Billie Eilish is such a cool cucumber, in addition to being an incredibly talented song writer singer, one of the largest pop stars of our time, and an amazing performer. Oh and the number one The Office fan. All at the age of 19.
The documentary -- it's on hbo plus I think -- is an attempt at explaining how and why she is the way she is. It delves into her personal life, how closely her parents and brother are involved in her career, what a solidly down-to-earth middle class her family is to ground her into normalcy no matter what else is happening in her career. How her recordings don't happen in a gaggle of recording execs but in her brother's living room, and are produced in somebody's living room, using mobile equipment. All of which produce songs each making millions of dollars.
It's amazing documentary, I loved it, even though it's possible it may have strategically edited out certain aspects of her personal life to give an angle that's well-suited to the public persona she tries to project -- since it was co-produced by her personal label.
At an hour long, maybe hour-twenty, it'd have been an amazing story, I'd be raving about it for weeks to people. But even the best guests can sometimes overstay, and this one overstays by quite a bit. The documentary about Billie Eilish I mean. It goes on for two hours and fifteen minutes, and by then it's long out of anything new or interesting to say. The viewers have zoned out by then.
Feel free to skip around or fast-forward 1.20 onwards into the documentary. There's not much to add after that.
A great documentary that was undone my loose editing.
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