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kestrelkev24 OP t1_itt4zmy wrote

Reply to comment by zizou00 in Help me understand Billy Eilish by kestrelkev24

I think I more so want artists to strive to be more of themselves and go further. I definitely get what you mean by a doomer mindset. But im certainly one to change my views on an artist in a heartbeat if they bring something to the table that I feel is more expansive... whatever that means haha Great example is Carly Jepsen who went from being a bubble gum pop kind of artist to making albums more rooted in her own mindset or thoughts that were deeper and came off as more genuine. But honestly I don't think Billy won't produce something that I will love. I think she will find something a little more expansive that I will be able to latch onto much as Halsey did for me as well.

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zizou00 t1_itt67vv wrote

I mean, she's 20. Carly Rae Jepsen was 27 when she released Call Me Maybe in 2012. It's been a decade since then. Her life has changed considerably. Billie Eilish has only been around for a hot minute, she's likely still establishing what kind of artist she wants to be. She may change, she may not. She's got literally decades to figure it out.

Artists will work on what interests them. If they want to go more down that route, they will. If they don't, they won't. Again, it does feel like more of those self-established expectations that you set on your initial assessment of Billie Eilish.

Music is a present art form. It's not describing who an artist was or will be (though those topics can be broached in the art form). It's music created by them now, for now, as they are now. Sometimes it's fine to take things at face value. You don't have to enjoy everything, you don't have to relate to everything and you don't have to even get everything (I still don't really get Enya). Things get popular with some people because they just happened to get popular with them. It was the right thing at the right time for the right people. Like Heaven is a Half-Pipe by OPM.

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