Billie Eilish Documentary 'The World's A Little Blurry' Launching in Theaters and Apple TV+ in February 2021

[CarlJ]

Anyone can go buy a cheap microphone, a sampler, a DAW, and any assortment of instruments, and make any type of music they want.

If you've got an iPad and some patience (or an iPhone and a lot more patience), you do an awful lot of that on Garageband. An iPad and a decent microphone can be a recording studio.

Trust me, I’ve talked to people from previous generations. Genre saturation was a real problem then.
I recall talking to someone who lived through the mid to late 70s.
They told me that if you turned on the radio, it was nothing but disco. Went to the music store, nothing but disco. The Billboard charts? Flooded with disco.

Ha! I lived through the 70's. You make it sound like you talked to a Civil War veteran or something. The person you talked to apparently didn't know how to turn the knob on the radio dial. Yes, there was a lot of disco. There was also a lot other music - here's just a handful from Rolling Stones' 500 Greatest Songs of all time (looking only at the 70's) - this is all stuff that was all around in the air in the 70's:

Aerosmith ("Walk This Way"), Alice Cooper ("School's Out"), The Allman Brothers Band ("Whipping Post"), Black Sabbath ("Iron Man"), Blue Öyster Cult ("(Don't Fear) The Reaper"), Boston ("More Than a Feeling"), David Bowie ("Changes"), The Clash ("Train in Vain"), Deep Purple ("Smoke on the Water"), Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), Eagles ("Hotel California"), Elton John ("Candle in the Wind"), Elvis Costello ("Watching The Detectives"), Fleetwood Mac ("Go Your Own Way"), Iggy Pop ("Lust For Life"), Janis Joplin ("Me And Bobby McGee"), Led Zeppelin ("Stairway to Heaven"), Pink Floyd ("Comfortably Numb"), Queen ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), Ramones ("I Wanna Be Sedated"), The Rolling Stones ("Brown Sugar"), Sex Pistols ("God Save the Queen"), The Who ("Won't Get Fooled Again").​

Sure, you can find a few disco songs done by groups in that list - it was popular (hell, there was a disco version of the Star Wars theme). But there was a huge wide world of music outside of the disco. Go listen to Walk This Way, or Don't Fear The Reaper, or I Wanna Be Sedated, and tell me how much disco you hear.

 

[tribeaumes]

Yeah... very funny. How about you go try and win a Grammy. I personally know people who have won several Grammys, not for being a singer but for sound engineering and I will tell you it’s a **** ton of work. Sad you have to mock someone’s work.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

If you've got an iPad and some patience (or an iPhone and a lot more patience), you do an awful lot of that on Garageband. An iPad and a decent microphone can be a recording studio.
Ha! I lived through the 70's. You make it sound like you talked to a Civil War veteran or something. The person you talked to apparently didn't know how to turn the knob on the radio dial. Yes, there was a lot of disco. There was also a lot other music - here's just a handful from Rolling Stones' 500 Greatest Songs of all time (looking only at the 70's) - this is all stuff that was all around in the air in the 70's:

Aerosmith ("Walk This Way"), Alice Cooper ("School's Out"), The Allman Brothers Band ("Whipping Post"), Black Sabbath ("Iron Man"), Blue Öyster Cult ("(Don't Fear) The Reaper"), Boston ("More Than a Feeling"), David Bowie ("Changes"), The Clash ("Train in Vain"), Deep Purple ("Smoke on the Water"), Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), Eagles ("Hotel California"), Elton John ("Candle in the Wind"), Elvis Costello ("Watching The Detectives"), Fleetwood Mac ("Go Your Own Way"), Iggy Pop ("Lust For Life"), Janis Joplin ("Me And Bobby McGee"), Led Zeppelin ("Stairway to Heaven"), Pink Floyd ("Comfortably Numb"), Queen ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), Ramones ("I Wanna Be Sedated"), The Rolling Stones ("Brown Sugar"), Sex Pistols ("God Save the Queen"), The Who ("Won't Get Fooled Again").​

Sure, you can find a few disco songs done by groups in that list - it was popular (hell, there was a disco version of the Star Wars theme). But there was a huge wide world of music outside of the disco. Go listen to Walk This Way, or Don't Fear The Reaper, or I Wanna Be Sedated, and tell me how much disco you hear.

Obviously I know there was more music than disco, but the point was that back in the day, it was a lot easier for a genre to grasp onto the popular consciousness, and not let go.

 

[Valkyre]

Most pop song videos these days look like softporn stuff. And the lyrics are completely in tune with that as well.

