- I need someone to sing this to me!
Come on!
This is the energy that we need.
- Ooh!
- Oh my goodness! Yo, this is crazy.
- Ella, don't do that!
Don't do this to me!
- Hi, Glamour. I'm Ella Mai, and "You Sang My Song."
[keyboard types] ♪ Sippin' that's how I control ♪
♪ This feeling you keep giving ♪
[slow, soulful "Trip" on piano]
Ooh, we've got some piano playing!
♪ Gotta keep my feelings on safety ♪
- Mm-hm!
♪ So I don't go shootin' where your heart be ♪
♪ 'Cause you take the bullet, try to save me ♪
[Ella clicks mouse]
Okay, but he's taking us to church with "Trip."
♪ Then I'm left to deal with making you bleed ♪
♪ And that's a whole lotta love, don't wanna waste it ♪
- Mm-hm. - Yo!
♪ Like we been running a mile to never make it ♪
♪ Yeah, it's so bitter for worse, don't wanna taste it ♪
- I love his voice.
♪ Yeah, it's so bitter ♪
Oh my God.
Oh my goodness! [Ella squeaks]
- I didn't even know this was possible.
And I think he's in a church! [Joziah laughs]
If I'm not mistaken.
Come on, [taps table] take us to church!
- I'm tripping, no pun intended.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
- He's really feeling what he's singing,
and obviously, you can tell by his voice,
but just the emotion behind this,
and it just being stripped down to just the piano,
no drums, nothing else, it is so beautiful.
This is a beautiful moment.
And this little head-voice falsetto moment
that he's giving me is giving me life right now.
♪ This feeling you've been giving ♪
♪ You keep on hitting it more ♪
- I love that, the going back and forth,
flicking from head voice to chest voice,
'cause his chest voice is very strong.
Joziah, you took me to church with "Trip."
I loved it! - Yo!
- I felt everything that you were singing.
I loved the stripped-down version
with no drums and you just playing the keys.
I loved it so much. Thank you!
- That is absolutely ridiculous, right? [laughs]
Oh my goodness!
Oh my God!
I don't know if she'll see this,
but yo, from the bottom of my heart,
that means absolutely everything.
Ella Mai is somebody I really look up to,
you know, so this is crazy.
I'm honestly speechless right now.
This is [laughing] absolutely ridiculous.
[typing on keyboard] [vocalizing]
♪ I just wanna know what's up, do you feel it ♪
♪ 'Cause I think I'm in ♪
This is one of my favorite songs, so let's see what happens.
["Not Another Love Song" on piano and violin]
- So Ella Mai, she saw our video. Are you pumped?
- No way!
I've heard Ella Mai's watching it like...
- Where's the violin?
Oh, I knew it! Oh!
Guys, the violin just does something to me.
No pun intended, 'cause there's strings on a violin,
but it really just pulls on the strings of my heart.
Any time I hear a violin, I just wanna be in love!
- Ella, don't do that! - I don't know if anyone else
feels that way, but- - Don't do this to me!
- They're making me feel
the same way now. - Don't do this!
[song resumes] Yeah!
- Oh, Ella Mai, she saw our video! [laughs]
- J, are you seeing what I'm seeing? It's crazy!
- Oh, she's feeling my keys, come on!
[JDXUK laughs]
- Oh my God. I'm in love with this.
Now I need to also learn
how to play the violin [laughs] now.
[J Hope laughs]
So J Hope and JDXUK-
- Ooh! - You guys completely
gave this song a new life.
I feel like the violin...
Now I wish that there was a violin on the actual song,
and just accompanied by the piano keyboard,
I think you guys smashed it. - Just call me!
[J Hope laughs] - I really, really love this.
- Ella Mai, if you need me on a track, please call my line.
I'm here.
- There we go.
There's your plug. [laughs] [JDXUK laughs]
Trust me, he's the guy.
And honestly, yeah, I'm just so happy she saw it.
- Yeah.
- Same thing.
If you need strings, I'm here for you. [laughs]
No, it's just humbling as well, because like I said,
you put stuff out and you never know
what's gonna happen with it.
- Yeah. - Sometimes you have
your own narrative in your head about how well it's doing,
or where it's going, or what's going on,
but you never really know.
And the fact that she was sitting down watching it,
it feels amazing, man.
[keyboard typing] ♪ Hear my heart go ♪
♪ Ba-do, boo'd up ♪
♪ Biddy-da-do, boo'd up ♪
["Boo'd Up" performed a cappella]
Ooh!
Okay, sorry, I love stuff like this.
["Boo'd Up" resumes] I'm excited.
- Baby! ♪ Feelings ♪
♪ So deep in my feelings ♪ - No!
♪ No, this ain't ♪
♪ Really like me ♪ [The Filharmonic crosstalk]
- Before I go any further,
we're 26 seconds in- - Oh my God!
- Do you know how hard it is to be...
They're called
The Filharmonic- - Yeah, she's correct.
