It's hard not to view Billie Eilish’s remarks about hip-hop through the prism of the long history of white people turning their noses up at rap. CraigSJ writes
Strange and often terrible things happen when the music industry anoints new royalty. Photo: Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic Backlash, as a very abrupt kind of motion, is governed by the laws of Sir Isaac Newton. Action begets reaction in equal measure. The action on Billie Eilish has been intense this year. She swept all the major categories at the Grammys last week on the strength of her debut When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? and its meteoric single “Bad Guy.
“There’s a difference between lying in a song and writing a story,” Eilish said in the profile. “There are tons of songs where people are just lying. There’s a lot of that in rap right now, from people that I know who rap.” She’s not entirely wrong; a good grip of rap’s bombast is posturing. It’s a grievance that’s existed as long as the music has. Historically, it has come as an insult from people trying to write hip-hop culture off as vulgar, sexist, materialistic, and bloodthirsty.
Pop music demands a certain image, too. You must be gracious. You must be woke. The scrutiny Billie Eilish has seen as her public profile rises is just the audience running the normal checks. If you’re going to take up prime real estate at the Grammys, the Oscars, and the like, you better have your shit together.
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