Why didn’t you cunts tell me about the brilliance that is “Everything I Wanted”?!

She doesn't sing, she mumbles. Nobody can understand a fucking word.

When you grow up and are looking for a job, OP, maybe Meredith Grey will hire you to find music for her show, especially those last acts.

It's ok. I get why some like her, but in reality it's pretty lightweight. And she (like a lot of younger artists) seem to create music that is a pastiche, segments of ideas pasted together, but not fully developed songs. I think kids growing up with music filled with "samples" and laptop software to cut and paste tracks/ideas is perhaps a reason why. Lorde has this same disease, in my humble opinion. But I'm an old fart, so my ears are different from Gen Z ears.

Eilish did grow up in my old neighborhood, Highland Park, so I should cut her some homegirl slack - but she never when to public school ….. so, no.

[quote]Eilish did grow up in my old neighborhood, Highland Park

Which one? Chicago? Dallas? New Jersey? Pittsburgh? Los Angeles?

Next to Springfield.

She is from LA

HIghland Park is just northeast of downtown LA.

OP, it's dull.

Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Lisa Loeb, Suzanne Vega and Beth Gibbons said hello!!!!

It's catchy but she seems like someone who cuts themselves or will cut you.

Music for female college dorms.

Gen Z - Billie Eilish

Millennials - Avril Lavigne

Gen X - Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple, however, had a few decent songs. Lavigne and Eilish are just tedious.

Avril was never that big post album # 2. So no.

Avrils music also was pop rock. Not what Billie is doing.

Billie is big on ambience. Avril was big on skater punks.

r 13 Billie has only had one complete album. Wait and see.

I have a 12 year old niece and she is the one who told me about Billie Eilish some time ago. I listen and liked it.

I'm an eldergay who has certainly heard of Eilish, but this is the first time I've heard a song of hers. It is better than I expected. I like that it wasn't a by-the-numbers over the top pop song like most of the current pop songs I hear, but it doesn't seem fully-formed. It feels more like an attitude than a cogent song, but I suppose that is typical of electronica-influenced music. I'm shocked and heartened that something this underproduced song has such mainstream success. I probably won't ever listen to a single one of her songs ever again, but I'm not gonna hate her.

We tried to tell you but you always had a sweet roll in your mouth.

I don't see anything special about her or her music.

To quote Wolfgang Van Halen when asked to comment about Eilish not knowing who Van Halen is, "Music is supposed to bring us together, not divide us. Listen to what you want and don’t shame others for not knowing what you like.”

Enjoy listening to her, OP.

It’s ALL in production. Her brother the producer is the one who deserves the credit. She is just a voice overlay. The songs he wrote and produced are great.

OP is on crack. That track is all production (and not very interesting production) - there's nothing there.

Listen to Fiona Apple's hit single, or Suzanne Vega's hit single, or Tracy Chapman's hit single, or Alanis Morissette's hit singles (I could go on), and hear what successful pop music can be when it's done right.

R21 is a lesbian from 1995

On repeat

Love this song.

I can't stand baby-voiced girl music.

I seriously thought she was Lorde !

This is a fucking BOP

Quit whispering your lyrics, you lazy nothing!

I know I shouldn't, but I just love Billie's music. Music and art are hard to explain in terms of what moves us.

This is a great song.

Grammy winner now

Best album

Best record

Best song

Best new artist

Y'all may not like her, but the Grammy voters certainly seem to.

She swept the top four categories. The only other person to have done this is Christopher Cross in 1981.

And we all know how that career turned out.

LOL, r33. Good point.

[quote] This is a fucking BOP

I don't get this at all. The song is so dragged out and boring.

She's doing the new Bond movie titles song. That will bring out the haters.

I love this song. It’s a song you can sing along to but it’s calming.

She's terrible.

If I had 15 minutes to live, I would play this on repeat since it would make them seem like an eternity.

I still think Lovely is her best song. But i also like My Future, I Love You and Belly Ache.

Ocean Eyes is cool

[quote] [R21] is a lesbian from 1995

🤣🤣🤣

[quote] I can't stand baby-voiced girl music.

She hardly sounds like a baby-voiced girl unless its a baby who smokes cigarettes. Im a fan though. And she was wearing a face mask long before the rest of us.

This song is fucking awful. And it sounds just like Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place. Not even the production is original.

I think it's beautiful and the lyrics are very touching. These haters on here probably listen to Celine Dion all day.

Billie’s is beyond overrated.

Is that the official video???

R42 I can sort of see the similarities?? Kind of morbid, but both songs would be a good choice to have in the background while dying.

R45 no, it's not. The video is just of Billie driving around in a car.

She’s not so much a singer as she is a “song stylist”...

R45 no this is

yeah r47 - I'll just copy and paste what I wrote on the Katy Perry thread:

"B.E. is more of a model, a vibe, her vocals are just window dressing for whichever of her fans want to feel a connection to her or project themselves onto her.

—it's fashion"

That's a lot of what's top-of-the-charts-popular right now, maybe it's a period that's here to stay, maybe not.

^ either way it doesn't matter, we can always seek out what moves us, I always have!

[Quote] That's a lot of what's top-of-the-charts-popular right now, maybe it's a period that's here to stay, maybe not.

I hope there's more of what Miley's doing with Midnight Sky.

Billie’s kind of a rip-off of Feist.

She’s great. She has pretty vocals

[quote]Why didn’t you cunts tell me about the brilliance that is “Everything I Wanted”?!

Speaking strictly for myself OP, I just don't like you that much.

[quote] Why didn’t you cunts...

I am quite sure that you think you are cool and edgy by calling people cunts and bitches, but all it makes me do is to never want anything to do with you ever again and block you.

She needs to change it up going forward. Her persona and singing style won't last if she keeps doing what she's doing now.

Billie Eilish on her Grammy wins:

“I love the Grammys so much but to be sitting in a room full of your idols and have them lowkey resent you was very upsetting for me and then having those people’s entire fandoms that I’ve been a part of for years, hate me.”

She is underrated, but I have a high tolerance for this sort of thing.

I didn't know she said that, R57. She's deluded.

R59 she just has alot of feelings!

I think Lizzo deserved those Grammy Awards more than Eilish, Lizzo being the better novelty act of the two...

They're both definitely novelty acts. I can't see any career longevity for either. Hopefully they're saving and investing the money they're making right now.

I believe B.E. music is the opposite of ASMR clips. ASMR is supposed to give you a pleasant tingling sensation and Billy's music is supposed to make you feel sad and depressed and reaching for the razor blades. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out in the not too distant future that there is a hidden layer of her whispering hidden in all of her songs where she whispers "kill yourself, you miserable fuck! Kill yourself!" on a loop.

Everything I wanted is just such a good song

I really am not a fan of her style of murmuring.

its like Lily Allen as a young so cal chick on LOTS of benzos

What a terrible voice she has. The style is very fashionable at the moment and is emulated by many female singers to varying degrees if success. Totally affected. Pretentious mumbling and lazy articulation.

It's so affected she's impossible to listen to.

[quote]"And it sounds just like Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place."

Wow. Someone's ear pods have burnt out their hearing.

Sounds nothing like Radiohead. And it's a completely coherent composition: the suggestion by another poster that she composes from 'bits' like Bowie, is tripe.

....

Bored to death in 15 seconds. Mumbled word, annunciation sucks, the background is all synthetic and it sounds the same as past songs. No talent required in making music with an Apple Computer unlike true artists that play an instrument in a band, orchestra, or solo.

Ugh. I absolutely love this song

Record of the Year!