4/11/19
7:19 PM
This whole album seems like a really intense joke told in a cheerful manner.
Dark, deep, and dreamy— Billie Eilish’s. album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? catches the unsuspecting listener in a fun and/or a creepy way. The 17-year-old’s debut album after her success in multiple careers as multiple personas in music, modeling, and pop personality is explained through something that resembles sleeping and the reactions that we experience as we sleep, lucid dreams, night terrors, sweet dreams, nightmares, they’re all just little pieces to a whole which reflects in the album as individual songs.
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? is a weird culmination of today’s musical elements coming together to create something…. alien??? The mixture between pop progressions with trap drums and EDM-ish components, many of the tracks come strangely familiar while still being fresh in terms of genre configurations. The album comprises of dark and gloomy productions beneath Eilish’s innocent and calming vocals, creating an unlikely cacophony that somehow manages to work out anyway. The writing in her songs is actually quite nice too; albeit some content seems a little too tense for someone so young to have written about. Top that off with some really subtle ASMR level details in the tracks and you have 2019’s top notch production quality. Nevertheless, the cryptic atmosphere of her music and her lyrics add to her character and sound, and while the album starts off more defiant and galvanic, it does end up being more somber and yearning towards the end to bring the collection to a nice quiet finish, which is a really nice note to end on.
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A good amount of discussions have popped up over the young artist’s start and continuing career, rumours of her connections within the industry being the reason for her stardom turns her off for many people. While it’s interesting to look at, who cares? It’s her actual talent may be questionable at this point of time and such, but the product is quite nice still, and the care that she displays for music and her work in general is notable. Billie herself quotes, “If you put 14 people who like different genres into a room and plop WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? in front of them, I want every single person in that room to like at least one song.”
Thanks Billie, I liked a few songs.
Listen to album below: