She's an angsty teen. And she knows it. And she embraces it. That's what makes her so likeable. And with ger brother's great production they make such a dangerous duo.
@Prepare your ass because pablo The ironic thing about your comment is that I haven't seen an artist with the kind of immediate impact that Billie's had since Eminem.
@Prepare your ass because pablo First, Billie is not a plant. The music industry's not that smart. On paper, nothing about Billie should work, but it does. Second, your right about Eminem. What I meant was, once signed to a major label, he had an immediate and huge impact.
@Prepare your ass because pablo Impact and controversy are two different things. And because of the way the music industry has changed, it's almost impossible to compare the exact impact between the two. All I was saying was, that I haven't seen an artist have an impact as big as Billie since Em. Maybe Taylor Swift, but I don't really think so.
Lana Del Rey and Lorde walked so Billie could run. I wonder if her career will take the same path. A massive punch then continued to still original and with a fanbase but not Billboard and not as radio friendly. Still unique and true to themselves all 3
I am curious as well how long she'll last in the spotlight. As long as she continues to do something different, I guess. With as big as she became, I bet her second album will at least get a lot of streams first week.
Everyone is talking about how 'weird' billie eilish is, but she's just brought a bunch of indie tricks to the mainstream. I already listened to music as 'weird' as eilish's, but I think it's cool that now music casuals can get into these ideas too
It's cool that there seems to be a large audience who really take to her "weirdness". It's proof that general audiences aren't aversed to new things & might like some experimentalism in their pop.
I just finished telling my husband this. People are so upset about billie and her music being as successful as it is but its like..indie pop has been a thing fo YEARRRS. I was listening to stuff like this in high school ages ago. It's just gotten mainstream now and maybe people dont understand how a sound like this could be considered great.
@@zeetuslupeedus I just watched an interview with her, and she was kind of pissed off when they implied her music was depressing because she feels like she sings about things that everybody thinks at one time or another. She pointed out that nobody who actually knows her would ever called her dark.
@@lareinadiondra6027 yeah I've seen a lot of her interviews as well. Shes seems like a regular girl to me. People think you have to be sad all the time to understand sadness. Or be some kind if dark person to be able to relate to darkness. It's kind if wild how easily we box people in.
Agreed. I didnt listen to her for the longest time cuz i thought she was just trying to copy Lorde who is one of my top 3 favs. Thabkfully my sister convinced me otherwise lol
@@TestTest123ization Well, you are entitled to your own opinion. But, Lorde's the one who shaped Pop music over the last decade. (you can't deny that).
Best describes how I feel about her. I like one or two, but I give mad respect to her. I admire genuine-ness in artists, and she has oodles of that, so I automatically like her, if not all her songs.
I like that quote middle8 says “we’re in an age where rules are being broken” Music is revolutionizing & we just have to find new ways to shed light & promote underground music.
People complain about her music being trash, yet people complain about bubble gum pop-music that is made to be appealing to a mass audience aka “mainstream”. I think she’s doing her own thing, I’m not a fan of her music personally, I can’t name one song besides Bad Guy, but I am a fan of how she did it. Her brother is the mastermind behind it all. That’s what I mean by “revolutionary”, these are just kids making music in their bedrooms. Music back then used to be pumped out of like factories, genres like country & mainstream pop were fed to us through MTV & whatever was on the radio & people didn’t like that & they complained about it, that’s how underground music started. Now there’s kids blowing up because a large audience liked their little songs they made with their laptop. Nobody is asking you to like Billie Eilish but understand that these were just kids trying to have some fun making music & their dreams came true. & I think that is revolutionizing music, shedding light on those who aren’t being heard enough.
The average Billie fan is 14 years old which makes me feel old, but this means her fans will be around a long time supporting her music which makes me so happy! I am 52, this review is on point and I approve of this program. As a long time film editor, the team who edited this piece of artwork has mad skills.
Most pop stars who try and sound "badass" and "cool" kinda fail at it, Ellish really stands out among them as the only person who really gives no fucks. Her sound reflects her rebelliousness. Also, "bad guy" slaps.
I mean, she is not trying to sound badass. The bad guy is the joke song, making fun of macho culture. Hell, the drop at the end is made of overprocessed recording of her laughter. And if you heard the whole album, the intro (Which was originally part of the song and got cut because it would not make it to radio otehrwise) is also making fun of it.
@@terreausore2435 If you're wholly judging music by how complex the rhythm section or whatever is, you're a boomer and you also have a very narrow way of assessing music in general. Out of any *real* criticism against her you chose the most insignificant and pedantic thing to complain about.
In a world full of trashbags be the trash itself and to think, Lorde came around just 5-ish years before Eilish, and they’re two completely different types of decade defining.
Can you do a video about Bjork's artistry, And how she influenced art pop and electronic music with her immaculate production and surrealistic visuals and alien voice, whether it was an essay about her art in general or one of her critically acclaimed bodies of her work? It would be amazing if you did that 👍
I wouldn’t say Billie is an underrated artist but her debut album does feel like it’s under appreciated. It’s bold, unique, brave and it’s a shame a lot of ppl in the mainstream disregarded it bc it was “different”
Mel Paradise I’d say Tyler the Creator’s IGOR is an underrated masterpiece and it won Grammy. Everyone has a different concept of the word “underrated”
Haven't liked Billie Eilish for a while until recently, after realising we had the same view on art and I DID get her. I like to write songs about the end of the world, and collapsing relationships, in the hopes people like me won't feel alone and can use the songs to fix these problems. It's reassuring to see one of the world's biggest artists sharing the same aesthetic.
