Lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
High five D-40!
― DJI, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
i can't remember the last rosalía collab i actually liked (was it "con altura"??) so i fully expect this to be underwhelming
― dyl, Thursday, 21 January 2021 05:27 (three years ago) link
I can hear a middle ground in their sound that makes me think this could actually be good.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
Oh... this is out now apparently.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZuV4xSFJnWDncgMICfFmX
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
Sounds good. Wasn’t expecting Billie to sing in Spanish.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsWkuWWXgc
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
admittedly much better than i expected
― dyl, Friday, 22 January 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
It does sound tailored for movie/tv though
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:13 (three years ago) link
I think this is great
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:47 (three years ago) link
fantastic song
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
as a matter of fact it’s incredible
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
it's not what i expected but i still find it ehhhhhh
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
I don't "hear" it; it's pleasant but barely there for me.
― You have treated my messenger with contempt. (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
there's something about how it ends that i feel like could have been improved but i haven't any idea how
― dyl, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
it kind of just stops playing, right?
― You have treated my messenger with contempt. (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
there’s no resolution no, but it makes that last line land extra hard
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeWc3zh01g
kinda surprised no one's talking about her new single because it's really good
― ufo, Friday, 30 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
It is good. Are the lyrics about someone/something specific?
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Taylor Swift?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
“This is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” Eilish wrote on Instagram. “I feel very vulnerable putting this one out because I hold it so close to my heart. This is about many different situations that we’ve all either witnessed or experienced. I hope this can inspire change.”
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
Last night I taught myself a few Billie Eilish songs on piano; they were surprisingly fun to play. Good chords.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
I was just about to bump this thread for this song, which is great
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Very Feist-y to these old ears--I like the subtle sub wubs btw 1:18-1:45/2:32-3:00 (at which point there's a decent visual pun w/r/t to her singing "If they kill your contract" while the boa's finally in full constriction position)
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
(Also, main verse melody's somewhat similar to "Re: Stacks" by Bon Iver, innit?)
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
fans think it's mostly about her ex-bf 7:AMP
― ufo, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
Oh, he was her bf (whom she calls "Q") in the World's a Little Blurry doc.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I love the video and I love the guitar tone but this is a little underwhelming overall to me, it feels a lot more conventional than I would expect from her.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 May 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
there's enough with the subtle bass synth etc. going on to make it a little more interesting than being just a straight acoustic ballad
― ufo, Saturday, 1 May 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
<3
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
not sold on this yet, a ballad is not what i was expecting or wanted from her right now
― Bee OK, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
Then wait for the album, it will probably be great in context. 1. "Getting Older" 4:042. "I Didn't Change My Number" 2:383. "Billie Bossa Nova" 3:164. "My Future" 3:305. "Oxytocin" 3:306. "Goldwing" 2:317. "Lost Cause" 3:328. "Halley's Comet" 3:549. "Not My Responsibility" 3:4710. "Overheated" 3:3411. "Everybody Dies" 3:2612. "Your Power" 4:0513. "NDA" 3:1514. "Therefore I Am" 2:5315. "Happier Than Ever" 4:5816. "Male Fantasy" 3:14
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
it’s a really awesome song and it’s not like her releasing ballads as singles is unprecedented
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 May 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
It has some really cool things going on in the production that makes it stand out from the usual ballad: the synth bass, how busy the first chorus sounds when compared with how stripped it is the second time, the synths in the second verse. loving how every backing part is never the same twice and how tasteful it all sounds. Is Finneas the one behind the whole production?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 2 May 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
I love this song, flippant remark above notwithstanding. as in many of her ballads I find her voice/vocal mesmerising.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Who came up with this idea of releasing one of the slow ones at the end of the album first, instead of the front-end bangers? Wolf Alice just did the same putting out track 9, a slow piano ballad. Lana did the same in advance of Norman Fuckin Rockwell.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 May 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
it's actually the third single so far
a little disappointed that "everything i wanted" isn't on the album like the other post-when we all fall asleep singles though
― ufo, Sunday, 2 May 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
“Everything I wanted” was included in the reissue/deluxe version of her previous album
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
I too would have preferred if they have saved it for this new one instead but I guess they needed a plus factor for the reissue/deluxe.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
I also feel like it naturally belongs to that previous “era” for her.
― BeardsleyCollege.edu (morrisp), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
she’s really changin up her look:
“It's all about what makes you feel good” Billie is on the cover of @BritishVogue. Read the cover story now: https://t.co/nZmP08VlGI pic.twitter.com/Kef1sn01J7— billie eilish (@billieeilish) May 2, 2021
― BeardsleyCollege.edu (morrisp), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
i hope she doesn't completely stop dressing like a jojo character
― ufo, Monday, 3 May 2021 00:41 (three years ago) link
I think gen z is less hung up on consistency. Embracing a totally different aesthetic from one day to the next is more common and accepted than it would be in the grunge era or something—there’s less meaning attached to it, less concern about seeming inauthentic or “selling out” idk. True postmoderns this gen
― treeship., Monday, 3 May 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
changing up looks for album cycles is hardly new to gen z though lol especially in the pop world
― ufo, Monday, 3 May 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
but also bowie etc. obviously
Yeah – she’s obv not Madonna, but she’s still a pop star… just a kind that didn’t exist (in the US, anyway) until fairly recently.I don’t know how you’d even (roughly) describe her in terms of artists from decades past… Alanis meets Björk, but a superstar?
― BeardsleyCollege.edu (morrisp), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
(not that there’s a particular reason to try describing any current artist in such terms – but I find it interesting to imagine if artists today had existed when I was high school or college, which kids would be into them, etc. Like I assume there aren’t still “pop kids” and “alternative kids,” and those milieus have broken down?)
― BeardsleyCollege.edu (morrisp), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
Doesn't seem that weird that someone would dress differently on the cover of Vogue from the way they dress in ordinary life or even on stage.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 3 May 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link
I love the cover look so much, she looks incredible given how selfconscious she is, its v exciting that she has taken such a big step i hope that the feedback is positive bc i would hate for something like this to backfire somehow & make her feel ashamed/horrified/etc idk i get weirdly parental about her! we must protect her at all costs bc she rules
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link