♪ - My straight jacket's custom-made though ♪
♪ I'm crazy just like Galileo ♪
Hello, I'm Jessie Reyez, and I'm here to play
a game of Song Association with Elle.
So I'll be given a word and then I'll have 10 seconds
to sing that word in a song.
We're just gonna leave it up to God.
It's in God's hands.
Before we get into the game, make sure you
check out my song from the album, "Love in the Dark".
(hums)
Ready.
♪ Ready or not, here I come ♪
♪ You can't hide, gonna find you ♪
♪ Hmm, hmm, hmm. ♪
Yeah, Fugees.
I remember being super lucky one day
on my way, on like, my walk back from school or to school.
It was raining, and I guess someone was in a rush
and they dropped their CD pack.
They were just on the floor, sprawled.
And I remember picking up Nas' "Stillmatic",
I remember picking up the "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill",
I remember "The Score",
and I just got blessed, I got blessed, I was so happy.
Straight.
♪ My straight jacket's custom-made though ♪
My song, Shutter Island.
♪ I'm crazy just like Galileo ♪
Man, I've been coming to terms with the fact
that I've-- I'm crazy sometimes.
This is what it is.
So, it's kind of a song that comes to terms with it
but it's almost like, learning to love your crazy.
You know?
So there's rubies on my straight jacket.
It's fine that I have a straight jacket on,
but there's rubies, b- (beep)
Somebody.
♪ Somebody that I used to know ♪
♪ Cut me off ♪
♪ Make out like it never happened ♪
♪ And that we were nothing ♪
♪ I don't even need the love ♪
Miss.
♪ I guess it's safe to say, baby ♪
♪ Safe to say that I am officially missing you ♪
♪ Can't nobody do it like you ♪
Tonight.
♪ Tonight. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
♪ So let's set the world on-- ♪
I'm changing the melody.
Pretty.
♪ Pretty hurts ♪
Such a good song.
Sia wrote that, right?
Beyonce snapped, Beyonce killed it, and Sia wrote it.
Beautiful record.
The video's beautiful.
Man, the video's beautiful for, for so many reasons.
I like how they promote self love by still like,
highlighting what the f- (beep) is wrong.
Getting ready to be a beauty queen
but you got tears in your eyes.
You could be as beautiful as you want outside,
but if your soul doesn't match, what are you doing?
Body.
♪ You don't gotta tell me 'bout your body count ♪
♪ I don't gotta know you're ex's name ♪
♪ 'cause if it just so happens that ♪
♪ You turn around and ask me ♪
♪ I think you might feel some type of way ♪
It's my song, "Body Count", by Jessie Reyez.
I was at Babyface's studio, which I love,
it's such an honor going there to work.
We were there late night, and I was with
one of like, my favorite producers,
he's so sick, Chris Tines, he's a mad dog.
And, it was maybe two in the morning,
one in the morning,
'cause I get into the habit of making,
like, five records in a session.
Not that they're good, but I just like,
I, I prefer getting them out of me
and then assessing them after the fact.
But before we started,
we were just having a conversation about life,
and he was telling me about how his like,
home girl was hesitant to say her body count number,
and how he wasn't, it just came out.
We got into a deeper conversation about
how that's just ass that women almost feel like,
more of a pressure, or more hesitation to say that number
because it shouldn't be the same.
'Cause it shouldn't be equal, or it should be less.
Just, stupid stereotypes that we're shaking at the moment.
Myself.
♪ Me, myself, and I ♪
♪ That's all I got in the end ♪
♪ That's what I found out ♪
♪ And there-- ♪
I'm such a f- (beep) Beyoncé fan, it's sick.
(laughs)
I'm part of the B-hive.
"Me, Myself, and I", from Beyoncé.
I love how she approaches her craft.
I love that, when I watch interviews
I feel like I always learn something.
I love that she's been able to be successful
but still seems to prioritize her family.
I think that that's beautiful.
And that's an added weight that women have to carry
because men just don't, they just don't
feel that same pressure, but women do.
And when a woman can actually successfully balance
a business that's thriving,
and a family that's thriving,
and continue to better herself as a performer,
I think that that's an art.
It's an art, when a woman can do that,
and I respect it.
