With BadGuy, billieeilish was repping a new school of teenaged hitmakers: synthesizing an endless scroll of sounds, seamlessly embedded in the discourse of their fans. Below, read all about how the song helped shape the music and culture of the 2010s
that we feel most define the decade that was -- the songs that both shaped and reflected the music and culture of the period -- with help telling their stories from some of the artists, behind-the-scenes collaborators and industry insiders involved. unseated the longest-reigning No. 1 song in Billboard Hot 100 history, she was out on tour in Switzerland, of all places.
Indeed. Ever since Eilish broke through with the sleeper-pop hit “Ocean Eyes” in 2016, a great deal of philosophizing has been done over the reigning King of the Teens -- and since earlier in 2019, over her skeletal, bass-driven bop that oozes to an unexpected finale about 70 bpm slower than the rest of the song.
“It’s a weird thing to hear coming out of a girl’s mouth,” Eilish explains. “A bad guy and a bad girl are so different. In any movie or children’s book, there’s always a bad guy. Even if it’s a girl, the title is the bad guy. I wanna be that.” During the rule of “Old Town Road,” “Bad Guy” spent nine weeks at No. 2 with Eilish’s team pulling out all the stops to clear the final hurdle -- the biggest flex,featuring a guest verse from Eilish’s tweenage idol, Justin Bieber. But this apparent outsider weirdo didn’t need Bieber’s seal of approval; by the time “Bad Guy” got to No. 1 five weeks later, the remix had clearly been more of a footnote than a decisive factor. Left-of-center was center stage.
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