hollywood billionaire

Chapter 174 Bellyache
"Well done, Billie."

"Thank you, then introduce in 30 seconds..."

"Next song, 'Bellyache'...Go."

"Thank you so much everyone...thank you so much, guys!"

Prompted by the stage manager in the monitor earphones, Bi Li took the microphone off the microphone stand and walked a few steps forward.

Different from the stage setting of the Philips Stadium in Atlanta, at the BT&T Center in Sunrise City, the stage design team also placed a catwalk with a small depth in front of the original main stage.

Standing at the front of the runway, Bi Li glanced at the auditorium that surrounded her on three sides, thought for a moment, and then asked a question.

"At the scene... did you come to watch the show with your friends?"

"If you are here with a friend, make some noise!"

Following Bi Li's instructions, there was a burst of shouting in the arena.There are parent-child groups and couple groups in the audience, but no matter what type of concert, the most common combination is a few like-minded friends with similar music tastes to meet and watch the performance together.

"very good……"

Hearing the audience's enthusiastic response, Bi Li narrowed her eyes slightly, grinned at the corner of her mouth, and a dangerous evil smile appeared between her cheeks.

"Now, go back in your head and see if there was anything they did that made you want to fix their mistakes..."

“…Because this next song, it’s about serial murders where you ruthlessly kill them and then throw the bodies in the backseat and drive them into the wilderness to bury them.”

"The next song is called 'Bellyache'."

This is the reason why Bili and her management team require at least 30 seconds of introduction time between the first song and the second song on the technical requirements list.

"Bellyache" is a strange dark dance song. The opening introduction of it should also make people feel fear before the first note sounds, so as to breed curiosity.

"What did she just... say?"

"She said the song was... about killing friends?"

The friends who came together in the BT&T venue looked at each other, their hearts filled with OMG, WTH and WTF.

Before they could unfold the letters of these abbreviations, Bi Li's voice sounded again in the array speakers.

"Mind, mind...

Mind, mind..."

Also written by Phineas, the opening method of "Bellyache" is the same as that of "Ocean Eyes". It is a simple Dark Pad laying, and then countless vocals are layered together. The opening chorus on "Ocean Eyes" has a full twelve tracks, and "Bellyache" has fewer, but also ten.

However, the BPM of "Ocean Eyes" is 73, while the BPM of "Bellyache" is 100, that is to say, the latter is at least 37% faster in rhythm than the former, which is why the intro part of "Bellyache" can control Reasons under ten seconds.

From the ninth second, Phineas pressed an endlessly repeating drum loop on his Pad, then took a step forward to the left, gripping the pick tightly with his right hand, on his custom-made Grand A Pacific guitar brushes softly over the sky. The chord progression of C-Am-Em-C can be played even by beginners who have just picked up the guitar for two or three days, and this just perfectly reflects Phineas's musical philosophy.

The epee has no sharp edge, and it does not work well.

The thrill of music does not lie in its complicated and obscene skills.

Guitar, kick drum, just these two kinds of music, without any other fancy things, the leisure and laziness of driving on the unmanned road is so appropriately displayed.

The elder brother has already arranged the crime tools and the crime scene. Next, it is up to the younger sister in bright yellow windbreaker and overalls to show up and slaughter all sides.

Billie-Eilish seems to be born for this kind of playful, weird, cult and popular music. Her posture and expression are more relaxed and domineering than when she sang "Ocean Eyes" .

It's like the insane murderer in the lyrics is really her.

"Alone in the driver's seat,

chewing gum casually,
Speeding on a deserted trail.

My friends are not far away,
in the back of the car,

The corpses were scattered all over the place. "

"My God..." No. [-] in the third row, with freckles all over her face, the brown-haired girl who looked about the same age as Bi Li covered her mouth. Leslie Van Houten's admiration for Charles Manson.

Have you seen the little devil's version of Billie Eilish?
Xia Sanbai's eyes were half-opened and half-closed, as if he had just put a hallucinogen on the coating of his tongue, and he seemed to be a little sleepy because he had consumed too much energy in killing people.She was not tall, squatting halfway on the stage in the most comfortable posture, raised her chin slightly, and looked at the auditorium, as if Dr. Hannibal was looking at a patient lying on his operating bed.