 

[PickUrPoison]

There are copious amounts of blind adoration on any Apple website, hence the common phrase 'Apple fanboys' and as an Apple customer I am beyond okay with that state of things.

Yes, I assumed free speech within the terms of service. Varied opinions make the world spin round. People who use the term 'hater' to describe all who disagree with their apparently God like opinions must have missed some school at some point at least the day the meaning of opinion was discussed.

From what I can tell, there seems to be a wide variety of opinion being voiced in this thread. Posters seem quite free to express their negative opinions, and there are some positive opinions as well!

My earlier reply—maybe my meaning wasn’t clear—was basically to the effect of, even if there were blindly adoring comments (were there?), that doesn’t mean that’s not their actual personal opinion.

When you said, “I don't see any reason why every comment should be blind adoration rather than one's actual opinion” you made those two things mutually exclusive, though that may not have been what you intended.

To me, you seemed to consider positive posts to be based on blind adoration, as opposed to the negative posts, which you characterize as “actual opinion”.

re: “Apple fanboys”, I certainly consider myself an Apple fan, and I have opinions that I’m willing to defend with my reasoning. To me that’s more interesting than a poster saying “Apple sux” and when challenged why just lazily falls back on, “Well, that’s like, my opinion, man” to bastardize a well known quote 😂

No, the earth isn’t flat. No, not all opinions are right—or valid. No participation trophy, at least not from me.

 

[gridlocked]

From what I can tell, there seems to be a wide variety of opinion being voiced in this thread. Posters seem quite free to express their negative opinions, and there are some positive opinions as well!

My earlier reply—maybe my meaning wasn’t clear—was basically to the effect of, even if there were blindly adoring comments (were there?), that doesn’t mean that’s not their actual personal opinion.

When you said, “I don't see any reason why every comment should be blind adoration rather than one's actual opinion” you made those two things mutually exclusive, though that may not have been what you intended.

To me, you seemed to consider positive posts to be based on blind adoration, as opposed to the negative posts, which you characterize as “actual opinion”.

re: “Apple fanboys”, I certainly consider myself an Apple fan, and I have opinions that I’m willing to defend with my reasoning. To me that’s more interesting than a poster saying “Apple sux” and when challenged why just lazily falls back on, “Well, that’s like, my opinion, man” to bastardize a well known quote 😂

No, the earth isn’t flat. No, not all opinions are right—or valid. No participation trophy, at least not from me.

We're basically on the same page. No I didn't mean the negative posts were actual opinion - just making a contrast there though albeit clumsily.

I see the Apple fanboys criticisms in a different light likely than some. For someone who doesn't use their products they see it as a straight negative. I see it as the Apple products are so good that positives come across that way to those that do not use them. It's not that I don't criticize Apple at all but I look at the negatives of the alternatives in making any criticisms and that blunts any negatives of Apple. I wish I had come on board earlier than I did.

 

[Clix Pix]

Obviously I know there was more music than disco, but the point was that back in the day, it was a lot easier for a genre to grasp onto the popular consciousness, and not let go.

This reminds me of a little story about another famous brother-sister duo, the Carpenters. At one point Richard Carpenter was in rehab and it was clear that the two of them would not be able to work together in the studio for a while so Karen decided this would be an opportunity to try her wings recording an album independently. This was indeed during the era when disco was all the rage. She talked about her album idea with Richard, who said, "whatever you do, don't do any disco!"

The album was recorded.....and sure enough, there was a disco song on there. However, it didn't get heard for many years because the album was shelved -- the "suits" at the label and Richard didn't think it was a good idea and it didn't carry on the Carpenters' characteristic sound and "brand." Only many years later after Karen's death was the album released.

 

[amartinez1660]

This young lady (and her brother) display an impressive amount of talent at quite a young age. I expect that will rather upset some who might be somewhat less accomplished.

Of course it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but what is?

A throughout rational post coming from you as usual, can agree 100%.

My main unsettling point is what’s up with so much effort being channeled on a single person in bursts at a time... youtube, instagram, etc are crowded with incredibly talented people doing all sorts of music, arts, community help, etc but I t’s like someone/something somewhere decides to channel all the millions of dollars to propel Taylor Swift the next 6 months, for the last year I feel it has been Billie Eilish, so on and so forth.

I can’t believe that there are not more documentary worthy people besides the handful we have gotten. Not saying not to do it but from my point of view the recurrent artists feels forced.

reminds me: gotta watch the Beastie Boys one.