Finneas Drops First Solo Song of 2022, ‘Naked’

Finneas is again together with his first new tune of 2022, the punchy but confessional, “Bare.”

The monitor begins with a cool pop groove, however takes a dramatic shift in the direction of area rock midway by, propelled by a bridge stuffed with massive guitar riffs. “If I don’t really feel it, I don’t faux it,” Finneas sings on the hook. “If I’m being actual it was overrated/If I do know the deal then I gained’t take it/I can’t consider you’ve seen me bare.”

“Bare” additionally arrives with a music video, directed by Sam Bennett, wherein Finneas performs the tune in a spare studio house illuminated by an ever-changing array of lights.

Whereas “Bare” is the primary authentic solo tune Finneas has supplied up this 12 months, it arrives on the heels of his current cowl of Bon Iver’s “Flume,” which dropped as a part of Spotify’s Singles sequence earlier this month — for which he additionally reworked his personal tune, “Medieval.” Finneas and sister Billie Eilish additionally penned a number of songs for the fictional boyband 4*City featured within the new Pixar film, Turning Purple. (Finneas even voiced one of many fake band’s members.)

Finneas launched his debut solo album, Optimist, final 12 months, after sharing an EP, Blood Concord, in 2019. The report helped earn Finneas a Finest New Artist nomination at this 12 months’s Grammys, the place he’s additionally up for Document, Track, and Album of the 12 months because of his work with Eilish on Happier Than Ever and its title-track. Finneas and Eilish can even collectively compete for an Oscar this 12 months — and can carry out on the Academy Awards ceremony — with their Bond theme “No Time to Die” up for Finest Authentic Track.