Love Island USA veterans Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi have the proper soundtrack to their love story. The couple who have been the runners-up on season 6 of the favored Peacock courting present lately went again to the scene of their first date on the sequence, Los Angeles vegan restaurant PLANTA, for the tech bulletins episode of Billboard‘s “Take Us Out” sequence (watch the complete video above).
Along with reminiscing in regards to the particulars of the place the place Miguel requested Leah to be his girlfriend — and Miguel’s newfound love for plant-based meals attributable to Leah’s vegetarianism — the couple revealed that they’ve purchased a home and are about to maneuver in collectively. Additionally they broke down the songs that make their hearts sing.
L.A.-born Kateb requested Harichi to select a music that describes their relationship, with the London-bred health mannequin/actor rapidly selecting Olivia Rodrigo’s 2023 Guts monitor “So American.” The monitor does appear to completely match their vibe due to lyrics together with: “And he laughs in any respect my jokes/ And he says I’m so American/ Oh, God, it’s simply not truthful of him/ To make me really feel this a lot/ I’d go anyplace he goes/ And he says I’m so American/ Oh, God, I’m gonna marry him.”
He took a runner on one other music he figured Kateb would suppose sums them up, selecting Taylor Swift’s 2019 Lover monitor “London Boy,” which options the lyrics: “You realize I really like a London boy/ I take pleasure in strolling Camden Market within the afternoon/ He likes my American smile/ Like a toddler when our eyes meet, darling, I fancy you/ Took me again to Highgate, met all of his finest mates/ So I assume all of the rumors are true/ You realize I really like a London boy.”
She mentioned no, really, “however that’s reply too.”
Truly, Kateb had Swift’s “So Excessive Faculty” in thoughts, prompting them to sing a falsetto, a cappella run by means of the refrain, guffawing as they crooned, “I really feel so highschool/ Each time I take a look at you.” When it was Kateb’s flip, she went with “London Boy” as her theme music for him, or Usher’s “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s House).”
The couple additionally mentioned the artists they’re dying to see dwell — together with The Weeknd, Swift and PartyNextDoor — in addition to what if felt prefer to make their crimson carpet debut at this yr’s American Music Awards. “I used to be having a ball… I used to be additionally drunk,” Kateb mentioned, admitting that, like many within the crowd, she hoped {that a} rumored shock look by Swift would occur that night time.
“Everybody thought she was gonna come out and announce [the Taylor’s version of] Repute,” Kateb mentioned of the rumor that turned out to be double not true when Swift neither confirmed up nor introduced the discharge date for the tech bulletins in her sequence of album re-records.