CoolCat
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She may be talented (like many other people are, but don't get that break)...but I too feel that her style of music, like so much of the "Modern Pop" (or maybe "Juvenile Pop" is better) that we've had the last 10-15 years...is highly disposable because the fan base tends to be very young, and because the fan base is way too trend and convenience focused.
What is hip today is boring tomorrow, as soon as the next new trend comes along...but it's now at a much more rapid rate than in past decades, due to the internet and social media.
All that "viral" nonsense is truly like a virus. It hits big...and then it's gone and generally forgotten.
Just consider the "Modern Pop" icons of the last 15 years....how quickly they have been pushed aside in favor of new ones.
IMO, much of it really has to do with the target age group...which is young girls, who grow up to be women, and they tend to want to discard that young girl stuff along the way, because even adult women are way too fashion/trend focused...and they are always looking for the next new trend.
Not trying to just stereotyped...but it's really pretty obvious. IMO...Eilish will be selling perfume and clothing 5 years from now, trying to ride the trend wave into adulthood.
Dude....hasn't it always been that way?
The parents around me hated the Beatles as being some goofball teenage noise....they wanted Benny Goodman and the Doresy Brothers BIG BAND.....
My uncles hated Elvis....as some jerky kid making noise and totally crap music compared to their Bluegrass!! lol
I find it so funny how old people can put down the youth music because we don't like it, but then turn around and defend Led Zepplin or some 80's hairspray goofball band in white and red striped spandex with guys wearing eye make up..or psychedelic Cream LSD bands singing INAGADDADAVIDA as real music.... lol
All I know is the Grammy Sweep and Bedroom production was interesting, and yeah the kids made me feel old as rust. …..their younger than my kids!!
I joke with my even older brother about keeping fresh.,...and start writing Billie & Finneas type techno pop rap grunge whatever it is music for Millenials?
Would Billies music sell if some fat old man with balding hair sang it?
She and Finneas did Yesterday to the old dead people on the Academy Awards show last night, it was ok, but at the same time it was visually like watching the Millenial say good-bye to the elders who are gone.