Sings about the funeral and cries in ink

We tell you who Billy Ailish is and why her gloomy album was waiting for teenagers (and not only) all over the world

On March 29, the debut album of the California singer Billy Ailish “Will We All Fall Asleep, Were Do We Go?” A few days before the official release, the album was added to their media text at the Apple Music 800 thousand people - this is a record for the service. This is not the only achievement of the singer - already at the age of 16 she signed a contract with Universal Music Publing Group, streams with her new tracks gain billions of views , and her songs can be heard in popular series. In the Russian top, Apple Music on March 28 Ailish takes 30th place, although in February her song was part of the top 10. At the end of August, the singer will perform in Moscow with a solo concert, for which there are no longer tickets. Medusa tells everything that you need to know about Billy Ailish before the release of her album, which, apparently, will become the main sensation of spring (and maybe only a year).

Who is Billy Ailish?

Billy Ailish Pyiret Beard O` Konnell is 17 years old. She was born in California in 2001, in a family of actors and musicians, received her home education and from eight years she was engaged in music in the choir. At 11 she began to write her own songs, like her older brother Finnias OKKONNELL, who was also engaged in music.

In 2015, together with their brother, they recorded the song “Ocean Eyes” and published it on Soundcloud. The song became viral - in three years it was listened to almost 16 million times. Critics spoke about Ailish, they described her music as “pure pop ”. A year later, Ailish released the EP “Donʼt Smile At Me”, which made it truly popular: Apple Music called it one of the most promising artists and released a small collection of her live performances “Up Next Session: Billie Eilish”. In 2019, her debut album “Will We All Fall Asleep, Were Do We Go?” I broke a download record at Apple Music before his exit.

Is it indie? Pop? Electronics? Or all together?

It seems that Ailish generally tries to work outside the genres - this is a quiet delicate girlish pop, and indie in the spirit of the Lord, and gloomy electronics at the same time. Songs with “Donʼt Smile at Me” are not very similar to tracks from the future album (there is something to compare with - four compositions have already been published). On "HEN WE All Fall Asleep, Were Do We Go?" Ailish is almost a monster-he sits, like the most important nightmare, under the bed of a guy in a clip on Bury a Friend, turns into a vile spider that destroys the city, into a video on the “You Shoup See Me in the Crown” (by the way, this video for Ailish made a Japanese artist Takashi Taksi) or crying) or crying) or crying) or cry Ink in "When the Partyʼs Over". In general, Ailish tries everything she likes to talk about feelings.

And how does it differ from other pop stars?

Billy Ailish has unusual impudent texts - in Bellyache she tells how she threw her beloved body in a gutters, in “Bury a Friend” invites to a funeral, and in “Wish You Were Gay” is indignant about unrequited love. At the same time, Ailish’s live performances are energetic performances in which there is no melancholy at all. She herself says that she is trying to wash the boundaries between the stage and the viewer every time to be with the audience on the same level: "All the children who come to my concerts of about my age, they could be my friends." Finally, she does not look like any other singer outwardly - blue hair, baggy clothing, aggressive jewelry - Vogue and Vanity Fair tell about her, and fans (and in Russia too!) Study in detail her wardrobe .

And Ailish loves social networks. Today, there are more than 15 million subscribers in her Instagram (much less than that of Katy Perry, but a little more than that of Olga Buzova). With fans of the pop star extremely frank-in November 2018 a video appeared in which Ailish had a nervous tick; Then she said that since childhood she has been living with the syndrome of Tutrett. Ailish all the time in touch with fans, sometimes even writes to them personally: “There are days when I go to fans or children who, as I know, really care about art and its meanings. [...] And all this shit that I am engaged in matters, except for those cases when I share with these people, ”she said to Marie Claire in February 2019.

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Natalia Gredina