I loved When We All Fall Asleep from the very first listen. I can remember already being won over by the first half of the album with awesome tunes like xanny and wish you were gay among many others but holy shit, when listen before i go, i love you and finally, goodbye came on to finish off the record, I was spellbound. I never expected any pop star with such virality to go this deep and this emotionally powerful. The entire album isn't just pop, it's high art.
Fred H. Music I listened to it after I heard it won album of the year to see what the hype was about, and I was completely blown away by how much I loved it. It’s so versatile in its genres and themes, it’s up there with IGOR for my favorite album to come out last year
I’m not a huge Billie fan but I like watching interviews with her, she’s so genuinely interesting. The songs I’ve heard of hers are really solid though
I feel her songs will sound very odd a couple of years from now unless this is actually the new wave. Her and her brother are very innovative regardless.
Before Finneas won producer of the year he worked with a few artist besides Billie, one being Selena Gomez. Now that hes won, hes going to be in demand and his production style is what is going to change the way music is.
@Junior Alvarado Add Lorde, Adele, and even Post Malone to an extent (Yes, I consider him a pop artist) and that’s the list of full blown pop artists that I actually really enjoy listening to in my free time, the only other artists that I enjoy that quality as “pop” are 90s/2000s pop rock singer/songwriters like pre-2007 Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morrissette
@@terreausore2435 I think that person is trying to say that pop music is not their type of music and Billie Eilish is not that pop but is considered as a pop star. Maybe, that's why he/she put double quote marks in popstar.
@@lyonclaws5737 Greta Thunberg. 16 year old swedish climate activist. Spoke in front of the UN and many others and is kind of the leader of the "fridays for future" and the leader of "skolstrejk för klimatet".
I only know what I hear on the radio, so "All The Good Girls Go To Hell" was what came to my mind - cool to know she's written other songs on the subject
Can you connect her with any other artist you enjoyed prior to 2000s? I've been trying to find a way to explain her to my Dad and I just cant find something he'd relate to
@@anarchyvixyn Bjork. Both of them aren't really just singers, they are artistic personalities who express themselves through multiple outlets of which singing is just one. And they aren't bothered about looking sexy, Bjork is as likely to turn up dressed as a tomato as a fairy. They are not musically similar but I see a similarity in attitude. Billie's personality is filtered through the styles and production techniques of today's music just as Bjork was in her heyday, so I think it is always going to be harder for the older generations to get it. th-cam.com/video/36Srr08PN_Y/w-d-xo.html
I just heard Billie Eilish's 'No Time to Die' and knew immediately from the sound of it that it was a Bond theme song even though I didn't know beforehand that that was what it was. I would be really interested to see a video exploring what makes a Bond theme song sound like a Bond theme song.
I’ve been a fan of Billie Eilish for a few years now, and it’s really nice to see that such an amazing and groundbreaking artist is finally getting the recognition that she deserves
I’ve seen a lot of people say that Billie is this generation’s Avril Lavigne and that makes me worried that her career is going to end up like Avril’s, with a promising first album, a fantastic follow up that lived up to that potential, and it’s all downhill after that and she starts working with generic hitmaker producers like Max Martin to stay relevant
i can only see her go up from here. Her music does honestly go across the broad. i just hope people who like her now, grow with her. there might be a time shes not sad and spooky anymore.
@r s People thought that the same thing was going to happen with Avril, But after that second album (which was fantastic), instead of continuing that sound but with more maturity, she decided to become an overproduced diva out of nowhere and ditched her old producers (most of which had a background in rock music) to work with the same guy that produced a bunch of songs for Katy Perry and Kesha for some ungodly reason, easily the biggest sellout move for me a female artist since Gwen Stefani’s transition from No Doubt to her solo career, really praying that Billie doesn’t do this because I really enjoy her music so far
@Avocado Pirate She sold out way before she had Lyme disease, her music took a massive nosedive in quality after her magnum opus, Under My Skin, Best Damn Thing had a few good songs but overall it was an overproduced and even at times unlistenable disaster and didn’t improve at all after that, especially with her new album having some of the worst mixing/production I’ve heard in a long time in addition to being musically lacking
HOW THE HELL DOES THIS GUY NOT HAVE MORE THAN 10 MILLION FOLLOWERS! The incredible editing and structure is so incredible! this is so refreshing and easy to follow! Thank you @Middle8
@@Luke-ft5ow I'd say, both are talked-about for their work, both of which are celebrated by a crowd that was hungry for something like that. In Billie's case it's her music, while Greta's "product" is the FFF movement, and the extension of climate activism in general
she naturally gives no fucks until it comes to the ppl she's close to and her fans are included in that group she makes us feel like her best friends. that's another reason we love her. not just bc her music is comforting, inspiring, or cool. not bc she perfects the badass persona. but because she's a human. she shows how much she cares abt things. she shows her passions and doesn't hide them away. she shares with us like she's known us for years i've been a supporter of hers since a couple weeks after ocean eyes was posted on soundcloud. and she's always been so honest and genuine. and would post pics that feel like a personal snapchat from a friend or something
Billie Ellish, Charli XCX, Dorian Electra, sorta Lorde, BROCKHAMPTON, there all bringing the new wave of pop and its going to be really interesting to see where the next five years go to see the new faces of pop fight the old ones (taylor swift, Justin Bieber) in the charts
When the teenagers talk about her past, they describe her as if she was a refugee who swum whole Atlantic to reach USA and her family was massacred Infront of her and before the war she had an arranged marriage with 50 years old Warlord..... seriously kids who was hasn't social anxiety and afraid of people and low self-esteem? What she has that we don't a supportive family and a musician brother.
