FINNEAS

“Let’s Fall in Love for the Night” is FINNEAS' tenth solo single to be released, and the last of two singles to be released by the singer over the course of two weeks in October 2018. The track is one of the singer’s most “classical pop” songs yet, as acknowledged by the singer in an interview with Billboard: “I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to. This feels like one of those.“ In the same interview, the singer and songwriter also shared his inspiration for this song, which came in August of 2018, when he was in Osaka, Japan touring with his sister, rising artist Billie Eilish: “I was in Osaka, Japan, FaceTiming a girl I’d never met every day and knowing there was nothing I could really do about it. I wrote this song about the day I would fantasize having with her.“ Its release was first teased in a tweet on October, 10, 2018. In an interview with Billboard, Finneas revealed: “I wrote this song last August while we were on tour in Japan. It was about a million degrees outside, so at the end of each day, I’d lie down on my hotel bed and turn the AC on full blast and play these chords. The chorus came first, then the first verse. The second verse was [written on] a completely different day, but that’s why I like that part so much.“ In an interview with Pitchfork, Finneas explained: “I liked it at this really slow tempo and I also liked itwith kind of a backbeat and this sort of Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc” rhythm running through it. One of the things that I always try to do in my production is help articulate shifts in certain ways, so I really wanted the moment where the drums break in and the bass breaks in to feel sort of enhanced and accentuated, and I felt that the easiest way to do that was to muffle all of the high end out of the intro and then to just pump in to a hi-fi feeling with the drums and the bass. The other good example I could give is that the same kind of effect happens on the beginning of “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers, and in that one, they use panning in a really interesting way. They have the guitar hard panned and the drums hard panned and the vocal is really muffled. And then when the second part of the first verse comes in, it all busts out into a million hertz. It’s probably the primary inspiration. At the end of the track, when the drums and the bass cut out and it just goes to only acoustic guitar and only my vocal, I wanted to sort of keep some ear candy in and so I layered in this recording of frogs and crickets in a field up in northern California. The challenge was just being willing to abandon ship at the end of the song, and have the last 45 seconds be a live take, which is kind of risky because sometimes you can lose a lot of momentum. But I felt that in that song’s case, it needed to have this super different feeling for the last 45 seconds.“ On February 22, 2020, Finneas posted a tweet stating that he had filmed the music video for the song. The day before the release of the music video, he posted another tweet revealing the release date and a 30 second snippet of the music video. The song was nominated for “Best Alternative” for the 2020 MTV VMAs.