@AsheMusic goes through what she didn’t enjoy about the first video: the dance moves at the beginning, the car scene, her hair poofed up like Priscilla Presley. She liked the Laurel Canyon footage but the rest felt wrong. “I don’t look like myself. I don’t sound like myself.” #thefavors #ashe #finneas #thebreakdown #mahoganysessions
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They were filming in the middle of a cobblestone crosswalk when a full wedding party walked into frame and started doing their photoshoot. @TheFavors didn’t hire them as extras or anything. The bride and her whole crew just showed up and started posing while they were still rolling. Both shoots happened at the same time. No one stopped. Afterwards the
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@AsheMusic remembers being a tomboy who didn’t know how to be “pretty.” So she went the other direction into turtlenecks, suits, ties and built her early artistic identity around rejecting femininity, uncomfortable with the idea of being seen a certain way. A shift came recently during her return to music with @TheFavors – Ashe found her way back to femininity,
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@AsheMusic reveals the origin story @Finneasofficial never knew. Ashe wrote “Till Forever Falls Apart” with Leroy Clampitt during a period when Finneas was going through a really difficult friend breakup. He had no idea the song was about him. It was basically a friendship love note. She wanted him to know he had someone in his corner, that he mattered.
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@Finneasofficial’s first music video was this whole thing with romantic vignettes projected in a movie theater while he performed in front of the screen. They shot the romantic footage on Super 8 one weekend, sent it off to get developed (takes a few days), then the next weekend they had an all-nighter at the Los Feliz 3 after it closed
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@AsheMusic pitched the funniest idea: instead of launching @TheFavors as a brand new band, what if they just… pretended they’d already been around for years? So they made up this whole thing where their first album went platinum, then they all started beefing, but they’re contractually obligated to make album two together. There’s literally a platinum plaque hanging on the
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@AsheMusic won’t name the A&R who told her a song would make her a star. @Finneasofficial immediately knows what’s coming. “The death knell.” They both say it at the same time: when someone in the industry tells you a song is going to break you, it’s over. #thefavors #finneasoconnel #ashe #mahoganysessions #thebreakdown
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Before they were @TheFavors, they were @AsheMusic and @Finneasofficial, and before then they were just budding artists, making their first music videos and dealing with the pressures of the music industry. In a candid and revealing conversation, the duo sit down to watch back their earliest work; cringing, laughing, and sharing the stories of what it takes to find your
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