What can release the most fatal attraction is that the evil spirit in Bi Li's body does not show any trace of deliberate play at all.She is like a piece of jade in the rough... no, the devil's horn.

It felt as if evil wasn't her choice, it was in her genes.

Killing you may not be because she has anger and resentment in her heart.Maybe it's just a very boring afternoon and I just want to find something exciting to do.

What does it matter to you to take your life away?
This kind of sound sounds very secondary, but if it fits Bili's temperament very well, it really doesn't feel inconsistent when placed on her body.

How attractive is a girl like this to her peers?

What girl doesn't want a friend like an avenging angel who is always by her side?

Those crazy things, dark things, bloody things, things that would be judged as crazy once said, can be done by her.

"I can't feel rational anymore,
Where has my mind gone? "

"My captors are coming soon,

They're supposed to turn my room upside down,
For that poor bounty. "

"She's... psycho."

Chris Comstack's assessment came off the tongue, but then he added a side note.

"In a good way."

"The children of this era need a little lunatic like Bi Li to speak their minds."

Han Yi shrugged and smiled noncommittally.

"In an increasingly distorted society, more and more authentic idols are needed. Using this satirical method... the word "criticism" is too heavy. It should be said..."

"Poke the pressure like a needle sticks a balloon."

"Brilliant metaphor, Chris, I love it."

Han Yi raised his eyebrows, admiring Marshmallow's ability to outline language and his precise grasp of popular culture and mainstream society.

That’s right, the United States that is going after the 2010s needs a sharp needle to deflate the balloons called contradictions, conflicts and hatred that almost fill up the whole room.

After the Columbine massacre on April 1999, 4, gun violence, school bullying, substance abuse, teenage depression and social marginalization, a series of phenomena that were deliberately ignored in the neoconservative society began to gradually emerge. The water surface attracts the mainstream view.

This is the last moral panic in America, which is about to bid farewell to the twentieth century.

Of course, in this strange society, what moral panic brings is not a clean social atmosphere, but a further decline in the bottom line. The scare of the hippie movement in the 60s made the problem of drug abuse irrepressible. In the 80s, the concern about gangster rap made gangsters represented by NWA become the targets for young people in the United States to emulate.

Entering the [-]s, the intensified psychological problems of teenagers have led to extensive discussions in the American media about whether the millennials and the upcoming Gen Z will become another "lost generation".And along with this kind of discussion, young Americans who have always been bad and bad have found new objects to emulate and vent channels.

Any little dissatisfaction in life can be vented through drugs, sex and violence.

Since the Columbine High School massacre, there have been 386 school shootings across the United States to date, and 35.6 students have been affected by gun violence.Every day, about a dozen teens are the victim of homicide, and 12 are treated in emergency rooms for non-fatal violence.

In other words, violence has become the "go-to solution" for the new generation of Americans to solve problems.

Bullied?Get your guns.

Want to bully someone?Get your guns.

Depressed?Get your guns.

Purely for fun?Get your guns.

In this social environment of continuous high pressure, the emergence of Billie Eilish and her dark music is almost inevitable.In fact, in the middle and late 2010s, a large number of spokespersons for funeral culture and emo music began to become popular rapidly, such as XXXTentacion, Juice WRLD, Lil Peep...

The content of their music is negative, even evil, but no one can deny that through the preset scenes in these musicians' singles-whether it is violence, vendetta, or pure emotional venting-it can Helping their fans and letting go of their negativity without actually committing a crime.

From this perspective, Billie Eilish is not far from the role played by "Grand Theft Auto".

This distorted society where 50 school shootings happen every year needs Billy and "Bellyache".

"I gnaw my nails anxiously,

I don't deserve to be sent to prison at such a young age,

What a funny situation. "

Bi Li raised her left hand high in the air, trying her best, like an unfortunate person who was stuck in a swamp and was calling for help.She wandered aimlessly on the stage, her movements crooked and unable to walk in a straight line, imitating a little girl who was drained of all her strength after a passionate murder, and was gradually pushed into guilt and madness.

"I can't feel rational anymore,
Where has my mind gone?

Consciousness begins to blur,
Is my mind starting to dissipate?
Where has it gone? "

Repeated interrogation several times, after Phineas strummed the strings four times smartly, and the subwoofer came out from the four subwoofers.

"Maybe in the gutter,
I left my lover's body there too,
What a costly fate.

