♪ When I think of home ♪
♪ I think of a place ♪
♪ Where there's love overflowing ♪
- Yo, what's up, it's Audrey Nuna here,
and I'm about to play a game of song association with Elle.
So I'll be given a word and I'll have 10 seconds
to either sing or rap a song with that word in it.
I have seen other episodes
and I've tried to play along with the episodes,
so I can firmly say that I might be the shittiest
at this in the history of this game.
And I'm so ready.
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(howls)
Fight.
♪ You gotta fight ♪
♪ For your right ♪
♪ To party ♪
Beastie Boys.
Breakfast.
Oh, wait.
Hmm.
I don't know.
That's such a weird word.
Who would use that word in the song?
♪ I make breakfast for all my pretty foes ♪
♪ And my boyfriend look like DiCaprio ♪
♪ I could strike a pose for ya poster bro ♪
♪ Get the angle right tho ♪
That song was one of the easiest songs to write
that I've ever written.
The beat was playing and it was crazy.
And we were like, this is not a song.
This is just a random cacophony of noises.
As of joke, my friend was like,
"You should just say your boyfriend looks like DiCaprio."
And then from that
I just took the flow of that and kept repeating it.
And for some reason it worked.
And then we got Jack Harlow on it.
We just cold emailed him from like a random burner email.
And for some reason he responded.
He actually DMed me his verse
while I was at a hundred get slash Pop Smoke concert
which sounds like a really weird dream.
But this was a real show that I went to.
Body.
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-Ody-ody ♪
I actually don't know any of the words besides that
By being crazy Kirby (mumbles) something fire.
I think she's fire.
Megan Thee Stallion has great verses
but that's the only word I know of that song.
Hot.
Drop...
♪ When the pimp's in the crib ma ♪
♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪
♪ When a get a attitude ♪
♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪
Snoop Dogg.
I have the hot take opinion.
I thought that Super Bowl performance was incredible.
I thought it was fire.
A genre that is an underdog genre,
having a moment like that.
All of them kind of in this real living, breathing history
able to do something as pop
as the Super Bowl was just...
That alone was enough for me.
They could have sat there and farted for like 10 minutes
and I would've been like that was genius.
Great.
♪ Because the greatest love of all ♪
♪ Is happening to me ♪
♪ I found the greatest love of all ♪
♪ Inside of me ♪
Whitney Houston, the "Greatest Love of All".
I actually sang that song at a halftime show for the Nets,
when it was the Brooklyn Nets.
Like when I was 12 and I...
It's one of my favorite songs.
it was a competition,
like basically three kids.
They would have them sing covers
and then pick based on the crowd, a winner.
I didn't win, but it was still fun.
Still salty.
It's fine.
Whitney Houston, her rendition of "Home"
on the Merv Griffin show.
That was a big moment for me.
Just the fact that a human could make
that type of noise was just like all inspiring.
And I loved singing a lot due to
just seeing her performances growing up on YouTube.
♪ When I think of home ♪
♪ I think of place where there's love overflowing ♪
♪ I wish I was home ♪
♪ I wish I was back there with the things ♪
♪ I've been knowing ♪
Show.
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Isn't that...
♪ All the ladies come and see me for once ♪
Does not have the word show in it.
♪ This is the greatest show ♪
(mumbles)
I don't actually know the song.
I just hear it a lot on iPads in random restaurants.
So that one.
(laughs)
Rich.
I wanna be rich.
I dunno.
I don't have a song for that one.
Rich.
(buzz)
Does anyone have a suggestion for me?
Rich.
Shit.
Right.
♪ Everybody know my name, what you want ♪
♪ Saying I was talking back just to front ♪
♪ Everybody talkin' shit, and they damn right ♪
♪ Damn right, damn right, shit ♪
♪ Damn right ♪
♪ Down right ♪
"damn Right" by Audrey Nuna.
That song I wrote with this dude, Nate Donmoyer.
He was just telling me about his time
as the drummer for Passion Pit,
which I thought was fire.
Told me about the time he vomited
at Coachella 'cause of Rick Rubin standing there.
We just kind of like immediately hit it off.
Got some mole tacos.
And when I tell you the song was written
in like 20 minutes, that's no exaggeration.
Like we talked for probably two hours-ish
and got to know each other.
Then he played this crazy like baseline
on this synth and just like heard the chorus immediately
and finished the song out back in New York from there.
My writing process is kind of a shit show.
I would describe it as painting or pottery.
I basically just keep adding ideas that I hear
until I feel like it has a heartbeat.
And then once you have a heartbeat, you're good.
Like you can dress the song up however you want,
put some sketches on that thing.
Like, I think as long as you have a heartbeat
in any creative endeavor,
like when as soon as you feel like heat coming from an idea,
that's like the moment.
And I always just look for that moment.
Light.
♪ You light up my life ♪
♪ You give me hope to carry on ♪
♪ You light up my days ♪
♪ And fill my nights with song ♪
"You Light Up My Life" by somebody.
I sang that song at my uncle's wedding.
That's the only reason I know it.
When I was 12.
I did a lot of things when I was 12.
Honestly, that was, I peaked at 12.
I really did.
Win.
Oh my God.
♪ All I do is win, win, win no matter what ♪
♪ Money on my mind I can never give it up ♪
♪ Hands in the air ♪
♪ Everybody's hands go up ♪
That's how I'm feeling right now guys.
I'm winning.
Remember.
♪ Do you remember ♪
(mumbles)
♪ September ♪
♪ Love was changin' your mind ♪
♪ September ♪
"September" by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Year.
♪ It's been a long year ♪
♪ How did I stay here ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
Sample.
Whoa, whoa
♪ How did I stay ♪
"Long Year" by none other than Audrey Nuna.
A lot of "a liquid breakfast",
which is my last project,
came together at home.
I recorded a lot of it actually
in my bedroom or in my closet bedroom.
There was a time where like we couldn't go to studio.
So I just kind of had to figure out
how to get the best sound at my house.
And that was just stuffing my room full of clothes
and just like going in these little forts and recording.
For sound,
you have to cover every single ventilation pocket.
So, I was sweating my ass off
basically just like butt naked recording this project,
sweating my balls off during that process.
Made it more difficult.
But, honestly I think it brought out,
it just like it forces you to work even harder
'cause you know you're gonna overheat
if you do too many takes in one sitting.
(laughs)
New.
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Got a new...
Oh.
♪ I want a brand new whip ♪
♪ I want brand new house ♪
(mumbles)
Kids.
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♪ Half the cool kids don't fuck with us ♪
♪ Soak it up, take the song with us ♪
♪ Stare too long, and return to dust ♪
♪ Stare too long, you return to dust ♪
"Cool Kids" by Audrey Nuna.
So sad that I can only get my own songs.
Space.
♪ I wanted the bonus ♪
♪ I shot the valet ♪
♪ He parked in my space ♪
"Space" by myself.
"Space" is a song about just wanting to be by yourself
and being overwhelmed.
I wrote that song when I was driving around
in Jersey, suburbs of Jersey,
just listening to the instrumental
and I was feeling that way at the time.
And I just wanted to write a song about
how I was feeling.
♪ I'm undercovers ♪
♪ I'm underwater. ♪
♪ I didn't notice ♪
♪ 'Cause I was too focused ♪
I think that that was probably the worst,
the worst song association round that anyone has ever seen.
Thank you so much for watching me play
song association with Elle.
Don't forget to check out "a liquid breakfast",
my last project and don't forget to subscribe to Elle.
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