♪ I see your true colors ♪
♪ That's why I love ♪
- Hey, it's Mahalia, and today I'm gonna play
game of Song Association with Elle,
right here, from my home in London.
So I'll be given a word,
and then I'll have 10 seconds to rap
or sing that word in a song.
Now, okay, so I have watched many of these,
and I've seen people do it very well,
and I'm a little bit scared,
cause I'm really bad just when I'm caught off-guard
or when I'm on the spot, but hopefully this goes okay.
But before we get into the game,
please be sure to check out
my new EP, 'Isolation Tapes',
which is out right now
on all streaming platforms.
Yeah, go get it.
(vocalizing over mid-tempo instrumental)
FACE.
(timer ticking)
Uh...
♪ I can't feel my face when I'm with you ♪
♪ Mm, but I love it, ah ah, but I love it ♪
"I Can't Feel My Face", The Weeknd.
BURN.
(timer ticking)
Burn, burn, burn, burn.
♪ You said, let it burn ♪
♪ When your feeling ain't the same in your body ♪
♪ Don't want you to know, gotta let it go ♪
(vocalizing)
"Burn", Usher.
whoof!
FAST.
(timer ticking)
♪ You got a fast car ♪
♪ I got a ticket ♪
(vocalizing)
"Fast Car", Tracy Champan.
UP.
Okay.
♪ Oh, I feel good ♪
♪ (Vocalizing) ♪
This is my song, and it's from an EP of mine
called "Never Change" that came out
maybe like five years ago and it scooped up.
Mahalia, "Up".
My first song under the Billboard chart
was my song "What You Did" with the lovely
Ella Mai.
And wrote it just about an old story
that I'd never really gotten a chance to speak about
and it kinda felt like the right time.
And then I met Ella hopped on, it was amazing and you know,
it was like, this kinda of perfect balance
of just like this two sisters together.
♪ What you did ♪
♪ Yeah you know I love you but I can't forgive ♪
♪ You could tell me stay but I have to go, cause ♪
♪ I will not expect someone ♪
♪ To stay around if I let them down like this. ♪
TRUE.
(timer ticking)
True.
♪ I see your true colors ♪
♪ (Vocalizing) ♪
♪ I see your true colors, that's why I love ♪
"True Colors", Cyndi Lauper.
Got you there didn't I.
TWO.
(timer ticking)
Um,
(timer ticking)
No idea
(timer alarm buzz)
Sorry.
WISH.
(timer ticking)
Wish.
Uuum,
♪ Wishing on a star ♪
(Vocalizing)
♪ I'm wishing on a dream. ♪
Who sings that?
(vocalizing)
- [Man] Rose Royce
- It's Rose Royce? Uh,
"Wishing On a Star", Rose Royce.
What's next?
Three songs that keep me lifted
while I stay at home.
First one, I would say,
Skip Marley and H.E.R., "Slow Down".
I found that song two weeks into myself isolation
and it has totally been getting me through up.
I put it on my playlist. It's like the one song
at the minute that just calms me down
and makes me slow down.
Oh, I would say, India Irie, "I Am Not My Hair".
I found that one about a week ago.
Again, that used to be my favorite song when I was a kid.
Then it's, it was so, such a huge part of my growth
and my development as a young woman, you know,
and then my third song, Ooh,
my third song getting me through
Lizzo, "Truth Hurts".
We listened to that song in this house
for like the past six months.
It's just one of those feel good songs
that makes me feel good when I get up
and I do my thing and I want to dance around and do stuff.
So, yeah, that's my three.
FEEL.
(timer ticking) Uh uh,
What's that Calvin Harris song with Katy Perry?
(vocalizing)
That's it.
♪ Don't be afraid to catch feels ♪
That was at it.
(vocalizing)
"Feels" Calvin Harris, Katy Perry
and maybe, somebody else and somebody else.
LIGHT.
(timer ticking)
Lights.
um,
♪ Leave the lights on, leave the, leave the ♪
♪ Lights on ♪
(vocalizing)
H.E.R., "Lights On".
NEVER.
(timer ticking)
Never, um
♪ Best thing I never ♪
Beyoncé, "Best Thing I Never Had".
Definitely I can't sing that song.
Not gonna try.
FREE.
(timer ticking)
♪ This ♪
(vocalizing)
I can't say the word.
Kendrick Lamar, "For Free?".
Geez!
Wow!
DEEP.
(timer ticking)
♪ I might throw you in the deep end ♪
(vocalizing)
BenjiFlow, "Deep End".
That's my favorite song of the year, last year.
REAL.
(timer ticking)
Real!
(timer ticking)
(alarm buzzing)
No idea, what happened?
We're going downhill.
Okay lights off.
PINK.
(timer ticking)
♪ That soft pink matter ♪
♪ Cotton Candy ♪
Frank Ocean, "Pink Matter".
LONG.
(timer ticking)
♪ Cause you gotta a long way to go ♪
♪ Say you wanna love me, when you touch me ♪
(vocalizing)
Cassie, "Long Way to Go".
(inaudible)
Wow, that was hard.
I don't know how I did.
Thanks so much for watching my
game of Song Association with Elle.
If you guys wanna find my latest project,
it's called "Isolation Tapes"
and is out now on all streaming platforms.
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make sure that you subscribe to Elle's channel.