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Child rock star behind viral song Eastern Rosellas reveals his songwriting process \u2013 video<\/p>\n
It is a produced version of a song<\/a> the pair filmed themselves singing at their family keyboard and uploaded at the end of June. Now it\u2019s live on Spotify and has been played on several radio stations.<\/p>\n Triple J Unearthed list the song as sounding like<\/a> Hot Hot Heat, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, The B-52s, The Kooks, Scouting For Girls, The Killers, Taylor Swift and The Ramones. The tune has been covered by Ben Lee and Ball Park Music<\/a>, among others<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt all started off, I was at Raymond Island, and I was feeding the bird seed on the veranda, and birds just came along,\u201d Miles tells me from his Sydney home where we are sitting on his back porch, surrounded by Lego and sketch books.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThere were pigeons, there were lorikeets, there were rosellas, but the one bird \u2026 the main bird that stood out to me was definitely the eastern rosella.\u201d<\/p>\n The chorus came to him in that moment: \u201cEastern rosellas, eastern rosellas, look at the beautiful colours.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey were really friendly because they just kept tapping on the window,\u201d Miles says this week. \u201cWhen I closed the door, they kept tapping on the window like, I want more seed. Then Dad and me started workshopping on it, and we made it into a song.\u201d<\/p>\n He says his songwriting started with the chorus. \u201cThen \u2026 the verse, then the bridge, and yeah. It starts off with a little idea that I just have, and then I think of bigger ones, and then I get bigger ones until I\u2019m happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Allow Instagram content?<\/p>\n This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click ‘Allow and continue’.<\/p>\n Hearing his song on the radio and covered by famous artists feels \u201creally cool\u201d and \u201ca little bit strange and weird\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re like, wow, I\u2019ve never really heard it like that. I felt really well loved because everybody was sending really nice comments and everybody wanted to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n Miles has another song in the works called The Rock of Doom, and a new band The Spikeheads, with some friends. Miles, the band\u2019s drummer, belts out a sample \u2013 \u201cThe Rock of Doom! The Rock of Doom! Because at four in the morning I tried to get up, get up, but someone picked me up\u201d \u2013 and it\u2019s pop-rock Meat Loaf emerging from a seven-year-old boy.<\/p>\n Miles has been playing the drums for two years, but tapping away with his hands \u201cfor as long as I\u2019ve known,\u201d his father says.<\/p>\n Joel Phillips says he and his wife have always fostered creativity in their four kids.<\/p>\n \u201c[It\u2019s] giving permission, it\u2019s just normal to sing, it\u2019s just normal to go and create something, it\u2019s not normal to stay on a screen all day,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s obviously a lot of fun to use your imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n Joel Phillips says when they first shared Eastern Rosellas, the then-top-charting song was subject to debate about whether it was produced by AI<\/a>. \u201cAnd this week we have my seven-year-old\u2019s song about rosellas, which I think says something about, actually, our kids are going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n