♪ I don't regret what you made me ♪
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
- Hopefully, at the end of this challenge,
the two of them are still gonna be sleeping in the same bed.
- Excuse me.
(intense music)
- Stop vibing, you gotta get writing.
- It's not even a game anymore.
Ah! (laughing)
- Welcome to "SONGLAB,"
a show where our talented "SONGLAB" producers
get paired up with musicians
and have only two hours to create an original song.
The most voted song will be the winner and the team
will get a cash prize. (cash register chiming)
Get ready for "SONGLAB."
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Hi, everyone, we have here with us
our super talented "SONGLAB" producers.
(mellow music)
- What's up, everyone?
My name is Dear Evergreen,
I am a producer, and I predominantly make
vocal driven indie electronica.
- Hey, my name is Simon Servida,
and I'm a producer from Toronto, Canada.
I mainly do hip-hop production right now.
- And today we brought two special musicians
(record scratching) who also happen
to be a couple.
♪ I see blue ♪
- What's good?
My name's Brian Chinn, I'm a singer songwriter and producer.
♪ How could you leave me with them ♪
- My name's Kayla Steen
and I am a recording artist, singer and songwriter.
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- My relationship with Kayla is fire.
- I met him at a bar like three years ago
and I was just like, "Hey, I'm Kayla".
He wasn't into it 'cause I guess I was too bubbly
and he's like real chill.
He fell in love with me
after we both had a bottle of Hennessy.
- She's a way better singer than I am.
- He can play multiple instruments and produce anything.
I do wish I could play an instrument.
I did play the harp, but I don't know
how to play that (beep) no more.
Actually, you know what, if someone
brought a harp around, (ethereal music)
I could do it.
- Do you guys live together?
- He is in the other room.
(Brian knocking on wall) - Yeah, separated by a wall.
- Now we need to decide what the teams are going to be.
Three, two, one.
And the results are Brian, you will be on Team Evergreen
and Kayla, you'll be on Team Simon.
- It's not even a game anymore.
- For today's song battle, the theme is breakups.
- Fire, let's go.
- Okay, Team Simon.
The three words for your team's lyrics
are missing, jealous, and ex.
Team Evergreen and the three words for your team's lyrics
are tear, regret, and pain.
Each team will have two hours to create an original song
with the theme of breakups and use the selected three words
in your lyrics that were suggested by our followers.
I hope you all have fun and may the best song win.
(mellow music)
- Hey, if anything happens, just go to his room
and unplug his computer. (clock ticking)
- (laughing) We won't do that.
(mellow music)
- I'm really amped.
I haven't had any caffeine
(clock ticking) for like the past week
and then I just drank, have you ever had a Yerba?
- Have I?
(soda tab popping) - Dude! (laughing)
- I wanna take your hip-hop influence in the beat
and then I will carry it vocally,
like in a '90s R&B sort of a way.
- Yeah, okay, I think we have to do this step by step.
So let's get a
chord progression down first. - Okay.
- What instrument sound do you like?
- I like guitar.
- Oh, oh that's perfect
'cause I don't know how to do that.
- You don't, okay, keys, do keys.
- The words I have to include, tear, regret, and pain.
It's kinda dark. - Yeah.
I'm down to keep it pretty like minor and moody.
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- How do you feel about that?
- Beautiful, love it.
(Kayla humming)
- Can I just like hum what I just did to you?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the easiest option.
- Okay.
(Kayla humming) (clock ticking)
- Wait, stop, stop, I gotta-
- Sorry. (groovy music)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(Kayla humming)
- Yeah? - Yes, yas! (laughing)
This is so fun to watch.
When we're adding drums, let's wake it up.
'Cause right now it's sleepy.
- Are you thinking like this kind of drums?
(mellow music)
- No.
- Very hip-hop snare.
- Yeah, that wakes it up.
- Okay, I'm getting what's going on.
- Could even maybe go 95.
(groovy music)
- Yeah, let's take it there.
- Okay, let's see.
Okay, let me just add some hats for some groove
and then I'll send this over to you.
♪ I don't regret what you made me ♪
♪ Tainted and daily ♪
♪ Faded and sailing ♪
- It's so weird 'cause I can hear him.
He's like already singing.
- That's crazy.
- Ugh! (laughing)
- While he's vocal recording, just start screaming.
- Ah! (laughing)
♪ Shedding no tear, no shade ♪
♪ No stress, no fear, no fade ♪
- I'm honestly really excited about these scratch vocals
'cause I already have something cool
that I'm gonna do with them and I'm excited to show you.
(laughing) The idea just like hit me right across the face
and I was like, "Oh, hell yeah."
♪ I don't feel no pain when you're away ♪
- So I can- - Sorry, I think I burped
in your ear, I apologize.
When I'm super nervous, I burp a lot.
We're not just us- - I know!
- Talking by the way, this is on the internet.
