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The cast of Peacock’s ‘Beyond the Villa’ sit down with Billboard discuss behind-the-scenes secrets of their ‘Love Island’ days, who made the best pancakes, what music they were all singing and more. Plus, they share top songs of the summer.
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00:00And then when I got out and watched it, I was like,
00:01this is the craziest shit I have ever seen in my life.
00:05Never play it for me again.
00:07I'm sexy, yeah, and I know it.
00:09Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, yeah.
00:13The Wim Whammy song, though, Pluto,
00:16it's like, I'm talking about in it.
00:18That is the nastiest song of 2025, 100%.
00:22Hey, y'all, it's Serena.
00:24Hey, my name's Miguel.
00:25Hi, I'm Kenny from Love Island and Beyond the Villa.
00:28I'm Liv, and I'm here with Billboard.
00:30What's up, guys, I'm Connor.
00:31I'm Kendall Washington from Love Island
00:33and Love Island Beyond the Villa.
00:35I'm here with Billboard.
00:37We're talking songs of the summer.
00:42A lot of people may not know about it,
00:45but I think that it has the potential
00:48to be a very good song of the summer.
00:50And that song is Down Bad by Sailor.
00:54I know we know her from Poopy's Requiem,
00:56but she makes other good music, too.
00:59Yeah, I love that song as well.
01:01Beautiful Things by Benson Boone.
01:05A song that I feel like it can relate
01:09to a lot of things in my life.
01:12I mean, Janae, fitness, the gym I love, my family I love.
01:18There's a lot of beautiful things to be grateful for.
01:20I love Georgia Peach by Leto.
01:23My number three song I want to couple up with, Morgan Wallen, Miami,
01:27because I had that country music side to me,
01:30because I got that Texas, TCU, you all know.
01:32So I'm like, we need to have a country vibe.
01:36Boat side, lake days, you need a little country music
01:39to kind of vibe to.
01:40We can't always be banging to hip-hop at EVM all the time.
01:43So by that song in Miami, it's a good little mix,
01:46and Morgan Wallen, everybody vibes to them.
01:48I want to couple up with this song,
01:50because it is an absolute classic.
01:53It's smooth.
01:54It's agreeable.
01:56It's also about love, and who doesn't love love?
01:58I think summer is all about love.
02:00So that's Kiss of Life by Sade,
02:04is another song in the summer for me.
02:06I picked this song because it brings a smile to my face.
02:11I can't help but move whenever I hear it.
02:15It's got a rhythm that is just simply intoxicating
02:20and can captivate anybody that listens to it.
02:24And for this song, I'm picking 23 by Skei.
02:28I came here for love, somewhere to hold me.
02:33I came here for love?
02:34Oh my god, yes, I remember pretty much
02:36every lyric from came here for love.
02:38They came in, Kendall, you're gonna need to memorize this,
02:40like start to finish, y'all.
02:41I was stressed.
02:43And then the intro, I sing like five words.
02:45I'm like, okay.
02:46They made me sing this whole ass song on a yacht,
02:48like popping champagne 5,000 times.
02:51Gotta run that one back.
02:52I'm like, god damn it, y'all.
02:54How much champagne y'all got in the back?
02:55But yeah, I pretty much know every lyric to that song.
02:58And when I hear it, it's just mixed emotions, I'd say.
03:01I actually think I have it written in my phone.
03:05Because I had to like practice and practice and practice.
03:08Let me see if it's still in here.
03:10Oh, here we go.
03:12It's literally still in my notes.
03:14Um, no, long.
03:17Give me a mic.
03:21I actually thought it was so fun and cute when I first got like,
03:25oh, you're gonna be singing something like a music video.
03:27And then when I got out and watched it, I was like,
03:29this is the cringiest shit I have ever seen in my life.
03:32Never play it for me again.
03:34I feel like I know the lyrics by heart,
03:36and I wasn't even in that segment of the show.
03:38And I don't know how I know it,
03:40but I liked the song before I went in.
03:42And then coming out, I saw that that was the intro,
03:44because I didn't see it before I went in.
03:46And I was like, no way, I love this song.
03:48And then I kept hearing it and hearing it and hearing it.
03:51And seeing my friends doing like the Cordell, like, suitcase trend.
03:54And I was like, if I hear this song one more time,
03:57I'm gonna pull my hair out.
03:58I remember the chorus.
04:00I came here for love.
04:02All of that.
04:03Um, I think my favorite is the iconic Cordell spin.
