists,
but I used to, like, hold certain other artists
like, so high in my head that like,
when I was writing a song, if that,
if I thought that person didn't like that song
or wouldn't like that song,
I would never put it out and I would be like, terrified.
And even if I did put it out, I'd just be like,
"Oh no like, this guy's never going to like this song.
Why'd I put this out?"
And it was like this really unhealthy thing I had and
I kind of knocked that out my system. (laughs)
I feel like I'm way better at writing songs now
because I'm doing exactly what I want
and I'm more now than ever like, you know,
the ideas that I had are being executed the way I wanted to.
Stay.
♪ Need you to stay, ♪
♪ Hey, hey! ♪
"Stay," Leroy. Big Boy Leroy
My fellow Australian companion, colleague. (laughs)
Grow.
Easy. "Let the Grass Grow."
But we done that one as well, so I'm going to do a,
try and do another one.
(clock ticking)
♪ Growing up is weird. ♪
♪ Sleep with friends, break up. ♪
Oh, I'm only doing my own songs now.
I'm feeling like a good old cheap bastard,
but I'll take it because I need to get the points back.
The most exciting part about this album or like, creating it
was probably just writing again.
I hadn't written a lot of music, I guess,
before the start of 2020.
Like each project I put out was kind of
the exact amount of songs I wrote for it.
Which is kind of strange and
probably not the best way to write music because you know,
you could have had a lot more goes of writing better songs.
All of us musicians have had way too much time to write
over the past few years.
Over.
♪ Say it over. ♪
I did that one on the last one. So it doesn't count.
♪ Over, over, over my head. ♪
I think I used that one in the other one, as well.
I think I used both of them in that.
That was unsaid.
They're both my songs.
So anyway, it's a little bit cheap.
Don't.
♪ Don't (beep) with my love. ♪
Bit of Shero, a bit of Ed "Shearing"
It's a nice little sheep shearing pun there.
Light.
♪ I could leave the light on. ♪
(laughs) I don't know who that is, but I just,
that's the first thing that came into my head.
Is that like Luke Combs or something?
I don't know.
Someone. Okay.
♪ I could leave the light on. ♪
Question.
Oh Wow. Question.
(clock ticking)
Question?
(clock ticking continues)
Question? (buzzer ringing)
Questioning, Question.
Who is ever used the word question in a song?
If you have, it's a bad song.
About.
♪ I just want to be about you. ♪
♪ Just to be about ♪
♪ Do do do do do do do do do do do doo ♪
Winston Surfshirt, "Be About You."
Care.
♪ As long as you care. ♪
That's me.
But I always want to just do something that isn't me.
♪ Care Bears, do do do do doo. ♪
Is that the, is that the theme song of Care Bears?
If it's not, hit me up.
I feel
mixed feelings about that.
I think I did a good job.
I definitely did not do it as well as I did last time
but I think only way I could have gone is down.
Again, my name is Ruel, and you can check out my new track
"You Against Yourself," right now.
(upbeat music)