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Switched on Pop

Finneas and Ashe want you to start a band

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Everyone should be in a band at some point—and Finneas and Ashe prove why. The Grammy-winning producer and rising singer-songwriter discuss how their friendship evolved into The Favors, a new band debuting their album The Dream on September 19th, 2025. We explore what it means to create as a band, how stepping back from confessional songwriting freed them creatively, and why sometimes the best way forward is embracing older ways of making music. SONGS DISCUSSED The Favors - "The Little Mess You Made" Ashe - "Moral of the Story" Ashe & Finneas - "Till Forever Falls Apart" Billie Eilish - "What Was I Made For?" The Favors - "Home Sweet Home" The Favors - "The Dream" The Favors - "Lake George" Billie Eilish - "bad guy" Simon and Garfunkel - "Old Friends" Simon and Garfunkel - "The Only Living Boy in New York" Simon and Garfunkel - "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" Simon and Garfunkel - "America" Rick Springfield - "Jessie's Girl" The Favors - "David's Brother" The Favors - "The Hudson" Fleetwood Mac - "Landslide" Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill" Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license" Sabrina Carpenter - "emails i can't send" Miley Cyrus - "Flowers" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.9

Switched on pop.

0:51.7

Welcome to Switched on Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. I think that everyone should be in a band at some point. You don't have to start off great. It doesn't have to go anywhere. It's honestly just the most fun to play music with your friends. And who knows what it might turn into. For me, it became this podcast with Nate after our band called it quits. And I think that right now

1:11.4

might be the perfect time. Bands are having a moment. And I'm not the only one who feels this way.

1:17.5

Phineas is one of today's most awarded producers beyond his solo work and collaborations with

1:22.4

his sister, Billy Eilish. He's worked with countless artists. Most relevantly here, Ash. Her music is this emotionally direct

1:30.7

songwriting that turns personal moments into universal anthems. And Phineas and Ash worked together on

1:37.1

her huge hit, Moral of the Story.

1:39.1

Some mistakes get made, that's all right, that's okay. In the end, it's better for me. That's the moral of the story, babe. And they make and that's all right, that's okay, in the end it's better for me, that's the moral of the story, babe.

1:47.0

And they made a duet together called Till Forever Falls Apart.

1:51.0

Till Forever Falls Apart,

1:55.0

We never had it from a start, till death do us part. Ash and Phyllis' From the Star Till's after the worst part

2:03.9

Ash and Phineas' collaboration

2:07.5

has blossomed into a band called The Favors.

2:11.0

It's also featuring their friends Marinelli and Ricky Rat Gourmet.

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