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Title: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Shostakovich on September 26, 2019, 04:37:01 PM
She came out with Ocean Eyes at the age of 14. 14, guys. When I was 14 I spent 12 hours a day arguing about whether Trump could win the Republican primary.

Then at 17 she dropped a genre-defining album with 5 Top 40 singles on it, including probably the best song of the last few years in Bad Guy.

She might not play as many instruments, but I'm getting Prince in Purple Rain vibes from her.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: EchoRin on September 26, 2019, 04:41:47 PM
She comes from a family that has ties to the music business. She lives in the LA area. Yes the label is pushing her hard. She didn't come up through the underground and "pay her dues", but it's not like she ever claimed that like Rick Ross who is a fake gangsta.  :idont

Either way, she's just a home schooled kid. I'll check back to see what she's up to when she's a young adult musically. Current Billie doesn't mean much to me.

Edit: Her brother who is an adult is pretty much the production side of things. So yes marketing and brand-wise it's Billie, but the music project is very much a sibling duo.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: team filler on September 26, 2019, 04:45:23 PM
took me a long while to get around to listening to her music. when I finally did it was  :zzz all dat hype for some basic shid  ::)
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Akala on September 26, 2019, 04:46:02 PM
                 zeitgeist
 :isthis
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: EightBitNate on September 26, 2019, 04:46:20 PM
“Industry plant”

(https://i.imgur.com/HFlvOzw.png)
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: BisMarckie on September 26, 2019, 04:50:16 PM
Every popular music act is an industry plant.  :brain
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: thisismyusername on September 26, 2019, 04:59:00 PM
Quote from: EightBitNate on September 26, 2019, 04:46:20 PM
“Industry plant”

(https://i.imgur.com/HFlvOzw.png)

Don't you have masturbating to her next to your sister to do? :goty2
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: EightBitNate on September 26, 2019, 05:03:21 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/UIa5skq.jpg)

Haha great post Stro
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 26, 2019, 05:03:59 PM
She looks dirty. I don’t like her.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2019, 05:09:57 PM
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=43456.msg2057099

Kid couldn't even make the list, what a joke lmao
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: curly on September 26, 2019, 05:18:47 PM
Is this a different person than Lorde

Fuck I'm getting old  :-\
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 26, 2019, 05:38:50 PM
Does she date black guys?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Partition on September 26, 2019, 06:08:23 PM
wow this thread is being endorsed by MOBLIN, not all topics can be so lucky
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 06:12:22 PM
Listening to this dumb girl gush about how Eilish is 'so talented' was one of the worst experiences of my life. I guess people just believe what they're told, and they respond to what they see (ridiculous outfits). I'd never heard the term "industry plant" before a few weeks ago, but if it has a wiki page, she'd be the thumbnail.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on September 26, 2019, 06:12:43 PM
the shtick is supposed to be commodified clinical depression, right?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: nachobro on September 26, 2019, 06:15:01 PM
i hadn't heard of her but i listened to a song and recognized it from a wwe ppv. pretty sure that means she's already over :lol
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Nintex on September 26, 2019, 06:24:49 PM
That Bad Guy song she did was ok but not much different from a lot of other modern music.

However looking at the video clips I guess she escaped from Epstein island. :thinking

The underage goth gf that was promised.  :doge
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: EchoRin on September 26, 2019, 06:38:40 PM
Quote from: jakefromstatefarm on September 26, 2019, 06:12:43 PM
the shtick is supposed to be commodified clinical depression, right?
I think that's pretty much the big thing that bums me out about her music is that it's kinda used by people as a fashion statement which to me is (god forgive me for using this word unironically) gross. Though I don't necessarily put the onus on a teenage girl who has a whole bunch of grownups around her navigating her at this point of her life. It does suck that depression is used as sort of a hot topic wristband as some kind of cool personality battle scar. Depression is awful. There is nothing cool about depression.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: OnlyRegret on September 26, 2019, 06:42:32 PM
the weird gurgling sound she makes I dislike
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: kingv on September 26, 2019, 06:48:16 PM
For pop acts mostly you just need auto tune and a dad with industry connections.

