{"id":291650,"date":"2020-04-29T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1146175"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:27:55","slug":"why-finneas-wants-fans-to-stop-looking-for-the-next-billie-eilish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-finneas-wants-fans-to-stop-looking-for-the-next-billie-eilish\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Finneas Wants Fans to Stop Looking for “The Next” Billie Eilish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Billie Eilish<\/a><\/strong>‘s big brother and super-producer Finneas O’Connell<\/strong> can’t tell you who’ll be the next Billie Eilish. That’s because he says there won’t be one at all.<\/p>\n

On a new episode of Apple Music’s Beats 1 alternative music show ‘ALT CTRL<\/a>,’ host Hanuman Welch<\/strong> asked O’Connell who he thinks will be “the next Billie Eilish.” And the musician told him how he really<\/em> felt\u2014explaining that he finds the question itself to be creatively troublesome.<\/p>\n

“The only version of that question that I can get behind, is, ‘Who is the next person that will do exactly what they want and be deemed pop music?'” O’Connell explained. “That verbiage I would understand, but to me it does a disservice to two things. It does a huge disservice to Billie, in that you could be a next Billie. It also does a huge disservice to anyone they claim Billie is the next version, you know what I mean? It does a huge disservice to Lorde<\/a><\/strong>. It does a huge disservice to Lana <\/strong>[Del Rey<\/strong>].”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued: “It’s not cyclical in that way. Billie was nominated for Album Of The Year, the same year Lana was. It’s not like you pass the torch and then you just retire.”<\/p>\n

In 2020, Eilish and O’Connell took home five Grammys<\/a> each for their work together.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing,” he said. “That was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing. And I think Lorde did the same thing. I think Lana has done the same thing. They’ve both been influences of ours.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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O’Connell also tipped his hat to another one-of-a-kind performer, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet?'” O’Connell asked. “It’s like, he’s currently Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet!”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Billie Eilish‘s big brother and super-producer Finneas O’Connell can’t tell you who’ll be the next Billie Eilish. That’s because he says there won’t be one at all. On a new episode of Apple Music’s Beats 1 alternative music show ‘ALT CTRL,’ host Hanuman Welch asked O’Connell who he thinks will be “the next Billie Eilish.” And the musician told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-21 14:05:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}