The Mind Of A Master: Watch Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Describe His Songwriting Process Step By Step

[@daveincanada785]

Big Boy Hips is this decade's Stairway To Heaven. Get used to it.

[@missmorganskauge]

This is more than I could've hoped for.

[@DrScythe]

Just wrote a song on a grape, fantastic tutorial!

[@Zach-jh9zz]

Win just won my appreciation for his songwriting structure. A true musician through and through.

[@caveghoul]

this video helped me write my first original song and now i'm going to audition for america's got talent. thanks win butler

[@GDAlkali]

Of all places in the world to sing, singing on top of a grape is probably the best choice.

[@calebmckinley9661]

Good to know that Win uses traditional songwriting methods. If he needs some dogs to kill to write the next record just give me a holler. We can exchange my collection for some protein powder

[@teugene5850]

I love how straight edge he is about the creative process.....

[@Zealant]

He smokes a cigarette

[@danelson78]

Hearing his songwriting process actually helps to interpret many of his songs. Creative genius.

[@namelessgoon146]

Can't wait for Big Boy Hips to drop on vinyl.

[@kimjongelle9112]

I've been talking about his big boy hips for years

[@sptony2718]

I have a similar creative procedure; I get into a sensory depravation tank filled with lard, after two or three weeks usually the best ideas come to my mind.

[@HalXV]

My most sincere desire is that when humanity is ravaged, by some form or mircale only Clickhole and TheOnion content gets saved in a vault on earth, then, millions or billions of years after, when new life is born or when we get intelligent life to visit earth, they find ClickHole and TheOnion, and they somehow decipher the content, and understand it, but they just have no idea why we were like this.

[@cadenceenglish]

Haha ❤

[@ajdc88]

CLICKHOLE CLICKHOLE CLICKHOLE HAS DONE IT AGAIN

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

It feels guud

[@IgiWhiteman]

Did not expect THIS to be the funniest video of my day.

[@lilyrees9823]

i didn't realize this was a clickhole video at first and was so weirded out ffs

[@abcdefzhij]

What does clickhole mean

[@loading2074]

Satire

[@wx7fm]

I'm so tempted to send this to my musician friend since he's trying to write music right now

[@alwaysabiggafish3305]

Why didn't you just do it beta

[@jack-ln9nu]

Now I really want Paul McCartney to collaborate with Arcade Fire.

[@imsorryyouexperiencedthat]

If Paul would collaborate with Kanye, I'd love to see what he'd do with tighter musicians.

[@TheBlackJewelz]

literally 200% what I expected.

[@Zealant]

Twice what I bargained for

[@farazkhorasani6325]

I LOVE YOU WIN BUTLER

[@finnmccarthy9768]

#justiceforwinsbutlerships

[@tyro244]

This bastard burned down the arcade I used to go to to play Space Invaders. :: shakes fist at crazy song writer man ::

[@ameliamyy]

"don't believe everything you read in guitar world magazine" gets me every fucking time

[@antonioriosp]

red grape??? any dog? wich brand of protein powder? which kind?? damn it! this is to general!

[@Reignor99]

Granny smith grapes, polar dogs, and tofu powder. Hopes this helps brother good luck with your work

[@CorvinaNoirManra]

And that's how EVERYTHING NOW was written (same chords and melody)

[@medberry2]

I feel like there wasn't a script and this is actually what butler said when asked about his process

[@christianheaps9711]

“One time I played a song on top of a grape.” 🤣

[@PlebeianGoth]

How the hell did they get Win Butler? I love his big boy hips!

[@solderofchr1st]

Is that fucking Everything Now at the end

[@DuBziDriFT]

Conor Dennis no, it's Big Boy Hips

[@mickeymoose88]

Yes! The melody

[@_peachbeach]

this is so fucking good

[@johnnylonglegs]

hahah met this dude on this past years Halloween. and he was really into the balloons when they fell from the ceiling and really wanted to make sure everyone got hit by them and was wearing a metallic hoodie.

[@itsamazeofmirrors]

What in the Cleveland?

[@nickc3657]

"Animal cruelty is the source of all great creative pursuits" George Carlin

[@jeremyellis1262]

His hips song kinda sounds like everything now

[@sher618]

no, more like neon bible

[@mtrps_]

it is

[@HEADSHOTPROLOL]

despacito

[@noahmorcombe9592]

This is amazing.

[@droplet9785]

Great advice thanks

[@AdvantageVarnson]

Okay, it’s taken me this long to realize that Win Butler is the reincarnation of Andy Kaufman. Bizarrely delightful.

