Normally I avoid reviewing songs that are going to chart on the ARIA Singles chart for New Music Friday Review so mostly to avoid becoming repetitive and the big songs that chart get reviewed anyway but I realized while listening to "Your Power" by Billie Eilish that the paragraph I afford a new song entering the chart during the ARIA singles top ten/chart review blog was not going to be enough given how dark the themes and ideas of the song are and I wanted to give the song it's full due.
Gtanted, Billie Eilish's lyrics always require a lot of deeper thought and there's always a lot of depth to the subtext of many of the songs she has written especially on the debut album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" and that felt like the case with the darker songs she has released for this upcoming album entitled "Happier Than Ever" beforehand with the Bond theme "No Time to Die" and "Therefore I Am" so what did we get with "Your Power"?
Well, we might have gotten one of the most appropriate songs this year in line with all the talk around consent and domestic violence in Australia with Eilish asking people in positions of power over others not to abuse that position or status and even to a degree points how so many people who gain great power tend to abuse that position be it politicians or somebody placed in a position of trust within a relationship or family dynamic.
As always the lyrics from Eilish are pointed and she finds a way to share her own personal experience of an abuse of power following the end of her relationship with an adult when she was underage but Eilish is clever enough to ensure that everybody can connect to the song especially in a world where it feels like abuses of power are becoming more and more common just not in the political world but in our communities with the cases of domestic violence and sexual assault. Eilish is triggering that need for reflection and how we as human beings can get better to recognise that with power over others comes responsibility and for somebody like Eilish to recognise that is something special.
As for the music itself, it's a restrained acoustic guitar and just Eilish's vocals which again make the the song even more powerful and give the message Eilish is conveying more power. This might be one of my favourite likely hits this year so far and it might just be one of the more important songs that Billie Eilish will ever release.
No comments:
Post a Comment