Stars.
♪ When the stars are falling down ♪
♪ That's love in the dark ♪
That's my song. "Love in the Dark.
My life influences my work and my songs.
People resonate mostly truth,
and that's why I've been really fortunate
in being able to see success in my music and in my songs.
It's partly because I'm talking about
my life and what I go through.
It's mostly sad because I find more vacility
with sadness than I do with happiness,
'cause when I'm happy I feel like I can bask in it.
When I'm happy I feel like I ate a salad,
so my body's all right.
But then when I'm sad, it's almost like
I've eaten like, a poison cake.
So you don't think about throwing up,
your body's just like, yo, there's poison in me
(wretches)
and you just do it.
So that's kinda how it is with, with sad songs.
When I'm sad, it just happens.
Or when I'm angry, it just happens,
and it's kinda like I just--
I think that, I think that that's why--
I don't even know, but, that's, that's what it is.
Great.
♪ I wanna be a great one ♪
♪ I wanna make a billion dollars, ♪
♪ Bring it to my pops, say, ♪
♪ "Daddy, what you prayed for" ♪
That's my song, "Great One".
The first I ever recorded, I think,
was this song on the piano,
can't remember what I called it,
but I remember the verse, like,
♪ Some people think they know ♪
♪ The pain behind a broken heart ♪
♪ Ayie da nanana... ♪
♪ I try to find an explanation ♪
♪ But my soul only sings the blues ♪
♪ I heard love was the worst pain ♪
♪ Who knew that it was true? ♪
♪ Now I'm stuck being-- ♪
ehh, it's gone, but that--
I was young, I was like, I was younger.
I was like, 14, 15?
Feel.
♪ Ah, tell me that you feel it too ♪
Ah, it's a song I did with Tainy and Tory Lanez.
Stay.
♪ Something in the way you move ♪
♪ Makes me feel like I can't live without you ♪
♪ It takes me all the way ♪
♪ I want you to stay ♪
♪ Funny you're the broken one ♪
♪ But I'm the only one who needed saving ♪
That's such a beautiful song.
♪ When you never see the light ♪
♪ It's hard to know which one of us is breaking ♪
Need.
(clock ticking)
(buzzer)
Son of a b- (beep)
I'm so sorry, y'all.
You.
♪ You remind me of a girl that I once knew ♪
♪ See her face whenever I, I look at you ♪
♪ Believe all of the things she put me through ♪
♪ This is why I just can't-- ♪
yeah, Usher.
I'd love to work with Frank.
I think he's amazing.
And Pink Matter's one of my favorite songs.
And Kid Cudi, love Cudi.
I just remember, I just like,
I couldn't even tell you a song,
because there's so many that resonated.
He's done a lot for the kids that felt like outsiders.
He's on the line for kids that felt like,
like the world wasn't made for them,
like, they're walking uphill.
I appreciate that a lot, so I'd love to work with him.
Sweat.
♪ All strength, no sweat ♪
You know what that sounds like, a check!
That's my song, "Don't Sweat" with Secret.
This song I made at Babyface's studio.
And, it's jokes because I had to change some lyrics
to fit the idea that that, Secret wanted, right?
But the original lyrics to the song,
instead of saying, ♪ all sweat, we step, they call it,
it's, ♪ no breaks and step and believe me,
♪ go play to my life it's no lie, ♪
♪ I won't break a step in-- (mumbles) ♪
♪ Nobody for nothing, I can do it on my own. ♪
That's the original lyrics, because,
walking into his studio,
seeing all those gold plates in his office,
I was like f- (beep), it's gonna be me,
I can do this, I want this,
I want, I wanna see not a lick of wall
in my house one day, I just want it covered.
So, there's, there's seeds of ambition
buried in the origin of that song.
I think I did awful.
I don't think I did that well.
Especially 'cause I listen to a lot of throwbacks,
so, if you don't listen to throwbacks,
you might be like, what the f- (beep) is she singing?
What, whatever.
Thank you for watching me play Song Association
with Elle, don't forget to like and subscribe
and also, if you wanna hear more of my stuff,
look up "Love in the Dark" from my album,
"Before Love Came to Kill Us".