some completely random takes on stuff

I wrote some thoughts out, and I haven’t had time to fully develop the arguments but perhaps putting these here will allow me to come back to them in the future when I have more time on my hands. So, with that, here are some random thoughts about time travel and how Billie Eilish and Kanye West connect.

At this point in time, I’m taking the assumption that everyone in my sphere of influence(which is quite small) has heard of time travel. Perhaps you have watched movies that deal with the concept, or perhaps you have read books that encounter the complexities surrounding the system of thought brings up. But in all of these situations, within books or movies, it’s interpreted to be “science-fiction.” And for good measure. It seems as if the concept of time travel is so outside of anything someone could actually solve, but then again, people thought that about flying to the moon; or in a simpler space, language translators on the go, in our pockets. See, science fiction is essentially the avenue for dreamers to encounter ideas and test them in a theoretical space where there are no rules, because we set the rules. There are no boundaries or systems of scientific enquiry, perhaps that's the beauty in it. Our ideas are not limited by the systems that we set up in our real world. And that’s why, for my hot take of the day, time-travel will happen eventually. 

It might seem too optimistic to believe something as theoretical as time travel to actually become part of our reality, but I think that’s the perfect place to start. If our current scientific world can carry us to Mars. What’s to say it couldn’t take us into the future? Maybe there is science that I’m not aware of, but even if there is science that says time travel is impossible, how could they prove this? Maybe this is me showing my ignorance in this field of study, but how can you prove something that doesn’t exist? 

       I’ve always been interested in the idea of how people believe certain things to be true. If our world is malleable in the things we can create, then what’s to say our ideas of the world itself can’t change. 

Here’s a take. Billie Eilish is what happens when a suburban white girl makes Kanye West music. I’ll let that stir for a second. See, when I first realized this it didn’t make that much sense to me in terms of how I could communicate this idea. This thought that one of the most popular pop stars of my generation could be so heavily influenced by Kanye West. And yet, when you really look at why this is, it shouldn’t surprise us at all. 

Take a second to go listen to Happier Than Ever, the full version, by Billie Eilish. And then go listen to a song like Ghost Town by Kanye West; if you have already heard of these songs then the experiment should fly by faster. See, in our clogged musical society, in terms of how much music we consume on a daily basis or a yearly basis as Spotify would like to make the cultural trend every year, the inherent value of a rapper creating a musical theory in which a girl from LA could the turn around and make music that isn’t rap, and yet you still hear the influence. I’ll break it down. 

Billie Eilish has used her voice as an instrument for her entire career. Find me a song in which Kanye doesn’t. I dare you to. And chances are you won’t be able to. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, it’s what led me to even consider this as a possibility. Now, let's think about the feeling of the music. Kanye tries to capture soundscapes within his music. Something most people don’t fully grasp, but he does, clearly. If the music is open enough to allow the listeners words to flow in and out and in and out of the song itself; our feelings and thoughts to be captured by the song itself in every moment of that song, then the feeling he captured is ethereal. It’s impressively simple in how magical the pursuit is. And then, in terms of Billie Eilish, the music she makes is so open that her voice is often the most important instrument she can use. She doesn’t push her voice outside of where it shouldn't go, and yet the music she makes is open for our thoughts to invoke a feeling of purpose within the songs she puts out. 

I understand that the “feeling” words I’m using aren’t going to be some scientific study basis for how Billie Eilish and Kanye West’s music connects. But what I do hope it does is attempt to invoke a simplicity of thought in how the musical world is so intertwined and so open to past ideas that Kanye West’s soundscapes can influence Billie Eilish’s music in such a dramatic way. So, with that, I’ll leave you to go ponder these thoughts, by listening to Billie Eilish and Kanye West back to back. 

Maybe these will lead somewhere eventually. With that, till next time…