“For Cryin' Out Loud!” by Finneas

The title track of For Cryin' Out Loud!, the second solo album Finneas released in 2024, doubled as its lead single and arrived with a video directed by Isaac Ravishankara. It's the sound of a producer deliberately leaving the bedroom: after feeling lonely making his debut, Optimist, largely by himself, Finneas set out to collaborate as much as he could, and the writing credit here is split five ways, between Finneas, Matthew Fildey, Aron Forbes, marinelli and Miles Morris.

He kept the producer's chair, but the album was cut in a run of live studio sessions in Los Angeles, a conscious swap of bedroom habits for a classic band-in-a-room setup. He first let slip that it was coming in a May 2024 Rolling Stone cover story about his sister, Billie Eilish.

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