[@grantgundlach]

True Master

[@SEGAClownboss]

The absolute madman

[@blazedugger490]

Anybody know what guitar that is?

[@christiankellerman9206]

Custom Martin

[@tuckerlivingston]

this is HILARIOUS

[@luzamador8981]

This came out 3 years ago and the vasectomy joke still gets me every time 😂

[@frizzybob]

GRAPES ARE THE SECRET

[@petecampbell3929]

The Office influence is real

[@kurtv7638]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

[@calciummother]

This is so choice

[@muhammadarsyad8026]

So that is the draft for everything now

[@frankiedominguez1872]

2 minutes and 23 seconds of Win Butler trolling LOL ☠😬🤣

[@ficklefartrecordsco3451]

This is awesome 🤣

[@sushanalone]

I guess a new innovation in Country music would be a song with a Beak, Anus ; and replacing that Hat with a urethra and a bladder, because most birds excrete their waste through the anus including urea that most mammals excrete in a liquid form through the urethra and the bladder. Huh ( insightful look at the sky)... Maybe some birds might adopt it into their anatomy. That will be more Human! Thanks Clickhole for the insightful video.

[@whydonaldwhat]

I've been writing all anus this whole time. No one could have fathomed beak. Shit

[@stockton8225]

then you add some protein

[@gstvzenit9144]

Write that down, write that down...

[@accobra383]

Cannot stop laughing 🙂 Superb

[@bigcountryspoundcake4513]

Wins a pretty deec actor

[@emilialopez3048]

I can’t b r e a t h e😂😂😂

[@prod.tutilio4953]

Holy shit I thought this was real at first 😂

[@hudsonpulver8817]

Traditional song writing methods: relax,think about the world. Arcade fire method: Strip,vomit, and kill animals

[@atlasmonkeyleon]

This has helped me immensely as a songwriter. Thank you, Hips Butler. 🥲👍🏼

[@alfredannable7927]

am i high or is this actually real

[@NanaYawAforo]

same.

[@bobs2809]

Many great composers throughout history were also dog killers.

[@akiray1999]

the hips song sounds like Everything Now

[@Flushometer_AirConditionerFan]

1:18

[@Curt.dammit]

I lost my grape☹️

[@eddiealdanna117]

It took me too long to realize this was a shit post 😂

[@apinkrat7135]

i am always thinking of protein powder

[@CodfishJoe]

This is ridiculous. You can't write songs on a grape, who do you think you are

[@QueenNatasha_KingGibson8501]

1:18 Gibson Fan: Watch your language Win. Natasha: You're so hot with that outfit!!!!

[@thegamedudeguy]

I was halfway through the video before I realized that he was being a "comedian" and not a "musician."

[@TheGlazedBook]

Turn the music up on a grape 👏🏾

[@pluteorgh]

Omg😂 #welovewinsbigboyhips

[@Dallasg59]

Hahaha im dying from laughing so much haha

[@joelwilcox5424]

Anyone here from YWDAP?

[@ronin_user]

This made me feel strangely icky.

[@x0rn312]

This is fucking hilarious.

[@jamiepaisley]

hahaha this is brilliant

[@shjobbi]

...what did I just watch HAAHAHAHHAAHHA

[@StealthheartDraws]

This is totally a joke and I love it 😂😂

[@PatriseHenkel]

is this Mad-Libs? almost hilarious, but a bit frightening

[@Crunchy_Troll]

Win is trolling

[@ok_jaja]

Lmao

[@crunchyonion]

I thought Clickhole was supposed to be satire????

[@bonnet5567]

A cigarette Win? Vape Naysh is supreme

[@emilynelson8961]

Protein powder

[@insidedutchculture]

Yeah that didn't age well. I wonder if he & the band can ever recover from those allegations. Or if they call it a day.

[@RussDeMeo]

Ooof “master” very liberal use of that word.

[@atlasmonkeyleon]

Write anything that comes close to "Funeral" and then we'll talk. LMAO.

[@burnedoils]

not funy hasbeen band

[@iggyk23]

this is not the way to do it, first you come up with chords, then you add some rhythm chords or arpeggio, then bassline and drums and some melody, thats how you write a song, dont be folled by this man, also he said nothing about volumes and EQs

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsDrBees]

Sounds about right, Arcade Fire's music is terrible.

[@evan.s8805]

The Artist Formerly Known As Dr. Bees you have a different opinion that offends me but I'm able to accept it

[@acc2876]

Kids, please shut the hell up and listen to Modest Mouse!

[@midwayer11]

Lmao