Billie Eilish: 16 songs, nobody needs that many songs

[Anderson123 36,443]

Happier Than Ever is still a great album from start to finish but I get what she means. If it has “fillers” they’re pretty damn good ones. 

[Lucas 24,964]

It's funny cuz there's a swiftie in the replies complaining about Billie "already releasing extended versions 4 days after album release"... like Taylor isn't the most desesperate obsessed with chart fraud in the industry

[Schizophonic 7,015]

2 hours ago, Scri said:

So I guess the insiders rumoring about another album coming are wrong? Or 16 songs are okay if just split in two albums released one immediately after the other?

On a serious note: it can't be only a matter of number of songs (without considering for example the lenght...). It's like a book: for me writing 500 pages would be too much (I don't have THAT much to say), but if you're Tolkien, c'mon, those are the back cover.

i have the feeling the second album might not different songs but the same songs in a completely different soundscape... and maybe that counts to the sales of the first one and not as seperate...

[StrawberryBlond 14,331]

I think people who have been waiting years for their fave to release an album would disagree with you there. I hate it when artists take extended breaks with no stand-alone singles in between and return with 10 tracks and no bonus content. Only somewhat acceptable if every track is 4/5+ minutes. Or they follow it up a year or so later. And not all long albums boast lots of filler. But understandably, those who make a point of releasing bloated projects every 2 years with a bunch of tracks that should've ended up on the cutting room floor but they just wanted those streaming numbers. And I don't think she's solely talking about Taylor here, I can name at least 5 other singers off the top of my head who make a habit of doing this (it's especially frequent in the rap community).

[GAYHEMikey 7,599]

Depends on the content

I rather have an album of 8-10 good songs than a half assed record that consist of 2 bangers and 20 fillers 

[bionic 46,052]

She's right. Standard album should be 13 songs max. Extended editions 18 max. Miss me with flop remixes as bonus tracks

[Roughhouse Dandy 9,823]

4 hours ago, Red said:

It’s not the number of songs, it’s the quality, you can have an 12 track album with fillers and 20 track albums without fillers

Thank you. If the artist cares enough about their projects, the length doesn't impact the quality. It's wild that people are asking to receive less music from musicians they like. Attention spans have been eviscerated and it's embarrassing. 

Edited May 22, 2024 by Roughhouse Dandy

[Red 95,831]

19 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

 

I think people who have been waiting years for their fave to release an album would disagree with you there.

 

Yeah! If Gaga serves 10 tracks on LG7 I will R I O T. 

[Max 20,945]

4 hours ago, Ororo Munroe said:

HTE definitely had some fillers, but it’s still a very good record idk 

This tea. Nearly the whole middle section is fillers actually 

[SharGaga 2,906]

She's so pretentious I can't. If they're all quality songs who's complaining honestly? If she can't come up with a filler free 16 track album that's on her. Renaissance is a perfect 16 track album. Is this why she's stitching so many songs on this record? 

[Hyperobject 66,771]

10 minutes ago, Max said:

This tea. Nearly the whole middle section is fillers actually 

i hope you didn't mean Halley's Comet by that... 

[StrawberryBlond 14,331]

10 minutes ago, Red said:

Yeah! If Gaga serves 10 tracks on LG7 I will R I O T. 

It has to be relative to how long the artist has been away as far as I'm concerned. Of course, that doesn't mean a decade break requires 50 tracks or anything ridiculous like that (no one wants to slog through an album the length of one of Chris Brown's latest projects) but I need an album that I can digest longer than it would take me to get through a half hour lunch break if you've been gone for a considerable length of time. I get that artists only want to be put out the tracks that genuinely inspired them and if that was only 10 (or less), then so be it. But you have to push yourself if you really let your fanbase wait. I'm sure Rihanna fans wouldn't mind a Taylor Swift double album right about now and they have every right to want that. 

[Yaaaas Gaga 839]

Definite shade towards Taylor here and you can't really blame her. I remember when I used to think 15 songs on an album was a lot, now that seems short.

I think 10-12 songs, no more than 60 minutes long in total, is a perfect album. Once you start getting to 15, 20 or 33 then it's a bit a piss take and a project that I sadly don't have time for.

[Gorehound 4,259]

Well I personally like large albums with lots of songs. If I love the album and the artist, I want as much as I can off them. But that's just my preference 

[NewYorkGirl 1,371]

Sorry Bill, but some artists can actually make 16 quality songs.