"oh hi- its a ukulele is what it is" 😭😭 had me gigglin

i love how you really went in depth with this reaction. definitely will be watching more

Haha the ending got me! I am not one of the ones that decodes the lore, but I for sure follow the people who do so I can try to get it. I don't think it makes me any better by any means. For me, its just another layer that is secondary to the feeling the music actually gives. So youre focused on the righr parts of it! Also if you did want a high level overview (without diving into all of the clancy letters), they put out a video called "I am Clancy" that's like 4 minutes long and tells the story up to this album. Not necessary by any means, but just an offer to ease some of the frustration.

In every song of this album, Billie starts with cool phrases with impact, drawing more attention to the music. Example of this is:"i could eat a girl for lunch" or 'things fall apart"

I wanna sit down and yap with this dude so bad. Immediate subscription because I feel like I’m on FaceTime with my bestie just yappin

honestly, keep up the work man! this brings back the feeling of what youtube was like in 2015. when vine compilations were still the main thing everyone was hyped for. it brings back the same feeling of sitting down in the living room on the big roku flatscreen, and just watching thomas sanders vines, and dantdm doing minecraft mod reviews. we really need more of this on youtube y'all, this is the best kind of nostalgia we could ask for.

This is sooo late, but I was a huge fan of Bastille growing up and heard that in this band instantly, and have never heard anyone else compare ST to them so hats off haha! I think it’s the SUPER specific combo of rnb influenced pop vocals in a Southern English accent, with poetic wordy verses and lots of synths/keys in the 2010s alt pop sound. Like, it’s a ridiculously specific combo, and therefore I’d probably kill to hear Bastille cover a ST song and vice versa!!

I played violin in middle and high school. Didn't get to play my senior year. I miss it so much. Billie and Fineas are everything.

idk about the all capitals, but i know Billie once said that she used all lowercase for her early carreer because its easy on the eye and more pleasing to see

I really like the energy you have here. Not obnoxious and over the top, while also not a dead fish just letting the music play with a straight face. this video is just really pleasant, def subscribed

To what you initially thought Sports Anthem was gonna be about- it's worth pointing out that Danny IS actually into sports. I know he's big on Football (specifically the Giants) and I've seen clips of him mentioning watching soccer too. The "the joke is we don't anything about sports" angle isn't one I'd expect from him tbh.

Loved this reaction ❤ I'm definitely subscribing!

People who think there's a second album coming are absolutely the exact same fking self-entitled fools she is mocking with the "when can we hear the next one" line. Really triggers me that so many otherwise intelligent folks have jumped on this delusional bandwagon. Anyway, great reaction, super smart insights, many thanks! P.S. One thing, you're making way too much of the two reworked songs thing with "Blue". You wouldn't have known that if you hadn't read it and she only took the chorus from True Blue ... the lyrics and melodies in the verse are new. No one had heard Born Blue before to my knowledge. Cheers.

birds of a feather is one of her best songs

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All right, I shall also give a closing comment after all that long winded nerding off in your comment section. One, I clearly enjoyed your reaction, considering I’ve been watching and commenting on your two hour reaction to a less than one hour long album for now almost five hours. Two, I have some final thoughts on the album cover, namely that it makes me think a tiny little bit of Nirvana’s baby swimming in a pool cover during that part of the song blue when she sings about the born blue and famous etc. it makes me think of Chihiro’s relationship to the river dragon, and it makes me think of happier than ever the song. Which in a way feels like it ties back to both albums. I think it would be difficult to surprise us as much as a surprise can be the first time around. We know who Billie is, and she’s still surprising us. But she can’t surprise us for the first time again, and that’s what wwafawdwg was. I lt will always be special but this album is better in terms of the quality of every single song as well as the cohesion overall. In my personal opinion anyway! Thanks for the reaction and thanks for allowing me to have a place where I could say as much as came to mind about the album 😬🙏🏽

“I’m excited for whatever ideas come out of their wazoo” 😂 nice

I think that the line through blue is - as you said, but didn’t delve deeper into, blue. Feeling blue, born blue, cold blue, lost in the ocean blue, finding a kind of peace and making peace with blue… and being true blue. There’s a sense of melancholic and sympathetic contemplation and mourning of loss, I feel like. Mourning the loss of a love, but also mourning the absence of love. It not only seems like a fitting album closing sentiment, but it’s thematically and emotionally also reminiscent of Male Fantasy as well as of course the concept of the recall verse being like Goodbye (except executed much much better in terms of lyrical cohesion and melody)z What I really love (ha) is the “I try to live in black and white but I’m so blue” rather than saying that truth or reality is grey and not black and white, the fact that she says it with blue is so meaningful to me. Because depression and sadness isn’t just a mix of shadow and light, it is it’s own thing of colour, apart from the binary of black and white. Blue is its own thing. I’m rambling, sorry.

