THE DISCUSSION TABLE: Billie Eilish - "Hit Me Hard And Soft" Album Reaction/Review
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Sean and Alex from Oh Geeez, Not Again discuss Billie Eilish's excellent third album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.
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0:00 Intro and background with Billie Eilish
5:15 SKINNY
11:34 LUNCH
19:00 SKINNY vs. LUNCH discussion
19:43 Sean's "Aquarium" framing for HMHAS
22:55 CHIHIRO
29:21 'Open up the door'
30:30 BIRDS OF A FEATHER
36:53 WILDFLOWER
42:32 "Album culture" and double album rumors
48:43 THE GREATEST (Warning! 'Happier Than Ever' slander!)
56:39 L'AMOUR DE MA VIE
1:03:57 THE DINER
1:10:39 BITTERSUITE & BLUE
1:18:48 Final thoughts (Best album of the year???)
1:25:00 Listen to our music! Thanks for watching!! 🧡
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Hi all, this is something we’ve wanted to try for a long time, and we hope you enjoy our first attempt at an album discussion video! If you’ve heard HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, we’d love to know what you think. Thanks for watching, and, if you’re new here, we’d love to know what you think of our music, too! 🧡
The aquarium reference with the petting zoo is so perfect (she’s petting her lunch 😅) and the idea of sinking deeper and deeper into the water is so spot on
She says she comps all her vocals herself!
What you said about the fact that you listen to the album as a whole 45 minute thing: hard same. It feels like one big thing and I listen to it on repeat as a whole, and it feels like that’s the only way I can listen to it.
Same. And I have been watching reactions to the whole album, none of the songs as “ singles “, and really only the music videos that are included in full album reactions. I ALWAYS cry during SKINNY, recover during LUNCH and from that point on I just cry because IT IS JUST SO DAMN GOOD!
I also love to hear what people’s top favorites are because they are so different.
@@iamlpinthe312 My favourites change every time I listen to the album, it’s impossible. They change with my mood, too. I think there’s a reason so many reactors are like “no, actually, THIS is the best song on the album” with each new song lol. I think it’s also a case of, sometimes I’m more in tune with the lyrics and in a melancholic mindset. Sometimes I’m angry and the rhythm and beats have more of an impact. Sometimes I feel goofy, and need to calm down, so her vocals take priority. Sometimes I feel goofy and want to move my body to release that energy, so it’s all about the getting lost in intensity. Sometimes I’m in an intellectual mood and I’ll dissect the technical details so that changes the preferences entirely once again. I have different looking ranking depending on the question. Like, just asking “what’s your favourites” won’t do. It has to be more precise, like, “what’s the ranking in term of vocals? Whats the ranking in terms of flow, bars, lyricism? What’s the ranking in terms of danceability? What’s the ranking in terms of rip my heart out and stomp on it? What’s the ranking in terms of vibes only? What’s the ranking in terms of innovation and experimentation? What’s the ranking in terms of which types of moods? What’s the ranking…” you get the picture.
I always wondered who'd go to the AMC event. Now I know, all other musicians. Great discussion, dudes. Nice points-of-view you bring.
Thanks for listening to us ramble! Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the aquarium analogy
Thanks!
Oh good lord, you’re right?! Crossing the line at the half point. Please. It’s so good. I wonder if “Did I cross the line?” is actually placed in the middle of the record, time wise? On the vinyl Wildflower is the last song on side A so it could actually be the case 🤩
Every detail about this record seems very intentional, so I would not be surprised if that was true!
34:06 agreed, the more she strays from traditional structures the more I like it
This is great! I love hearing two musicians nerd out about other music. Is this a weekly thing, or only with albums you both feel passionate about (the new twenty one pilots album is next week~)
Thanks! We’ll see how often we end up doing this, but we definitely have twenty one pilots on the calendar for next week!!
Regarding the Diner, it evokes so many cultural 80s/90s associations for me. From Every breath you take by the police, even Stan by Eminem in 2000, to Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers. I think that it’s plenty creepy the way it was produced but I must admit I vibe so hard with those little metal string grazing riffs that sound like laughter that I end up just dancing rather than feel anxious or creeped out. I think that The Diner could have really benefited from the slowing down distorted beat of Bittersuit just before the synth outro. Regardless of how I maybe would have driven home the sonic storytelling, the song makes me vibe so hard. And they’re so good at storytelling that it makes me wonder if maybe there’s a point they’re making here that I keep missing because I’m dancing lol
Those are some great comparisons! Definitely agree that some kind of glitchy slowdown would’ve added more menace to it. But it is certainly a vibe!
1:01:00 There was a time when reviewers could not review music without wearing a specific genre hat. If the genre didn't match your interest, you had no business reviewing. Genre as we know is a marketing category when record stores sold music in separate bins.
Same goes with songs. We cannot review music by what should or shouldn't be in a song. What comes before where. All those habits are antiquated. They come from serialized consumption of art in the old days of radio and TV packaged for just the right length of play (usually 3 min and 30 seconds) before the next commercial break.
You guys debating which song breaks and switch ups, or what half of the song was better, does not make sense. The flow and aesthetic experience of music as art is one continuous medium. That's how you should also review, without concern for song boundaries or genre bins.
But your comments about song structure, melodies, beats, etc., are valid and fun to listen to.
Thanks for watching!
Birds aren’t necessarily woodsy, but more so soaring, and I agree that’s what she was going for even just based on the vocal choices for parts of the melody. I can absolutely “see” the “soaring. Then I thought about the snorkelling above a reef image you mention, and I actually think that it’s a great water based comparison to draw to flying / floating / soaring. So the snorkelling joy shared with a crush totally fits.
Glad you liked Sean’s aquarium scenes - he’s very proud of those! 😅
Very very good album.
Indeed!
L’amour de ma vie does say that it has two parts in the lyrics, so technically it actually is a two part song, just like you suggested. I actually like the contrast, especially after I’ve seen someone say that the synthetic quality of the effect on her voice in a way implies the emotional sincerity of the content itself. Which made me look at the songs and the album in a completely different light.
Is that Bo burnham's inside I see there in the background?😮😮
Yes! Alex has great taste in vinyls!
I think The Diner could also be a single, structurally speaking. Regarding the second half of the song not having singles as much as the first.
That is true - sonically, I think it would be a hard sell, but structurally and melodically it fits a more traditional mold
I don’t think you can call her pop at all.