(humming "Billie Jean" bass line)
- Like how he came up with that bass line
is just mind blowing.
(humming "Billie Jean")
Hi everybody, Alesso here.
I'm about to play Song Association with ELLE.
Before we start, my new single "Midnight"
is out on all platforms, please check it out.
I'm going to sing, but I'll definitely try
to pronounce the words.
Okay, here we go.
Burn.
(clock ticking) Uh...
(singing) We're gonna let it burn burn burn
with Ellie Goulding, that's a song.
Dark.
Dark, uh, dark dark dark.
Dark dark dark dark.
Just dark?
Dark, oh (bleep) I can't. (buzzer)
I think one of these most interesting
records I've ever produced is "Let Me Go"
because it's a big collaboration.
It's me, Hailee Steinfeld, Florida Georgia Line,
Andrew Wong, which is like the whole collaboration
is very very unpredicted and quite unusual.
And you have electronic elements,
you have country elements, and an actual drop.
It's me singing that little melody there.
Obviously very auto-tuned and tweaked.
But yeah, and I can't (stuttering)
It was crazy how I made that melody happen
and it worked on the record, it was,
I was a little surprised too how it came about.
But, you know, I'm super happy.
It was a big song, so, thank you.
Deep.
"How Deep is Your Love."
There's two actually, Calvin Harris and the Bee Gees is it?
(Singing) How deep is you love, is your love?
(speaking) Slow.
Slow, slow, slow, slow slow slow slow
(singing vague melodies)
(buzzer, beep)
Damn, okay, that was a tricky one.
Slow, slow.
I can't come up with any song slow.
That's a tricky one, slow.
I feel like, there's definitely lot of R&B songs
out there that has the word slow.
Take it slow baby, take it slow.
It's never been like one song that made me
fall in love with music.
It's, you know, I was raised with music in my family
and always been obsessed about it.
So it's just music itself has always
been an obsession for me.
So there's not a specific song,
but of course you know there's people that inspired me
like Coldplay and Hans Zimmer.
So yeah, there's some out there for sure
that makes me fall in love with music again.
Last.
(clock ticking)
Um, "One Last Time."
Eh? Alesso's latest single.
Drive.
(clock ticking)
Oh there's a David Guetta, Black Coffee song
(singing) I will drive all night.
(humming)
(speaking) Drive, there we go.
Feel.
I'm not sure, I'm just going to mention house record.
Feel it in the air, its an old song.
Fix.
(clock ticking) Fix.
"Fix You", Coldplay, easy.
Song I wish was mine?
Um, I mean, "Billie Jean" is one of the most
best produced record I've ever heard.
So "Billie Jean" I guess, Michael Jackson.
That's an insane record.
(humming "Billie Jean" bass line)
Like how he came up with that bass line
is just mind blowing.
(humming "Billie Jean" chords)
Light.
Light light light.
"Blinded by the Light", it's an old record.
(singing) Blinded by the light.
(chime)
(speaking) There we go.
Night.
Oh, there's so many songs with night.
Um, that's why this makes it really difficult.
Night, um
(buzzer)
Oh my God, this is embarrassing, night.
"Who's Going to Save the World Tonight",
Swedish House Mafia, there we go.
Lost.
(clock ticking) Lost lost lost um--
Lost, lost lost, lost, hmmmm.
Oh my God, lost.
(buzzer)
Lost, I don't know, no.
Long.
(clock ticking) I don't know long,
that's difficult one, long.
Who wants to say the word long in a song?
Maybe I, it would be really funny
if I had song that said long.
Hello.
(singing) Hello from the other side.
(laughing)
(speaking) "Hello", Adele "Hello".
Lionel Ritchie, "Hello", there's many.
Fall.
(clock ticking)
"Falling," I have a song called "Falling."
(singing) Look at me, I'm falling, falling.
(speaking) Is it cheating using your own songs?
No its not.
It shouldn't be, okay, cool.
I mean the first song that really charted well
and became huge was "Heroes."
And it was a single from my debut album, "Forever".
When that happened, my whole life changed
and I just became, you know,
from being a DJ to have a huge song smash hit.
And that changes your whole career, it really does.
Move.
(humming "Move Ya Body", chime)
(singing) Makes the fella go, move, move your body girl.
(speaking) What song is that one?
Oh my God, I just know they say,
they say "Move your body girl", right?
"Makes the fellas go," yeah.
That's a--
(humming bass line)
This whole quarantine playlist
is just new songs and old songs.
I don't really have like a specific playlist
that is made for this situation.
I just listen to music like normal.
I think listening to records normally
makes me feel like life is normal when it isn't.
It's just a matter to help me stay sane, you know?
Thank you so much for watching me play
Song Association with ELLE.
If you haven't checked it out yet,
my new song "Midnight" featuring Liam Payne is out.
Please go check it out.
And thanks for having me.