this video brought together so beautifully, billies intentions and experiences expressed in her music. I love her music and I always will love her for being the soul of my happiness and reassurance when I was in a dark place. I cry every time I watch her documentary, and as a movie lover, I appreciate all of the artistic choices in it too. Its harder to reach out to all of us who joined her fandom when she was a teenager, because shes at a place where shes better now, and we are so proud of her for doing that. some of us just prefer her when she was an angsty, moody teenager because we could relate to her more. but her music and movie arent going anywhere, and thats the amazing thing about art that Billie appreciates too. this career lets you grow because whatever you make is here to stay if you want it to, and it wont go anywhere.
I don’t _like_ her, but I admire her talent. I just don’t like how her hardcore fans think she’s so edgy, but they haven’t heard a second of Obituary or Slayer
I am 66 and she’s the only major current pop act l like. Not at all my usual sort of thing but it’s great to hear someone pursuing her own muse, for a change.
I hate how sexist teenage guys always parade billie as fake deep or “fake depressed” when they all listen to juice wrld and x as if you couldn’t say the same about them
True that. Most guys, especially teen boys who think they're cool, get this reflex action when they see someone cooler then themselves. Not only is Billie cooler, but also more talented, sharper hacker, better educated with friends circle bigger than they'll ever have. Read the comments on reddit where all these loser boys hang out. One even admitted that she's so cool that even the bullies the boys are scared of follow Billie.
Arc2301 Not really dude. do you even listen to her music? yeah she has dark lyrics but that’s not all she does. also how is she the epitome of not like the other girls? please tell me, because i’ve been listening to her for a while and have yet to hear anything like that
Avocado Pirate Guys like him complain that we’re not allowed to have offensive lyrics to tell a story anymore but when a girl uses those same things he gets pissy and called her fake
Almost forgot about the fact the SHE MADE A SONG FOR JAMES BOND!!! WHO ELSE HAS DONE THAT?? NO ONE!!! this is why billienis so amazing. because she's unique and iconic.
Billy saved me from myself. I was kind of stuck in this place where I only listened to music from my youth. I had no taste or patience for anything pop centric. This album opened me up to so much new music.
I couldn't figure why bon iver's album art looked so familiar until I realised that when I lived in America in highschool, in the same town as him and there's a 3 story mural of his album cover on a building in downtown...
Billie Eilish also cowrites a lot of her songs. It's not only Finneas doing that work. She wrote the outro to bad guy, for example, and that was the first part of the song to get written.
6:16 that was also achieved by Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars a while ago. It builds up to the chorus, stops the instrumental altogether, Bruno delivers the line and the "chorus" itself has no lyrics and is replaced by an instrumental hook instead
Billie is pretty dope as an artist and will for sure be important this decade. But I think she'll become Lorde 2.0 by the end of the decade; ppl still listen to her and respect her, but like most pop-ish artists, she'll be replaced.
@@ronstoppable5659 Not sure they had any; or, there at least wasn't as much to be 'anti' at that time, with grunge being so huge. Good question though, hope someone will bring up a better example.
@@ronstoppable5659 That's kind of the issue for people like Billie though. Of course she's also incredibly talented, but being this huge she'll mos def influence things, and once that influence is everywhere, she won't stand out as much.
@FlasKamel Alanis Morrissette is the only one that I could think of but her image was not even close to as over the top as Avril and Billie, maybe Gwen Stefani when she was in No Doubt, but even then her image was mostly focused on her sex appeal and was very similar to one of a bubblegum teen pop star, despite the fact that she sang rock music at the time
@@ronstoppable5659 Hahaha, I was considering bringing up those two exact examples. Gwen probably, not caring too much for the stereotypes at the time. Alanis would make sense if she was younger (Maybe she was. Always just struck me as an older person). Could say Courtney Love too, but nobody really listened to Hole, did they? I see two of their albums got Platinum
I think she is just the best manifestation of the depressed zoomer generation. I think artists like her will be even more popular in the future. Doomed economically and socially by the Covid crisis, doomed politically because of the radicalisation in the first world and doomed in global prospects by the climate deterioration and the rise of China. We feel like we have good chance of becoming the second lost generation of the West, and many are hopeless. Hence the riots, suicides, shootings, and sad lonely music. And the general acceptance of depression as the “cool” standart.
@@johnpangarakis396 Whispery detached "cool AF" girl next door image (it was initially for Lana as well). Down to earth lyrics, unpleasant themes and awkward sexuality. It's just even more nihilistic this time :D Thus - "for zoomers" instead of "for millenials"
When the party's over gave me a chance to explain to my friends and family what was going on in my head after my group if friends broke apart. My autism really effects my ability to express my feelings. So I often create very symbolic and bizarre videos to express my emotions. Yet somehow those videos allow others to get the gist of what I have been feeling. I've been able to communicate my trauma and feelings through When The Party's Over, Other Side of Paradise, Sweden, Empire Ants, and a few others.
"Sounds like Billie singing along to music playing at a party next door" is the best description of bad guy.
hey mitto!
I literally asked myself if he meant the artist, or an actual party next door.
As big of a fan of Billie as I am, Bad Guy is massively overrated.
@@pancakes246 It's a good song but all that praise should go to Bury A Friend.