That seems to define a lot of pop acts. Especially ones that blow up
Quick and go away just as quick.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Trent Dole on September 26, 2019, 07:49:08 PM
I tried listening to her and it was just... whispering over trap beats? Fuckin' yawn.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: EightBitNate on September 26, 2019, 08:28:50 PM
This one is actually a cute song

https://youtu.be/xXFdnHiGwos
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: OnlyRegret on September 26, 2019, 08:31:03 PM

watched the music video this time, it's kinda catchy but I just find this all kinda weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: kingv on September 26, 2019, 08:37:30 PM
This is basically the second coming of Lana Del Rey.

Same schtick. Same shelf life.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 08:40:05 PM
Nah younger people lap this shit up. She'll last until they grow up, which may be a while.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 08:59:04 PM
Nah I just hate the kingmaker system. The promise of the Internet to artists was the democratization of access, but if anything we've moved further away from meritocracy.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 09:32:25 PM
Quote from: shosta on September 26, 2019, 09:10:52 PM
Disagree. The internet has been good to independent artists and we haven't had this explosion of musical diversity in a long time. People are sincerely making money on originality like never before.

It's helped independent artists incidentally, but the other bullshit has been amplified hundred-fold. I get that press junkets aren't going anywhere, and that musicians live in an attention economy that thrives on self-aggrandizement and devalues earnestness, but I don't have to like it.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: thetylerrob on September 26, 2019, 09:35:33 PM
Have you guys looked her parents up though? Her mom was the blue milf space cop in Mass Effect 2 and her Dad is just some rando actor Hollywood loser.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: kingv on September 26, 2019, 09:42:13 PM
Fake news. The blue bitches in Mass effect don’t even fuck. They like mind meld or some shit.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 09:47:37 PM
Apparently it's like that Avatar fucking where it feels even better than fucking
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: benjipwns on September 26, 2019, 10:12:52 PM
wait, did you also look into her because of the high art video Arvie posted in the dank memes thread? :flabbypd
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: OnlyRegret on September 27, 2019, 12:32:02 AM
Quote from: Transhuman on September 26, 2019, 08:59:04 PM
Nah I just hate the kingmaker system. The promise of the Internet to artists was the democratization of access, but if anything we've moved further away from meritocracy.

what, if anything it's as close to a meritocratic system as you can get in music
every chump and joe uploads his fire to the web and the masses pick a guy to go viral and then the chance to make it big

yeah, you may hate the guy who goes viral, but that comes down to everyone but you liking it
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 27, 2019, 12:52:30 AM
I like her music, but I think her style is pretty limited. I can’t imagine her second album being nearly as good.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on September 27, 2019, 01:33:14 AM
Lana is even more :zzz than Billie eilish is
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: benjipwns on September 27, 2019, 01:58:20 AM
Quote from: jakefromstatefarm on September 27, 2019, 01:33:14 AM
Lana is even more :zzz than Billie eilish is
(https://media.giphy.com/media/zdiqOksA33ZPq/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Don Rumata on September 27, 2019, 03:14:41 AM
I listened to a couple of songs and i don't understand what would set her apart from every other similar growly, disinterested singer.
I saw some people were calling her a genius, i'm not sure why.

Then again i usually listen to very different music in the first place, so i'm probably not equipped to get it.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Rufus on September 27, 2019, 08:08:22 AM
She's popular with girls her age. That's the 'secret'.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: samir on September 27, 2019, 08:43:14 AM
I don't know about that, but she looks like a crack whore
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Brehvolution on September 27, 2019, 08:51:46 AM
I like Lorde's first album better.

