I don't get it. Can't dance to it, lyrics are meh, and there are thousands of young women that can sing as well.
What am I missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBJmlPo8Xw
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I don't get it. Can't dance to it, lyrics are meh, and there are thousands of young women that can sing as well.
What am I missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBJmlPo8Xw
A birth date in the 00'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
I like the sound. For me it's like she's trying to blend in with the music.
My 8 year old daughter likes her.
Are you 8? Are you a girl? Do you listen to Kid's Place Live?
Other than that, I got nothing...I don't get her music either.
this is the point in the thread when someone about 40 years younger than me says OK Boomer to some or all of us
No boomer here.Quote:
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I'm a dinosaur, but when I'm in the car w/ my daughter, (20 yrs old), she takes over the music. Sometimes I like the songs, BFD.
You're not supposed to understand your kids music. It's been the same story for generations........
I like some of her music and she actually has a fine voice when she wants to. Also like her story, how she and her brother wrote, played and produced all her songs at home and would not let any record execs fuck with their vision--and obviously they were right. Her Insta feed is a hoot too, no idea where she gets all the crazy clothes but it cracks me up. And she's just a kid. Amazing.
I saw her at a festival in 2018 and reported here in the concert thread . She was really great live and you knew she was going to be a star. https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...38#post5345638 . She recorded Ocean Eyes when she was 13.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh2qGWfmESk
And now for something completely different
She has musical vision and is like 16, so her lyrics will catch up and her music improves. I like what she's doing but if the lyrics had more depth she'd be even more popular. She'll either get there or burn out once she's old enough to declare her non binary sexual status and has a really good collection of drug dealers.
When I read reviews that mention "she's never owned a cd" I know I am being played. Not that I would listen to anything as empty as this, ever.
Billie Eilish is the anti-pop star we've been waiting for
At just 17 years old at the time, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was nominated for six Grammys, named Billboard's Woman of the Year and Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year, accumulated over 45 million followers on Instagram, became a fashion icon, and released her first studio album while also setting two Guinness World Records. Billie Eilish is the first chart-topping artist born in this millennium, and she's never owned a CD. Now the world is wide open for her, and clamoring for more.
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Misquote. She has never bought a cd. Never heard of Van Halen either. "bellyache" is a great tune and good video too.
https://youtu.be/EK5zfxDQUHU
And doing the next Bond movie title song.
Should've been Radiohead.
She probably thinks Daniel Craig is James Bond,... and has no idea that the REAL James Bond has always been Timothy Dalton.Quote:
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Skip to 10:17. Whips a crowd up pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM5tubtvfA
He's the supermarket manager in Hot Fuzz.Quote:
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I'm old but I get it. I don't love her music but she's talented as hell. She's gonna be a very big thing. I also like, as the father of a 15 yr old daughter, that she doesn't run around with her T and A hanging out for the world to see. I asked my kid why she dressed like that, she told me "because it's none of anyone's business what her body looks like". I kind of liked that.
Didn’t Fiona Apple already do this? And she did it way better. I’m with the OP.
Not surprising that’s it’s deadheads that don’t get it.
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Yeah, cause that’s the only music I listen to.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
[QUOTE=Peruvian;5872892]I don't get it. Can't dance to it, lyrics are meh, and there are thousands of young women that can sing as well.
What am I missing?
Until very recently I had no idea who she was and thought her last name was Eyelash...guess it's a good thing I am so out of touch, although I do know who Maggie Rogers is so that should count for something.
Hmm, this thread made me go listen to more of her stuff. Her SNL appearance was pretty good. Not what I might typically download, but this is really well done.
I dig her stuff. it's mainstream but also different
both she and her brother (that producers her music) both have synesthesia, where they "see" music in color. different stimulations of music, which is why I think it's for some and not others
Anybody else remember Lorde?
Or Grimes?
Yeah. That's what I thought.
There is a high probability that B. E. will burn bright and fade away just as quickly.
I mean even M.I.A. isn't that relevant anymore (and is Lady Gaga really relevant these days?).
The way that popular music is these days, very few artists are going for long-term longevity like OG artists like R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Madonna (though I'm not so sure that she's still relevant), Janet Jackson (though I'm not so sure that she's still relevant), but you get the gist.
I feel that the attention span of the music consumer these days is really short. I work with a lot of "kids" in their 20s (they are my co-workers and by proxy my peers) and I don't think any of them buy albums. They listen to everything on Spotify and tend to be more single oriented, whereas my old ass is album oriented; it's a short-attention span world we live in dedicated to quick hits and fast fixes.
That said, I remember seeing posters for her first song all over "post no bills" walls in downtown Oakland a few years ago and they were cool looking. Her videos are cool, too.
Also, y'all have to remember that we're in that phase of pop culture journalism where every media outlet is trying to discover and break the next big thing. A good chunk of artists that break on the Webz, get signed, and release a few albums have a relatively short career.
Here's to hoping she's on the track that Splat outlined, albeit minus the drug dealers and nefarious distractions...
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I don't really get down (is that what they say still?) with most new music, but I really like hers. She's super talented. She even did Hot Ones which endears anyone to me more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDr4ITrp7YI
they are both still listened too. Now you? Who the fuck are you? An asshole that gets paid to assemble cliches about pop culture? Other than as a critic piñata of cliches why do I care what you have to say? You get it wrong regularly. And that’s to my dumb, drunk ass, not anyone who knows fuck all.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
deadheads and phisheads not getting it? Sober th3 fuck up and get out of New England
liking BE when i hear it on satellite. i still go back to Purity Ring for my female singer itch
Her song on the Grammys tonight was so much more enjoyable to listen to than Steven tyler. I’ll give her that. For 17 or whatever, she’s talented and seems grounded. And doing it all with her brother, no record deal, is pretty cool.
I also live in the northeast, love Phïsh, and I’m not sober. So take from my statement what you want.
The SNL performance and the Grammys song I found on YouTube have a different vibe than what I had previously heard. Much more melancholy love songs.
Still not sure if I get all the hype. Her voice is as good as dozens of kids I would see perform at local schools. Her brother seems to be a major factor in the sound and instrumentation.
I guess it’s no surprise her folks are in show business and she got a leg up that way.
FWIW playlists I have recently listened to include bands from Nashville, South Africa, Houston, Chicago, Mali, Brooklyn, and plenty of other towns not in New England. Nice try at pigeon holing me, though.
Possibly a bad omen:
“She was the first artist to sweep the top awards since Christopher Cross in 1981”
I listened to her songs after the victory. Lana Del Rey album is better. Norman Fucking Rockwell
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Gah, now talking about someone truly awful. I'm no Billie Eilish fan but I'd listen to her on repeat before suffering through LDR.
I had one of those at Taco Del Mar last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by dump
She walked away with 4 gramophones last night.
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I thought Grammys was pretty good. Alicia Keys has more talent than any one person should.
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Tool won a Grammy last night so that's all I give a fuck about.
My wife puts on Bille Eilish from time to time and it just sounds like she sings while she's half asleep, But she was on Stern recently and I'll give credit to any young pop star that can actually play and instrument and write music on her own.
Never heard of her. Oh well.