Maybe it’s a generational thing but I can’t listen to today’s music. I keep going back to classic rock from the 60s and 70s to chill out (I’m late 50s) The anguished stuff of today is just homogenised, narcissistic and self indulgent.
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Billie Eilish Documentary 'The World's A Little Blurry' Launching in Theaters and Apple TV+ in February 2021
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A song about Wireless Access Points?
I don't have a problem with her or her music. Some of her songs I've come across sounded nice.
But a documentary on her at such a young age and after only 1 album? Seems a bit premature to me.
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The era of Wake me up before you go go, Dancing in the street, Walk this way, Get into the groove, Take me down to the Paradise City, We are the champions, Born in the USA and Addicted to love.
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Minus the Wireless.
I don't like nor dislike her, it's just different, there's lots worse nowadays.
~42million monthly listeners on spotify and several billion song plays say otherwise 🥰
Similar things can be (and have been) said about any generation’s music.
Love MASH. But Billie is a fan of The Office. So maybe everybody should share their favorite Office episode. It’s hard hard to pick just one but: The Injury; Booze Cruise; Casino Night; Grief Counseling; Business School; Dinner Party.
Come to think of it, if a large portion of this documentary were spent on Billie being a fan of The Office, that would be pretty interesting.
She's not just an "18 year old girl", she's a celebrity who sells records. Just like Apple is made up of humans of several age levels who create products to sell. Yet it's okay for people here to trash Apple who also employs teenagers who work at the Apple store and people post trash about Apple's store employees all the time, and many of them are paid minimum wage. Bille Eilish makes millions of dollars. She can handle the criticism from people who don't care for her "work".
I mean, hard to narrow it down to just one, right?
Yep. Sadly I can only name a few of them: Five ‘o Clock Charlie; I’ll Be Seein Ya Henry; Goodbye Farewell and Amen.
I never understood why people ever cared to listen to Bob Dylan either. Couldn't understand a word he said. Couldn't sing for crap either. But he got a contract and had success. There's no accounting for taste, especially when it comes to music.
Right, we should only ever have inspirational documentaries about scientists and world leaders! Let’s do away with anything that’s merely “fun” or “interesting”! And while we’re at it, we should entirely do away with fiction, since it doesn’t inform us about weighty issues.
Or maybe— no, it seems foolish to suggest this, but maybe, we could have both. Documentaries about all manner of topics, some weighty and some fun, along with works of fiction.
You know Apple is doing both, right?
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Their work entertain and bring joy to millions, if not billions of people in the world. I'd say that qualifies them for the "hero" moniker more than quite a few of the people we dub heroes.
And yet this happens quite often here when people trash Apple employees at the Apple Store for simply doing their job.
My level of interest matches her emotional range.
Speaking of documentaries, I’d like mention my favorite one about the world’s best boss who works with his friends (actually they’re closer than friends, they’re coworkers) at the Scranton branch of a certain paper company. 😉
The entitlement often shared on this forum when anything is made that may not suit a particular persons exact & specific wishes is astonishing - almost spoilt-brat childlike!
If Apple had launched only a whole Billie Eilish dedicated channel & weren't doing anything else ever, then yeah, maybe a problem ... This is one show, there are others. Personally I'm not crazy about Ted Lasso, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.
FWIW I think both Billie & her brother are extremely talented musicians and it's certainly interesting (to me) how they've developed such a striking maturity & worldliness at such a young age. The hysteria surrounding them is in itself enough material for a documentary - see similar previous on ABBA, Jacksons, 1D, Wham! etc.
Is everything they do bang in-line with my taste? - definitely not. However to suggest they're anything other than highly talented musically, and with a broad enough base to get the ratings, is both ignorant and/or cynical.
If Apple had launched only a whole Billie Eilish dedicated channel & weren't doing anything else ever, then yeah, maybe a problem ... This is one show, there are others. Personally I'm not crazy about Ted Lasso, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.
FWIW I think both Billie & her brother are extremely talented musicians and it's certainly interesting (to me) how they've developed such a striking maturity & worldliness at such a young age. The hysteria surrounding them is in itself enough material for a documentary - see similar previous on ABBA, Jacksons, 1D, Wham! etc.
Is everything they do bang in-line with my taste? - definitely not. However to suggest they're anything other than highly talented musically, and with a broad enough base to get the ratings, is both ignorant and/or cynical.
And they also seem to have a fondness for showing the world how little of a vocabulary they have (re: cursing all the time and using slang).