Shades of Billie Eilish

[Tazziedevil]

Not to get sucked into another Billie Eilish thread, but The Beatles won AOTY in 1968. Frank Sinatra has won AOTY 3 times. Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton have also all won AOTY Grammies.

Does anyone ACTUALLY believe Billie's music will be as enduring as the list above?

 

[LBS-bass]

Not to get sucked into another Billie Eilish thread, but The Beatles won AOTY in 1968. Frank Sinatra has won AOTY 3 times. Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton have also all won AOTY Grammies.

Does anyone ACTUALLY believe Billie's music will be as enduring as the list above?

I don't think there's a whole lot of music being produced right now by mainstream acts that will be enduring in that way, but I could be wrong. There were a lot of people who thought the Beatles were a flash in the pan back in the 60's.

 

[frankie5string]

Not to get sucked into another Billie Eilish thread, but The Beatles won AOTY in 1968. Frank Sinatra has won AOTY 3 times. Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton have also all won AOTY Grammies.

Does anyone ACTUALLY believe Billie's music will be as enduring as the list above?

To the people who listen, sure! I mean, nobody thought NKOtB would endure, but apparently it was enough for them to have a bit of a comeback tour recently. There are people out there from that era who still know all the words.

It happens with every generation. A later generation makes music, and an earlier generation flubs it off as a flash in the pan. Then, all of a sudden, that flash in the pan is playing on an "oldies" station and so on and so on...

 

[fhm555]

I'm happy to say I know from whence that line came without even looking it up.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I got a gal in Kalamazoo...

Looks like Lou Costello on bass and the lead male singer looks like Lurch from The Addams Family:

When my dad got out of the Army our next door neighbors were a retired Army Colonel and his big band singer wife. It was your typical war time love story, he was a farm boy from Nebraska and she was the daughter of a husband and wife Vaudeville act from Chicago. He saw her at a USO show and it was apparently love at first sight. They married a couple days before he left for the Pacific and spent their remaining years together once he came back. They were golfing buddies with my folks and would come over for dinner or drinks after a round of golf and my dad would play the piano and she would sing. I believe angelic is a throughly overused description of a singing voice but hers was the exception that proved the rule.

 

[Michedelic]

Wow...relax there. Yes, I know he was a big fan of music from the 20s/30s/40s.
Paul was born about 3 years after my dad. So yes, I didn't say he was a boomer, but he definitely took a light-hearted jab at the elderlies in that song.

Relax? I'm totally chill, I have a drink in my hand and my toes in the sand, but you have failed to comprehend my comments; yes there were a few, but that's what one does when trying to make a point, you cite examples, back it up. Not just make a statement, and instantly it is so. There are a handful of Beatles songs that could be taken as social commentary and possibly a burn, but not age-specific, like "Nowhere Man" or "Piggies", and on "Revolution" John even throws shade on his his contemporaries who were so into 'the little red book', calling out Mao Zedong as not someone to idolize. But I curious why you're so intent to perpetuate the myth that "YMSM" is a generational put-down song. As per the author, and as I mentioned earlier, it's not...

Paul McCartney explained the origin of this song's lyrics, "I've always hated generation gaps. I always feel sorry for a parent or a child that doesn't understand each other," and then added, "So I was advocating peace between the generations. In 'Your Mother Should Know' I was basically trying to say your mother might know more than you think she does. Give her credit."