Comment by hettygreen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hettygreen | Hacker News Reader

For those that are interested in seeing artists conjure up hit songs, check out the documentary "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry". There are some scenes showing Billie and her brother sitting on a bed in their parents' house coming up with lyrics and melodies for songs that would go on to sell millions, win grammys and totally change their lives.

I'm a huge beatles fan, and while Get Back shows sparks of creativity - for the most part it, it shows a few childish rich dudes high as all hell dicking around in front of cameras in a super-weird situation that they put themselves in trying to document themselves writing an album.

The World's A Little Blurry on the other hand shows two siblings battling through some tough shit and turning it into gold on a shoestring recording budget.

I like Billie Eilish's music and think her brother is a decent producer, but you can't really compare the two in terms of song writing. I don't think there's a single Billie Eilish song that people are going to remember in five years, let alone after 50 years. I did enjoy this video about how they made bad guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpx2-EMfdbg

But there are literally _thousands_ of videos of producers making songs on youtube now.

If the Beatles started at the same time as Eilish then do you think they'd be remembered 5 years later? 50 years?

How could that make sense in the context of popular music post-the-beatles? would someone else have broke the boundaries they did?

My point is there was less competition and more space to innovate. At this point I suspect nostalgia and interia are the biggest factors in their lingering popularity.

That's an anachronistic analysis. You want to say it was "easier" to innovate, sure. but to analyze the beatles without regard to their innovations is just prima facie wrong.

I don't know -- I liked her James Bond theme a lot, and I'd bet that it will be around a long time.

Meh, the hardest part I'd the mixing and mastering and getting it heard. They don't seem to do that themselves

You may want to read the article you're commenting on, which posits the very opposite of what you're contending here

I'm not very familiar with Billie Eilish's music, but any interview I've seen her brother Finneas has been really great. Seems like a cool dude and a great musician.

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