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Billie Eilish has something to say
Billie Eilish, the 17-year-old artist, has released her full-length debut album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”
The album challenges the typical teen pop trope by taking a darker and weirder direction and exploring topics such as power and masochism.
The album begins with a gratuitous saliva slurp, the sound of popping out her dental hardware upon entering the studio, which sets the tone for the rest of the album.
Eilish’s only collaborator on the album is her brother Finneas, who serves as a co-writer and producer.
Eilish’s sound is pointedly Gen Z and has a teenage perspective that is not often heard in the music industry.
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The album offers an overdue teenage eye-roll towards the ambient misogyny that is present in many mainstream teen pop songs.
Romance factors into many of the songs, but unlike much of mainstream teen pop, it doesn’t define them.
Eilish’s boldness does. Her perspective skews darker and weirder, and does it with purpose: “bad guy” claimed the top of the Billboard 100 by positioning Eilish as a full-fledged antihero; “you should see me in a crown” outlines her ambition against patronizing expectations; “bury a friend” explores masochism while casting her as the monster under her own bed. Even “all the good girls go to hell,” which has all the DNA of a bad-girl anthem, is really about climate change.
Eilish’s music is not created with a team of industry pros, which gives her a unique and authentic voice.
She takes the teenage perspective and channels it with a sense of restlessness while aspiring to something more complex than a mall-punk rebellion.
Eilish’s music represents a teenage perspective that is not often heard in the music industry and is a refreshing change.
When looking for music that made sense of their place in the world, many teens in the past have turned to mall-punk rebellion, which is dominated by male frustration.
The women in those songs appeared more often as plot devices than as real people, defined by the way they fit into male artists’ own love lives.
Eilish’s album offers a change from this narrative and encourages young female fans to see themselves as something more than a lust object, muse, reviled ex or invisible.
The album is a refreshing change from the typical teen pop trope and offers a teenage perspective that is not often heard in the music industry.
