Billie Eilish and FINNEAS Write a Hit Song with Kids | Celebrity Substitute

Being a teacher is one of the hardest jobs in the world, but is it harder than being a global superstar? Today, we're gonna find out if Billie Eilish and Finneas have what it takes to be a celebrity substitute. Today, we're outside Garbanzo Elementary in Highland Park, Los Angeles, where music prodigies Billie Eilish and Finneas are going to be doing their absolute best to teach a class of first graders how to write a hit song in one afternoon. I love them. Oh, me too. And after the lesson, we're gonna be surprising the school by clearing literally everything on their Amazon wishlist. Hey. Oh, welcome. Good to see you. You two are going to be teaching an actual class today. What do you think about that? Never taught one before. What do you think teaching is gonna be like? I'm nervous about it. Kids are so deep and, like, relentless, and I'm... Can I give you your official celebrity substitute name tags? Yes, please. All right, let's do it. Miss Billie. Mr. Finneas. Let's go. Hi, I'm Miss Fowler. I'm a first grade teacher, and I've been teaching for four years. My students really enjoy using their imagination and creativity, and I'm looking forward to see who they are gonna be. Are they gonna be the next president? Are they gonna be the next astronaut? Maybe they'll be the next pop star. Billie and Finneas, good luck. Billie and Finneas' lesson plan is to discuss what makes a hit, write an original song with the kids, all before performing it live for their teacher. These two wrote, What Was I Made For? Hopefully, it's teaching. Okay, let's keep going. Miss Fowler, we gotta kick you out for a little bit. We have some substitutes. Meet your celebrity substitutes for the day, Billie Eilish and Finneas. Am I dreaming right now? What's up, guys? Hi, guys. I love you. Are you excited to have them here? Yeah. I'm Billie, and this is my brother, Finneas. What's up, guys? Nice to meet you. I grew up in this neighborhood. This is where I was a little kid once. Yeah, I know. Do you guys wanna scream your names as loud as you possibly can? No. Okay, one at a time. Scream your name. Go. Abel! I heard it very quietly. Victoria. Yeah. Ina! Do you wanna ask them any questions? I want to know what's your last name. My last name is O'Connell. My middle name is Eilish. What are you guys' favorite colors? If I had to say my favorite color, my favorite color is orange. My favorite color, like a red, or like a- Red pinkish? Sure. Like your sweater? Red pinkish? We saw you on TV one time. Really? Billy, your hair was red when I saw you on TV. Phineas, do you wanna tell them what we're gonna be doing today? Maybe if you guys wanted to, we could write a song and we'd get some help from you guys, if you're interested. Yeah! For us, making music was a thing that we would do, even if it wasn't our work, right? That's like the thing we like to do together. So I'm gonna play like a chord. If you guys like the chord, thumbs up, okay? No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wow, okay, they don't like that one. Yeah! Why don't you like it? It kinda hurts my ears. It makes my ears sound like skibbity. Skibbity! Victoria, what makes a good song? A. A? So this is an A. Ooh! That's an A. Wow! A really landed. I'm gonna play a chord pattern that starts with that A. You like this? Owen doesn't like it. You can't please everybody. We need to come up with what we're gonna sing about. What is the emotion that we wanna write about? Freaky. Freaky? It has to be freaky? Interesting. Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar? We wanna write a song about Kendrick Lamar. I mean, it's possible. Olivia, what do you think? Snow? I like snow. I think. I like snow. Snow can be about anything. What's something that might live in the snow? Snowman. Falcon. A polar bear. A polar bear? Yeah! Is the polar bear happy? Yeah! It's freaky. Happy, happy, happy, happy. It's super happy? Yeah! Okay, okay. What would make a polar bear sad? That girl polar bear, she cheated on the polar bear. The polar bear. He got cheated on? Yeah. I mean, I'm down. We should write a song about a heartbroken polar bear. Oh, yeah! What rhymes with bear? Bubble. Bubble? Definitely doesn't rhyme. Care. Underwear. Can everyone see this or my brother's giant head blocking? Can we move? I'm just a polar bear. But nobody cares. I'm gonna change that. It's just not fair. Right? Yeah, we need a fourth line. I think I'm just a polar bear again. How about we just sing it and whatever melody comes, comes. Okay. I'm just a polar bear. But nobody cares. And it's just not fair. But I'm just a polar bear. And now we're gonna go. Nice. Whatever you want it to be. Who wants to say what happens next to the polar bear? I think someone will say, I like polar bears. So someone finally shows love. So maybe you made a friend. Who's his friend? We're not even friends. Like a bear. Snowman. But I made a friend with a snowman. It's kind of cool. That's what you call a slant rhyme. Okay, you guys, this is probably the best song we've ever written. But I made a friend. With a snowman. And it's not the end. And I'm on the mend. Go. Louder, louder. Dance like this. Ooh. Yeah. Wow. You know what? We're going to show it to Miss Fowler. You think you're ready to do it? Yeah. Can everyone just do this on their tables? And louder. Louder, louder, louder. So how's it going? They're all so sweet and funny. And I like the little shouter-outers. To me, kids, no matter how young, have cool, advanced taste in art. That's been my takeaway, you know what I mean? So Billie's first album, there's no swear words on the whole album. And I'm kind of proud of that. Because to me, you could be five years old and love that album. All right, let's perform this hit single. I mean, this position is pretty good. You want to face forward. Great. Is that light nice and blinding? Don't look directly at it. Just like the sun. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. All right, here we go. Ready? Yeah! Ms. Fowler, welcome back. We're going to be performing a song they just wrote called, I'm Just a Polar Bear. And Julian's going to hold cue cards like we're on Saturday Night Live. Okay. And this is Friday Live. Friday Day Live. One, two. I'm just a polar bear. But nobody cares. And it's just a face. Yeah! Just a face. I'm just a polar bear. Okay. Keep playing. Everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. It's an attitude. Come on! Everyone arms up. And... Yay! Oh my gosh. Everybody take a bow. Ready? And down. Woo! Hard. Oh my gosh. I want to give you a hard one. I want one more. Woo! Love you guys. Thanks for being down. I'm sorry that the song wasn't freaky enough, Owen. But before we go, we can't forget the surprise. Amazon cleared everything on the school's wishlist. Bongo drums, tambourines, guitars, audio recorders, and music books. And not only that, they also got ukuleles and xylophones for every student at Garbanza. Thank you so much to the kids at Garbanza Elementary and to Billy and Phineas for being such rockstar celebrity substitutes. That's it for now. We'll see you next time. What's your favorite song, Victoria? Yum, yum, yum, yum. What was your favorite part of today? That we got to sing together. Hugging Billy Island. Why was that your favorite part? I got to hug a celebrity. Is there anything you want to say to future celebrity substitutes? Any advice? Let the kids do their thing, I guess. Do you guys know what the Grammys are? No. Oh, Grammy, what's it know? That's great.