Billie Eilish? She's ok. Not to hype her new album, but I like her Radiohead influence.
Isn't it weird how she got called out a few weeks back because video of her lipping along with a Tyler The Creator song about drugging women until they look Chinese made the woke-alert rounds because omg she almost said 'chink'? I think she was 13 at the time? You know what I didn't see? I didn't see one person come out and say that maybe Tyler The Creator is kind of a bastard for doing a song about slipping drugs in drinks to make women look like chinks. That song apparently came out in 2011. We too stupid to remember that far back? But then Tyler The Creator, literally a week after Eilish's controversy, came out with a new #1 song? And nobody said nothing? Is this like a Gangster Disciple thing where we're not supposed to act like we know? Did Eilish not pay her protection check this month? Should this post be in the Conspiracy Theory thread? I'm as confused as you.
I remember when I stumbled upon one of Eilish's first tracks on YouTube and really hyping it to everyone I knew, until I realized it was just me and ten million teenage girls talking about her, and realizing it was probably not a great look for me to keep drunkenly ranting in bars about how she was the future of pop music. At least now with her huge success, me drunkenly talking about her just makes me annoying and not the town creep.
We're you a fan of anything before?. Was wondering if she's progressed at all, since I was kind of feeling she was probably going to start offering diminishing returns.
As for the recent controversy, yes, it was idiotic, and no, I don't understand how Tyler the Creator has skirted similar controversies. I personally think it probably has to do with the nature of calling people out, and what the real function it has now morphed into. There is nothing news worthy of taking Tyler to task for his past, because he was a deliberate troll. Eilish, on the other hand, is a person you have a chance of effectively smearing, even if the story was complete garbage. As I'm sure you agree, we're well past the point that these stories can even be considered particularly constructive anymore. If anything, they are burying those which are worthy of addressing beneath the last few years of Where's Waldoing outrage.
FTR I am a somewhat fan of Tyler the Creator, even though some of the content of his earlier work is legitimately appalling.