Billie Eilish Genre It’s quite difficult to define Billie Eilish’s genre as she has a very unique style and it’s hard to categorise this, but it’s a defining feature that her audience loves. Wikipedia slots her music into 3 different genres, being Pop, Electropop and Dark Pop.
Fitting into a genre Republic World on how Billie Eilish’s music shows that she doesn’t conform to a single genre.
Eilish on genre Express
Pop Pop music is a genre of popular music which typically dominates music charts. It’s main identifying factors are repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium length songs which has a basic written pattern and has rhymes or tempos that can be easily danced to. The pop genre’s target audience are usually teenagers. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes which often include love and romantic relationships.
Electropop Electropop is a music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. This is typically characterised by a distinctive low frequency synthesiser sound which might variously be described as crisp, crunchy, crackly, fuzzy, warm, distorted or dirty. It first emerged in the 1970s via artists such as Telex, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Yello but only achieved significant mass market popularity during the 2000s.
Dark Pop Dark pop is a new kind of sub-genre to pop music that is more twisted and aggressive than regular upbeat pop music. The music usually conveys darker and somber lyrics but still incorporate the rhythm and beat of pop music. A lot of people believe that dark pop isn’t an actual genre and that the term should be retired.
bad guy (2019) b ad guy is Billie Eilish’s most successful song reaching number 1 in the US, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK. This is a perfect example of not exactly conforming to a specific genre. Wikipedia suggests that bad guy is Electropop, Dance-pop, Pop-trap and Nu-goth pop whereas other sources place it in the Trap genre.
Ocean Eyes (2016) Ocean Eyes was Billie’s first hit, throwing her into the spotlight at the age of 14. The genre and style of this song contrasts bad guy massively. Wikipedia places Ocean Eyes into the genres of Pop, Dream Pop, Synth-Pop, R&B and Indie Pop.
all the good girls go to hell ( 2019) We will be using the song all the good girls go to hell for our music video. The genre of this song is Pop according to Wikipedia but I think it also includes Dark Pop aspects to it with the lyrics including darker themes such as death and Hell. The music video visually signifies the darkness in the song with very low lighting which is mainly lit by flames and fire.
Artists like Eilish I personally don’t agree that she is similar to artists like Selena Gomez, but I think researching these artists could help us with inspiration for our music video. AllMusic