00:00Tayo na means let's go, with urgency.
00:03It's like, we out.
00:04You know that when one of us says, tayo na, you have no choice but to say, all right,
00:09let's go.
00:17Kind of last minute, since I was done with everything that I needed to do, they came
00:21and checked in and was like, oh, do you want to make a song for the film?
00:24And I said, yes.
00:25I sent them like a voice memo of like a rough idea of chords and then they loved it.
00:31And so then I called Ryan because he's always writing songs for movies and kills it.
00:36You know that moment when you walk out of the theater and it's, oh, the sun, it's bright
00:39and the sun's your eyes adjusting.
00:40We wanted everyone to like walk out feeling that euphoria into the sunlight.
01:01When I think about iconic film songs, there's that one line where you're like, you could
01:05be 10 years old and you get emotional and you're like, oh my God, that's me.
01:08It was very important to not be on the nose too much, but also to tell the story of the
01:13movie.
01:14I think every set of best friends have their own little world.
01:17And we, as Joe and Risa, have a literal world that we want to go to, which is the forgotten
01:22island, Nicali Island.
01:23So we were subtly hinting at the world of Nicali and also the world that we live in just within
01:29our friendship.
01:50You know, Joe's character, Little Me, she's so passionate about this island and everybody's
01:55like, this girl is literally crazy.
01:57Like she's saying this crazy island exists and yeah, it doesn't exist.
02:01And Risa was the only one who remembered.
02:04She's the only one who sees her for who she really is.
02:08And I really was thinking about that first scene where Joe and Risa meet.
02:17She's a little lost, maybe a little off track.
02:20Just remember where you came from.
02:23I'll be right back.
02:24Don't move.
02:26I'll never forget you.
02:30Never forget you.
02:32Never, never forget you.
02:33You lost all your memories and you can't find your way.
02:37I might be gone tomorrow, but I'll be right back.
02:41It's okay.
02:44I'll never forget you.
02:47Never forget you.
02:49Never, never forget you.
02:51The day we did it, we were figuring out what the main synth sound was.
02:54And I was like, I don't want you to leave until I at least know what the the backbone of
02:58this record
02:59is.
02:59My favorite part for me was just like sitting around tooling around with different sounds
03:03and pulling out all this stuff from the 80s and old, you know, drum kits that I've had for decades.
03:09Because I, yeah, dusting them off because I don't, to be honest, I don't do that a ton.
03:14And so it was like, I was like giving me nostalgia for honestly how I started,
03:17which was a lot of fun.
03:18I feel like it's very rare that we get to see artists in action.
03:22And I actually got to see them in action.
03:23It was just beautiful to witness you guys do your thing.
03:26I was like, this just felt like the cherry on top for me.
04:05I think a lot of people have felt left out in their life.
04:08My character Jo specifically experienced a lot of loss.
04:11And Risa is the one who stays by her side and she's afraid she might lose that.
04:15Risa is also going on this journey of like, she's about to leave the Philippines to go to America.
04:20So she's scared of the uncertainty that comes with that, but also scared of leaving Jo behind.
04:25They both have these internal fears that they both have that they're not sharing with each other,
04:29but they have an understanding that they've got each other's back at the same time.
05:09In the Philippines, we actually more commonly say tarana to say, let's go.
05:13Tayona means the two of us need to go together.
05:17It's like, I'm not doing this without you.
05:19So it's like a lot more meaningful than just saying, let's go.
05:22As somebody who obviously doesn't speak the language natively, it sounds like a summoning.
05:27Like it's like, everybody like sing this now.
05:30Tayona has such a ring to it.
05:49I got to sneak in my ballad moment on the end, we got to slow it down.
05:53I got to sneak it in.
05:54And my favorite part of the song is when we say tayona and when we speak Tagalog and I say
06:01babalikako,
06:02because it was so important for us to add Tagalog and, you know, represent the people.
06:07Tayona that's also my favorite part that when you say babalikako, yeah, I'll be right back.
06:12I feel like it's such a beautiful way to kind of close the song,
06:15but also it's something that we want to remind Filipino people that will always come back home,
06:21because, you know, Filipinos are always going overseas to work and everything.
06:24So I feel like it just tied that song beautifully.
06:26Yeah.
06:29I usually don't like singing in unison in a duet at any point,
06:33but this was the only exception.
06:35Oh, really?
06:36Yes.
06:37Liza was the only exception.