Eyelash isn't special it's just 'new'. The song's I've heard must be mixed for headphones. It muddy's up my car stereo in some parts.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Momo on September 27, 2019, 09:02:38 AM
Quote from: EightBitNate on September 26, 2019, 08:28:50 PM
This one is actually a cute song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXFdnHiGwos
she sounds like a discount Lucy Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBPg8Zdp2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJe_ofKqC4o


Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2019, 09:47:53 AM
Quote from: benjipwns on September 26, 2019, 10:12:52 PM
wait, did you also look into her because of the high art video Arvie posted in the dank memes thread? :flabbypd

literally the first time I'd ever seen or heard of her :lol
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: tiesto on September 27, 2019, 11:12:09 AM
She's Grimes for zoomers
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: team filler on September 27, 2019, 12:01:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IghRdx3k8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8rSe379thc
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: team filler on September 29, 2019, 05:21:36 AM
https://twitter.com/Billieslucifer6/status/1178191419162447873

 :neogaf
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 29, 2019, 09:23:37 PM
Who is this homeless child that people are forcing to be on TV?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmbCSHcSts
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on September 29, 2019, 09:45:33 PM
his names Jimmy Fallon
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Tripon on September 29, 2019, 10:39:33 PM
She sounds like shit on SNL.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 30, 2019, 03:01:31 PM
Yea, they were playing her live LA show on SiriusXM over the past weekend and I wasn't too impressed. Music doesn't translate very well to a live setting.

Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on September 30, 2019, 03:03:14 PM
Quote from: shosta on September 26, 2019, 04:37:01 PM
She came out with Ocean Eyes at the age of 14. 14, guys. When I was 14 I spent 12 hours a day arguing about whether Trump could win the Republican primary.

m8 how young are you
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: kingv on October 01, 2019, 01:13:15 PM
Kristoffer, Child mod captain.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 01, 2019, 02:22:41 PM
Quote from: Mr Gilhaney on September 30, 2019, 03:03:14 PM
Quote from: shosta on September 26, 2019, 04:37:01 PM
She came out with Ocean Eyes at the age of 14. 14, guys. When I was 14 I spent 12 hours a day arguing about whether Trump could win the Republican primary.

m8 how young are you

Plot Twist: It was the 2000 election cycle and Shosta really wanted Trump to run as a Republican instead of for the Reform Party. In some timelines the Trump Dynasty began in 2000, but we're in the Terminator 3 timeline where Judgement Day got delayed for 16 years, when time-traveling robot from the future Hillary Clinton failed to stop it for a second time.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Nintex on October 01, 2019, 04:46:25 PM
Not counting the incredibly rare EARTH 0 this is actually the 4th timeline

EARTH 0
- 1992 Election -> Saddam wins the Gulf War -> George H. W. Bush resigns -> TRUMP defeats Bill Clinton -> S P A C E F O R C E

EARTH 1
- 2000 Election -> TRUMP defeats George W. Bush and Al Gore -> S P A C E F O R C E

EARTH 2
- 2004 Election -> George W. Bush chokes on a pretzel -> Dick Cheney has a heart attack -> TRUMP defeats John Kerry -> S P A C E F O R C E

EARTH 3
- 2008 Election -> Rudy finds falsified birth certificate of Obama -> Clinton wins primary -> TRUMP defeats Hillary -> S P A C E F O R C E

EARTH 4
- 2012 Election -> Rudy finds falsified birth certificate of Obama -> TRUMP wins primary -> TRUMP defeats Obama -> S P A C E F O R C E

EARTH 5
- 2016 Election -> TRUMP wrecks JEB! -> TRUMP defeats Hillary -> S P A C E F O R C E
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: EchoRin on October 01, 2019, 05:26:43 PM
Is Billie Eilish in EARTH 6?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Nuitangg on October 01, 2019, 09:26:56 PM
Why does she talk like that?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: bluemax on October 02, 2019, 01:33:23 AM
The only thing I know is I am officially sick of punk covers of Bad Guy.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Trent Dole on January 27, 2020, 12:50:13 AM
Proves what, the industry plant part? :teehee
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Momo on January 27, 2020, 01:01:16 AM
from what i listen to the best musicians are ones that are barely famous
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 27, 2020, 01:11:53 AM
Can she actually sing or just mumble?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on January 27, 2020, 04:45:09 AM
Quote from: Premium Lager on January 27, 2020, 01:11:53 AM
Can she actually sing or just mumble?

Yes


https://youtu.be/pbMwTqkKSps


https://youtu.be/LZyybvVx-js


https://youtu.be/viimfQi_pUw

If that makes her worth all these awards though is another question
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Ghoul on January 27, 2020, 05:15:56 AM
shonda is so young he still thinks the Grammy awards are real. CUTE!
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: MMaRsu on January 27, 2020, 05:31:38 AM
Who?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 27, 2020, 07:27:25 AM
She has big tits.

