SOUNDTRACK: BILLIE EILISH-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #71 (August 26, 2020).
There’s so much to say about this Billie Eilish concert.
The biggest artist in the world has just done a Tiny Desk Concert!
Somehow it looks like she’s in the Tiny Desk studio!
Why does she only play two songs?
My daughter and I were supposed to see her back in March and she cancelled her tour about three nights before our show was supposed to happen. What a bummer! Especially because who knew if people would even want to see her again in a year (I’m pretty sure they will). And would her stage show and song style change over that year?
The answer to that seems to be a dramatic yes. Especially if these two songs are anything to go by.
For these two songs Billie embraces her torch song inner child. She has a really lovely voice–delicate and emotional.
These songs are personal and lovely–there’s no “Duhs,” there’s no snark. Compared to what I expected, they were kind of dull, actually. Very pretty, but kind of dull.
These are the two new singles. For “my future” Billie plays keyboards and her “real brother” Finneas plays guitar and sings some backing vocals.
On “everything i wanted” they switch places, with Finneas playing the pretty piano melody and providing a lot of nice backing vocals.
These two songs seem like they would go very nicely in the middle of a set of bangers for a few moments of cool down. I hope when her show is rescheduled that she still brings all the excitement I;d heard her shows typically have.
As for the background…at first I thought it was just a cute idea. But after six months, it was really comforting to have musicians look like they were playing the actual Tiny Desk.
[READ: August 28, 2020] Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
This is the book that started my resurgence into reading Wimpy Kid books. I bought this one for my daughter. This story had me laughing out loud once again.
This book has a lot to do with the Heffley’s house. I don’t know if middle school kids can appreciate jokes about household maintenance, but as an adult I sure can.
The book opens with Greg’s mom wanting to do some cleaning up. That means going through the closet in Greg’s room. He tells us that he basically just throws things into it, so it’s like an archaeological dig.
He starts sifting through things and finds old toys and things to feel sentimental about which is pretty funny. But with all this junk, he decided that rather than throw it out, he should make some money off of it and have a garage sale. Cue: Family Frolic magazine and their “great” ideas for a garage sale. [I love when he makes fun of this magazine].
Greg has labelled his tables in creative ways: “Great gifts for your grandkids”(stuff from his grandparents that he doesn’t want). “Pre-written birthday cards” (with his name white-outed). Mystery socks (which is just a pile of junk for 50 cents) and Rare Items (like an invisibility lotion and a freckle remover (an eraser or soap I guess)). (more…)
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