04:07Cordell ate that up, I can't lie.
04:09I do remember Came Here For Love.
04:11I had to memorize that song before it all.
04:15Before it all, the season started.
04:18Hey, I mean, Janae's intro, she was looking good.
04:21She was wearing a bathing suit, a red bathing suit.
04:24And looking voluptuous, beautiful.
04:27Early Days in the Villa, I'd say the genre of Billie Eilish.
04:32Very like, moody, gray, um, ominous.
04:38So a lot of, um, just, I'd say, I won't say confusion, but very like, low, distinct,
04:47chill vibes with a lot of like, mystery to it.
04:49Early Days in the Villa, what music?
04:53That's a hard one.
04:55Some Jasmine Sullivan.
04:57Yeah, something like that.
04:59Something Jasmine Sullivan.
05:02Because I think we were all like, a little bit, you know, not used to what we were doing.
05:08Missing home, missing speaking to our family.
05:11So I think we're a little uncomfortable, but it cheered up very soon.
05:16I get a little sappy, a little rom-com-y when I'm like, early relationship vibes.
05:21Uh, Sunday Morning by Maroon 5 has got to be up there in the early relationship bangers.
05:28Like, that's, that's a good song for like, fresh love.
05:31Flying to Fiji was a lot of Hypop music.
05:35I think it was like my normal playlist.
05:37So my anthem for entering the villa at that time, before I was watching Enter Galactic,
05:42I think I saw that like, two times before I actually got into Villa.
05:45And I was just replaying the whole album.
05:47So, uh, New Mode would be the song that I would have come into.
05:52I'd say I listened to a lot of Drake headlines.
05:54Both of us, we like rap.
05:56So Drake, God's Plan, headlines.
06:00A lot of Drake, yeah.
06:01Ooh, favorite meal, blueberry pancakes.
06:04All my toasties.
06:05I loved a cheese toastie.
06:08I loved food.
06:08I loved the snacks.
06:09We had this drawer where you could like, knock on it.
06:11And like, all these magical snacks would have been like, chocolate, cookies.
06:15I made the best blueberry pancakes in the villa.
06:19I would make them for everyone in the morning.
06:21And the secret's a lot of butter.
06:24Like, they were not good for you.
06:25I honestly didn't even really eat them.
06:27I'd take like one bite and be like, that's enough.
06:28But I was cooking up blueberry pancakes every day.
06:31And Liv told us that she makes the best blueberry pancakes.
06:35I taught her how to make those blueberry pancakes.
06:37I can show you texts where she's literally like,
06:40will you come over and make your blueberry pancakes?
06:42And I was like, you live an hour away.
06:44Let's get on FaceTime and I'll show you how.
06:47Definitely not Liv.
06:48Liv does not make the best.
06:49Liv, I didn't even see you cook.
06:50Like, what?
06:51Like she said, she makes the best blueberry pancakes.
06:54Connor actually made some good ones.
06:56But if I could really like say who made the best, Cordizzi.
07:00Cordizzi for sure made the best blueberry pancakes.
07:02I did not see Cordizzi make a single damn blueberry pancake.
07:05That man is lying.
07:07He did not make a single blueberry pancake our entire time in there.
07:11And he damn sure didn't make it for me.
07:13So, when was he making a blueberry pancake?
07:16Actually, I think we have a bigger question at hand.
07:19When was he making a pancake?
07:20So, I actually hate blueberry pancakes.
07:24I hate anything in my pancake.
07:26So, Leah would make me separate.
07:29A separate batch of my plain boring old pancakes, which is butter.
07:33So, I would say Leah because, you know, she always would add that little extra,
07:38extra couple pancakes to the side for me.
07:40If I remember correctly, I feel like Connor was doing his thing.
07:44Connor could make some good pancakes.
07:45He'd whip them up.
07:47Yeah, I think Connor.
07:48I mean, I whipped it up.
07:50I won't deny that I was a pretty good cook.
07:52But pancakes, I was more of like the eggs and bacon guy.
07:58Every now and then, I would whip up pancakes.
08:00The chefs in the villa were the men.
08:02And by far, the best chef is Miguel.
08:05So, his dad is a chef.
08:06His dad owns in his own restaurant.
08:09I was lost in the kitchen, as I usually am.
08:12I don't know my way around the kitchen.
08:15I don't know how to season my food.
08:16Janae would eat my food just, you know, I feel like for respect.
08:20Just not to hurt my heart, but I know I can't.
08:23I can't cook.