- I'm about to record myself, oh (beep), ah!
♪ 'Cause I don't wanna be next to my ex ♪
♪ I'm just out here trying to flex ♪
♪ Thought you knew with her (humming) ♪
♪ On and on ♪
♪ I'm moving on ♪
♪ Not missing you, no, player ♪
- That's pretty crazy. (Kayla laughing)
That (beep) would have taken me two weeks to write that.
- I usually take forever, but we don't have time.
- Hey guys, how are you guys doing?
- Stressed. - Good.
(Kayla laughing)
- Also that.
- What's poppin'?
- Now I'm here to give you guys a challenge.
Yeah. - We love challenges.
- Your team must incorporate a voice message
to your song that was sent to us by our followers.
- [Follower] And you were willing to do it,
but I was a coward and I know that.
But you don't know what is going on inside of me
and that's okay, I'm stuck somewhere else.
And I don't think you'll be able to understand till later
that this is the best decision
that I could have made for us.
- Wow.
- Um, okay.
- You don't have to use the whole memo,
but you have to incorporate it somehow.
- Okay. - Good luck guys,
and see you at the end.
- Oh thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you.
- It was so sad but I think we could keep the ending part
where she's like, "I made the best decision for me",
more than like, "I'm sorry I have to do",
I'm not (beep), the girl we're writing for is not sorry.
- My instinct would be to chop it up and trigger it.
Then it could be used kind of like
where I would normally do ad libs or something.
- Let's move in that direction for sure.
♪ I ain't gonna be (humming) ♪
- We're so good!
- Stop vibing, you gotta get writing.
What are you doing?
- "Stop vibing, you gotta get writing", fire.
Okay, I'm out, I'm out.
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- I love those keys.
♪ Baby, I feel no pain ♪
- Woo!
- "Woo" my ass, I can hear him. (laughing)
- Ha! (Kayla laughing)
- Ex is the only word I have left.
Okay, I'm just gonna (beep) freestyle.
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
♪ Bet next time, you'll be worried about me ♪
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
(gasping) I got it out!
Should I call Brian in, I need help with something.
Okay, I'm going to get him.
I need help with something.
- Ah!
Okay, hold on, okay.
- I just wanna send him these harmonies.
- Export, mother (beep).
- Thank you! - How you doing?
- Good, we're good.
- You're good? - Mm-hmm.
Bye now! (laughing)
(clock ticking) - It looks like we have
30 minutes left.
- Could you send me the hook?
- Oh, you're saying bounce this out-
- I mean, if it's a convenient time, you know what I mean?
- Yeah, so here's the thing.
I think that bouncing it out is gonna take too much time.
I'll share the tune with you so you can kind of hear
where we're at and then maybe get an idea.
- I'm just doing like layers and stacks and stuff.
- If you can get that over to me within the next 10,
that would be phenomenal.
♪ Bet next time you'll be worried about me ♪
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
- That is not the right harmony, but it's fine.
Let's see what happened.
How's it coming on your end?
(upbeat music)
Hey, you're so speedy.
♪ You're looking out for me, no ♪
♪ Said we weren't meant to be ♪
♪ But I'm moving along 'cause I don't wanna ♪
♪ Baby, I feel no ways ♪
♪ Baby, I feel them days ♪
♪ I put it down clean when I break ♪
- You good, Brian, on sending those vocals over?
- Yeah, how much time did they say?
(clocking ticking) - Five minutes.
- Five, ooh!
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
- Can you take that one out, Simon?
- Which one?
- Simon, can you take the "bet next time" harmony out?
- I can pitch correct it.
- It is so annoying though, if you want to.
You got this, we got this, I'm right here.
- Where is this, ooh, it's gonna get close.
- I said just delete it, it's okay.
- Down here? (vocalization whining)
- Huh?
- Up here?
- No, no, no!
♪ Bet next time you ♪
Simon!
♪ Ooh-oh-oh, ooh ♪
- Are you exporting those?
- Yeah, got you. - Okay, sick.
- [Follower] Decision that I could have made for us.
- Okay, not bad.
I think I'll just make the vocals a little louder.
- I can't believe we did that.
- The wave titled Vox Two-
- Yeah. - Should be the one
that starts right at the beginning, that's the verse,
the pre and then Vox Hook and Vox Hook Two.
Those can just start at the beginning of the hook.
- Oh, I'm not getting this, I'm sorry. (laughing)
- Oh (beep) okay.
- I mean I can share my screen,
but I don't think- - Okay, let's export.
- We're gonna have time.
(beep), what are we calling it again?
- I mean we could call it "Breakup to Breakthrough".
- Ah, we don't have a name for it yet, oh my God.
- Oh God. - Five, four-
- Five, okay. - Three, two.
- (beep)
(bell ringing)
God, I hate corny ass names.
Let's just call it "Jealous".
- How you feel?
