'putting out shite'
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
what is lazier than literally anyone who records anything is what turrican says about music he doesn't like.
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
Judging by the music, I completely disagree.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
my 10 year old goddaughter is really interested in this album, which makes me want to listen to it
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
Music and cultural "taste" is backed up with correct arguments and facts, not "digging".
― Banaka™
― ⅋ (crüt), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I was ready to hate this, but all the kids are right. It's great.
― triggercut, Saturday, 6 April 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
Yep.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
I think most teenage girls go through a phase where their parents think they are sociopaths.
That's the (somewhat winking) conclusion this excellent book comes to, which I almost highly recommend to anyone, not just parents of girls:
https://www.amazon.com/Untangled-Guiding-Teenage-Transitions-Adulthood/dp/0553393057/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=untangled&qid=1554554652&s=gateway&sr=8-2
That said, my older girl seems into this person, and yeah, "gen z as fuck" seems like a good way to sum up her appeal and also why she might turn someone off. For some reason when she plays here this summer she is doing an early and late show, which doesn't seem like something that happens very often anymore.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
(book is called "Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood")
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
Never been a teenage girl iirc but you'd be forgiven for thinking I too was a sociopath at that age.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
I don’t think she seems like a sociopath, just (in the songs) a little bit of a zombie.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
The album is better than i thought though. But gloomy and dull by design—that’s the sound of the moment
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
When the party’s over is the best one i think
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
dang I forgot to vote for "Stay". you all would loooooove my falsetto on that one
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
gloomy and dull by design
My jam. Nothing makes me feel more alone than the sound of enforced happiness.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
oops wrong thread, should say here, you all would loooooove my falsetto on "Bad Guy"
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
I thought you were going to say '8'.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
it's not really a falsetto album, I was scrambling
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
so have we settled the matter?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
If it’s good or not? I think it’s a very characteristic album for this era. That’s all I’vd really been saying.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
i think it's good. i'm not taken by all the tracks yet but still compelled to keep listening. bizarrely "you should see me in a crown", which i didn't like much as a single, has grown on me in the context of the full album
― dyl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
weird that pre-teens are now listening to witch house tracks. this stuff is surprisingly good though.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
I like this a lot. yeah her voice does sound like LDR. whatever. the music is good too.
― akm, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
I don’t hear the LDR comparisons... it sounds closer to say, Sofi Tukker to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
this podcast on her music was good, ends with an interview of her brother
https://www.switchedonpop.com/billie-eilish-is-a-different-kind-of-pop-star/
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
I haven't listened to Switched-on Pop in a while. Thanks for the reminder.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
i'm getting a little hooked on some of this
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
it's interesting because her brother's solo music is... well, not bad, but not as good as this
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
I can see Bad Guy used in a lot of tv/movie preview montages and stuff
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Weird, because my takeaway from this album was that the brother is as much a discovery as Billie herself. It takes something special to make the soporific sound of the moment wake up a bit while still ticking all the pertinent streaming-friendly boxes, but as far as I’m concerned they’ve done it.
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
(Of course it’s possible that I’ve just sorely missed the sound of a 4/4 kick drum at a tempo above 110, and “bad guy” and “bury a friend” are very much scratching that itch. But even the trappier stuff like “you should see me in a crown” still feels like a novel twist on the given formula.)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
I really like this, especially the 2nd half. "I Love You" is beautiful
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
good mixhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/in-my-room/pl.2a0b1ea7704842f4b956e959067b8389
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Sunday, 5 May 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
Tricky being in there makes a lot of sense.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 5 May 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link
hi i'm old and all the "who is billie eilish? WHY is billie eilish?" writing somehow made me not getting around to listening to her music for a while and.. i really like it!
also otm:have people confused about why teens like angsty music ever been teens
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, March 30, 2019 9:22 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Hi, I'm redeeming my late pass here because I just encountered "Bury a Friend" and went "holy shit wow"
I get the Lorde comparison due to a similarity in their vocal quality (that was my first thought when I heard the song) but, as I hear more, the comparison starts falling apart because the overall approaches are so different.
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I could have made the exact same post about two weeks ago!
― mh, Monday, 10 June 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to the album for the first time and it's much less aggro/gothy than I was expecting on the whole from the marketing. It's really nicely mixed, big dynamic range.
― Simon H., Monday, 10 June 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
re: the "My Strange Addiction" - "Bury A Friend" - "Ilomilo" section Brad referenced upthread, I keep thinking of a slightly different world where Selena Gomez chose to go this direction and how she would probably kill at these songs.
I also keep thinking about how I hear these strong similarities in her work to other artists but how they cohere into a vision that is 100% singular and fascinating. I don't get why anyone would react so negatively towards this.
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
yeah other than "Wish You Were Gay" and the Office samples I don't get the hate either, unless it's just kneejerk anti-zoomer-ism or something
― Simon H., Monday, 10 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
the only thing i don't particularly care for here is "8"
wonderful debut
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
'When The Party's Over' reminds me of FKA Twigs. And I get all the comparisons (Lorde, Gomez et all) but it's to her advantage that she's not easily pinpointed. I think this is a wonderful album all in all, with the aforementioned one or two misses.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
I'm imagining a new combo single in the vein of "Ladies' Night"/"Bang Bang"/"Lady Marmalade" only it's Selena Gomez, Billie Eilish, Demi Lovato, and Lorde doing "Temple of Love"— DJP (@djperry1973) June 10, 2019
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Her music sounds really good when you hear it randomly played during a normal day.
― Yerac, Monday, 10 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Would stream xp
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
i think the lorde thing was less a direct sonic comparison and more of a cultural/contextual thing? i could be wrong tho
i prob posted this upthread but i thought what is cool about this album is how despite her narrative as a gen z groundbreaker or w/e it fits into a sort of cross genre continuum of bold female driven pop
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 June 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
A good RS comparison was to PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love timeframe.
― Yerac, Monday, 10 June 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
I've cooled on the album since April. About half the album is too quiet or her melodies aren't strong enough to compensate for the deliberately malnourished arrangements. The only one of the slow ones I like is the mandolin track that reminds me of Portishead's "Deep Water."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
the "bad guy" memes that were floating around twitter for a bit recently were v cute/funny
in case you don't listen to the radio (wouldn't blame you), that song is now officially Blowing Up there, her first proper cross-metric hit
― dyl, Monday, 10 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
I realized there is an entire continuum of people who are younger than I am, missed a lot of the late 90s reference points we've cycled through (and might not be up on contemporary peers) who have tween children listening to Billie Eilish
lol
― mh, Monday, 10 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link