Bittersuite is definitely Billie Bossa Nova coded. The Bossa nova adjacent beat but also its thematic lyrics of an affair in a hotel in particular. There’s also just something about the fact that she starts a really long verse with “I don’t need to breathe” and she doesn’t take a breath the entire verse. Phew. Around this time I started to notice how often she has used the word feet in this album - The Diner and Bittersuite in particular but then again in blue as a callback. My mind went to the possibility of there being a possible reference to the fetish, especially in combination with the stalker and the sexual and mental health as well as relationship nature of bittersuite’s affair. “Keep me off my feet” “sweep me off my feet” “landed on my feet” “back up on my feet” - all different meanings while using the same word.

Although I appreciate what you said about the diner at the end, addressing stalkers and how they should get a different hyper focus and hobby etc, unfortunately that’s not really how it works. Stalkers at this level don’t really tend to be just “simply” hyper fans, but they usually have delusional perceptions of reality that would take place regardless and can’t really be argued with. It’s not a condition they have control over, though psychiatric treatment and medical support can help, it would be a lot like trying to convince an amputee that they totally still have a leg and should just focus on how to walk with two legs and that’s all. Okay maybe not the best analogy I could come up with right now but delusion are by definition firmly help beliefs that proof or facts or arguments cannot shake. Would be nice if it was that simple, and the sentiment still counts, but I think the only thing that will help reduce stalkers in our society of such vast amounts of para social access and information, is in fact wide reaching access to mental health support and education.

Love your energy tbh, watched most of this and it just felt calming and nice to listen to your thoughts and how each song made you feel.

The diner: NDA and Bad Guy and bellyache energy. Also Eminem’s “Stan” and The Police’s “Every breath you take”. I feel bad about it but oh my it sounds SOO good. That little riff at the end of each line and the dirty bass line urgh it hits so hard. It’s some of my favourite production on the album. “Til I saw the sitter leave” has been a bit of a discussion. Some think it refers to a house sitter, some think it refers to a dog sitter, and some think it refers to how young Billie was when she was dealing with stalkers (technically young enough to need a sitter). “Looking for something to eat” to me connotes several things as well but I feel a bit uncomfortable writing it out. Lunch related, basically. But I also think it’s interesting to contemplate it in the context of invading her privacy to get a need met, having a sense of entitlement to it, and there’s an aspect of disturbing “normalcy” to the fact that they’re maybe just hungry because they’ve been so focused on being on the block around the clock, so to speak. I think it’s interesting to consider the logic of such a person and how she’s expressing it while still taking into account the creepy nature of the impact of such choices. For example, leaving a calling card seems like something someone who maybe dinged another car as they got out of parking would do. Like “oops sorry I got hungry from stalking you and because you’re not here I figured it makes sense for me to get some food but now I’m thinking maybe call me and we can totally sort it out and maybe in the process you become my wife” I feel a bit sick writing this out but that’s what I’m getting from the lyrics. I honestly can only enjoy the song if I don’t think about the lyrics too much and that is not how I like songs usually. But urgh.

Hmm I don’t think that L’amour de ma via part 2 can be classified hyper pop, I’d say it’s just straight up 80s trance / workout music. Narrative wise it makes soo much sense. That dissociative, post-breakup, slightly self-delusional, petty you-moved-on-quickly-now-watch-me-party-like-you-never-mattered (with your other ex who agrees you’re mediocre). It’s expressed lyrically, sonically, emotionally. It’s jarring, delusional, mean, and yet one can’t help but dance. It’s perfect, really.

The transition in L’amour de ma via sounding like 8 totally makes sense because she’s said before in interviews that the effect was to make her sound like a child because she was acting like a child in that situation, which is from the perspective of someone she hurt. So that effect being something that she associated with being petty and a bit mean would make sense for sure.

Hahahah “it’s not ✨🤌🏽L’amour de ma vie 🧚🏼‍♂️✨ it’s more like 🚬🧌 L’amour de ma vie 😒🖕🏽”

The greatest is my favourite song on the album in terms of relatability and release. It hits veeeery close to home, as I am my wife’s caretaker. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much, and the song captures that sadness and frustration very well. I also feel like the shift and transition in this song is a bit more cohesive than happier than ever, as much as I also love that song. I’ve seen someone say that this is a good anthem for people pleasers as well. I can definitely see that.

