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Finneas Reveals Unusual Sound Effects Hidden in Billie Eilish's Songs

The producer went on Jimmy Fallon to share the everyday noises he used when producing his sister's album.

Finneas Reveals Everyday Sounds Hidden in "Bury a Friend" and "Bad Guy"

From the eerie and sometimes comical aesthetics of her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? it's evident that Billie Eilish and her producer brother, Finneas O'Connell, have an affinity for offbeat sound effects in the music they make together.

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Billie Ellish performs at Sir Lucian Grainge's 2020 Artist Showcase Presented By Citi and Lenovo on in Los AngelesSir Lucian Grainge's 2020 Artist Showcase Presented By Citi and Lenovo, Los Angeles, USA

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This just in from lunatic Twitter: Billie Eilish is officially canceled.

"Why?" you might ask. After all, Billie Eilish is 17-years-old and not particularly controversial, so why would any sane person want to cancel her on Twitter?

First of all, how dare you. Never question the outrage of a Twitter mob.

Secondly, Billie Eilish literally said the word "Yikes" during an interview in response to the interviewer mentioning Lady Gaga's meat dress. Can you f*cking believe that? Let me repeat that. Billie Eilish––a 17-year-old vegan––said "Yikes" in regards to a person wearing a dress made out of actual animal meat.

So you better believe Lady Gaga stans are putting their cancel pants on. They got #BillieEilishCancelParty trending on Twitter, so that means Billie Eilish is totally, officially, verifiably canceled––at least by a group of crazy people on Twitter who think being vegan is a good reason to try to destroy a 17-year-old girl.

But there's more to the story, because while people on Twitter scream at one another over whether or not Billie Eilish should be canceled (she shouldn't, obviously, jfc), our planet is dying.

According to a recent study that "takes a comprehensive look at all the global climate models published from the 1970s to 2007, including the models used in the first three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change," the climate models for global warming and its detrimental effects have been mostly accurate the entire time.

This means that when experts say that the effects of global warming are compounding––fires, floods, heat waves, the ice caps melting––they're not just talking out their asses. More importantly, when scientists say that our window of opportunity to change the future is growing smaller and smaller, and will require increasingly drastic measures the later we decide to finally implement global change, anyone who is not an actual Bond villain should sit the f*ck down and listen.

"It's more urgent than ever to proceed with mitigation," said Petteri Taalas, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization. "The only solution is to get rid of fossil fuels in power production, industry and transportation."

On top of doing everything in our power to reduce our own carbon footprints, we need to demand that our governments move towards clean energy solutions if we want to even have a chance of leaving a habitable planet behind for our grandchildren. At this point, valuing capitalist interests over the future of our planet and the lives of future generations is akin to genuine evil.

If Donald Trump quits the Paris Climate Agreement, Americans need to put their selfish interests aside and march out in the street en masse to such an extent that everything shuts down until our government complies with the rest of the world.

F*cking birds are getting smaller. Entire species of wildlife are diminishing because we can't get our sh*t under control. Do you honestly think we're going to fare better when the climate irreversibly goes to hell? The only upside is that if humans can't band together and act decisively against climate change, if the whole world really does eventually become uninhabitable due to our own evil interests, then humans will go extinct and we will have definitively proven our species deserved it.

But please, keep Tweeting about how Billie Eilish should be canceled.

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This Haunts Me: Billie Eilish Doesn't Know What Cabbage Patch Kids Are

The "bad guy" singer is pretty out of touch with '80s pop culture, and we feel old.

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Billie Eilish made Grammy history this week, becoming the youngest-ever artist to receive nominations in the top four categories.

We all know by now that the "bad guy" singer is immensely talented. The topic of her age has been thoroughly discussed (she's just shy of 18), but it's still mindblowing to see her youthfulness in new perspectives; she was born in 2001, and during her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, host Kimmel decided to poke fun at her by quizzing her on '80s pop culture references. Spoiler alert: She did not do so well!

"Have you ever played with a Cabbage Patch Kid?" Kimmel asked Eilish, to which she responded: "Like a Sour Patch Kid? Is it a candy?"

"It was a doll," Kimmel explained to a painfully oblivious Eilish. "Your parents would go to the mall and fight other parents for these, and then they brought them home to you, and that was how they proved they loved you."

To be fair, my childhood home was filled with more vintage dolls than average, so maybe my knowledge of Cabbage Patch Kids is an anomaly among young people. But the fact that Eilish was fully unaware of such a ubiquitous toy made me feel, quite frankly, ancient.

But toys weren't the only category in which Eilish showed a lapse in familiarity. She couldn't name a Van Halen, she'd never heard of Huey Lewis (which also implies she hasn't seen Back to the Future), she'd never heard of Run-DMC, and she couldn't complete Mr. T's iconic catchphrase. One of her few redeeming victories is that she knows who Madonna is.

"You're makin' me look so dumb," Eilish told Kimmel. No, Billie, you're making me feel so old, which isn't fair because I was only born in the '90s.

But I do have to give props to Eilish for being one of the most seemingly level-headed teen pop sensations ever to cross my radar; she still lives in her childhood home, her family follows her on tour and events, and she appears to have a mature grasp on navigating her own fame, which is especially impressive considering the overpowering role social media plays in teen virality today. As far as I'm aware, Eilish is a Very Good Kid. But it's incredibly jarring to me that she's become such a critical touchstone in modern pop culture while being entirely incognizant of so many musical precedents that made her career possible. I also get self-conscious being reminded of stars who are much younger than I am but also much more talented, but I guess that's a problem for me and my therapist to discuss.