Instead, she will, albeit profanely, tell her haters that she does not care what they have to say. So, according to this song, she’s just not going to listen to millions of online trolls. Her response? Well, a few months ago she released a short film where she says if she lived by everyone’s thoughts and opinions of her, she’d “never be able to move.” Billie Eilish can now add music video director to her resume. The problem was that other people didn’t like Eilish’s physical appearance. Billie Eilish Roams Around an Empty Mall in Therefore I Am Video. The problem? Not that she was wearing too little, because she wasn’t. But Really, Don’t Try to Pretendīack in March 2020, Eilish received a plethora of negative comments and tweets when a picture of her in baggy shorts and a tank top went viral. In the end, her goal is to forget about all of it and move on (“Did you have fun?/I really couldn’t care less”). First, she isn’t OK with making assumptions about others based on a subjective perspective (“We are not the same”), and Eilish prefers to be as genuine and authentic as possible (“Top of the world, but your world isn’t real/Your world’s an ideal”).Īccording to Eilish, whoever is spreading negativity and lies needs to understand that “we’re on different lines” and that she’s not going to cave under pressure (“Wanna be nice enough, they don’t call my bluff”). Hopping right into the chorus, Eilish tells people who think they’re better than her, “I’m not your friend/Or anything, d–n/You think that you’re the man/I think, therefore, I am.”Īpparently, people have been slandering Eilish’s name (“Stop, what the h- are you talking about? Ha/Get my pretty name out of your mouth/Don’t talk ’bout me like how you might know how I feel”), and she’s not OK with it. And in this song, Eilish uses that idea to tell whoever is listening that she is, unapologetically, herself-and she won’t be embracing someone else’s critical opinion of her. “Therefore I Am” is a line taken from the famous French philosopher René Descartes. In response, the teen states that she refuses to let negative opinions and perceptions of her weigh her down. The music video was filmed at the Glendale Galleria shopping mall in Glendale, California. The song was written by Eilish and her brother Finneas OConnell, with production being solely handled by the latter.
It was released through Darkroom and Interscope Records on November 12, 2020. Streaming Chart-which is hardly a surprise given Eilish’s massive cultural pull these days.Īs for the song’s content, this single communicates a bold message to haters as Eilish confronts those who’ve being critical of her-especially critics of her body. 'Therefore I Am' is a song by Billie Eilish. In its first day of release, the track shot to number one on Spotify’s U.S. Eighteen-year-old Billie Eilish just dropped a new goth-pop single called “Therefore I Am.”
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