FEATURE:
Groovelines
Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
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BECAUSE Billie Eilish is headlining Glastonbury…
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very soon, I wanted to use this opportunity to focus on one of her songs for Groovelines. From her debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, all the good girls go to hell is a truly terrific song. A remarkable debut from the Californian artist, it was remarkable to hear her come through in 2019. As the album has not long celebrated its third anniversary (back in March), this Groovelines is about one of the best cuts from her debut. Last year’s Happier Than Ever was another tremendous album from Eilish - and, if anything, stronger than her debut. One reason why I love all the good girls go to hell is because it is a clear highlight from WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?. The track was written by Eilish and her brother, Finneas O'Connell; O’Connell produced the song. Released as the sixth single from the album, all the good girls go to hell is a song that looks at climate change and take the point-of-view of the Devil and God. They antagonise the human race for destroying the earth. Before coming to some critical reaction to all the good girls go to hell, Seventeen took a look at the song’s remarkable and hugely memorable video:
“Billie Eilish's new video for "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is her creepiest one yet, and that's saying a lot. The vid is Billie at her finest: crooning to a great beat, slinking around, and attempting to change the world all at once.
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While at first, the concept seems like a random, hellish landscape that came to Billie and exemplified the lyrics of the song, but there's actually a lot more to it. It's part of a bigger message about climate change, timed with the UN's 2019 Global Action Summit, which will take place later this month. Billie's music video alludes heavily to climate change in an extremely simplistic and artistic way.
While in the beginning, Billie is a creature with beautiful white wings, she quickly becomes covered in oil, a phenomenon that, unfortunately, affects many animals living in oil-contaminated areas. You see how the oil affects Billie, slowing her down and inhibiting her abilities. Meanwhile, the world is burning around her, most likely signifying global warming and the burning of the Amazon rainforest.
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Of course, filming this video wasn't easy. The stylist on the video revealed in an Instagram post that Billie "suffered greatly for this beauty, hanging off a crane and dragging 25 foot long wings saturated in black slime weighing much more than her in agonizingly long takes." She also added that Billie envisioned the concept and put in the effort to fully realize it.
"Right now there are millions of people all over the world begging our leaders for attention," she wrote. "Our earth is warming up at an unprecedented rate, ice caps are melting, our oceans are rising, our wildlife is being poisoned and our forests are burning." She also shared info about the UN Climate Action Summit, as well as two strikes that will occur on September 20th and September 27th, when "millions of us will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels," according to the Global Climate Strike's website. You can learn more about their initiative here”.
I am going to finish off with some reaction to a remarkable song from Billie Eilish. One of the finest artists of her generation, it is exciting thinking how far she can go! She has just headlined Coachella, and she will do the same at Glastonbury in the summer. From her exceptional debut album, all the good girls go to hell received praise from critics:
“All the Good Girls Go to Hell" has received mainly positive reviews from music critics. Madeline Roth of MTV described the song as a "jaunty, stuttering gem". Jon Pareles from The New York Times viewed the song as a "mocking, music-hall" track. Kenneth Womack of Salon magazine labeled the track as "playful". Christopher Thiessen from Consequence of Sound named "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" one of the essential tracks on When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and called it a "banger". Roisin O'Connor, in his review for The Independent, had negative thoughts for the album's first four tracks, saying it "takes until track five – 'All the Good Girls Go to Hell' – for the album to gather any kind of momentum". In Clash, Yasmin Cowan described the song's title as "misleading" and "genius". musicOMH writer John Murphy stated that Eilish's track "Xanny" has an "appropriately narcotic haze [that] makes you yearn for the party anthems like 'All The Good Girls Go To Hell'". In 2020, The New York Times listed the song in their top 10 list of songs about climate change.
Writing for NME, Thomas Smith commended the song's chorus, saying it proves to be a "sparkling gem with jaunty piano and stuttering beats". David Opie of Highsnobiety wrote that "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is "full of subversive lyrics that slither across the beat". Sean Ward, for The Line of Best Fit, compared the song to the Spice Girls "Say You'll Be There" (1996), and interpreted it as being a "haunted" version of the latter. He further noted Eilish's distorted vocals "whispering the ungodly hook of 'my Lucifer is lonely'" and that she "flips so effortlessly between religious metaphor and relationship disputes, using the two to enhance the track's overall narrative".
Insider's Libby Torres described it as an "absolute gem", saying that "Eilish's invitation to come and join her and her friends in hell sounds pretty damn appealing". Jules LeFevre, writing Junkee magazine, placed the song at number 16 on her Every Billie Eilish Song Ranked From Worst To Best list, saying the "dark Christian imagery fits Eilish's aesthetic like a black glove" while commenting that the song is "let down slightly by the lack of differentiation in rhythm and melody", leaving you "hoping that something would lift it off the ground, but it never happens".
A tremendous song that has an important message and boasts a video that is hard to forget, all the good girls go to hell is one of the many gems from Billie Eilish’s 2019 debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?. An artist who is going to go down as one of the all-time greats, the twenty-year-old goes from strength to strength. The music world is so…
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