TIA: On April 17th Billie Eilish dropped the haunting new visual for “you should see me in a crown."
from her debut studio album, ‘WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?’
Her fans online had a lot to say about it so we took to the streets to see what people thought.
TIA: Have you all heard of Billie Eilish?
PERSON: Yes.
PERSON: I mean, I’ve heard of her but I don’t know her music.
PERSON: Hell yeah.
TIA: Do you like her?
PERSON: Hell yeah.
PERSON: I mean, I seen her for like, I heard about her two days now she’s on the Billboard,
YouTube Music all this.
TIA: Big fans?
PERSON: Yeah, pretty big fans.
PERSON: Yeah I think so I’m very inspired by her.
PERSON: Not that big of a fan anymore.
PERSON: I have not heard her so I’m coming in with a clean slate.
TIA: What do you think of the music video?
PERSON: I think it’s very unique, very different from most of the other ones in American pop culture.
PERSON: Her visuals are fuckin’ dope.
PERSON: Okay so we’re in some sort of dystopic cyberpunk world.
PERSON: The flowers, the flowers are cute.
PERSON: What the fuck?
What the fuck is this?
TIA: Got a slight head bob over here.
PERSON: Yeah that’s pretty cool.
PERSON: It started off like Ben 10 and then it got into some real demonic shit.
PERSON: Oh that look like some Spider-Man shit, bruh.
Oh my goodness.
What was that?
PERSON: The music, the background, I don’t know about the video but I like the music
and the background makes me wanna kind of move to it.
PERSON: What’s the song called again?
TIA: You should see me in a crown.
PERSON: What crown?!
TIA: You look like you just saw a ghost.
PERSON: Yeah I’m shook.
PERSON: I’m sure she’s going for like a shock, creepy effect for the masses?
PERSON: It’s creepy.
A lot of people have arachnophobia so to do that is just controversial.
PERSON: I really liked the part when the monster started showing its teeth.
Because I think that’s very symbolic.
PERSON: Was that all her direction?
Was she like, this spider needs to break apart and then vomit and then the vomit kills the
townspeople…
PERSON: Beyoncé spoiled us.
PERSON: It’s very cheery to have flowers in such a dark music video but it’s very like
her to do some shit like that.
PERSON: What’s that one band that has animation incorporated?
TIA: Gorillaz?
PERSON: I think it kinda has like the Gorillaz vibe.
TIA: The guy who did the illustration for this also did Kanye’s ‘Graduation’ album cover.
Takashi Murakami.
PERSON: I follow both these artists and I love the fact that they collaborated.
TIA: And I think they have like a merch collaboration too.
TIA: You guys gonna cop?
PERSON: Yes.
Definitely.
PERSON: What I like about the images they don’t need to like mean anything.
You don’t need to be able to say what they mean to feel it.
You can just let the images stand for themselves.
PERSON: I think I prefer the one, the live action of her with the spiders.
TIA: Why?
PERSON: I like spiders.
PERSON: She uses her art to really express her, I don’t know, she doesn’t seem sad
but she has this sort of like enigma to her I don’t know.
PERSON: I really liked that video.
That video was awesome.
The song was alright.
TIA: Just alright?
PERSON: It was alright.
PERSON: She’s very young and she’s trying to make it and I can see how she could be
full of emotion and trying to express them.
There’s not many ways she can do that and this helps her.
PERSON: I listen to it a lot recently when I paint.
PERSON: I’m confused by it but I’m not opposed to it.
PERSON: It was bad for me.
For me I would give it a thumbs down because it’s not my taste.
But for everybody else thumbs up if you’re into that.
TIA: You gonna listen to her now?
PERSON: Yeah!
PERSON: Definitely captivated by her sound.
Don’t know what it is about it but it’s on repeat.
TIA: What’d you think of Billie’s newest visual?
Let us know in the comments below.
I’m Tia with Genius News bringing you the meaning and the knowledge behind the music.
TIA: What’d you think of the animation?
DOG: *silent* PERSON: He said there’s not enough dogs
in there.
TIA: Oh my gosh that is SO cute!