♪ California knows how to party ♪
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, I'm Paris Jackson and I'm gonna play
a game of Song Association with Elle.
I'll be given a word, I'll have 10 seconds
to sing or rap or talk that song,
that word in the song.
But before we get into the game,
please be sure to check out my new single "Lighthouse"
that I did with Butch Walker and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam.
Warmups are important.
I didn't do them for years.
I'm not going to do them for the camera right now,
because it's embarrassing.
Whip.
Whip my hair by Willow Smith.
♪ I whip my hair back and forth ♪
♪ I whip my hair ♪
That.
That song.
Baby.
I just, I don't know who does the song, but it's like...
♪ Baby you're my light ♪
Something like that.
It's on "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist".
♪ You know you have to face ♪
♪ All you find ♪
♪ Cause baby you're my light ♪
Richard Hawley.
Woman.
♪ Why why woman ♪
I think it's Glen Hansard.
Take.
♪ Take on me ♪
A-ha.
Let down
My song, "Let Down".
It was taken from "Let Down" off of Radiohead,
so that song is...
♪ Let down and hanging around ♪
Pain is probably the biggest inspiration.
When I'm happy, I don't really write that much.
I actually haven't written a song in like a month or two
cause I've just been so happy.
And you know, I find the most beautiful metaphors
and similes out of sadness.
You know, I think because love is such a simple thing.
It's a simple and pure thing
and there's only so much you can turn it into.
But sadness and pain can be so complex.
So you can get a lot more juice
for your squeeze with that one.
California.
♪ California dreamin' ♪
Mamas and Papas.
I think that's them.
"California Dreamin'".
Fantasy.
I wanna sing that Earth, Wind & Fire song,
but I don't know the words to it.
I just know the melody.
♪ Da da da ♪
♪ Fantasy ♪
It's Earth, Wind & Fire.
Stronger.
♪ Harder better faster strong ♪
♪ N-n-now that that don't kill me ♪
Kanye west.
There's no one song that made me fall in love with music.
It's always been around since as long as I could remember.
And that passion's always existed.
There's an acoustic original, like stripped version
of "Right Before My Eyes" by Cage The Elephant
that I've loved since junior high,
and they ended up...
It was a hidden track after the song "Flow"
on the "Thank You, Happy Birthday" album
and they took it off and redid it,
but you can still find the original somewhere on YouTube.
And that one, I just, it's always been
one of my favorite songs.
And as of late, "Limelight" by Touché Amoré
has just been on repeat nonstop.
Raise.
♪ So raise your glass if you are wrong ♪
♪ In all the right ways ♪
Pink.
That was on the radio a lot when I was in like junior high,
going to school.
Breathe.
♪ I want to breathe again ♪
It's mine.
So "Just You" is one of the only happy love songs I've got.
They're all usually very sad and depressing.
But "Just You" is a happy song.
And it's kind of about just taking the leap
even though I've been burned so badly in the past.
And the sound was pretty inspired
by like "A.M. 180" by Granddaddy,
and kind of like The Cranberries sound.
Lighthouse.
♪ The oils burnt in the lighthouse ♪
♪ My ship wrecked on your teeth ♪
Also mine.
It can be whatever you want it to be about.
For me, it had to do with heartbreak.
A lot of the lyrics and concepts were inspired
by Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes.
Just the way he writes his arrangements
and things like that.
And the way he rhymes as well.
That's kind of the method I went with
when I was writing "Lighthouse",
and then the chorus I cannot take credit for
because that was all Butch.
It's catchy and poppy and that's Butch's cup of tea,
you know?
Shake.
♪ My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard ♪
Does that count?
Eyelids.
You guys are just running it today.
♪ Got my eyelids ♪
♪ So I can't see you walk out the door. ♪
I wrote this song years ago.
I don't remember lyrics.
Half of the time I make music for myself
and the other half of the time I make music
for the people that feel exactly the way I felt
when I was 15, 16, 17, 18.
And the only thing that got me through those times,
most of the time, was music.
Bands like Radiohead and The Misfits and Smashing Pumpkins.
Stuff like that.
So if I can give other people a little bit
of what music has given me, then I'm good.
Girls.
♪ Girls girls girls ♪
Motley Crue.
Real.
♪ Real love ♪
♪ I'm searching for ♪
Yeah, that's Lauren?
- [Producer] Mary J.
- Mary J.
Yeah, you guys got a lot more pop out of me
than I would've liked to admit.
Because I've got this whole like grunge thing going on.
I'm like, yeah, I listen to Black Sabbath and Nirvana
and like old school rock and grunge and punk.
But like on the low I'm listening to
a little bit of Harry Styles here and there.
Like I can't help it.
It's good, you know?
I'm supposed to be very competitive,
cause I've got like four Aries placements
but like I always want the other person to win.
I'm like, I'll help you win.
I want you to win.