08:24When I hear the Love Island text tone, if I could change it, the Star Wars blaster.
08:30It's like pew pew pew, like something like that.
08:33Like that always brings me peace, because I love Star Wars.
08:35So like, beep, beep, beep, like one of those pew peels.
08:37When I hear the I got a text sound, it's definitely nostalgic.
08:42But yeah, it's a sound I'll never forget.
08:45The Love Island, I got a text.
08:47Just that chime tenses me up immediately.
08:51I think anytime we got a text in there, it meant shit was about to go down.
08:55So you just associate that chime.
08:57It's like Pavlov's dog, like, ugh.
09:01So yeah, I hate that noise.
09:04I hate it so much.
09:05That was actually like a heart wrenching sound.
09:08I could change it to a new song.
09:11I feel like Kanye's been dropping some crazy things right now.
09:13So probably one of his.
09:15My reaction every time we hear that,
09:18it's like a jump of excitement.
09:21Is Ari coming in?
09:22Is Ariana going to come into the villa?
09:24Who's getting kicked out next?
09:26Is there a recoupling?
09:27So your mind is constantly racing, like, what is about to happen?
09:31Because every time you get a text, it's like,
09:35it's going to get messy.
09:36It's going to get a little difficult.
09:37I'm just thinking because when I get a text, it's like,
09:39sometimes it's negative.
09:40So it's like, is it too late now to say sorry?
09:44Maybe like me and Janae had a conversation, like, right?
09:49It came back from Casa.
09:50Like, is it too late now to say sorry?
09:52Because I'm missing more than just your body.
09:58I would send to the girls back from Casa,
10:01me being my messy ass back in Casa.
10:04I'd say Breathe by Yeet because they're going to need to breathe.
10:08Take some deep breaths because there's a tornado coming.
10:12I would send over the Lemonade album directly over there.
10:19Like, so quick.
10:21Second, maybe a specific song.
10:23I don't think the whole Lemonade album,
10:25but I would also probably send over Bust the Windows Out Your Car
10:28by Jasmine Sullivan, of course.
10:30Like, that was kind of a mood.
10:33To Cordell directly.
10:34I didn't really care.
10:35The other ones wasn't my main.
10:36The song that would probably go so well with the entire
10:42After Casa Saga is Breaking Dishes by Rihanna.
10:45Because exactly what the hell I wanted to do.
10:51If I could get a message back to an islander in the form of a song
10:54after I left the villa, I would send Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood to Aaron.
10:59I remember watching Casa and had my hand on the TV.
11:05And I was like, no, stop.
11:08And then he got out and he and Rob were like,
11:11if you were there, I think it just would have been different.
11:13We kept saying that.
11:14And I was like, yeah, what were you doing?
11:18Sadness.
11:18I feel like a really sad playlist.
11:20Everyone was upset.
11:22On Edge.
11:23Yeah.
11:24Songs I would never listen to, I would not go back through Casa.
11:27I don't want to see.
11:28I think my song for Casa Amor would be like,
11:31I'm going through changes.
11:34That song's a pretty good representation that comes off the top of the dome.
11:39Don't quote me on that in case there's actually a good lyric in there.
11:42Because that wasn't my brightest moment.
11:45For Casa Amor, we were just so excited to maybe leave the villa.
11:50Just that environment, right?
11:52To just find something new.
11:54You know, LMFAO, you know the song.
11:58I'm sexy and I know it.
12:04Yeah.
12:05I mean, we were just with the guys and we're like, we're, I mean, we're all good looking guys.
12:09We're about to enter this villa.
12:10Yeah, those are the vibes.
12:13Those are the vibes.
12:14I love to play like the throwbacks and my guy was playing a lot of throwback hip-hop and I was all about that.
12:21But especially the most recent one that was like,
12:24it was like, give me a top, top.
12:27That was like, I put that on repeat every single time and me, Liv and Cordeezy were hitting that.
12:33So we weren't allowed to be up to date on any new music that came out.
12:38So when we were able to listen to music, we had to play whatever we were listening to before.
12:43So my two songs that I would request every single day was Birds of a Feather, Billie Eilish,
12:50and Summer by Beyonce, which I use that song all the time now because it literally reminds me
12:55of my summer there.
12:57So, oh my God, Justin Bieber.
12:58We all love Justin Bieber.
13:00So you cut on like Heartbreaker, we're all screaming in the car.
13:03We like that song.
13:05If you've never experienced not having music for like a month and then hearing music again
13:10without like a cell phone or anything, it's like drugs.
