Billie Eilish and Her Ambient Hopelessness Go to No. 1 with “Bad Guy”
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The seventeen-year-old is one of the first pop stars of a new epoch, in which the oft-repeated challenge of staying alive can only be counterbalanced by an interest in the absurd.
Amanda Petrusich writes about the singer and songwriter Billie Eilish, whose song “Bad Guy” has toppled Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” from the top of the Billboard chart.
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