billie eilish

her and lay dee goo gaw can go away now!

^"that shit's embarrassing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt-BMjO232I

title track live

I think the first song on this record is my favorite one.

It’s this wonderfully calibrated simmer/seethe, with an amazing range of emotions contained therein.

A showtune that’s also a hymn, a confessional booth session - if I were a director shooting a video I’d frame it like something from “The Real World,” which is why I’m not a music video director, of course

The production on “Lost Cause” is so sick. Those tinny, distant guitar strums… It’s like a deep, lost trip-hop track.

"GOLDWING" on my annual mixtape, it's an earworm

Oh, she just turned 20. She has really good influences but they are old ! (Even though the sound is very 90s) I thought of the fucking Beatles on the first track.
On first listen, Oxytocin, Goldwing, Your Power (I feel like I've heard that vocal line before though) and Therefore I Am stand out for me.
I wish she rebalanced her singing even more in favour of clean singing and giving her voice more space rather than keep this focus on every trembling syllable, I get that it's part of her identity as a singer but I find it a bit gimmicky and grating over a whole album and she doesn't really need it anymore to demarcate herself. The rest of her vocal arsenal is much more powerful.

I was kinda surprised at how naturally charismatic and game she was on SNL. I mean yeah pop-star-is-good-on-camera shocker, but I guess it's been a minute since I've seen her (outside of a performance) and was expecting the kind of awkward, slightly stoned, slightly gloomy, alt teen presence she had earlier on.

Anyway, she rules. Most likable popstar.

I watched bits of the SNL stuff, and I agree she was unexpectedly charismatic and low-key "charming" on camera. Kind of a young Juliette Lewis vibe (or something). I find many of today's pop stars to be fairly "likeable," FWIW.

I think the use of social media really helps modern popstars to not be live in a bubble all of the time. Back then the connection was almost strictly via mainstream media doing all the discourse and they couldn’t really connect directly with any of their fans or have much to say.

Now they can be silent observers on what fans are liking or not liking about anything they do and correct course immediately if they think it’s a fair criticism. It’s also a much comfortable option for pop artists with a bit of an introverted side to them like Billie Eilish.

Many people think of social media as a very toxic environment but tbh I think what we had before was way worse.

the doco "The World's a Little Blurry" is about twice as long as it should be, but is insightful and unfussed, and Billie's commitment to her art and her fans is quite remarkable. Seems to have maintained her authentic self despite the six-orders-of-magnitude growth of her fanbase and reach. Well worth a watch.

Her SNL monologue began with a joke about why she used to wear baggy clothes; and ended with her saying that she “spent years pretending to be someone I’m not”(?) (I don’t remember her exact words). I was a little surprised by that deliberate about-face (if I’m interpreting it right). OTOH, sometimes a joke is just a joke…

“I didn’t change my number” is becoming one of my favorite things in here.

On her previous album I felt the singles were the strongest material, this time around I feel like the best tracks of this album weren’t released as singles (I didn’t change my number, lost cause, oxytocin, goldwing…)

Lost Cause was a single!

Oh fuck you’re right. I hate that music video/song combo so I erased it from my mind.

She has a new 2-song EP out, Guitar Songs... it's good.

it's great!

She played "TV" live as a duet with her brother when i saw her recently. i thought it was the one slight weak point of the set but it is much better recorded.

She was st the Dodgers v Giants game tonight in LA. Drop a single, go to a game.

Only TV is on YouTube and it was good.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-dance-cam-bad-guy-dodgers-game-1386733/

Billie Eilish was dancing to her own song at Dodger Stadium 😂 💃 pic.twitter.com/OQjA6zZ7VA

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 22, 2022

https://autos.yahoo.com/billie-eilish-achieves-dance-cam-124811897.html

2-song EP

this is literally not extended

went to post the crossed arms smiley but functional image search is a thing of the past

2-song EP

this is literally not extended

I'm tempted to quibble about that: the "extended" in EP surely means extended compared to a single, and as nowadays singles generally are one-track releases (rather than the misnamed doubles of yore), I guess a two-track EP is within reason?

lmao who gives even the slightest fuck

Apparently her 2018 cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” has been getting TikTok heat; so she released an edit that’s only the second half (without the actual lyric/vocal)? Pretty random…

Btw – i’ve posted this elsewhere, but it’s one of my favorite tracks this year so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCNgOi4kFg

The hotline edit was released because that’s the portion of the song trending on twitter and I guess they wanted to monetize on it. Weird to only upload a portion though… I assume you pay less royalties?

Yeah I wondered if that portion doesn’t technically incorporate any of the songwriting on the Drake song…

songwriters listed as drake, paul jefferies (drake's producer) and timmy thomas (as sampled in drake's hotline bling)

but there is still money to be made from those millions of streams the song will undoubtably get

But how many times will people listen to a minute-long slice of ambience? I'm sure a million ppl will stream it once (like I did)... but if it were the full song, it would end up on playlists etc. And if the songwriters get paid anyway...

I'm sure there's a logic, it's just opaque to me – they didn't even include the full title in the track name.

my guess as to why they released this “version” is because billie doesn’t actually like the full cover & didn’t want it officially released and turned into a whole thing. if it’s from 2018 then she was prob 15 when she made it, it feels likely to me that she’s sheepish/embarrassed by it being revived out of nowhere 6 years later by tik tok & so she gave her label the okay to monetize the version that basically sounds like… nothing

i don’t think there’s any business reason why you would do it this way. a copyright is a copyright you don’t get to pay less if you only release a 59 second song

Sure, I just thought maybe that section was entirely disconnected from the original song; to the point they could slice it off and treat it as a separate composition... thus also the truncated title... obv not the case though!

Very nice new ballad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8VLC9nnTo

This is a good song, not quite Vampire great but good nonetheless.

Yeah v different contexts – soundtrack contribution vs. lead single for a new album.

Billie Eilish debuted "What Was I Made For?" at Lollapalooza.pic.twitter.com/urcnRF8mVy

— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) August 4, 2023

Can't say I understand the literal weeping but nice performance

Barbie effect. I wasn’t blown away when I first heard the song but I have to say it was used very effectively in the movie and drove several women in my screening (including my stepkid) to tears

Sounds like she dedicated the performance to recently deceased actor Angus Cloud, so maybe that was part of the reason for the emotion (I don’t know if they were close).

Oh wait I’m sorry, that’s a different song

This article reveals that she's "putting the finishing touches on her third studio album."

third album rollout looks like it's about to start