Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?

“Her rise has been striking: At 14, she put the song Ocean Eyes on SoundCloud, a glassy, straightforward ballad with tearful synths and woozy, Lana Del Rey-indebted crooning. She snared a young fanbase with her hooks and raised her middle finger to pops status quo; here was this music that shifted between genresfrom pop to trap and EDMmade by a lawless young female singer sporting baggy, androgynous clothes. She cast her bored, listless eyes upward instead of batting them at the camera. She filled her videos with flowing black tears, plunging needles, and arachnid hors doeuvresinstead of twirling around sleek cityscapes. Eilishs creepy eccentricity feels so removed from the pop formula; it helps distance her from the music industrys historically lewd maceration of teen idols. Eilish just seems sharper, meaner, more self-sufficienta young star from Los Angeles, in the grand tradition, but one that could only have come along while its hills are burning.”