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  • - So sad. Ah. - Wow, it's a trippy video.

  • It's anti-pop.

  • Ooh, this is Billie Eilish's new music video!

  • My daughters freaking love her.

  • - ♪ What do you want from me? ♪ - Who is this?

  • What do you want from me? ♪ ♪ Why don't you run from me? ♪

  • What are you wondering? ♪ - She got a nice little vibe, man.

  • Why do you care for me? ♪

  • When we all fall asleep♪ ♪ Where do we go? ♪

  • I go to bed.

  • Ooh. That's a little creepy.

  • ♪ I'll meet you in the park

  • It freaked me out when I learned that she was 17.

  • ♪ 'Cause I'm too expensive

  • Shouldn't be said out loud

  • She has such a pretty voice, but she does some of the scariest stuff visually with her videos.

  • And I'm like, "Aw, come on, girl."

  • I'm like, I can't watch this at night.

  • - ♪ Gotta sell my... ♪

  • - This is a rad shot. - Freaky, freaky eyes.

  • ♪ I can't say no ♪ ♪ Then my limbs are frozen

  • Her voice is particularly pretty and haunting at the same time.

  • Oh, that's awesome. Disturbingly awesome.

  • She looks freaky as hell.

  • See? I'm just like, "You a scary bitch,but I love you!"

  • She pulls off the, like, if Tim Burton were an indie pop punk girl singer.

  • When we all fall asleep ♪ ♪ Where do we go? ♪

  • When you fall asleep, where do we go? I go in my dreams, girl.

  • She's totally, like, anti-pop star.

  • I kind of like her. You don't even know what kind of shape she has.

  • She has T-shirts.

  • She wears sweats. She's not pushing sexuality.

  • She's pushing her words, which is great.

  • So, that was teenage rising music star, Billie Eilish.

  • We will show you some more of her in just a bit,

  • but wanted to point out that today's episode was voted on by the FBE SuperFam,

  • a part of our audience that's supporting us all at FBE through YouTube memberships over on the React Channel.

  • We don't call you guys the SuperFam for anything. You have great taste.

  • Every month, members get to vote on topics that we turn into episodes, and this was their pick for the month of March.

  • Stop. They can interact?

  • You guys can, you know, practically be our bosses now and tell us what to react to.

  • We previously had the " Teens React to Billie Eilish ".

  • So the rest of the songs, like the first one we just showed you are songs we did not feature on Teens React.

  • Ooh. Okay. I love this.

  • Quiet when I'm coming home. And I'm on my own. ♪

  • God, her visuals are always so cool.

  • Say I like it like that ♪ ♪ Like it like that

  • Incredible vocals, just so talented.

  • ♪ I could lie ♪ ♪ Say I like it like that

  • That does not look very tasty.

  • She drinks darkness.

  • Quiet when I'm coming home ♪ ♪ And I'm on my own

  • So sad. Ah!

  • Wow, it's a trippy video.

  • Don't you hate when that happens? When you're crying and the tears come out black, 'cause you're just that upset?

  • Yeah, I could lie ♪ ♪ Say I like it like that

  • Makes me think of visuals for some anime.

  • But nothing is better sometimes

  • Once we've both said... ♪

  • Gosh dammit! This is gross! But it sounds so pretty!

  • Let's just let it go

  • And let me let you go

  • All of her music sounds like drowning, but like serenely.

  • She's... a wonderful actress.

  • ♪ I like it like that ♪ ♪ Like it like that

  • I would love to go to one of her concerts.

  • But I'd also be terrified that I wouldn't make it out of there alive.

  • I don't see anything shocking about it. It's storytelling.

  • I would just rather listen to it than look at the video and listen to it, because it does feel a bit put upon.

  • It's just so much.

  • Visions I vandalize ♪ - Ah, mobile.

  • Stop! Stop! I have arachnophobia.

  • Arachnophobia, dude. No spiders.

  • You should see me in a crown

  • Ay. That's one thing. She got some bottom in her songs.

  • Her songs have bass.

  • The beat is awesome.

  • One by... one

  • God, I love how weird she is.

  • Blood on a marble wall

  • I think it's awesome that she's doing what she wants to do.

  • You should see me in a crown

  • Ahh! God damn it, this is gross.

  • Wild. This is wild.

  • One by, one by... one

  • Cool. Not for me.

  • It's like an alternate version of pop almost, but it's anti-pop.

  • She is portraying life.

  • However, she takes it too far to me within this because...

  • I don't wanna say it's not that serious, 'cause life is serious in so many ways, but then it just distorts it.

  • Gold's fake and real love hurts

  • Oh, I like this song so much.

  • Nothing hurts when I'm alone

  • God, they need to take Billie out of this white room.

  • She's been stuck here for two music videos!

  • Just let me hold... ♪

  • She's got a great voice. I've heard some live stuff too, and that's how you can really...

  • You can really tell a true artist by their live performances.

  • Like a hostage

  • That's so hauntingly beautiful, how that sounds.

  • Like a hostage ♪ - Her videos are wild.

  • I feel like all of her music videos are like physical representations of different drugs.

  • It's incredible. Jesus. The team behind her is insane.

  • I almost wanna just turn my head and listen to the music and the lyrics without looking at the video. Like...

  • Dude, I'm getting a triple threat vibe from her.

  • Obviously, she's good at singing. Her acting in all of these videos is on point.

  • And just the way she moves...I feel like she can do it all.

  • Baby, I don't feel so good ♪ - That's a great picture.

  • I shouldn't have looked at the screen. I need to start over. The eyes!

  • ♪ ...words you'll never say ♪ - So mellow.

  • This is more acoustic, and it's still very much Billie Eilish at the same time.