- I feel like I just blacked out for two hours. (laughing)
- How you feeling?
- Where am I putting it?
Oh- - Oh, you're doing something.
Nevermind. (laughing)
- Answer to your question is for 10 years.
- I said, how are you feeling?
(Kayla laughing) - Okay, I'm doing good.
Yeah, this was stressful.
I don't know, it felt like time went a lot faster this time.
I don't even know the song that well.
- To not receive the vocals from Brian
until literally the very last minute,
that was really, really tough.
- And we pulled through, we did what needed to be done.
- Within two hours, I'd say we did a great job.
- Hey everyone, welcome back.
I hope both teams were able
to get everything done in two hours.
Now's the fun part.
Let's listen to each other's songs
and see what each team came up with.
Let's begin with Team Evergreen.
(mellow music)
♪ Baby, I feel no pain ♪
♪ Sunlight through the rain ♪
♪ I tried but you won't change ♪
♪ I-I-I-I won't shed no tear, no shade ♪
- Why is it so aesthetic already?
- (laughing) It's fire!
- Oh man, I'm so nervous right now.
♪ I-I-I-I I don't regret what you made me ♪
♪ Tainted and jaded ♪
♪ Endlessly faded ♪
♪ I don't regret what I made you ♪
- I love the vocal mixing on this.
♪ One time, it's no take two ♪
Here we go. ♪ We breakup to breakthrough ♪
(upbeat music)
- Wait, wait!
♪ And baby I feel no ways ♪
♪ I put it down clean when I break ♪
Okay. (laughing)
♪ And baby I feel no ways ♪
♪ I put it down clean when I break ♪
- It's so (beep) cool.
♪ And baby I feel no ways ♪
♪ I put it down clean when I break ♪
- It's a bop, yo.
- Woo!
- It's really good. - You guys, that was fire!
I hate you so much.
- Great work on the outro, that was fire.
- I know it was weird not really getting the chance
to even show you like where the production had gotten to.
(mellow music)
- [Follower] And you were willing to do it,
but I was a coward and I know that,
but you don't know what is going on inside of me
and that's okay, I'm stuck somewhere else and-
♪ It's not like it used to be, no ♪
- Ooh! ♪ You looking out for me, no ♪
♪ Said we weren't meant to be ♪
♪ But I'm moving along ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't wanna play these ♪
Her vocal!
♪ Been calling you my ex for so damn long ♪
♪ Busy trying flex and I'll be gone ♪
♪ So I'm moving on ♪
Ooh! ♪ I'm not missing you ♪
♪ Now or later ♪
♪ You can keep your thoughts and hopes for a hater ♪
- Ooh! ♪ 'Cause I'm moving on ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm moving on ♪
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
♪ Bet next time ♪
♪ You'll be worried 'bout me ♪ - Okay!
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
♪ All these dudes gon' be running around me ♪
♪ I keep jealous ♪
♪ Bet next time, you'll be worried about me ♪
♪ I keep you jealous ♪
- Her voice, oh my God.
♪ Na na, na na ♪
- [Follower] This is the best decision
that I could have made for us.
- Woo! - Yo.
- That was clean.
I love those chord progressions.
- You got pipes on you, seriously.
- Yeah, she carried it.
- Thank you.
- These songs are all amazing and props to all of you
for pumping this out in two hours, which is crazy.
We have posted these songs online
and people are already voting as we speak
and let's find out which one of the two songs
will be the winner.
- Oh God. (laughing)
- This might sound overconfident,
and I don't like sounding like that,
but I do think we're gonna win.
(bell ringing)
- It just had a character to it.
You know, the way that the sounds were picked
and the way that it bounces
and the way that the vocals were mixed.
- Kayla's newer to recording her own vocals
and I thought she killed it.
- Now for the results.
Both songs were very unique with their own flavor
but there can only be one winner.
The results are in and the song
that received the most votes, the winning song
for today's "SONGLAB" is "Breakup to Breakthrough"
from Team Evergreen.
- What?
- [Paulo] Congrats Brian and Dear Evergreen.
- Yes! - Oh my gosh.
- I've been talking so much (beep)
about how I don't think we're gonna win.
- Dear Evergreen and Brian, they had an amazing song,
so it was kind of undeniable.
- For the time that we had, I feel like we crushed it.
It was kind of interesting seeing their rivalry.
- What's crazy is that, because we could hear each other,
I think that amped up the competitiveness.
- I was really happy with Kayla's production
and it was just fun.
I mean, I met what I said,
like your guys' song was mad catchy.
- I love you.
- I love you. - You're all right.
(both laughing)
- Thank you so much for watching
and if you liked this episode of "SONGLAB",
make sure you hit that Like button
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If you wanna listen to these songs,
you can go to Spotify and other streaming services,
so make sure you click the link below
and listen to the full tracks.
Thank you so much and see you guys next time.
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