And Bjork recorded part of her on song on debut in a club toilet ::)
nobody is gonna point out how good of an editing this was?
Bipin Samsohang I sort of expect it now, whenever I see a middle 8 vid. But they still never fail to bring the goods
Ahh..u just did. Duh
His editing getting better with every video!
thank you
Bipin Samsohang yes it was a good editing
Finneas' is a dope ass producer. I don't listen to this kind of music but the beats and Billie's voice got me. Both of them are talented af.
Refuze2Lose Fineas’s songs are fucking great, too
What do you listen to?
Ended up being producer of the year lulz
@Prepare your ass because pablo
I see that you’re referring to yourself.
@Prepare your ass because pablo are you coming to these videos to shit on the artists like why are you even here?
She's an angsty teen. And she knows it. And she embraces it.
That's what makes her so likeable.
And with ger brother's great production they make such a dangerous duo.
@@terreausore2435 she doesn't truly things?
@@terreausore2435If you can't spell no one is going to take you seriously
@Prepare your ass because pablo The ironic thing about your comment is that I haven't seen an artist with the kind of immediate impact that Billie's had since Eminem.
@Prepare your ass because pablo First, Billie is not a plant. The music industry's not that smart. On paper, nothing about Billie should work, but it does. Second, your right about Eminem. What I meant was, once signed to a major label, he had an immediate and huge impact.
@Prepare your ass because pablo Impact and controversy are two different things. And because of the way the music industry has changed, it's almost impossible to compare the exact impact between the two. All I was saying was, that I haven't seen an artist have an impact as big as Billie since Em. Maybe Taylor Swift, but I don't really think so.
Lana Del Rey and Lorde walked so Billie could run. I wonder if her career will take the same path. A massive punch then continued to still original and with a fanbase but not Billboard and not as radio friendly. Still unique and true to themselves all 3
Good question, you should also ask Van Halen.
I am curious as well how long she'll last in the spotlight. As long as she continues to do something different, I guess. With as big as she became, I bet her second album will at least get a lot of streams first week.
@@TECfan1 "..a lot of streams first week." and what happens after that?
Actually Lana and Marina, Lorde is newer bread that walked on Lana's and Marina's lane
BS, Lorde paved her own way, Lorde owns the stage live, impressive for a then 18/19 year old..
Middle 8 has the power to make me care and listen to some artists that I didn't even know or didn't care at all.
LMAO SAMEE
Everyone is talking about how 'weird' billie eilish is, but she's just brought a bunch of indie tricks to the mainstream. I already listened to music as 'weird' as eilish's, but I think it's cool that now music casuals can get into these ideas too
It's cool that there seems to be a large audience who really take to her "weirdness". It's proof that general audiences aren't aversed to new things & might like some experimentalism in their pop.
I just finished telling my husband this. People are so upset about billie and her music being as successful as it is but its like..indie pop has been a thing fo YEARRRS. I was listening to stuff like this in high school ages ago. It's just gotten mainstream now and maybe people dont understand how a sound like this could be considered great.
billie eyelash hahaahah
@@zeetuslupeedus
I just watched an interview with her, and she was kind of pissed off when they implied her music was depressing because she feels like she sings about things that everybody thinks at one time or another. She pointed out that nobody who actually knows her would ever called her dark.
@@lareinadiondra6027 yeah I've seen a lot of her interviews as well. Shes seems like a regular girl to me. People think you have to be sad all the time to understand sadness. Or be some kind if dark person to be able to relate to darkness. It's kind if wild how easily we box people in.
I love how she started out as an American response of Lorde, but she gradually became her very own thing
Agreed. I didnt listen to her for the longest time cuz i thought she was just trying to copy Lorde who is one of my top 3 favs. Thabkfully my sister convinced me otherwise lol
Cameron McKee Samee
If Lorde is Radiohead, Billie would be Coldplay
@@westshape3998 I might be the other way around. I think Billie is more like Radiohead, Lorde Coldplay.
@@TestTest123ization Well, you are entitled to your own opinion. But, Lorde's the one who shaped Pop music over the last decade. (you can't deny that).
I'm not a _fan_ of Eilish, but she's definitely got talent and drive.
Good episode choice.
Ashakari Singh I agree for sure man, I admire her drive and talent, but I wouldn’t consider myself a fan
Best describes how I feel about her. I like one or two, but I give mad respect to her. I admire genuine-ness in artists, and she has oodles of that, so I automatically like her, if not all her songs.
@Arda
Those who cannot acknowledge greatness when they see it will themselves never be great.
🙏
Btw I learned today that she's homeschooled. Badass!
same with any music for teen... it kind of there and it will be gone... but just had fun who care....
@@campkira
...what?
The burst a friend/black skinhead mashup had me living for the ten seconds it was playing omg
Burst that friend
Edit:i do agree tho
I like that quote middle8 says “we’re in an age where rules are being broken”
Music is revolutionizing & we just have to find new ways to shed light & promote underground music.
But there's nothing revolutionary about Billie though.
Nader Abed she is bringing indie pop elements in the mainstream. And ppl are eating her up
People complain about her music being trash, yet people complain about bubble gum pop-music that is made to be appealing to a mass audience aka “mainstream”. I think she’s doing her own thing, I’m not a fan of her music personally, I can’t name one song besides Bad Guy, but I am a fan of how she did it. Her brother is the mastermind behind it all. That’s what I mean by “revolutionary”, these are just kids making music in their bedrooms.
