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BILLIE EILISH

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:56:22 UTC

Billie Eilish is a singer/songwriter whose music portrays themes of female empowerment, personal strength, growing up, mental health and relationships, allowing for her to be an artist popular among young women. Her ethereal and unique vocal style provides an ability to express and provoke emotions through her lyrics and captivate audiences in an authentic and modern pop style. Often in her production, her music contains basic instrumentals and her voice is often sampled and utilised throughout her pieces, providing a uniqueness to her approach to creating music.

HOZIER

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:56:43 UTC

Hozier is a singer/songwriter who captivated a large audience based on his soulful vocal and instrumental style, coupled with his expressive and poetic lyrical expression. Through metaphors and themes often drawing inspiration from mythology and religion, and utilizing literary references, his music covers themes such as relationships, hardships, and social and political climates and injustices currently occurring in the world.

FINNEAS

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:57:19 UTC

Finneas has a radical approach to his music through sampling the everyday in order to create unique and captivating sounds and defy current pop structures. FINNEAS, is more widely known for co-writing and producing with Billie, giving her a unique musical style and sound. Eilish recounts how FINNEAS was one of her biggest inspirations and would encourage her to pursue music and song writing, and acknowledges that seeing FINNEAS making and writing music was one of the main catalysts to her beginning (Gonzales, 2017).

THE BEATLES

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:57:35 UTC

In interviews, Billie's parents retell stories of how The Beatles were her first introduction to music and were a large inspiration on the beginning of her passion towards music (Fitzgerald & Rapp, 2021). It has been recognised that the harmonies and structure that is often found in Eilish's work holds similarity and pulls inspiration from The Beatles. Much like The Beatles, Billie's music often covers topics and themes that are redefining the roles of what music and song content covers.

JOHN LEE HOOKER

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:58:05 UTC

Hozier often recounts his childhood being surrounded by Blues, and mentions John Lee Hooker as one of the only artists he would listen to (Boilen, 2018). He also states that once he began to learn guitar, John Lee Hooker was one of the artists he revisited, stating that his hypnotic and repetitive driving rhythm caused him to become interested in his music (Boilen, 2018).

NINA SIMONE

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:58:19 UTC

In interviews, when asked about his biggest musical inspirations, Hozier mentions how majority of his musical education and exposure was grounded in the genre of Blues and Chicago Blues, to which he believes Nina Simone is an influence that holds a special place in his music (Kaplan, 2014).

This is evident in his musical writing style and poetic lyricism that often has a political climate and challenges or discusses certain social themes that are currently occurring.

VAN MORRISON

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:58:36 UTC

In an interview with The Hot Press (Fro, 2020), Hozier mentions that Morrison's influence was significant in demonstrating how soul music can be interpreted with Irish influence. He mentions that Morrison's "...work walks an indefinable line between the classic rhythm and blues tradition and that yearning sense of Celtic mysticism that sits in our collective consciousness...", being both free-spirited and rooted in the traditions it draws from; reaching from the roots of soul gospel's source.

In Hozier's work, his inspiration from Morrison is evident when he draws on similar musical and lyrical techniques which draw innovation on traditional tales relative to his background, while also employing a rhythm and blues influence.

LANA DEL REY

1033415_2 — 2024-02-23 06:59:21 UTC

Eilish has stated that Lana Del Rey has been a massive inspiration to her music and the way she approaches songwriting as a means of storytelling. Eilish recounts that hearing Lana's music portrayed a change in music for girls and women, and the potential of what is possible (Dailey, 2023). Billie has also mentioned in interviews about her music inspirations that Del Rey's approach to writing songs by creating different characters has changed how she writes music by being able to create different persona's for each song (Kaufman, 2020).

CHLOE PETERSEN

1033415_2 — 2024-03-16 03:12:45 UTC