Billie Eilish is quite good until you discover Kate Bush, and then you realise that she is quite ordinary.

 

billie eilish is 17-18 ..........
and besides, some rumors saying that she/he/them might be actually a he.........so..........

 

Curiosity got the best of me and I had to go look up this person.

Looks like a dude. And that led to a whole other rabbit hole. lol - Another entertainment industry clown. Literally and figuratively.

 

Just listen to the music. It's all about the music. It's not like she eats babies or something. She and her brother made a great record, industry plant notwithstanding.

 

They say I go mad for the paper
I think I need a shrink and a tailor
But I do not think about failure
I'm a star, I should get my own trailer
Every time I'm around there's a hype...

 

Music and art is all about personal taste. If you have the good fortune of finding the right audience, things will look greatly in your favor, industry plant or not. The key is having the proper means of exposure and promotional strategy that becomes profitable as well as some kind of long term marketing plan that can extend the shelf life of an artist allowing them to re-invent themselves and their music to stay relevant while keeping them bankable, mentally competent, and out of legal trouble for as long as possible...

 

Aww c'mon @Area51 . I know you're probably Eilish. Your brother told me you had opened an account here!

Okay. When I was in the epicentre, the inner sanctum, I was being told the Christmas #1 in September. For several years in a row. My friend/colleageue has played drums for many bands that were guaranteed to have Top Ten action, due to the type of deal they had.
Heck, there are deals when you know that you are going to have 3 x #1 Albums!
Only people that have experience within the inner sanctum of the industry will know similar things to these.
The only people that will have trouble believing it (as I would have before I witnessed it!) just haven't had industry experience with the true shakers & makers yet.
It's an industry.

 

I don't keep up with popular music. So, I see this group Imagine Dragons is huge. I listen to a few of their songs and watch the videos, I am blown away by how good they are; the hype was justified. So, I had high hopes when I recently looked up Billie Eilish. I was very disappointed. Terrible. The bad guy is just plain bad, and the sentiment of the song is ugly. Why is she popular?

 

If you read my post just before yours, you will see that the notion of 'popularity' isn't necessarily a real one.
The industry makes out like that, but doesn't mean that unit sales, or downloads now, are in line with what you imagine they should be! It's all a bit fake!

 

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I have to disagree. With the wording "it's all a bit fake".... please change it to "it's all fake"

 

record company figured out white girls and boys aren't buying the latest rap music, and so....

 

Her eye color is amazing.

 

This is most definitely an odd thread that retains little to no information i can use...

... BiLLie ... ... she cool

 

If you actually spend your time writing about singers you do not like on audiosex, you probably should rethink your priorities. And hope to get another life. Spoiler alert: you most probably won’t.

 

worst Bond song

 

I try and not acknowledge that weird bitch even exists

The Grammys were already heading into insignicance, sad since they used to mean something when i was growing up, so them giving that stupid talentless haircut 5 just put the final nail in the coffin

 

I'm gonna butt in one last time and then beg out. Of course personal taste is the last word for what one chooses to listen to, though being able to separate the art from the chaf, the dross from the treasure even though it might be "not your thing" is perhaps in the end could be an expansive or enlightened viewpoint. We all have gone through grooves where only one genre of music, or even one solitary artist or band was the only thing that made any kind of sense to listen to. There were times in my youth that my turntable would only find Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Steely Dan or Frank Zappa going incessantly around and around and around the platter and in so grinding and grinding away at the grooves until I needed to buy a new copy (Neil Young's Harvest and Yessongs by Yes to name a few). Did that preclude that Bach was boring and a poser, overhyped by generation twice removed and older than myself, or that The Supremes were less amazing than their name would suggest? I couldn't at the time appreciate or remain in the same room while my mother played a Barbara Streisand record, and my dad used to force me to listen to Johhny Cash on long drives to vist family 12 hours and four states away, all the while extolling Johnny's many musical virtues. It was only years later as I collated my influences that I came to retroactively appreciate what in many cases were artists/bands that I wouldn't at the time consider giving short shrift to. The same might or might not apply to many of you on the other side of the fence regarding Billy Eilish. My first impression of her was that she was a promo project of her label, and because my at the time 12 1/2 year old daughter was listening to her that it wasn't worth the ear time to bother with. I changed my mind after the first listen to this last album as I found the it as a whole to be freshly creative, the songs not run of the mill in the least and delivered by a powerful singer able to share her message and to emotively be in the moment every time I revisted a tune. I've seen her live while escorting my daughter and her friend to an open air festival last summer and was shocked by the professionalism and stage presence of one so young. I've watched her live on television and every time her performance is moving and spot on. Her next couple of albums will be her proving ground to me to show me if she is more than just a fleeting moment and that her musical career will have legs to stand on in the coming future.

She is a damn good singer even if she wont go for that high note during this Howard Stern interview and performance. She gets away with only implying that 2nd octave which lends her a high grade in my book.

Hate her if you will, but I find no fault in this performance with her brother, nor in the song itself.

Peace.

PS Yes, the worst Bond song...EVER!!!

 

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I like her stuff - great use of production with space in the high-end to make room for the voice.

And even though she can sing out - like on the Bond song - she generally goes for a very quiet vocal delivery - quietest I've heard from a major pop star.
And the thing that I found most interesting is that when she sang Glastonbury, I noticed that they had managed to maintain this very quiet vocal delivery live. A traditional sound engineer would always tell you it is impossible for a singer to be a successful pop singer and sing really quietly, but she's proved that to be rubbish. I imagine it took some work to achieve it (probably involving keeping stage level super low using electronic drums - probably everyone with in-ear mics so no stage monitors), but it's clearly possible, and good on her for making it happen.

 

Ah, once again a differentiated opinion on the subject, spiced up with a pinch of self-criticism.
Many musicians and some music I couldn't stand at first, but later, in the right mood, I really grew fond of them.
As with food, the pleasure of listening often comes with getting used to it and one begins to suppress one's own prejudices.
In effect, not everyone who is successful is evil and not everyone who owes their success to industry is evil.
We would have missed out on many good things over the past 50 years.
Everyone (me included of course) should occasionally examine themselves and, above all, their judgments about others to see whether these might not have been partly the result of envy.

 

I was only interested in her image as pop star.
But after all this unreasonable hate for her I'm gonna binge-listen all her stuff. She (they) must be really good. Thanks guys