13:13Like we were blasting like Taylor Swift, Natasha Bedingfield, like Kendrick.
13:18It was during the Kendrick Drake beef.
13:20So we were like blasting all the new Kendrick songs that were coming out.
13:23And it was like, I remember one day it was pouring rain and like Rob and Aaron and I are
13:28like in the rain ripping to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.
13:34Like it was like a music video, but yeah, no, music in there was like a rarity.
13:41So when you got real like good music that wasn't royalty free, you were, it was genuinely like drugs.
13:47We all one time was singing Nicki Minaj because like Queen, all the girls were singing Nicki Minaj.
13:52But then you've got like Leah's like a massive like Taylor Swift fan.
13:58And then like Nene is more into like the, like she knows more of the rap song.
14:03So I feel like everyone has a different genre.
14:05So I don't really know if there's one song.
14:07We didn't listen to music.
14:09So it was kind of like other than singing Nicki Minaj going through.
14:13I mean, Kendrick, Kendrick, Kendrick Lamar, like they not like us, they not like us, they not like us.
14:20Like we, we were in there just vibing.
14:23I mean, granted, we didn't know anything happening on the outside, but I mean, we were in there.
14:29We woke up early.
14:30We were getting our gym sessions in.
14:31We were cooking for our girls.
14:33It wasn't all smiles, but we just tried to keep the energy up in there.
14:36Like we missed the whole like Charlie XCX Bratz summer.
14:40Like we missed all of that.
14:42I got out and everything was like that green Bratz color at like every profile picture.
14:47I was like, I don't know what the fuck is going on right now.
14:50I feel like Sabrina Carpenter like had a kind of a Fiji Love Island vibe when I got out.
14:56I feel like her music kind of matched the overall vibe for the summer.
15:00Last summer, I definitely love and I still love Future.
15:05I think my summer, like Song of the Summer was definitely Coding Crazy.
15:09I loved Nicki Minaj, can't go wrong.
15:12Party Next Door, Lado, Drake, Gunna, Leaving the Villa.
15:19I kind of waited a bit to listen to music because I wasn't on my phone a lot.
15:22But then it went back to like rap, R&B, stuff like that.
15:26But yeah, I definitely caught on to the trends of what people are listening to a little later than most.
15:32Ignite the Love by Kid Cudi.
15:35My song choice for In and Out the Villa will be Ignite the Love by Kid Cudi, for sure.
15:39I feel like Kid Cudi is like, I really vibe with his music a lot.
15:44He's someone that I feel like is an all-round artist and I can relate to a lot of his music.
15:49When we come out of the villa, trying to think if there was anything.
15:52Bad Bunny's album might have dropped when we had come out.
16:04Yeah, that, Bad Bunny.
16:06Bad Bunny was, he was bumping when we first got out of the villa.
16:10Katy Perry, I mean, she's, you know, Firework by Katy Perry.
16:14I took chorus in like fifth grade, guys. Spare me, please.
16:27There's another song because we can't just have one.
16:32And this one is a classic.
16:34Forever makes you feel good.
16:37Throwback, not too much of a throwback.
16:39I'm not that old.
16:41And yeah, and that song is, it's like that by Mariah Carey.
16:46How can you not dance with that song?
16:49How can you not want to like jump in some water, like with some pool games, whatever.
16:55That song just gives that, but like also it gives.
16:58I'm going out in the town with my girls, sexy little mini skirt, heels.
17:03You know, Y2K vibes and we love Y2K vibes.
17:06What you know about love by Pop Smoke.
17:08So I feel like in this last year, I've learned a lot about love,
17:15about how to express yourself, about just how vulnerable you have to be.
17:21So Pop Smoke, what you know about love?
17:25The entire album of Party Next Door, I'm not choosing the individual one.
17:28I like to couple up with this song, Nokia by Drake, because it's just so smooth.
17:34That is just like, who's calling my mom?
17:36Is it Daisy?
17:38That is just, when that goes on, the club, the bar, you can be outside, inside.
17:42Everybody sing along to that one, that one like theme to it.
17:46So I want to couple up with this song because brings out like a weird nostalgia
17:53that I didn't know that I had and it fits a lot of different vibes and moods.
17:58And I think everyone gets along with it.
18:01So for those reasons, I want to couple up with Old Man by Neil Young.
18:06I think that's absolutely a song of the summer.
18:09For this song of the summer, I'm picking this song because it tunes me into my emotions.