  • Four days has never felt so long

  • It's interesting listening to her music without a video or anything to back it up.

  • This is just very slow, soft acoustic.

  • How am I supposed to make you feel okay

  • It's so good, man.

  • When all you do is walk the other way? ♪

  • - Ooh, girl. Ooh, girl. You talking real life now.

  • ♪ I can't tell you... ♪

  • Honestly, I just sit here and fall in love more and more just any time I listen to any of her music.

  • ♪ I just kinda wish you were gay ♪ - So interesting.

  • From the LGBTQ+ community myself, everybody was flipping out there.

  • Like, "Wow, that's so disrespectful."

  • I'm like, if you're actually listening to it, it's not her trying to be disrespectful.

  • It's her saying, like, "I wish you were gay so that you could spare my pride,

  • so that that would give me some type of reasoning as to why you don't wanna accept my love and everything."

  • ♪ I just kind of wish you were gay

  • Hm. Nice. Yeah, she got some good songs.

  • Her words and the music are trying to make a connection and reach out,

  • it's just a nice, wonderful eclectic blend that makes her uniquely Billie Eilish.

  • So, Billie Eilish is only 17 years old...

  • She's the same age as my daughter,

  • 17. That's crazy.

  • ...and has yet to release a proper studio-length album or a top 10 radio hit.

  • Really? - She's being labeled as a disruptive force in pop music, with LA Times calling her the future of pop music.

  • I don't think it's disruptive.

  • It's just... it's kind of outside of the norm.

  • The only thing that's disruptive, honestly, is that she hasn't come up with an album.

  • She don't (doesn't) have an album, so that either she can't make money or the powers that be can suck the life out of her.

  • This is not necessarily goth or dark or deep.

  • And at the same time, it's not all happy and beautiful and perfect.

  • It's a nice blend of everything in between.

  • It's disruptive in a good way, because it's new.

  • This seems to be focusing a little bit more on the darker side, probably a lot with depression situations.

  • She kind of feels like the new wave of, almost the social media generation of, pop stars,

  • where you don't necessarily need all of these mainstream things to become popular.

  • She's disrupting the platform of a woman in pop music having to be selling sex in order to be successful.

  • That's what she's disrupting, and it's amazing. That's why I really like her.

  • So, Billie's fast rise in the industry has been heavily talked about.

  • From October 2017 to October 2018,

  • Billie went from having over 200,000 followers on Instagram to over 6.3 million followers.

  • Yeah. That's insane.

  • I was following her when she was in the 200s.

  • From October 2018 to the present time, she has doubled her count with over 14 million followers.

  • - That's fantastic. - She's doing something right.

  • To you, as adults, do these type of metrics matter when it comes to listening to an artist?

  • No. She could have 20 followers.

  • Not really. I honestly do tend to listen to a lot of indie music anyway.

  • It matters just from a fascination point of seeing how much somebody can just catch on and blow up.

  • I like to follow them when they only have 50,000 followers,

  • and then, you know, go along on the journey with them, support them, and then see them at two million.

  • They're little reminders that this artist is growing, and they're building a fan base.

  • Billie, possibly more than any other teen celeb before her,

  • has not only grown up with the internet, but has also been a huge fan of some of the biggest online shows.

  • Even now, she's made appearances on digital shows like Hot Ones, Sneaker Shopping with Complex.

  • And even came to the FBE studio to film a video with us last year.

  • I respect her for that. Right on Billie.

  • Keep stopping by FBE family!

  • I love Hot Ones and Sneaker Shopping. I always watch those shows all the time.

  • How do you think growing up around digital media and being a fan of online content benefits her as an artist?

  • Hugely, because that's just where our whole world is right now.

  • When the times change, you have to learn how to change with the time.

  • Social media kind of benefits everyone in the creative field.

  • It's like a crash test with every single project you have, because you get instant feedback from everybody in the comments.

  • If you just have a song playing on the radio, you don't really hear the audience.

  • You don't know what they're saying about it.

  • You don't know what they like. You don't know what they want.

  • Older artists, they're like... the internet?

  • Why would I ever wanna promote my new album on the internet?

  • But these artists get it. They know.

  • They're like, Dude, why would I ever promote my album on television?

  • Growing up, do you remember any similar pop stars that had comparable rise and appeal like this,

  • where the sound wasn't the typical pop sound,

  • but also had a very different and out there vibe that connected to people on another level?

  • Being honest, I wanna say no.

  • Avril Lavigne? From when I was growing up, 'cause that's what I used to listen to. She was "The Punk Chick."

  • Fiona Apple. Honestly, she had a really kind of grown up sound, and she was kinda poetic.

  • Who comes to mind is Fiona Apple.

  • She ended up on MTV, and she got to the right place, and she met the right peopleat the right time so that we could all learn about her music.

  • So finally, Billie is set to release her debut album, titled,

  • After listening to some of her music today and knowing a little bit more about her, do you think you'll be checking it out?

  • - Definitely. - Oh my god. Of course.

  • Hell yeah. It's gonna be so good!

  • Yeah. Probably because it'll be on the radio--all over the radio.

  • Definitely. I won't be looking at any of the visuals, though.

  • Definitely. I think this was a very nice vibe. I wanna hear where it's going.

  • I definitely wanna check it out. I love hearing something new.

  • Yes. I mean, I've already listened to her major hits.

  • Talking about it now has got me really excited to see what she has coming.

  • 100%. She's a genuinely sweet, artistic young woman.

  • Her music makes me think about being a teenager again and what I loved about music.

  • Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.

  • And shoutout to David 482 and Kay Em.

  • What other artist should we react to next? Let us know in the comments.

- So sad. Ah. - Wow, it's a trippy video.

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