billie eilish

Lol that’s great

Ofcourse there's already a dj out there with that exact name

I really didn't think she would have staying power but the more and more I listen, the more I like the songs. Her entire aesthetic for right now is so great too.

But then, I reckon the use once and throw away fits what her main audience look for in music consumption.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 02:29 (yesterday) Permalink

Not to pile on, lol, but this is exactly the opposite of true, like perfectly 180 degrees wrong

Probably been said elsewhere, but "Bad Guy" is such a total AMSR trip.

I've always liked the idea of music that has real tactile quality, and she certainly does that here, although I think her bag of tricks is a bit limited.

I gave this album another try last week and only made it halfway through. I believe that I may never get it.

haha u r old

It's probably bad that every time I watch a video one of my first five thoughts are "keep mf'ing marilyn manson away from her."

I’ve finally realized what “bad guy” and ilomilo kept reminding me of.

She can hang out with Yolandi though.

although i guess Yolandi has her own set of issues.

I love Billie Eilish, and I find it kind of fascinating she is the big thing in 2019. Really great debut album.

Geir, do you like Lorde?

fuck yes

Geir!

I think I speak for Geir when I say, flopson does indeed like Lorde.

Uh oh I hope this doesn’t cause Geir to change his mind

New version of Bad Guy w/@justinbieber! @billieeilish https://t.co/bPIcipNO1i

— I Heart Moosiq (@iheartmoosiq) July 11, 2019

undo it

Geir, do you like Lorde?

I particularly liked her last album quite a bit, but Billie Eilish is still a bit more creative, has more of that Kate Bush/Björk edge.

Wow! @ that assessment

Really surprised at what you guys are hearing, but OK

does generation z consider bieber an old? I am genuinely curious

he's been around nearly a decade now so i'd think so, he's not really like the teen zeitgeist anymore

I just asked my 14-year old, and she says she and her friends all like Bieber, really liked his last album, and if he was performing this weekend they would totally be excited to go. fwiw I also asked her about Beyonce and Ariana Grande, and she considered Grande the biggest (heh) star of the three, though acknowledged that "old people" like Beyonce, too, and she really likes listening to her Coachella set. But she thinks Billie Eilish the biggest star the four, if only because she is "trending" now and Grande was "trending" more a few months ago.

Interesting twist: she considers Bieber "older" than Grande, even though Grande is a year older than Bieber! She says it's because Bieber is married.

now ask them who is the most important ~artist~

Is Billie Eilish the first massive pop star who feels like she belongs to the next decade rather than this one? We're at the point in the decade where you can usually hear the seeds of what's going to happen next and she feels like a rupture of sorts from the overdriven maximalism of the last 10 years.

(For the record Gaga felt like the equivalent pop star from 2009 and that played out, sonically as well as individually).

It's a bit hard for me to imagine Eilish having a career as big as Grande's--but what do I know

I could easily imagine her having a career like Lana del Rey, right? And she's pretty popular isn't she?

(For the record Gaga felt like the equivalent pop star from 2009 and that played out, sonically as well as individually).

I mean... maybe for a few years? Gaga hasn’t felt relevant since the early ‘10s

She also wasn't, to the best of my recollection, dramatically relevant as, for lack of a better word, generational music. When I saw her c. "Born this Way," post "Bad Romance" and peak Lady Gaga, I don't remember feeling particularly old at the show. But if I went to see Billie Eilish, I think for sure I would look like a dad waiting for my kid to get out.

it was hard to imagine ariana grande having a career as big as ariana grande's when she first started making music -- yeah, she was on a nickelodeon show, but victoria justice, bella thorne, etc. aren't huge music stars

The irony is that the first I had ever really heard of Ariana Grande was when Problem came out, but I feel that song actually helped make Iggy Azalea a big star first!

My wife went and saw Billie Eilish and said it was like nothing she’d ever seen before. I mean the mania with the fans was apparently just unreal. She sold out three consecutive nights at three different venues in L.A. If anything she’s probably bigger than we realize.

Have her fans given themselves a whimsical nickname yet, like beliebers or little monsters?

I feel like the popularity of ASMR videos may have anticipated the success of her whispery muttering.

No, clearly it was all set in motion by "Wait (The Whisper Song)" by the Ying Yang Twins.

billie eilish is bigger than ariana grande was at this point in her career and i’d guess will be bigger overall when all’s said and done. she’s already bigger than ldr imo

Is Billie Eilish the first massive pop star who feels like she belongs to the next decade rather than this one?

this is how i feel yeah... she prob hasn't even heard the xx

she's gonna be big for a while... ppl really connect w the persona and her music still feels like it's in its molecular stages to me

It’s no contest between Billie Eilish and LDR right now.

I think BE just is arriving at the right time and tbh there are so many kids out there who are over so much of what they *perceive* as the usual gorgeous rich pop star bullshit and Eilish feels more real and her extreme I can’t even-ness is something they’re really into. This is just based on now several separate conversations but the young kids (8-11 yr old range) I’ve heard discuss her feel like she’s one of them and is more understanding of them.

i saw her in boston and the merch lines were long, the mr. yuk-green sweatshirts were everywhere, and the moms were singing along too

there are so many kids out there who are over so much of what they *perceive* as the usual gorgeous rich pop star bullshit

kids OTM

if been waiting for the backlash to the luxury brand name dropping IG infuncer bullshit forever but it just keeps going.

I think Billie Eilish is a result of the low key backlash, I mean there are millions of kids out there who looked at all these megastars and didn’t see anyone who represented an empathetic figure who looked and acted like them. BE is like an extreme representation of what a lot of kids are feeling and at least one kid said exactly that to me kind of directly.

Vape Store (crüt) at 11:44 12 Jul 19

(For the record Gaga felt like the equivalent pop star from 2009 and that played out, sonically as well as individually).

I mean... maybe for a few years? Gaga hasn’t felt relevant since the early ‘10s

was never big on Gaga but I felt like A Star is Born was a pretty huge deal and brought her back into the pop culture convo

it was a good movie really exceeded my expectations

I wonder if LDR's album was delayed at all by the record company due to Eilish's continually rising star? she says it'll be out in September now but it was supposed to be out at the beginning of the year. The one time I saw LDR btw (before the last album) she played the Shoreline in the bay area, it was sold out, and the crowd was insane; I was completely not expecting that.

Shallows is a banger

she prob hasn't even heard the xx

This is really interesting, I never would have made this connection... I hear the musical similarities, but I feel like they occupy entirely separate aesthetic universes somehow.

LDR's kind of weird because a lot of of her continuing fame comes from her huge social media presence. Also massive on youtube.

there are so many kids out there who are over so much of what they *perceive* as the usual gorgeous rich pop star bullshit and Eilish feels more real and her extreme I can’t even-ness is something they’re really into.

def true for my 12yo stepkid, a diehard BE fan. These are kids whose parents started instagram accounts for them even before they could hold a phone, and have grown up realising that they can't look like Ariana or Taylor no matter how much they tried.

Eilish, eye-rolling at everyone in her sneakers and baggy outfits, feels more real to them, like a cool girl at school they could actually hang out with.

related: this girl Joana Ceddia is the biggest Youtuber/IG-er among kids right now, and the most striking thing about her is how much she *doesn't* look like an IG influencer - charmingly goofy/intentionally "ugly" selfies shot in her badly lit bedroom with no filter.