- She knows! - To be a harmonic group-
- It is hard, Ella Mai! - And hit your note the same
while everyone else- - Thank you!
- Is doing a different note,
and someone's singing a whole melody?
This is nuts. There's magic to it.
- Yeah, Jessica, sing! - I love it!
I love it already. ["Boo'd Up" resumes]
♪ Can't control my anxiety ♪
♪ Feeling like I'm touching the ceiling ♪
- Okay, more vocal.
♪ When I'm with you I can't breathe ♪
♪ Boy, you do something to me, aa-ah ♪
♪ Ooh, no, I'll never get ♪
- Wait, this is also, one, two, three,
five guys and a girl, so we have a lot of tenor guys
in this group, which makes me really happy,
because I love when guys sing high.
♪ Over you until I find something new ♪
♪ That get me high like you do, aa-ah ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
[Ella squeals]
- This just makes me so happy.
They just look so happy singing it.
I'm really happy watching it, [laughs] as you can see.
I love this. I love this.
I actually haven't seen a harmonic group do "Boo'd Up,"
so this is my first time seeing it,
and I think they killed it.
I'm excited.
[claps] 10 out of 10!
- I was nervous what she [laughs] was gonna say
about my voice, 'cause, I mean, it's Ella Mai.
So I hope I did her justice, and I don't,
I love her [chuckles] even more today now.
- Hi, Filharmonic and Jessica.
I loved your rendition of "Boo'd Up."
Jessica, you embodied the vocals perfectly.
They're very soft. You're very happy.
Watching you made me happy.
- You know, it's like whenever we put a video out,
you just never know who is watching it, who can see it.
So to just have someone actually be reacting to it live,
and especially be the the actual artist, it's insane.
It's so surreal to see.
[keyboard types] ♪ Oh, it's funny how ♪
♪ Right when I let my guard ♪
♪ It's funny how ♪
♪ Right when you let my guard ♪
♪ Yeah, you play around ♪
- Okay.
♪ No, not this time, we can't hash it out ♪
♪ It's too late for me to stay ♪
♪ I wish all the things you say ♪
♪ Was what your behavior displayed ♪
♪ But no ♪
♪ I could've done without lies, lies ♪
- I love her tone.
It's raspy, but at the same time, something else,
which I don't even have a name for.
She's also playing the guitar, the bass guitar.
♪ Although I know love is blind, blind ♪
♪ This just don't feel right ♪
♪ Ain't no more you, ain't no more we with me ♪
♪ What you did ♪
- That, so this song is always really interesting to me
because Mahalia has a really soft, raspy voice,
and I have the complete opposite,
but it's almost like she has the softness
and the raspiness and the power,
and she's also playing the guitar.
Mickaelle, thank you for doing this.
- Ooh! - I'm really
excited to hear this.
I haven't heard many covers of this,
and I think you killed it.
I really wanna hear your voice over a piano,
'cause you have a really, really pretty, unusual voice.
Yeah! Thank you!
- I'm shocked.
I don't have any words.
I'm just so happy, because it's like she just saw
right through me, and she doesn't know
that I'm playing piano, but I love to sing
and play piano, and I'm just such a fan of hers,
so I just have no words, basically no words.
[Mickaelle laughs]
Thank you so much.
[keyboard typing] ♪ My resting bitch face ♪
♪ Is mistaken for the mean girl ♪
♪ I need somebody ♪
- Hold on, hold on.
Is this a ukulele?
"Naked" with a ukulele?
Okay, I'm all the way tuned in,
'cause this is [laughs] crazy.
This is crazy!
♪ Who loves me naked ♪
♪ Someone who never asks for love ♪
♪ But knows how to take it ♪
- It makes the song sound so different,
but I'm here for it.
I need to learn how to play the ukulele in my live shows.
♪ Are you that somebody who sees a wall and breaks it ♪
♪ Are you ready to fight ♪
♪ Just to see what's lost behind my flaws ♪
♪ Can you love me naked ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, naked ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- She has a pretty voice.
It's soft, but it's strong at the same time.
Nina, I'm so flabbergasted.
I didn't even know "Naked" could be played on a ukulele.
And I loved it.
[Nina laughs] I think you've definitely
changed the song completely,
and that's always fun to listen to.
So thank you!
- [laughs] That was so cool!
That was so awesome!
Ella, I am continually inspired by you.
I am so excited to be jamming out to your album.
You get me in my feels, you inspire me
to be an artist and keep going for it, and I love you!
- Thank you so much for having me, Glamour.
And to all the cover artists that are on here,
but also all the cover artists
that are just in the world singing my songs,
I really appreciate you.
I love to hear these, your different versions of my songs.
It always makes me think, and wanna expand
in my live performance, and add stuff here
and add stuff there.
So thank you guys so much.
My new album, "Heart on My Sleeve," is out right now,
so make sure you go get it,
and then I have to come back so we can do this
again with some new songs.
So thank you guys.