Sometimes it can be really overwhelming colour-wise, and we’ll have to sort of dial it back through the music.” So a lot of colour, a lot of texture, especially with music but with words, generally,” she said in the interview. “A lot of sounds and a lot of words have some sort of visual counterparts or textual counterparts. While there is no way Seacrest is a synesthete, synesthesia evidently played a huge factor in making Lorde’s new album. Sometimes it can be really overwhelming colour-wise, and we’ll have to sort of dial it back through the music” – Lorde This total eyeroll continues as the two synesthetes bond over their sensory elitism for nearly a minute with the other host whimpering, “I’m jealous” into her mic. Weekends are “brown” for Lorde (“Yeah, Sunday’s brown!” adds Seacrest). He echoes her answer of “Green!” split seconds after she says it. The last few minutes of their interview is hilarious, as Seacrest compares notes with the singer. What luck, then, that Seacrest is a synesthete too! “I’m a very visual person,” Seacrest admitted on air. “If I didn’t have it, I would say that it didn’t exist,” she told Seacrest, voicing how many people feel about it, before delving into a layman’s explanation of what it is. In Lorde’s case, she sees days of the week, sounds and words as colours. Synesthetes can often see things – letters, numbers – as colours. Essentially, it’s a condition wherein the senses are intertwined. While there, she spoke about the quasi-rare neurological condition she has, called synesthesia. I knew, though, that I wanted it to feel very specific, you know? I wanted it to have a real feeling to it and a real aesthetic.On Thursday, something serendipitous happened when Lorde sat down with radio host Ryan Seacrest in his LA studio to discuss the conception of her new album Melodrama. “I didn’t know what it was going to be called, I didn’t know what the vibe was going to be, I didn’t know what the artwork should be. “I didn’t know what I was going to do at all until really almost when the album was over,” she said. Though Happier Than Ever became an instant hit, Eilish revealed that most of the creative decisions were made last minute. “I feel like when you have your own idea and you know what you want, sometimes it’s just the best way to go about it to do it yourself,” she said. During the interview Fallon asked why she chooses to lead so much of the process. All of my artwork, everything I do live, all the colors for each song, it’s because those are the colors for those songs,” she said.Įilish is known for having creative control over her work from songwriting, to creating album art, and even directing her own music videos. “All of my videos for the most part have to do with synesthesia. Eilish then clarified that synesthesia “means nothing,” but it inspires her creative process. She even noted that Fallon appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle,” and that the letter’s J and M all have a brown connotation. “Sometimes things have a smell that I can think of, or a temperature, or a texture.” “For instance every day of the week has a color, a number, a shape,” she explained. The singer opened up about the neurological condition - that her brother and father both have - which causes information to stimulate several senses instead of one at a time. Billie Eilish recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon where she discussed her album Happier Than Ever, directing her own music videos, and working with synesthesia.
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