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What Do You Want This Band to Sound Like? Lyrics by Olly Alexander

God Help the Girl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2014

[Spoken - Olly, Emily, Hannah]
O: "Okay, so, what do you want this band to sound like?"
E: "Well, do you really have to think about it?
Doesn't it just happen?"
O: "Well, mostly it does. But it depends on what kind
of colour you want to add to the songs.
Do you want it to just be us three?"
E: "Yeah. I don't think I could handle anymore people."
O: "So you don't want any drums?"
H: "Or a bass?"
E: "Well, wouldn't those things just get in the way?
Wouldn't they just choke the sounds?
Isn't that exactly what happened with your band?"
O: "Those guys were idiots.
They didn't know what they were doing.
Let me just ask you this, the records you love,
would you say they were folk music, classical, jazz?"
E: "Pop music."
O: "Then we're gonna need drums and a bass."
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Olly Alexander

Olly Alexander

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