It is atypical for a pop act to find overnight success on SoundCloud. Eilish got her start on SoundCloud, a platform primarily known for giving rise to DIY hip-hop artists, like Lil Peep and Juice WRLD. Take YouTube, for example: Justin Bieber, Alessia Cara, and Charlie Puth all amassed early, dedicated fandoms by posting covers to their personal channels, gaining viral traction through their sheer, unadorned musical talent - and these digital fanbases minted each of them a record deal. Instead, she relied on the independence of user-generated platforms, which have offered new trajectories into pop stardom for the first generation of kids to grow up in the digital age. Unlike Grande and other millennial pop stars - Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez - Eilish was never a child actor backed by a television network. That Eilish is hot on Grande’s heels reads as ironic. And she has the second-highest first-week album sales of 2019 - behind industry titan Ariana Grande. Even without fitting neatly into any category, her debut album broke multiple records in just one week: Most notably, 12 of the 13 songs from the album are charting on the Billboard Hot 100, the most ever for a female musician. Its eclectic palette is surprising, yet cohesive, held together by her distinctively quiet vocals and irreverent delivery. It blends disparate styles: pop, EDM, industrial, trap, and even jazz. Her music is both brooding (“ When the Party’s Over”) and bitingly satirical (“ Wish You Were Gay”).
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Billie Eilish is the first artist born in the 21st century to top the Billboard 200 - and she’s reinventing what chart success looks likeĮilish is full of contradictions. Eilish is a certified teenage pop star - a part she has had zero interest in playing by the rules since day one. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, displacing Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” from the top slot after a 19 week run at the top of the charts. Even months after its release, her song “Bad Guy” went to No. Now, a mere three years since that fateful SoundCloud upload, she has just released her first album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and dominated a night at Coachella with a performance critics called “ a triumph.” Now 17, Eilish has already crafted one of 2019’s most critically and commercially successful releases. In the spring of 2017, her song “ Bored” was featured in the first season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, and in August, she dropped her critically acclaimed EP, Don’t Smile At Me. The teen who had recorded a song for fun in her bedroom had suddenly signed with Darkroom and Interscope Records. It inspired myriad, unofficial remixes, some of which caught the ear of the recording industry. When she woke up the next day, the song had gone viral on the streaming platform. She had only intended for one person to listen to it: her dance teacher. Fascinatingly ambitious, and often extremely fun, this debut finds pop in safe and thrilling hands.In 2016, 14-year-old Billie Eilish, a Los Angeles-based dancer and musician, uploaded her first song, “ Ocean Eyes,” to SoundCloud late one night.
Her voice is soft, lilting and sweet, though she’s not afraid to push it through odd, squelching effects either. It’s a very honest album: Eilish reveals all facets of herself, beautiful, weird, forlorn, selfish and self-aware: recent single Wish You Were Gay laments that her love interest just isn’t into her (“Don’t say I’m not your type/ Just say I’m not your preferred sexual orientation”) atop piano and a laughter track. It’s an entrancing, off-kilter album that luxuriates in youthful imagination, longing and darkness, yet doesn’t take itself too seriously: opener !!!!!!! celebrates taking out her much-maligned Invisalign braces, while My Strange Addiction features surreal interludes from an episode of the US Office over a whirring beat. When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? finds her flitting between gothic, cartoonish show tunes, slow-burning, glossy pop and sculptural, choral electronic strangeness. Her debut EP, 2017’s Don’t Smile at Me, met with huge acclaim, and the LA artist’s first album lives up to that staggering promise. S eventeen-year-old Billie Eilish doesn’t sound like anyone else.
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