billie eilish

still astonished that my 10 year old goddaughter picked up on her even before this album came out

Finneas won Grammys for producer of the year and best engineered album, so he's certainly getting recognized.

imo the biggest argument for billie eilish having actual talent is how much worse finneas's solo stuff is

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I assume now that Finneas will take a bunch of production jobs and Billie won't drop another album until 2022

can't imagine there are many/any production gigs more lucrative than the one he already has

he's worked with Halsey, Tove Lo, Camilla Cabello and Selena Gomez recently. Probably made a few bucks.

Her bro is reportedly readying a solo bow.

he already put out an EP last year

anything to recommend on it?
(btw maura, i liked your time mag best music of the decade and connected with a lotta your choices)

i'd have to relisten!

(and thank you :))

I've only heard "bad guy," but I liked it. That's all I got on the subject, beyond thinking it's damn ridiculous people thought she should be aware of Van Halen.

Her brother did one of those "song association" things for ELLE that made me want to defenestrate my monitor.

i have to say i have never forgiven him since seeing this picture
http://scrumptiousmoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Maggoe-Family.png

i'm sorry but when you're 16 you're not supposed to like family photos. you don't smile reflectively while dressed like you're doing a Tigerbeat shoot

dude wait til you see his yearbooks

let's do an old fashioned FT 'am i cool or not?'

What's wrong with that photo?

(as in -- I don't get the problem w/it, looks like a perfectly normal family pic)

a lot, not least of which dad's mock turtleneck, but i'll stop shitting up this thread now

it may sound harsh, but the revolution will not be a success without the destruction of the family as a concept

I love the bit at the very beginning where she and her brother just fall around laughing, but then at some point her laugh stops being a teenager goofing around and becomes this hollow sardonic supervillain laugh and then Bad Guy immediately kicks in.

If we do look back on this record at the end of the decade as one of those records that changed pop then it's immediately apparent from the very beginning. Just binning the permagrinning champagne maximalism of so much of the previous decade, it already sounds like a generational shift.

Oh it turns out I already made that last point several months ago.

it's a great otm point, deserved to be made again

yes^^^

Just binning the permagrinning champagne maximalism of so much of the previous decade, it already sounds like a generational shift.

Even in light of Lorde?

(I’m not knocking BE or calling her derivative, but she feels very post-Lorde to me, not something radically new on the pop landscape.)

the sadboi movement was huge, arguably having broken into the mainstream, and preceded billie by years

eilish still feels fairly radical in the current pop landscape even though lorde is an obvious predecessor

sky and lana?

Nirvana had precedents as well but it didn't stop Smells Like Teen Spirit feeling like one of those generational watershed moments, the point where things suddenly snap into focus and become huge.

sky was never mainstream and i don't think lana shares much in common musically

thank god

Is it even possible to have generational watershed moments in pop music these days with the all of the genre and scene fragmentation that the internet has wrought? I feel like the social phenomenon that was Smells Like Teen Spirit won't happen in a purely musical medium in the future.

next cultural shift will take place in a Youtube toy unboxing video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KTm7XJucc

https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/billie-eilish-thinks-rappers-lie-too-much

incredibly lame

yeah fuck that

rmde, not at billie

Wow, nice clickbait. Wonder how many shoes it sells them.

Side note: I had to look up "rap cap" and while I did find a definition, I wasn't able to track down an origin. Anyone know?

the sadboi movement was huge, arguably having broken into the mainstream, and preceded billie by years

― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:41 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

wtf is “sadboi”? i did a search and ilx has mentioned the word “sadboi” exactly two times before this post, both unrelated to any kind of musical genre or artist.

She’s got the Rockist™ seal of approval, lol:

Q: You appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone" with Billie Eilish last year and have talked about going to her shows. How did you feel about her Grammys sweep last week?

Armstrong: It was great. I mean, I only heard about it – actually trying to watch the Grammys is pretty brutal, but I'm stoked for her and Finneas (O'Connell, her brother and producer). It's insanely well-deserved. Their music is very real, and you can tell it all comes from them, which is what sets it apart from what other pop acts are doing. It's not even comparable to think about what she does compared to someone like Ariana Grande. She's the real deal.

Ha I totally made a bad Billie Joe Eilish joke on Twitter the other day after Green Day posted this dumbass billboard ad (they’ve since deleted the tweet):

Green Day bringing the cringe into 2020. pic.twitter.com/9f9E9nz6hW

— Thee Anthony Fantano (@theneedledrop) February 8, 2020

the bond theme:

https://youtu.be/GB_S2qFh5lU

I feel like it's nice but doesn't quite lift off as it should

was hoping this would break the streak of ballad bond themes, it doesn't, but it's still the best bond theme since "you know my name" (low bar) and a good song worth hearing more than once (a bar which recent bond themes did not clear). in mood it kind of reminds me of "the world is not enough"

now that i've posted that i need to play "you know my name" five times in a row again

it's certainly better than fuckin "Skyfall"

and thankfully is probably too low-key to get anywhere near as much play

wholeheartedly agreed, and the less said about "the writing's on the wall" and "another way to die" the better xp