Music back then used to be pumped out of like factories, genres like country & mainstream pop were fed to us through MTV & whatever was on the radio & people didn’t like that & they complained about it, that’s how underground music started.
Now there’s kids blowing up because a large audience liked their little songs they made with their laptop. Nobody is asking you to like Billie Eilish but understand that these were just kids trying to have some fun making music & their dreams came true. & I think that is revolutionizing music, shedding light on those who aren’t being heard enough.
@@nik8099
How about revolutionizing then?
@@JNava That still happens. Music is still pumped out like its nothing.
The average Billie fan is 14 years old which makes me feel old, but this means her fans will be around a long time supporting her music which makes me so happy! I am 52, this review is on point and I approve of this program. As a long time film editor, the team who edited this piece of artwork has mad skills.
No, they'll grow out of it
@@keranseunarine4274 well I’m about to be 21 been listening since 16
Can we take a moment to appreciate the editing of this. I Mean, this is fucking awesome.
Most pop stars who try and sound "badass" and "cool" kinda fail at it, Ellish really stands out among them as the only person who really gives no fucks. Her sound reflects her rebelliousness. Also, "bad guy" slaps.
@@terreausore2435 lol i dont give a shit, i think it's catchy asf
I mean, she is not trying to sound badass. The bad guy is the joke song, making fun of macho culture. Hell, the drop at the end is made of overprocessed recording of her laughter. And if you heard the whole album, the intro (Which was originally part of the song and got cut because it would not make it to radio otehrwise) is also making fun of it.
Bad guy is an epic shitpost in music which everyone takes seriously for some reason.
@@terreausore2435 If you're wholly judging music by how complex the rhythm section or whatever is, you're a boomer and you also have a very narrow way of assessing music in general. Out of any *real* criticism against her you chose the most insignificant and pedantic thing to complain about.
@@ThatOneGuy7550 the lyrics are really stupid
So basically: Billie Eilish is the GenZ's rebellious teen idol just like Lorde was the Millenials' rebellious teen idol
In a world full of trashbags be the trash itself and to think, Lorde came around just 5-ish years before Eilish, and they’re two completely different types of decade defining.
I mean, gen z were also around when Lorde was. Gen Z started in the late 90s, don't forget that.
@@goodjobeli I was about to say I was 13/14 when lorde came out
Yep, pretty much
Gen Z are people born roughly between 1995 and 2015. That makes Lorde a Gen Z, cause she was born in 1996.
Can you do a video about Bjork's artistry, And how she influenced art pop and electronic music with her immaculate production and surrealistic visuals and alien voice, whether it was an essay about her art in general or one of her critically acclaimed bodies of her work?
It would be amazing if you did that 👍
In a world full of trashbags be the trash itself PREACHING OVER HERE
In a world full of trashbags be the trash itself damn he really should do this
@@richardocampo4371 i'm...not sure what that means but...ok
I dun think anyone has done Bjork yet... would be nice though.
Nik B it means that your preaching the truth. We want bjork give us that bjork video!
I wouldn’t say Billie is an underrated artist but her debut album does feel like it’s under appreciated. It’s bold, unique, brave and it’s a shame a lot of ppl in the mainstream disregarded it bc it was “different”
sorry, but 'underrated' doesn't get you a damn grammy nomination lol
AOTY
Mel Paradise I’d say Tyler the Creator’s IGOR is an underrated masterpiece and it won Grammy. Everyone has a different concept of the word “underrated”
Yet it won 4 Grammy's.
i love billie but the album is nowhere near underrated. she just won 5 grammys and has over 1 billion streams in total now
Haven't liked Billie Eilish for a while until recently, after realising we had the same view on art and I DID get her. I like to write songs about the end of the world, and collapsing relationships, in the hopes people like me won't feel alone and can use the songs to fix these problems. It's reassuring to see one of the world's biggest artists sharing the same aesthetic.
**insert im the bald guy joke here**
Duh!!
@@aadityabhattacharya **silly beat intensifies**
We are number one!
'Balding men best lovers in the world!'
-Colin Mochrie
Yep! This girl is amazing, dark, funny, scary, profane, vulnerable, and sweet. We needed Billie and Finneas and the universe said "Yes!"
@@antoniochiodi4183 those spiders and shit dude. Kinda was scary lmao
@@hopeiseverlastingofficialyeah especially considering those spiders were real
Did you know you timed the release of this hours after Bad Guy got the number 1 spot in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2019?
I loved When We All Fall Asleep from the very first listen. I can remember already being won over by the first half of the album with awesome tunes like xanny and wish you were gay among many others but holy shit, when listen before i go, i love you and finally, goodbye came on to finish off the record, I was spellbound. I never expected any pop star with such virality to go this deep and this emotionally powerful. The entire album isn't just pop, it's high art.
Fred H. Music I listened to it after I heard it won album of the year to see what the hype was about, and I was completely blown away by how much I loved it. It’s so versatile in its genres and themes, it’s up there with IGOR for my favorite album to come out last year
Billie Ellish 'bad guy' just won the triple j hottest 100.
I’m not a huge Billie fan but I like watching interviews with her, she’s so genuinely interesting. The songs I’ve heard of hers are really solid though
my first impression of her was an interview for coachella or one of the festivals last year where she came off sounding like a total moron.
Can I just say how much I love “no time to die” it suits James Bond so well with its beautiful sadness and terror it just yells spy to me
it was such a letdown. but I guess that nothing can top skyfall.