The thing about wildflower is that I’m pretty sure the added layer of breaking the girl code by getting with a friend’s ex, let alone one that you’re close enough to to be a shoulder to cry on, was Finneas and Billie taking creative license and pushing the situation as it was in her real life for the sake of the possibility of the song. In real life she became friends with the ex of her ex only after they were both no longer with that ex (also referenced in L’amour de ma vie part 2). And the core of the theme of the song is on the shame and preoccupation of thinking about your partner’s ex. I’ve picked up here and there that there’s apparently an Olivia Rodriguez song called obsession that deals with this theme, so I think that’s probably been another motivator (whether subconsciously or not), to push the song a bit further (crossing the line haha) into that uncomfortable area of betraying a friend for one’s own “happiness”. My favourite aspects of this song are her expression of shame and for me it evokes the memory of her covering the song “fever” by Peggy Lee on stage with the jazz count Basie orchestra at the Hollywood bowl. And that song, of course, refers to sexual desire, so her shifting it to shame is so interesting to me, because it’s not shame about sex, it’s shame without the s, the ex. Ha. Anyway, this song is the least coherent to me, in terms of being consistent within itself. I feel like I can very much tell which parts of the songs are truly felt and expressed, including reworked impressions of existing art that she has related to in regards to these experiences… and which weren’t. That makes it inconsistent for me, she sounds hesitant and superficial emotionally in those section. To my ear anyway.

The fact that you say “that’s a cool line” to when she sings “did I cross the line” made my brain happy. Also, the first time in the song that she sings it, is the kind of half mark of the album. She crosses that line of the album also. It feels like she’s crossing the line in the narrative as well, once on the othe other side, she’s dealing with the beginning of the end of the relationship, so to speak. Even though she’s talking about crossing the line of friendship here. Which, in turn, then leads me to think about the line in skinny, talking about falling in love with a friend. Falling out of love, falling in love, and a third thing, which is where Billie’s at, all seem to intertwine in this song. P.s. wildflower always ends up at the bottom of the 10 tracks in my rating that changes every time I listen to the album basically. You know how we say that Billie’s voice has a way of triggering some very specific kind of joy in our brain? Her voice and the production is like brain candy. But there are two moment in this song when it’s the opposite for me, which is very very very rare with Billie. One, the way she says “sign” makes me feel a bit angry in between my rib cages. It’s like she’s trying to say a different word but made it “work”. I know that’s not what happened but it’s how it feels to me. And then there’s that part when she sings “line” all dragged out. It doesn’t sound good to me. Some of the vocals further back sound good, but the combination of this particular harmony feels like stretched old chewing gum. There’s actually a little snippet she posted of her goofing off while doing the vocal engineering and replaying one of the takes for this bit, and I like that. But the final result makes me feel like I’m being forced to chew on chalk. Thankfully it’s over quickly and I do like the rest of the song and how it sounds so I bear it. Also, there’s another thing that bothers me about the song, it’s very much about very specific people and a very specific situation she was in. And in the interview with Zane she literally says one song before that she doesn’t like it when you can hear an artist’s song and you know exactly who it’s about and what’s happening and you’re listening to it unfold like uh oh and yikes. And then literally… this song is titled the brand name of the company of the friend and ex she’s talking about. That annoyed me, not that she made a song like this, but that she dissed a concept she literally goes on to do herself right after dissing it (in the context and timeline of the interview). I mean it’s not that big a deal really but it’s another reason this isn’t my favourite song, it feels a bit too on the nose for my personal taste.

I CANNOT WRAP MY HEAD AROUND TRIPLE NEGATIVES EITHER EVERY TIME IM SO CONFUSED I actually had to spend time following the logic like it’s a math equation. And it slips out of my grasp immediately.

I always think of Birds of a Feather from the perspective of the person she refers to in L’amour de ma vie, who “made me feel like it’d kill you if I tried to leave” and I saw the verse where she sings “you’re so full of shit… etc … don’t be stupid” as her position in this exchange. Especially since it also shifts up production wise, it feels like it’s the other side of the conversation. I also interpret the lyric “your mind’s polluted” as being a mind that is so polluted with negative self talk and being jaded in love (reference to a later lyric in the greatest), that they are unable to take the compliments, to open themselves up (the door from Chihiro). On some listens I also think of the lyric as being sexual, like, as a defence mechanism against the emotional throwing of compliments etc to say “tell me your mind’s polluted” as in “please confirm that you’re just saying that because you want to have sex” the discomfort of dealing with vulnerability and love. I feel like there’s a lot of that in Billie’s lyrics, and it doesn’t seem to be a theme many people pick up on. In “I love you” she sings “it’s not true, tell me I’ve been lied to… maybe won’t you take it back say you were try a make me laugh and nothing has to change today you didn’t mean to say I love you” and. “What the hell did I do, never been the type to let someone see right through” and “I don’t want to but I love you”. In “Halley’s Comet” she sings “I don’t want to want you… silly me to fall in love with you… what a drag to love you like I do” just off the top of my head. Interestingly, later on in the album in buttersuite, she kind of goes the opposite way, though still implying a similar kind of internal conflict “I can’t fall in love with you no matter how bad that I want to” - could be read like that’s she’s falling in love but can’t allow herself to, which is similar in sentiment. I also read it differently sometimes (aka from the perspective of a closeted person talking to their beard) but that’s not the argument I’m making right now or what I think fits into this narrative.

