billie eilish

"when the party's over" slayed me today

her biggest heartbreaker for me too

i definitely heard the "people are strange" melody somewhere on the album

It was the first thing I thought of when I first heard "Bury a Friend". A quick Google suggests that the Internet has noticed this.

It's a broad strokes kind of thing obv but the progression and the melodic line at the cadence are similar.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/billie-eilish-cover-story-triumph-weird-863603/

Gen X rock stars like Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Thom Yorke have been taking their kids to see Eilish perform and stopping by to say hello to the pop star. “Yorke was a little tough,” says her manager, Brian Marquis. “He was just as you’d expect: curmudgeonly, perturbed.” Marquis says Yorke told Eilish, “You’re the only one doing anything fucking interesting nowadays.”

lol fuck thom yorke

well obviously he was including himself in that

Rough analogue of Bowie praising Lorde

Recently, her family’s home address leaked online, and three fans showed up in a single day, including a creepy older guy who’d driven all the way from San Diego.

Heavy interview. That Red Rocks show sounds wild.

the quote from finneas about the particular instrumentation that does and does not work with billie's voice was very astute, I thought, the sort of observation that makes you (well, me) go back and re-listen and sure enough

the no. 1 artist in the country!

what an amazing ascent. i hope she's handling it

I can see Bad Guy used in a lot of tv/movie preview montages and stuff

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 2:30 PM

it's pretty ubiquitous on every MTV show commercial and reality TV montage

the new Cannonball

roisin murphy is a fan

https://www.hotpress.com/music/electric-picnic-news-roisin-murphy-answers-questions-ahead-ep-22786372

Billie Eilish fascinates me – it’d be interesting to see what she’s doing live. About the rest of them, I couldn’t give a God’s curse.

lol bless her

the new Cannonball

That holds up.

absolutely

new song (kinda):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDTx6dSZl74

it's written by Billie and her brother Finneas and sung by Tate McRae (dance prodigy and youtube musician who has a pretty big following). it sounds more like Billie's don't smile at me material than anything she's recorded since, and I wonder if she originally intended to release it herself.

Finneas has also co-written a song with Rebecca Black, but we really don't need to talk about that.

...We don’t?

Finally getting around to this album. There's definitely something there, even if I find it hard to get over one of her middle names being Pirate

I like the middle name "Pirate" because it makes me feel less guilty for ripping her music off slsk :P

I feel like Billie doesn't get enough credit for being one of the most successful fanbase hijackers in history. in 2015 Melanie Martinez was the unchallenged queen of melodic, trap-influenced, slightly non-mainstream "edgy" teenpop aimed almost exclusively at 12-16-year-olds, and Billie rose to fame with a similar formula in 2017-2018 at a time when a lot of Melanie's fans had either outgrown her, cancelled her, or grown tired of waiting for a new album. a sizeable chunk of Billie's EP (COPYCAT, My Boy, Party Favor) is practically a tribute to Melanie, who was imho a more direct musical influence on her than Lorde or Lana. the difference between the two is that Melanie has boxed herself into the role of children's entertainer due to her single-minded obsession with dark childhood whimsy, whereas Billie's music has matured and evolved to the point where boomer critics and listeners have begun to take her seriously

^tbf this is mostly conjecture, and it's party undermined by the fact that people actually seem to care about Melanie's just-released multimedia monstrosity

Absolutely otm if the example of my elder daughter is typical. Although I listened to Martinez with a mental eye-roll whereas it was instantly clear Billie was in a different league.

My elder daughter confirms that Billie absorbed Martinez's fans after some sort of scandal? But that Billie does it better.

haha, I appreciate the front line reporting from both of you. it looks like Billie namechecked Melanie Martinez shortly after the release of her EP (and a couple of months before Melanie was accused of raping a former friend), but even then she felt the need to disclaim that she didn't really listen to a lot of Melanie's music. she's right about 'Soap' being a good song, but I'm glad she never fully embraced the "Bop It is a metaphor for our sex life" school of songwriting, and there's very little of that on her album

i think the tomboying of martinez’s aesthetic (which when i saw her was very “nine year old left flat after her birthday party”) is a factor here too. the big mr yuk green sweatshirts and baggy shorts are much more accessible and appealing as an emulatabke look

Aaaah she was the one I was thinking about when trying to find the closest relative to Billie Eilish’s sound and completely blanked. Had no idea she was that popular it’s been a while since I heard anything about her. I wont be watching that k-12 video because it’s too long for me as I’m not a big fan of her so it’s not particularly directed to my interests but I feel glad that an hour and a half musical video is faring rather well in views. It’s an interesting way to deliver a conceptual album and hope it inspires other artists to present ambitious multimedia projects like this one. Last year it was Whack World. But we need more musical movies out there.

Having someone like say Janelle Monae or FKa Twigs or Grimes or Beyonce, hell even Billie Eilish do a multimedia album like this would be interesting.

uh Whack World is a god tier video album - the Martinez one is embarrassingly awful.

Her SNL performances were good, I thought (at least by the standard of SNL performances)

the rotating room set for Bad Guy was pretty darned cool

Agreed

I don't like this at all.

i think i like this more than anything on the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTMq7xvdXU

Yeah that’s really nice.

Very nice indeed, ended up playing it a couple times in a row. Could easily envision a great Koze-style remix, too.

good drag name: billy eyelash

that's all

pleasantly surprised by how lovely this is

Tricky Eyelash is even better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZyybvVx-js

new video for one of my favorite songs of the year

cw if you don't enjoy watching people getting burned by cigarettes

lol whatever snowflake!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my niece who turns 13 next week is a superfan (seeing her in Boston and NY next year), i was fed videos at Thanksgiving

I was fed turkey

turkey w/ Eilish vids as a side

"everything i wanted" is so nice to listen to at this time of year

Xanny def my fave song on the record.

There's something vaguely Roxy Music-ish (Stranded era or so) about it, but I can't be bothered to pinpoint exactly why. Ferry could probably do a decent cover?

i am liking what i have heard from billie.
get a lot more CREEP vibe than LDR, but i think we can be pretty certain billie has never heard CREEP.

Are u still accepting late arrivals on the Billie Eyelash train?

I tried listening to her last year & barely finished Bad Guy before I was like NOPE SUCKS IDG THIS MUSIC etc. The quiet breathy INTENSE way of singing that sounds like your back teeth are clenched is not my fave & i thought this was that (but clearly isnt) Then I saw her on the Grammys last night & was so mesmerized by her performance & (many) acceptance speeches that i was like, fuckit, she seems really cool: imma give this kid another try.

Aaanyway: Having now *listened* to the album all the way through, I love it and 15 year old me is crawling out of her corner to love this too.

She really harnesses the ugly/awkward/painful internal suck of being a teenager but not in a way that alienates; i don’t know how or if it’s just me but it feels much more self-conscious & confessional than an agressive, isolating declaration. I think that’s the real joy of digging into her music is that, forgive my teen metaphor but, I picture Billie’s world of this album as something more like a sleepover for the ppl who dont get invited to sleepovers & where what you reveal during the RIL DARK truth or dare doesnt repel or repulse but brings ppl closer