@@user-rv7ge1tc4l Yeah! No time to die is probably my 2nd fav Bond theme after Skyfall.
I feel her songs will sound very odd a couple of years from now unless this is actually the new wave. Her and her brother are very innovative regardless.
I think she's making music for now, not for couple of years from now.
@@tachisme lmao
Before Finneas won producer of the year he worked with a few artist besides Billie, one being Selena Gomez. Now that hes won, hes going to be in demand and his production style is what is going to change the way music is.
@@anarchyvixyn yes!
How is her art very innovative?
the only "popstar" I can put in my spotify playlist
@Junior Alvarado Add Lorde, Adele, and even Post Malone to an extent (Yes, I consider him a pop artist) and that’s the list of full blown pop artists that I actually really enjoy listening to in my free time, the only other artists that I enjoy that quality as “pop” are 90s/2000s pop rock singer/songwriters like pre-2007 Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morrissette
Add Lorde, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli
@@terreausore2435 I think that person is trying to say that pop music is not their type of music and Billie Eilish is not that pop but is considered as a pop star. Maybe, that's why he/she put double quote marks in popstar.
Add Carly Rae and Lorde
"Shes the most talked about teen on the planet"
Greta has entered the chat.
How dare you!
seeing as how one of Billie's songs on the radio is about global warming, I suspect she'd agree
You know for a second, I had to think and I’m glad you’re not referencing Greta Van Fleet...lol
who's greta
@@lyonclaws5737 Greta Thunberg. 16 year old swedish climate activist. Spoke in front of the UN and many others and is kind of the leader of the "fridays for future" and the leader of "skolstrejk för klimatet".
0:26 Did you just describe the entire narrative of Infest The Rats' Nest?
iPodwallify there is no planet B
@@Middle8 Open your eyes and see!
I only know what I hear on the radio, so "All The Good Girls Go To Hell" was what came to my mind - cool to know she's written other songs on the subject
The day before she wins like 4 Grammys. You have great timing
I'm 56 and imho she is the only likeable stylistically new music I have found since 2000.
Can you connect her with any other artist you enjoyed prior to 2000s? I've been trying to find a way to explain her to my Dad and I just cant find something he'd relate to
@@anarchyvixyn Bjork. Both of them aren't really just singers, they are artistic personalities who express themselves through multiple outlets of which singing is just one. And they aren't bothered about looking sexy, Bjork is as likely to turn up dressed as a tomato as a fairy. They are not musically similar but I see a similarity in attitude. Billie's personality is filtered through the styles and production techniques of today's music just as Bjork was in her heyday, so I think it is always going to be harder for the older generations to get it.
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I just heard Billie Eilish's 'No Time to Die' and knew immediately from the sound of it that it was a Bond theme song even though I didn't know beforehand that that was what it was. I would be really interested to see a video exploring what makes a Bond theme song sound like a Bond theme song.
Let's hope Drake doesn't get to her now that she is 18
**visible confusion**
She's too old 5 years to old
What do you mean "get to her"❓
I’ve been a fan of Billie Eilish for a few years now, and it’s really nice to see that such an amazing and groundbreaking artist is finally getting the recognition that she deserves
Am I the only one who likes "Don't smile at me" more than her current album?
both Billie and Finneas work so well together and they are making hella good records.
the ending of bad guy when it takes a 180 degree shift is literally me favourite part of the song
I’ve seen a lot of people say that Billie is this generation’s Avril Lavigne and that makes me worried that her career is going to end up like Avril’s, with a promising first album, a fantastic follow up that lived up to that potential, and it’s all downhill after that and she starts working with generic hitmaker producers like Max Martin to stay relevant
i can only see her go up from here. Her music does honestly go across the broad. i just hope people who like her now, grow with her. there might be a time shes not sad and spooky anymore.
@r s People thought that the same thing was going to happen with Avril, But after that second album (which was fantastic), instead of continuing that sound but with more maturity, she decided to become an overproduced diva out of nowhere and ditched her old producers (most of which had a background in rock music) to work with the same guy that produced a bunch of songs for Katy Perry and Kesha for some ungodly reason, easily the biggest sellout move for me a female artist since Gwen Stefani’s transition from No Doubt to her solo career, really praying that Billie doesn’t do this because I really enjoy her music so far
Avril is just one ingredient that made Billie. Moreover, Avril had health problems unrelated to talent from reaching her full potential.
@Avocado Pirate She sold out way before she had Lyme disease, her music took a massive nosedive in quality after her magnum opus, Under My Skin, Best Damn Thing had a few good songs but overall it was an overproduced and even at times unlistenable disaster and didn’t improve at all after that, especially with her new album having some of the worst mixing/production I’ve heard in a long time in addition to being musically lacking
@@ronstoppable5659 Didn't Avril just complete a sold out tour? I think she will make more good music.
That was incredible. Thanks again.
HOW THE HELL DOES THIS GUY NOT HAVE MORE THAN 10 MILLION FOLLOWERS!
The incredible editing and structure is so incredible! this is so refreshing and easy to follow!
Thank you @Middle8
I am fascinated by the art and visuals in this fantastic video.
Great video and editing as always. Billie is an artist that really gets to you on a personal level. Her style is like I don't have to be loud to sing.
God your epilogue at the end nearly had me in tears, and I'm not even a huge fan of billie. Well done good man.