My victories come from free vendettas,

I thought it would be easier to kill me,
But why... the stomach started to hurt? "

Phineas and Billy, in particular, use all seemingly simple musical elements to construct their bizarre melodic world.Taking the chorus of "Bellyache" as an example, the drum set, bass line and sub-bass line produced by Phineas with 808 are all plug-ins that come with Logic.With the slice of Bili's vocals sampled by Phineas and Bili's own lead voice, the entire climax part is concise and full, clear and colorful.

Unlike those "producers" who can spend five or six hours a day buying plug-ins and sample packs, thinking that buying the most expensive tools can make good songs, Phineas knows very well that creativity and inspiration always come from the brain, rather than host software.

Beethoven didn't use Logic Pro and autotune, but did that prevent him from composing the Fifth Symphony?

A real genius can carve flowers with tofu.

The arrangement and orchestration of "Bellyache" fit so perfectly with Billy's singing and lyrics. The audience in the BT&T venue can be naturally brought into Billy and Feeney without having to bother to understand or concentrate on listening. The murder that Yass narrated came from their imaginary world.

A demon girl who commits a heinous murder, wakes up and looks back at the bodies of her friends piled in the back of a car, regrets what she's done, and ends up taking her own life before the police arrive.

Is a madman who regrets being a madman, but doesn't care why he became a madman.

This is the strange story Bi Li wants to tell.

How cool is that?

"All the sins I have committed,
Let me put this rope around my neck,

A necklace that reveals my sin.

I just want to scare them,

I want them to know that I can do anything,

I want them to know that I have nothing to fear. "

Phineas pressed the drum set on the Nord Stage EX keyboard again, and swept the strings. He looked at his sister with a gentle smile in his eyes.

The childish kid who had been cheering on a perfectly scooped guacamole before he took the stage has become the musical elf who dominates the stage.

A dark elf so unsettling and so fanatical.

"Where's my mind?

Where's my mind?

Maybe it's in the gutter,

Where I left my lover,

What an expensive fate? "

"My V is for Vendetta,

Thought that I'd feel better,

Now I got a bellyache..."

The cheerful drumbeat and desperate lyrics form an absurdity that is almost Italian literary.Childish youth and sinful pain appear simultaneously in Billie Eilish's voice, dance and expression.

Totally psycho, and perfectly pop.

"Okay, I announce that I'm her fan now, what's her name? Billy Glarish?"

On the far right of area 107, a thin, black-haired little boy raised his orchid fingers slightly, and carefully aimed his phone camera at Bili on the stage.

"She's sooooo cool!"

"Wow, hell, I love this drop!" Chris Comstack in the VIP box sighed with similar semantics, "You're right, Yi, I'm 100% going to ask her for a copy The project file of this song, and then make a remix."

"Let's put this matter on the agenda... After the performance, I will let Billy and Phineas go upstairs directly, so you can have a face-to-face conversation."

Although he was talking to Marshmello, Han Yi never took his eyes off Bi Li.

What is the X-factor that superstars are born with?

It doesn't have Whitney Houston's voice, Dua Lipa's figure, and Shania Twain or Belinda Carlisle's looks, but as long as they open their mouths and raise their hands, they can shake the audience The audience is brought to her rhythms and moods.

With his hands folded on his lips, in the frenzied atmosphere of the murderous monster in front of the teenagers who gradually became obsessed with the catwalk, Han Yi quietly enjoyed the hearty and wonderful performance of his first contracted artist, and involuntarily came up in his mind. A piece of music review.

"Bellyache" is still a week away from its official release, but Han Music's publicity team has found more than a dozen music critics working in different media organizations to write their evaluations of this single.

Among them, Purple Sneakers Lloyd Crackett's comments were the most favored by Bi Li, Zhao Youzhen and Han Yi.

"Bili Eilish exudes a cool aura all over her body. It's not the kind of condescending, cooler than you attitude. It's not the kind of indifferent calm and calm. Her cool is a capital C. "

"Bellyache marks the return of Billy's glamorous and melancholy indie-pop, and will thrill anyone with even the slightest taste in music beyond description."

"Music bloggers all over the world are hyping this Los Angeles native as pop's next It Girl. But there's no doubting that Billie Eilish and her weird music The confident attitude marks that she has a broader, brighter and more exciting future than this title."

(End of this chapter)