Friday, December 13, 2019

Billie Eillish is Famous for a While

 Billie Eillish, fresh from a five minute controversy about Van Halen showed up with two scarecrows to collect her "Woman of the Year" award from the "Billboard Women in Music" event, while dressed like someone with severe, deep seated emotional problems and teenaged self esteem issues. Woman of the Year? Seriously? Did they run out of women? Because while I don't know much about Billboard's selection process, I feel like they could have picked someone better. On the other hand, there may not have been someone better, which is even more horrifying.

 To be fair she's 17 years old (which I was unaware of when her whole Van Halen thing happened) so I give her a pretty sweeping pass on everything. Have you ever really talked to a 17 year old? They're pretty dumb. Seriously, their central nervous system is literally still developing. She can't even legally buy cigarettes. 17 year olds know almost nothing about anything. Technically she's still a child, in the eyes of the law she's the same as a seven year old or 14 year old.  Legally she can't sign any deals with the record company, or for any kind of endorsements, because she's a child and her mom or dad (or other legal guardian) would have to do it, because you can't enter into a contract with a minor essentially because they have no baseline to work from and could be easily scammed. But the most important thing is she really should be using the last 18 - 20 months of her fame with a better stylist, because the current one she has isn't doing their job. Don't even get me started on those shoes.