I think very few artists can pull off that breathe in between songs and still make it a part of the song so naturally
Billie eilish: breaths
14 year old girls: OMG SO DEEP
I hate being 14 and liking Billie 😂😂 i dont say so deep tho im just like any other big fan
First off great video and analysis, but also fucking great motion graphic work and production value going on in the background
Another great great episode!! Personally I would love a video about Cage the Elephant
Yes! That would be a great one
Hell yeah
I watched your IGOR video, and now this one, and I’m already hooked. You do such a good job of explaining why I love the music you talk about
"Billie Eilish is the most talked-about teen on the planet."
Greta Thunberg: Am I a joke to you?
Péter Winkler yep
Honestly Greta is held up by a movement. People only talk about her to promote what they want (not that I disagree with them)
@@Luke-ft5ow I'd say, both are talked-about for their work, both of which are celebrated by a crowd that was hungry for something like that. In Billie's case it's her music, while Greta's "product" is the FFF movement, and the extension of climate activism in general
seeing as how Billie has a song about global warming on the radio, I suspect she'd agree as to which teen should be given priority (Greta)
Whose that?
she naturally gives no fucks
until it comes to the ppl she's close to
and her fans are included in that group
she makes us feel like her best friends. that's another reason we love her. not just bc her music is comforting, inspiring, or cool. not bc she perfects the badass persona. but because she's a human. she shows how much she cares abt things. she shows her passions and doesn't hide them away. she shares with us like she's known us for years
i've been a supporter of hers since a couple weeks after ocean eyes was posted on soundcloud. and she's always been so honest and genuine. and would post pics that feel like a personal snapchat from a friend or something
What timing as well after she took out Australia’s Triple J’s Hottest #100 as top spot!
Billie Ellish, Charli XCX, Dorian Electra, sorta Lorde, BROCKHAMPTON, there all bringing the new wave of pop and its going to be really interesting to see where the next five years go to see the new faces of pop fight the old ones (taylor swift, Justin Bieber) in the charts
She has a huge talent and I don't even listen to pop but the 22 à million vibe got me. Very promising album
When the teenagers talk about her past, they describe her as if she was a refugee who swum whole Atlantic to reach USA and her family was massacred Infront of her and before the war she had an arranged marriage with 50 years old Warlord..... seriously kids who was hasn't social anxiety and afraid of people and low self-esteem?
What she has that we don't a supportive family and a musician brother.
Another great video but first woman in Sad Pop? Marina And The Diamonds? Lana Del Rey? Lorde? Hello?
@@azulandreaescalantelopez1004 Ahh okay, yeah I can see it like that now
She also did something different with it. Those artists stick to mainly pop instrumentals while Billie has more trap and hip hop inspired beats.
False
Kimbra?
@@TECfan1 All previous Lana records before NFR! have hip hop/trap beats
damn dude 7:45 made me feel crazy emotions. you have a gift with making a relate able story convincing argument and great script.
I love how preteens and teens totally got into her. Musically and technically she is beyond most of my Gen X pop music.
I know a teenager who’s more like a Generation X kid.
The editing of this one video is out of this fucking world. Instantly subscribed.
Such a well written piece. Good points. Accurate! Such a good job that I will look at other vids to consider a sub. Thanks. Love this work
this video brought together so beautifully, billies intentions and experiences expressed in her music. I love her music and I always will love her for being the soul of my happiness and reassurance when I was in a dark place. I cry every time I watch her documentary, and as a movie lover, I appreciate all of the artistic choices in it too.
Its harder to reach out to all of us who joined her fandom when she was a teenager, because shes at a place where shes better now, and we are so proud of her for doing that. some of us just prefer her when she was an angsty, moody teenager because we could relate to her more. but her music and movie arent going anywhere, and thats the amazing thing about art that Billie appreciates too. this career lets you grow because whatever you make is here to stay if you want it to, and it wont go anywhere.
I don’t _like_ her, but I admire her talent. I just don’t like how her hardcore fans think she’s so edgy, but they haven’t heard a second of Obituary or Slayer
Her fans don’t think she’s edgy, they think she’s relatable
Fun fact: William Eyelash is a huge fan of the office and has rewatched the series many many times. :)
Would love a Tame Impala part 2 now The Slow Rush is about to come out
Tom Robson on it
Slow rush comes out on Valentine's day
I am 66 and she’s the only major current pop act l like. Not at all my usual sort of thing but it’s great to hear someone pursuing her own muse, for a change.
Billie Eilish sounds like a much more watered down, depressed version of Lorde.
I think billie is great but she’s got nothing on lorde
I wouldn't say she's the first girl to do it, but she was the first to get popular from it.
I hate how sexist teenage guys always parade billie as fake deep or “fake depressed” when they all listen to juice wrld and x as if you couldn’t say the same about them
True that. Most guys, especially teen boys who think they're cool, get this reflex action when they see someone cooler then themselves. Not only is Billie cooler, but also more talented, sharper hacker, better educated with friends circle bigger than they'll ever have. Read the comments on reddit where all these loser boys hang out. One even admitted that she's so cool that even the bullies the boys are scared of follow Billie.
Arc2301 Not really dude. do you even listen to her music? yeah she has dark lyrics but that’s not all she does. also how is she the epitome of not like the other girls? please tell me, because i’ve been listening to her for a while and have yet to hear anything like that
@@terreausore2435 She may be fake, but your fear of girls is real.
Avocado Pirate Guys like him complain that we’re not allowed to have offensive lyrics to tell a story anymore but when a girl uses those same things he gets pissy and called her fake
Arc2301 bro what are you talking about
Istg all of their work are pure art but Finneas did an incredible job with Bad Guy its unbelievable good
Speaking of sad pop, is it just me or is it weird how many of them have ended up dead young, abusive, or both?
just you
@@vp4744 :)
And now happier than ever blew the world again
Can we have an episode on Cage The Elephant?