18:17It makes me feel peace, but at the same time, it makes me feel emotional.
18:25This song doesn't really need a long speech because I feel like this song really does speak for itself.
18:31And for this song of the summer, I picked Cry For Me by The Weeknd.
18:35The Wim Whammy song, the Pluto, it's like, I'm talking about in it.
18:40That is the nastiest song of 2025, 100% every five minutes I'm doing that.
18:46I'm talking about in it.
18:50Absolutely future.
18:51Like, it's future in the gym when I'm lifting weights and it's future when I'm trying to pump myself up
18:56to like go out for a night out or like look my best, like confidence levels go up.
19:01Like, I feel like future kind of just exudes like I'm the shit and you could never tell me otherwise.
19:06So yeah, I always try and channel a little bit of that.
19:10The music that's been representing my Beyond the Villa summer is probably LLC by Larry June and 2 Chainz.
19:18I also love like the Larry June and 2 Chainz album was like one of my favorite albums
19:26that's come out in a while.
19:27Like, I love anything The Alchemist does, but those two together like complemented each other so well.
19:33I fucking love that album.
19:34I listen to it all the time.
19:36Benning Boys by I believe Rimmer and Another Eyes.
19:42That song goes hard.
19:43I think that album goes hard.
19:45That's something that I'm like, it hypes me up.
19:47That's a hype me up album, especially for the summer.
19:50This summer, I know I'm going to see Fischer, Dom Dalla.
19:55I just saw Metro Boomin' in Vegas, but I don't really have any other concerts I'm going to as of now.
20:03I want to see Post Malone.
20:05John Summit is coming back, but I want to fly out somewhere like to a different,
20:12I'm going to Europe, but I want to know if I can see somebody out there, you know?
20:16Yes, Cowboy Carter.
20:17And I've seen it and I'm going to see it again, and I'll probably see it a third time.
20:22Second, who's going on tour?
20:25I would say Cowboy Carter.
20:29That is the tour of the summer.
20:31I went to the Kendrick and SZA concert twice, and they are amazing performances.
20:37Do I know the song Shoot Me Down? No, I don't know it.
20:42I was like, you know, when everyone else is singing, I'm like, yeah, I know this one.
20:45Humming had no clue.
20:47But it was catchy, and everyone loved it in the audience, so.
20:50I've only ever gone to one concert.
20:52My friend got me a ticket.
20:54We went to go watch Chris Brown like a year before going to Love Island,
20:58which that was actually a hard concert.
21:00I ain't gonna lie.
21:01That was a good concert.
21:02But I think my favorite performance I ever watched was Damien Marley in Portugal.
21:10I would like to choose this song because it makes me feel so good.
21:16It makes me want to, you know, dance.
21:18It makes me want to hop around and be on a beach with a pina colada.
21:24And okay, you get the gist.
21:26But this song is That For You by Wizkid and Jasmine Sullivan.
21:32It's a beautiful song.
21:34It makes you do everything that I just said.
21:36It's amazing.
21:37I'm gonna choose this song of the summer, Give Me Everything Tonight by Pitbull.
21:44Because it reminds me of that night, the last night in the villa,
21:50when we all did our speeches to each other.
21:53Honestly, I was speaking from the heart in that speech.
21:55I became a poet and I believe I gave my all on that piece of parchment.
22:03So, Give Me Everything Tonight by Pitbull.
22:06We'll be choosing this song is because they are someone I want to form a stronger connection
22:12with by learning the lyrics.
22:14Classy Girl by Gunnar.
22:16I want to choose this song of the summer because it shows growth, right?
22:22How far I've come.
22:23That's why I'm going to choose Lola Young, Messy.
22:27Too messy, too clean, told me to get a job.
22:30Come on, guys.
22:31This is especially the Messy remix by Chris Lake.
22:35That goes crazy.
22:36I've been listening to it a hundred times.
22:37And now I'm wiping away the messiness.
22:40I'm staying clean.
22:41I want to couple up with this song because it makes me feel like it's summertime and I'm riding
22:48my bike down the beach and everyone's in a good mood.
22:52And that is Water My Flowers by Larry June.
22:55I think that is like a permanent summer song and it fits the vibes of like Santa Monica,
23:02where I live, and just like the sun being out and everything being good.
23:07So I want to choose this song of the summer because this song of the summer brings me calm,
23:14but at the same time fires my soul, brings me energy,
23:21makes me feel connected to my people and just makes me want to move.
23:27And for this song, I picked Vennie Boys.
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