*sings - wait*
Something like that, right? Yo, what is good Tristans and TristFam. So today we have got Billie Eilish (the best person ever ).
She's dropped a new song which is actually an old song, but it's a new song.
It's a song that she wrote a long time ago, but she's releasing it. Anyway, it's called "Wish you were gay" and
just to quickly clarify because I know if I don't clarify this, even though it's not necessarily my place to clarify this,
I know it's gonna be in the comments. Billie Eilish is straight. This is from her mouth,
but the meaning of this song is that-- I looked this up because I was curious and I-I
needed to be sure I had some background information on this.
The meaning of the song before I even get into it is that she's in love with
somebody but that person doesn't love her back,
and she wishes that person were gay so that she would have a reason as to why they didn't love her back.
You know what I'm saying? That's the meaning of this song. I know if I don't clarify this that's the number one comment
I'm gonna get "bILliE EiLisH IS GaY".
Billie Eilish is straight. The song is about something else,
but anyway, before we jump into this be sure to check me out on Instagram and Twitter.
Oh, and actually like I said, she wrote the song a while ago and she actually showed it on her Instagram
We're gonna take a look at that after we listen to the produced version. Let's go!
Super ----Very different from a lot of the stuff she's been doing recently because there's no electronic in this so far.
It's just an acoustic guitar and her voice.
Super raw broken down.
So, the acoustic guitar originally was just doing a *chord end chord end*
and now it's giving you a little bit more in
that there's like a strumming pattern here. That's upbeat. So now it's giving you a little bit more of the feel of the song.
It's really interesting how it brought in almost like a dubstep element into this song,
that's really interesting like the production on this is really cool...
like going from acoustic guitar into dubstep like
it's very interesting
and so if y'all have watched any of my other videos on Billie Eilish.
She's doing basically the same thing that she always does, she sings super quietly and super breathily
of course, there's a lot more to it than that. It's not just that simple,
but in terms of what she's doing vocally there's nothing really particularly new to comment down on so far.
That's so nice.
Love it
So actually some interesting things that she's doing with her voice here is that she is-- so like I just said the pallet that she
works with is it's not like she has a  *bshHHSbsh*  I don't mean this in a rude way
But it's not like she uses a giant pallet of different sounds. Uhm in the way other artists do it,
and that's part of what makes her unique.
So what is very difficult about this, by the way, is using this small pallet of sounds --breathy quiet
generally speaking-- and
making it
interesting
And that's one thing that I've noticed about her and that she's able to consistently do
so take a listen to all the different tambors and emotions and feeling she's able to put just using these two colours.
You can even think of it in terms like an artist, some artists have--- use all the colours.
Some artists only use a portion of the colours. Billie Eilish is only using two colors here,
but she's still able to paint a whole interesting picture.
So here is kind of--- she's a little bit more intense into it.
*sings - all you do is*
She is like attacking some of those consonants to give it a little bit of a sense of urgency,
but she can also release from it.
She releases.
Even on little words like *sings - I can tell you* like she,
holds on to her voice a little bit and then she lets go of it because it's the feeling of the song, I suppose is
you have this like feeling and you have to constantly like let go of it, and
hold on to it and then let go of it and I feel like that's a lot of what's happening with her vocally in here.
Releases holds.
Oh wait no actually, right there--- and right there is a release.
*sings - I just* she releases that note.
Holds it .
There we go.
Back to released.
And now that we have a feeling of what the vibe and the emotion of the song is, by the way the production has
changed from just like a sparse guitar. So now we have a beat behind it,
and we also have the strumming pattern.
So we know that the field-- we know the feeling of the song, we don't need it to build anywhere. We're ready here.
Now just got to keep us interested to the end.
Just want to take a listen to the bridge really quick and then we're gonna jump into her singing the song live.
Again with the hold and the release in her voice.
Holding it, releases it.
Super holding it, in that part what I call this, almost guys is-- I call this, some people don't like this term
But I like this term, I call it soft belting and that she's still relatively soft and she's still relatively breathy
but it gives you a
feeling like she's belting because it's almost like, here's I like to describe this if anyone's trying to learn how to do a similar song.
I describe this as if you're telling your friend a story about a time that you were yelling.
So what you would say is "yeah, I said to him" I you know...
I saw my friend across the street and I went "hey come over here" like you're pretending to yell.
But you're doing it quietly. You see I mean and that's kind of what she's doing here.
*sings -  but you make me feel* it's like I said to him, "but you make me feel" like you're explaining.
You know what I'm saying, right? So it's like almost like a soft belt.
And remember how I said at the beginning that she wasn't doing anything differently that I haven't heard before.
I haven't heard her do this before to be completely honest with you.
I have not her to do this before that isn't to say that she hasn't done it but,
recently and a lot of her more recent music. I haven't heard her do this type of thing, which is really cool.
I love hearing her artists do something new.
Back into the sparse guitar just for the last level section here.
Okay.
Interesting, very different from a lot of the music that I've heard her put out recently.
But that being said let's jump into how this sounded broken down like originally.
Almost exactly the same as the recording at the beginning here.
Really beautiful runs and vibrato there, by the way, if you really really want to break this down...
*sings - slipped away" she hits that note the vibrato and she goes into a nice little run here.
*sings - away*
Something like that right? It's an interesting way of doing things generally.
You don't have a vibrato into a run like that,
but it sounds super nice and it gives you-- it's tasty because you don't expect it.
I don't know if she does it in the recording or not.
Do you see what I mean by the soft belting thing almost like she's telling her friend a story,
about a time that she was calling out.
Sounding- her pitch is amazing as well. She doesn't sing off pitch.
She's definitely singing it much different in the original version that she does in the produce version.
She's definitely giving it a little bit more in the produced version which makes sense because you have a lot of like
instrumentation behind you to compete with vocally and you want to like give it the extra oomph,
but it's super cool hearing it in both contexts here.
It wouldn't make sense for her to do like super more intense soft belting.
With a soft guitar like this, wouldn't be appropriate.
She doesn't sing off pitch it's kind it's so crazy.
That's the hardest thing about her vocal style.
For the vast majority of students that I work with is pitch cuz it's so difficult to sing on pitch with the amount of breathiness that she has,
It just is.
One thing--- one way that she gets around that however is by singing quietly,
If you sing too loudly with too much breathiness
It came very quickly "whooo" get too much. It get very difficult to stay on pitch.
So she watches her volume and when she wants to get louder she loses the breathiness.
Which you can hear in this produced recording as she gets louder she loses the breathiness
There's no breathiness there, it's just kind of like an intense *sings - wish you gay* Uhhm,
It's kind of weird to sing that.
But it's kind of like an intense, intense bellyache behind it as opposed to um breathiness
But anyway, hopefully I was helpful if you like this video and it helped you out.
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