Chihiro is such a great song. I actually think it’s up there with her movie inspired songs that are just so good, particularly “When I was Older” and “What was I made for”. I think Chihiro manages to fully capture the FEELING of the movie not only in its lyrics but also in its production, without actually just stating plot point. It takes the theme and makes a new piece of art with it. It’s not just straight up references, it’s something new, which has emerged from the theme of something existing. It’s pretty mind boggling. And when that spacey reverb trippy downward crescendo happens I always, always immediately get that scene in my mind’s cinema of Chihiro and the dragon falling from the sky because she remembers that he’s the river. “There’s a part of me that recognises you, do you feel it to?” And opening up the door to No Face, and to opportunities, opening up the door of emotions. Also, what does No Face stands for, also? Since he absorbs the personality traits of those he consumes, and becomes them, he becomes a reflection of that. And as an artist, Billie is very much that, as well, not only in terms of who she surrounds herself with, interacts with, but also what she experiences, and consumes. And in the end, to not lose oneself, getting lost in the grind of diligent existence and forgetting that the reason for doing it is to find back to oneself. It feels very much like it can apply to Billie in her life and world of fame, family, relationships, personhood. And doesn’t that also apply to all of us? This song’s lyrics are underrated in my opinion, partly because the production is just sooo vibes and good.

Your cat is silently judging you and I’m here for it 😂

Hahahah “it’s a little bit there in the subtext and also just in the text”

I only know a single Selena Gomez song so I can’t speak to that particular tidbit observation, but what I did think was kinda cool was that you said her song/ album was called “rare”, and Billie sings “I bought you something rare” in the song while doing just exactly that little melody you were referring to. Heh. Nice.

Ohh I really liked that interpretation of “oh do you still cry” way better than what I had thought of the line. I thought that she was talking to her listeners here, because the majority of the song seems to be about her relationship to that. But I like to her interpretation better.

I think with “when I step off the stage I’m a bird in a cage” she means that on stage she truly feels free. On stage she’s doing all her favourite things, connecting with people (not relatable to my introvert self but anyway), she’s singing her music, she’s dancing, etc. once she steps off the stage, that is gone, and she’s a prisoner of her life again. I also like that it ties in a little bit to the motif of birds of a feather, because presumably, the birds she flocks together with because they’re similar would also be able to understand that aspect of fame, or life. Dog in the dog pound I feel like refers more to the “am I already on the way out” aspect of her fears, waiting to be loved and chosen because of it doesn’t happen they might be “on the way out”.

She doesn’t live with her parents any more. Remember in happier than ever, on NDA she sings “got a secret house when I was 17, haven’t had a party since I got the keys” (also because of quarantine). She spends a lot of time with her family, so she’ll spend time at Finneas’ and Claudia’s and at her parents’ place. But she doesn’t “live” there any more.

Oh no no, Billie hit her stride in the music industry when she was 16. Yup. Not 19. She won all these awards for her first album at age 17. When she was 19-20 ish she was winning oscars for James Bond and Barbie. She had her first hit soundcloud hit at age 13. Released her EP aged 14 and also toured. By the time she was 15-16 she wrote and released her first album. Around that time she “hit her stride” as you said. She was working on this album at 20-21, now she’s 22.

Regarding the capitalisations, she’s said for this album in an interview that she’s “yelling” with the album. Even in moments when she’s not yelling technically, she is still yelling in other ways.

She became the youngest person even to achieve two Oscar wins. She’s also now the third and youngest artist to hit over 100 million monthly listeners (the other artists being The Weeknd and Taylor swift.) Her first song was dropped on Spotify when she was 14 so she’s almost been at this a decade and only getting better :)

birds of a feather became my all time favourite billie song. also your hair is lookin sweet !!

OoooH, Speaking of birthdays, you should check out Billie's song, Party Favor...It's exactly that.

If you listen to their first album (the sundowning), the song GOD is the only other that sound a bit like VORE

Bro delet this video

i saw your reactions now and you are the greatest reactioner i have ever watched.

u rly should react to the Paladin Strait MV

Tyler just fot that questions 'bout Saturday because the critics and the media opinion about Scaled and Icy. Kinda sad. Just how dissapointing how so much people didn't like and almost hate your work and its purpose.

fun fact about next semester, the guitar sounds are actually a bunch of heavily produced ukes!

Hi Can you please react to Aurora's new album What Happened To The Heart? It is really a great album🙂❤

I believe that last bit in Boner of Peace was "we are in the presence of God tonight"