Cuando todos nos quedamos dormidos, a dónde vamos? Es la pregunta que plantea Billie en este su álbum debut.
A través de sus 14 tracks podemos apreciar como Billie experimenta con el ritmo, con los sonidos y melodías creando lo que yo considero es arte.
Desde canciones mas movidas y burlonas como ‘bad guy’ y ‘my strange adiction’ hasta canciones para reflexionar y llorar en una esquina como ‘wish you were gay’, ‘ilomilo’ o ‘i love you’
Personalmente este es uno de mis álbumes favoritos, amo a Billie y su música. Para mí, las mejores canciones son ‘wish you were gay’, ‘all the good girls go to hell’ y ‘my strange adiction’.
Aunque mi all-time fav es ‘i love you’, es la canción mas larga del álbum, a lo largo de sus 4:52 minutos, Billie explora una relación complicada. When she says “you didn’t mean to say i love you” o en español ‘no fue tu intención decir te amo’ 💔.
Artista: Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy
Álbum: Blind Date Party
Ano: 2021
Faixas/Tempo: 19/90min
Estilo: Folk Rock/Indie Folk
Data de Execução: 06/04/2023
Nota: 7,0
Melhor Música: Wish You Were Gay (feat. Sean O'Hagan)
Benson Boone has held onto the top spot for a second week with 'Beautiful Things', so that means we'll flashback five years to 2019 when Billie Eilish had the #1 song. We've actually already covered that one ('Bad Guy'), but Billie also had the #2 song with 'Wish You Were Gay', so we'll look at that one instead.
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I don't know if I love this song much, to be honest. It's fine, but it's far from Billie's best work lyrics-wise, although I do like the intensity of the beat. 'Wish You Were Gay' was written when Eilish was fourteen and I think it shows a little (although it is, of course, far more impressive than anything most fourteen year olds are capable of creating).
I guess it probably was never really intended to be a single either since it doesn't even have a music video, although it's worth noting that a whopping eight of the fourteen tracks on Eilish's debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made it onto the charts. I suspect the success of the album in general is what led to 'Wish You Were Gay' charting so high rather than the track iteself. Plus there was a minor controversy around it, with some people accusing Eilish of queerbaiting (those people are stupid, by the way), so that may have also led to increased numbers of streams of the track.
Anyway, regardless of how it got to #2, 'Wish You Were Gay' did pretty well for itself. It didn't actually manage to make it to #1 anywhere, but it got #2 in several countries and was in the top ten in, uh, ten.
Eilish is of course still making music, and most recently won the Oscar for Best Song for 'What Was I Made For?' (which also peaked at #2) alongside her brother and creative partner Finneas O'Connell. No doubt she'll be back in the charts before too long.