Yes we need that
Billie is great!
Almost forgot about the fact the SHE MADE A SONG FOR JAMES BOND!!! WHO ELSE HAS DONE THAT?? NO ONE!!! this is why billienis so amazing. because she's unique and iconic.
Billy saved me from myself. I was kind of stuck in this place where I only listened to music from my youth. I had no taste or patience for anything pop centric. This album opened me up to so much new music.
Can you do a video about Mitski? Her music writing is so different and raw.
Be the Cowboy is an amazing album.
I couldn't figure why bon iver's album art looked so familiar until I realised that when I lived in America in highschool, in the same town as him and there's a 3 story mural of his album cover on a building in downtown...
Billie is a bedroom pop artist imo
Billie Eilish also cowrites a lot of her songs. It's not only Finneas doing that work. She wrote the outro to bad guy, for example, and that was the first part of the song to get written.
A story about murder from the perspective of a psychopath?
Guess you never heard of Nirvana - Polly or A7x - A little piece of heaven.
Don't forget Beverly Kills by Ariel Pink
Polly was about a rapist-murderer but in its specific case it's written about, the victim escaped at a gas station.
I love this channel because they can make a song I usually won't like into something I might like
Speaking of Climate Change, King Gizzard follow up?
How can this channel be so underrated? Their editing is LIT!
Could you make a video on stayin' alive like the one you made for hey ya
My guy, your videos are so well thought out and edited. Really appreciate your effort to make quality content!
6:41 Reminds me of new magic wand
It released before new magic wand
@@FoddyFogHorn Ok.I wasn't saying it copying magic wand.Sounds just similar.
Welcome fellow igor fan
@@lepstertracer9672 hi
Damn, I never realized that until I read your comment
Also another quality video 👌🏻. Your editing and transitions are smooth af
6:16 that was also achieved by Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars a while ago. It builds up to the chorus, stops the instrumental altogether, Bruno delivers the line and the "chorus" itself has no lyrics and is replaced by an instrumental hook instead
Billie is pretty dope as an artist and will for sure be important this decade. But I think she'll become Lorde 2.0 by the end of the decade; ppl still listen to her and respect her, but like most pop-ish artists, she'll be replaced.
@FlasKamel Speaking Of which, This generation has Billie Eilish, The 2000s had Avril Lavigne, who was the main “anti pop” girl of the 90s?
@@ronstoppable5659 Not sure they had any; or, there at least wasn't as much to be 'anti' at that time, with grunge being so huge. Good question though, hope someone will bring up a better example.
@@ronstoppable5659 That's kind of the issue for people like Billie though. Of course she's also incredibly talented, but being this huge she'll mos def influence things, and once that influence is everywhere, she won't stand out as much.
@FlasKamel Alanis Morrissette is the only one that I could think of but her image was not even close to as over the top as Avril and Billie, maybe Gwen Stefani when she was in No Doubt, but even then her image was mostly focused on her sex appeal and was very similar to one of a bubblegum teen pop star, despite the fact that she sang rock music at the time
@@ronstoppable5659 Hahaha, I was considering bringing up those two exact examples. Gwen probably, not caring too much for the stereotypes at the time. Alanis would make sense if she was younger (Maybe she was. Always just struck me as an older person).
Could say Courtney Love too, but nobody really listened to Hole, did they? I see two of their albums got Platinum
Man, your editing is fire and i like your analysis, too.
I think she is just the best manifestation of the depressed zoomer generation. I think artists like her will be even more popular in the future. Doomed economically and socially by the Covid crisis, doomed politically because of the radicalisation in the first world and doomed in global prospects by the climate deterioration and the rise of China. We feel like we have good chance of becoming the second lost generation of the West, and many are hopeless. Hence the riots, suicides, shootings, and sad lonely music. And the general acceptance of depression as the “cool” standart.
You are my favorite channel you write your videos so well
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON ANTICHRIST SVPERSTAR! Mansons 1996 album is relevant now , thematically at least
Wow dude, black metal "v"s.
Liam McNicholas Antichrist superstar is industrial metal
This was so satisfyingly well researched and intelligent.
It's just Lana der Rey for zoomers :D
I love Billie and Lana, but, aside from the whispery singing, I don’t really see the comparison between the two
@@johnpangarakis396 Whispery detached "cool AF" girl next door image (it was initially for Lana as well). Down to earth lyrics, unpleasant themes and awkward sexuality. It's just even more nihilistic this time :D Thus - "for zoomers" instead of "for millenials"
Alex Mort I can see that, I still feel like their music is different at its core if that makes any sense
@@johnpangarakis396 it's not though
When the party's over gave me a chance to explain to my friends and family what was going on in my head after my group if friends broke apart. My autism really effects my ability to express my feelings. So I often create very symbolic and bizarre videos to express my emotions. Yet somehow those videos allow others to get the gist of what I have been feeling.
I've been able to communicate my trauma and feelings through When The Party's Over, Other Side of Paradise, Sweden, Empire Ants, and a few others.
What’s the song that starts at 7:32?
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Middle 8 thanks mate
@@Middle8 You should put the link in the description of the video :)
This channel is so underrated!!
7:17 gender equality
Ocean Eyes is a legit song.
Just a perfect woozy little pop song.
have fun getting a ton of views on this one