:)
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Transhuman on January 27, 2020, 08:09:46 AM
It's gross but true
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 27, 2020, 08:28:06 AM
There's no way the Grammys had good ratings. I didn't see anyone even talking about it in real time and only learned they were on because of headlines about Billie Eilish late last night.

Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 27, 2020, 08:55:59 AM
Quote from: shosta on January 27, 2020, 12:36:47 AM
No one compares.

2 U?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: mormapope on January 27, 2020, 09:23:13 AM
Who the fuck is Billie Eilish? Billie Irish is where it's at

https://youtu.be/dosizrjAhQU
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: james on January 27, 2020, 10:40:39 AM
Never heard of her. Gave her a listen this morning.

This is what people consider music these days?

Yikes.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: headwalk on January 27, 2020, 11:08:08 AM
there is so much good music out there that you will never hear and we have such a short existence, why would you spend any of it voluntarily listening to billie eilish when you'll probably be forced to hear it through social osmosis anyway?
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: kingv on January 27, 2020, 01:05:02 PM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on January 27, 2020, 10:02:47 AM
I put her in the same category as Baby Shark, honestly.

Baby shark for 8 year olds. As a father of an 8 year old, I can confirm
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: naff on January 27, 2020, 01:54:46 PM
Bad Guy is p infectious, but in an annoying way like Crazy Frog. I don't think I put a single track of hers on my favourite tracks of 2019.

When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go has nooothing on Charli, Pang, Home to You, Designer, All Mirrors, Planet Y2K or Quiet Signs , just naming a few of the great albums by female artists last year. I  try nt to judge ppl loving Billie, but loving her and thinking she's some generational talent above and beyond other artists smacks of ignorance. Also, to think the Grammys are any real indication of relative quality to the rest of the industries output is hilarious.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: naff on January 27, 2020, 02:21:56 PM
all u need to know about the granny's

(https://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2020/01/Aerosmith-With-Run-DMC.jpg?w=980&q=75)

hmu when billie gets an interesting producer and stops churning out bland wanna be lana renditions.
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: naff on January 27, 2020, 02:27:34 PM
I wouldn't know

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Finneas_O%27Connell_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/220px-Finneas_O%27Connell_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg)

i have a strong urge to dunny flush him
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: naff on January 27, 2020, 02:40:02 PM
:whew

https://youtu.be/H4orAZdD0yQ
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on January 27, 2020, 02:49:02 PM
Kimbra is bae
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: naff on January 27, 2020, 03:01:40 PM
 :heartbeat

https://youtu.be/chSZCtLrgz8
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: Rufus on January 27, 2020, 03:13:40 PM
Quote from: naff on January 27, 2020, 02:27:34 PM
I wouldn't know

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Finneas_O%27Connell_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg/220px-Finneas_O%27Connell_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg)

i have a strong urge to dunny flush him
That's her brother. :doge
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Billie_Eilish_08_10_2017_-23_%2836528997844%29.jpg/1280px-Billie_Eilish_08_10_2017_-23_%2836528997844%29.jpg)
[close]

Also, Billie's full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell. :lol
Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish the greatest talent since Prince died?
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 28, 2020, 09:23:12 AM
Quote from: ToxicAdam on January 27, 2020, 08:28:06 AM
There's no way the Grammys had good ratings. I didn't see anyone even talking about it in real time and only learned they were on because of headlines about Billie Eilish late last night.



>Sunday's Grammys broadcast delivered the show's smallest audience since 2008 (17.18 million viewers) and its lowest 18-49 rating ever.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/grammy-awards-tv-ratings-sunday-jan-26-2020-1273590


Shocker

Title: Re: Is Billie Eilish an industry plant?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 28, 2020, 10:16:48 AM
Quote from: Trent Dole on September 26, 2019, 07:49:08 PM
I tried listening to her and it was just... whispering over trap beats? Fuckin' yawn.

Where I'm at with it