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Her Bond theme is good, and to be honest that’s how I judge a lot of musicians I don’t really listen to.
Her image feeds into the current feminist zeitgeist of feigned indifference as self-empowerment.
I think she has a great voice.
I love the Bond movies and I think this song is a perfect fit.
I don't have much by way of tech. I play an ovation acoustic, given to me by an uncle who has since passed, and if I go electric I play an epiphone jr on a small fender amp.
Billie Eilish is an interesting hybrid story. The truth is somewhere in between. She and her brother are the real deal as far as writing and producing her songs in their bedroom. Self-starters. But they are also a family of creatives - both parents are veterans in the entertainment industry - so they had many in-roads into the marketing / PR apparatus of the LA label scene. Professionals mixed and mastered the record, professionals promoted her. She's white, easy on the eyes but has a distinct personality - a layup for a marketing team.
Most of you aren't the target audience but if you even have the capacity to put yourself into the headspace of her target audience, you may understand what her appeal is. She's fun and goofy but also dark and moody, a bit unkempt. Her image feeds into the current feminist zeitgeist of feigned indifference as self-empowerment. Her music, relative to the bombast of most pop productions, has a lot of space and an almost skeletal quality to it - it's its own thing. I'm not a fan, but as someone in the industry, I appreciate the contrast she represents - to her audience.
If you're over the age of 30, there is no point in complaining about music culture. As it has been since before music was created. Music always moves past you, no matter what your age is.
I'm solely speaking musically (i.e. no intangibles), that I feel like if you take the 20 girls in any American high school's choir, there are 3 or 4 of them in each school that can sing at least that well.
I think I've mentioned this before, but my girlfriend is a photographer and has done a lot of work with sex workers of various stripes. She became good friends with a few of them. One of them, a pornstar, just asked her to be a bridesmaid in her wedding.
So I'm going to be going to a pornstar's wedding eventually.
I'm solely speaking musically (i.e. no intangibles), that I feel like if you take the 20 girls in any American high school's choir, there are 3 or 4 of them in each school that can sing at least that well.
How many high school choir folks could sing better than Bob Dylan, then?
Shame Billie Eilish is an asshole outside of their music. But I guess that is most celebrities
19/20?
But none of them would be able to out-write him.
Is that right? I had no idea as I dont follow pop-culture stuff.
I think I've mentioned this before, but my girlfriend is a photographer and has done a lot of work with sex workers of various stripes. She became good friends with a few of them. One of them, a pornstar, just asked her to be a bridesmaid in her wedding.
So I'm going to be going to a pornstar's wedding eventually.
Typically I would be anti plastic when a natural material can be used in it's place, but a)the contours do make it more confortable, and b)it does have a very nice sound. And as I said my uncle gave it to me, so it has sentimental value.Always liked the ovation acoustics and the epiphone Les Paul/SG knockoffs. I think their neck is more comfortable than the real thing. Tough to beat a small Fender for utilitarian use. When I jam, I borrow my friend's all of the time instead of lugging my stack.
I've got the electric I bought in high school, an acoustic that was given to me by my highschool girlfriend, two Fender Strats (one a jr, for my son) a Breedlove acoustic bass and I finally treated myself to a Martin DC Aura.
I've always tried to do recording, but StudioOne plus the Presonus is really an awesome deal. It is about as legit as you can get (effects, samples, easy editting multitracking timestretching) to a recording studio and the bundle goes for ~$200. I'm *super* impressed.
Typically I would be anti plastic when a natural material can be used in it's place, but a)the contours do make it more confortable, and b)it does have a very nice sound. And as I said my uncle gave it to me, so it has sentimental value.
My girl friend also bought a mandolin which she never plays. I'll fiddle with it every once in a while, but whether it by my inability to play it, or it just being a super basic model(though reviews of it were pretty good) it has too tinny of a sound for me to enjoy it.
I also had a tenant recently leave a piano in my basement apartment which we have since took over. I've been playing that a bit, not enough to be good, but I do have moments where I put something together which sounds OK.
I think you're missing the "it" factor. Plenty of people can sing well but the vast majority of them don't have what "it" takes to stand out from the crowd that makes them different than just a good voice.
I agree with your overall point but I don't think I agree with your comparison for a couple reasons.This is pretty much it.
If I could give one lecture to music schools everywhere, it's that no one in a recording studio gives a shit about how technically good or great you are. They give a shit about whether you can deliver the material in a compelling way, if you understand the emotion behind the notes on the page. I can't tell you how many "excellent" musicians play something perfectly but they have zero understanding of the emotional context of the song - they have facility but no artistry, if that makes sense. We write and play music to express things, not enter into a pissing contest.
For reference, if you were a fan of music growing up in the '50s and someone tried to convince you that Jimmy Page was a great musician, you would laugh because, relative to Charlie Parker, Coltrane, etc., he's a joke (make no mistake, I love jazz and Led Zeppelin). You just have to ask yourself what someone's intentions are and if they're living up to them.
As far as the pop music topic above, are people really surprised when a good looking person who can sing a little bit get's famous?
You think Billie Eilish is good looking?
Yeah, I'm just talking technically - none of the classic rock titans were trying to be in the building of a Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, etc. Most of the jazz guys were trying to outdo what they viewed as the apex of Western music ability, the classical world, and so they - especially Coltrane - spent years internalizing harmony and melody to a level that is just not interesting or necessary to anyone writing a blues-based rock song. Musically, like I said before, it's all irrelevant. Only vision matters and Page/Hendrix/etc. all had incredible vision which is what we all connect with. And they were great guitarists for sure.
Without Charlie Parker there is no Coltrane and Jimmy Page. He is the pioneer of bebop jazz (when you hear a flurry of notes being played quickly over fast chord changes, this is mostly his innovation). It's one of those Velvet Underground things - everyone who heard his sound picked up an instrument and started their band.