Song: All the Good Girls Go to Hell -- Billie Eilish
Chong Tsz Yen Hayley 3035805497
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"All the Good Girls Go to Hell” is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and was released on September 6, 2019. The song portrays a conversation between God and the Devil, asking each other questions like “What is going on? Why did humans do all this”. The music video serves as an endorsement of Greta Thunberg’s Climate Strike. At the beginning of the music video, Eilish sprouts a pair of white wings. Instead of flying around, she falls down from the sky and lands on the ground into an oil spill. The fallen angel represents an angel who rebelled against God and was exiled from heaven, just like how humans destroyed the once beautiful nature and now has to live in a world where it is polluted and devastated. She tries to break free, but it's a major struggle. She can barely walk out of the oil spill, let alone fly. Just like birds that are trapped in oil spills, their feathers lose their natural buoyancy, making them sink and drown in polluted water. When the music starts, she manages to emerge, still covered in the sludge. Her once-white wings are soaked in the black oil. Eilish's surroundings continuing to burn down around her, seemingly as a metaphor for the future of our planet if climate change is not accurately addressed and remedied. All The Good Girls Go to Hell is part of the pop music genre, in the key of A♭ minor and consists of Em, C, Am and B7 chords. The tempo of this song is at 185 bpm, a relatively fast-paced song lasting only 2 minutes and 49 seconds. For the instrumental of the song, it features plinked piano, blinked piano, off-the-wall synths, drums and bass, giving the song a lively beat. A voice filter is also used to distort Eilish’s voice at times to create a dark tone to the song. The message on climate change and the severity of the ecological issues it brings is clearly conveyed in the lyrics of the song. “Hills burn in California” represents the wildfire in LA that was caused by climate change. California has been experiencing warmer temperatures and drier seasons, bringing on longer and more intense drought seasons as a result of the changing climate. It follows with the lyrics “My turn to ignore ya, don’t say I didn’t warn ya”, as if it is God telling humans that they made this mess themselves and it is out of god’s hands to save the planet. There were many warnings mother nature gave humans about the severity of climate change, such as, as mentioned in the lyrics “ once the water starts to rise”. The melting of icebergs due to a hotter climate is now causing the rise in sea level, increasing the probability of floods in low-lying areas. The last verse ends with “Man is such a fool, why are we saving him? Poisoning themselves now, Begging for our help, wow”. Echoing back to the conversation between God and the Devil. Everything that is happening to the environment right now and all the natural disasters mankind brought on to themselves will lead our planet into the state of a living hell. This is why “all the good girls”, meaning everyone would go to hell if we do not solve climate change actively and in time.
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