When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
by Billie Eilish

From cestuneblague TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/30/2019 00:37 | #238661 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Can't really bring much new to say, yes she benefited greatly from being born into a hollywood family and her preternal social-media savviness and heaps of self-confidence definitely helped hype her music to the extreme. And yes she is a precociously deft songwriter with striking, crinkly-voiced R&B-style vocals who has a knack for making a catchy, moody modern pop song as her singles attest (particurally the digital-finger-snap paranoia of "Bury a Friend") who can occasionally open up to something more geniunely vulnerable and confrontational ("I Love You"). WWAFAWDWG also constantly reminds of you every other 21st century slightly left-of-center pop star, with elements of The Weeknd, Melanie Martinez, Sky Ferreira, Imogen Heap, (dear god) Halsey and espcially Lorde strewn throughout and which can occasionally lead into straight-faced impressionism. And "My Strange Addiction" is one of the more risible tracks I've heard recently (ESPECIALLY because of the samples), but that should've been obvious from the title alone. Again, like a lot of pop albums it would still keep the momentum and be far more effective if it cut the song length in half.

So yes I think this album is getting greatly overpraised for critics who want to latch themselves on to the next big thing and avoid Getting It Wrong-tm. I also do think she has a lot of potential if she can use her influences more as seasoning than ingredients, and if she stops thinking she's the edgiest teen in the world and just allows her so-far overprocessed and somewhat stifled compositions to reveal their rawer side and eventually grow into their fullest capabilities.

From LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/02/2019 22:13 | #234428 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

There are basically 2 sides of this record: the "she's a 17 year old industry plant whose audience are fake edgy 12 year olds" and "she's the best new thing in modern pop". I can honestly see both sides of this argument manifesting on this record, but the most important thing is that this sounds nice. Production is pretty interesting, songwriting is decent and the execution is good. I'd take this over most pop records I've heard this year. It'll be really interesting to see where she and her brother go from here.

From DeusExMackia TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/08/2019 17:23 | #239148 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Wow. Looks like the Twenty One Pilots crowd were craving something with the same happy-depressive tone but something totally off-kilter. Boom, here it is. Get over the shock of the seventeen year old Eilish talking about xanax and dad seducing and embrace the absurdity, When We Fall Asleep is as innovative as it is crazed.

If you need any confirmation of how captivating both her and her record are, just go look at how she absolutely owned the Other Stage at Glastonbury this year. It was outstanding. 2019's most surprising album so far, and precisely because of how convinced I am by it.

I think we'll be talking about this album for a long time.

From Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/20/2020 23:15 | #248064 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Overproduced, snobbish minimalism, and I don't use the O-word often. It can only fool people of the same age as her, which is fine though. I could bash this all day, but fact is something made by someone of her age is never gonna be too impressive, so I'm not gonna act mad about it. Her songwriting isn't so bad, quite good actually, but her producer is really annoying and overly artsy, but then again, she is too probably. I hope that one day she will realize her songs are actually really great pop hits and ballads, and stop trying so desperately to make it something "more" (as if pop is less). With a more cheesy (for the pop songs) and rich (for the ballads) production and not whispered (I'm sorry, but she just can't pull it off) most songs could be awesome. And now you think I'm just not open minded for her style. We'll see in a couple of years if we hear more of this forced minimalism back; I doubt whether she herself might go back to it; her older singles sound much better, because they're more simplistic.

She's gonna make great music one day, but not yet. I'm looking forward to it though, 'cause I know it's coming.

Watching normies on instagram hate her guts is the funniest thing ever though. They seem to be unaware of the fact that whispered vocals have existed for decades in pop music.