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EILISH, BILLIE - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
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Debut LP From Worldwide Hit Monster - Ltd Edtiion Apricot Vinyl - On her big-league debut, Billie Eilish makes a bold entrance into the mainstream, leaving the fringes behind to embrace her role as an anti-pop star for the disaffected Gen Z masses.
With a youthful, hybrid blend that incorporates elements of indie electronic, pop, and hip-hop (assisted by brother Finneas O'Connell), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? captures the late-2010s zeitgeist by throwing conventional boundaries to the wind and fully committing to its genre-blurring self. Like Lorde's devilish little sister, Eilish delivers her confessional lyrics in hushed bursts of breath, at times dirge-like in their sedateness and otherwise intensely threatening in their creepiness. Beneath the calculated image, she's a highly relatable kid -- not yet of legal voting age at the time of the album's release -- and an avatar for an audience that deals with similar mental health struggles and growing pains.
From the opening line of hilarious opener "!!!!!!!," Eilish makes it clear that she is just like you, the listener, goofing off in the studio with her brother while she's supposed to be recording her major-label debut. As endearing as it is obnoxious, the track sets the tone and, from there, the album is a thrill. Bouncing from infectious dance-pop highs to tender, restrained lows, Eilish manages effortless cohesion, even within the span of a single song. "Bad Guy" throbs like the cavernous echo heard outside the club, sparking to life with a K-pop brightness before descending with a bellowing trap drop, while "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" rides a playful bass strum that manages to pull some G-funk effects into its orbit. The meme-worthy "My Strange Addiction" makes the inspired choice to interpolate dialogue from the "Threat Level Midnight" episode of The Office (which had already wrapped its entire televised run before Eilish even turned 12), all while managing to be one of the sleekest standouts on the album. Other highlights include the hypnotic minimalist single "Bury a Friend," an unnerving nightmare that is as disturbing as it is addictive; the twisted funhouse electro-pop "Ilomilo"; and "You Should See Me in a Crown," a spiritual descendant of Lorde's "Royals" that finds Eilish making a power grab to rule the one-horse "nothing town" instead of simply complaining about it. While empowering and vulnerable messages bleed through every song, the quieter moments allow her introspection to take the spotlight, especially on the restrained trio that closes the album. She contemplates ending her life on the swelling, piano-centric "Listen Before I Go" and offers an uncomfortably uncertain conclusion with "Goodbye," but it's the swelling storm of "I Love You," a heartbreaking acoustic beauty, that pegs Eilish as something more than a spooky, scare-the-parents gimmick. Indeed, with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, she demonstrates that she can do it all, hinting at a bright future that could truly go in any direction, as messy and hopeful as youth can get.
With a youthful, hybrid blend that incorporates elements of indie electronic, pop, and hip-hop (assisted by brother Finneas O'Connell), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? captures the late-2010s zeitgeist by throwing conventional boundaries to the wind and fully committing to its genre-blurring self. Like Lorde's devilish little sister, Eilish delivers her confessional lyrics in hushed bursts of breath, at times dirge-like in their sedateness and otherwise intensely threatening in their creepiness. Beneath the calculated image, she's a highly relatable kid -- not yet of legal voting age at the time of the album's release -- and an avatar for an audience that deals with similar mental health struggles and growing pains.
From the opening line of hilarious opener "!!!!!!!," Eilish makes it clear that she is just like you, the listener, goofing off in the studio with her brother while she's supposed to be recording her major-label debut. As endearing as it is obnoxious, the track sets the tone and, from there, the album is a thrill. Bouncing from infectious dance-pop highs to tender, restrained lows, Eilish manages effortless cohesion, even within the span of a single song. "Bad Guy" throbs like the cavernous echo heard outside the club, sparking to life with a K-pop brightness before descending with a bellowing trap drop, while "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" rides a playful bass strum that manages to pull some G-funk effects into its orbit. The meme-worthy "My Strange Addiction" makes the inspired choice to interpolate dialogue from the "Threat Level Midnight" episode of The Office (which had already wrapped its entire televised run before Eilish even turned 12), all while managing to be one of the sleekest standouts on the album. Other highlights include the hypnotic minimalist single "Bury a Friend," an unnerving nightmare that is as disturbing as it is addictive; the twisted funhouse electro-pop "Ilomilo"; and "You Should See Me in a Crown," a spiritual descendant of Lorde's "Royals" that finds Eilish making a power grab to rule the one-horse "nothing town" instead of simply complaining about it. While empowering and vulnerable messages bleed through every song, the quieter moments allow her introspection to take the spotlight, especially on the restrained trio that closes the album. She contemplates ending her life on the swelling, piano-centric "Listen Before I Go" and offers an uncomfortably uncertain conclusion with "Goodbye," but it's the swelling storm of "I Love You," a heartbreaking acoustic beauty, that pegs Eilish as something more than a spooky, scare-the-parents gimmick. Indeed, with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, she demonstrates that she can do it all, hinting at a bright future that could truly go in any direction, as messy and hopeful as youth can get.
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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18th, 2001, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American singer-songwriter. She is recognised for her distinctive musical style and vocal delivery, and has become a prominent figure in 2020s popular culture. Eilish first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", which was released on SoundCloud and written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell. In 2017, she released her debut extended play, "Don't Smile at Me", which achieved commercial success in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Her debut studio album, "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" (2019), debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, and was among the best-selling albums of the year. Its single "Bad Guy" became the first song by an artist born in the 21st century to top the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 2020, Eilish performed the theme song "No Time to Die" for the James Bond film of the same name, which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022.
Eilish's second studio album, "Happier Than Ever" (2021), topped charts in multiple countries. Its singles "My Future", "Therefore I Am", "Happier Than Ever", and "Your Power" all reached the top ten in the US and UK. She co-wrote and performed "What Was I Made For?" for the fantasy film "Barbie" (2023), which became her second number-one single in the UK and earned her a second Academy Award. Her third studio album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft" (2024), received critical acclaim and produced the US top-five singles "Lunch" and "Birds of a Feather", the latter reaching number one on the Billboard Global 200.
Eilish has received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards (three for Song of the Year, the most in Grammy history alongside Finneas), nine American Music Awards, twenty Guinness World Records, eight MTV Video Music Awards, four Brit Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. She is the second artist and only female to win all four general field categories—Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist—in a single Grammy ceremony, and is the youngest recipient of both Album of the Year and Record of the Year. She is also the first person born in the 21st century to win both a Grammy and an Academy Award, and the youngest individual to win the latter twice.
Eilish was included in Time magazine's inaugural Time 100 Next list in 2019 and the Time 100 in 2021. According to the RIAA and Billboard, she is the 26th-highest-certified digital singles artist and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s. She was named one of the BBC 100 Women in 2022. Eilish is also active in political and social causes, particularly regarding climate change, women's reproductive rights, and gender equality.
Studio albums
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)
Happier Than Ever (2021)
Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
