what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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Since I'm on a Billie Eilish kick, it occurs to me that she gets some criticism for being not as talented as she is credited for, and I think it has a lot to do with a general reluctance to not give young people credit for anything. In music, this is odd to me, since I've been alive a long time and remember that the most popular acts tended to get their start very early. Billie was particularly young, but not uncommonly young, for an upstart popular musician.

Maybe it's always been this way and I just didn't notice it when I was young.

I don’t know her very well but I like her voice and her attitude.

She collaborates with her brother, which is cool, and they create what I consider to be some unique and important work. I like her.

I saw some good interviews she did about body image a few years ago. Her mum was on six Feet Under, too.

34 years ago. A commercial for a commercial. And a canceled ad campaign over something that was misunderstood. I was a Madonna fan, and I loved this.

I like this version, and hearing her breaths. It’s very intimate. Reminds me of someone I used to love.

For some reason I hadn't heard that!

FWIW I had a few informal vocal lessons and we discovered that I instinctively knew a few things to do at a microphone to achieve an affect. One was to move away from the mic to inhale. On video it looks like an expressive thing, and as you're doing it it even feels that way, but it's totally to not be heard inhaling. And the second thing I did without prompting was to sing softly, close to the mic, to achieve both volume, intimacy, and breathiness, when I wanted that.

This album and Ultravisitor have been on regular rotation lately. I love the mix of beauty and chaos of both.