FINNEAS - For Cryin' Out Loud!: (Guest Review)
This is a special guest review written by all-around smart girl Alice Fulmer. She stopped by to share her thoughts on producer, songwriter, and Billie Eilish affiliate/sibling Finneas' new album For Cryin' Out Loud! . <3 Review by Alice: There’s something to be said about songwriters who are better at songwriting for the masks and voices of others, than for themselves. While I don’t mean to poke at sore spots more than necessary, I think Finneas O’Connell (sometimes styled as FINNEAS) – better known as the co-songwriter and frequent collaborator of his younger sister Billie Eilish – struggles to find his voice on the aptly named For Cryin’ Out Loud! (2024). There is a longstanding misogynist criticism of his sister, that she isn’t “talented” because her brother “writes all her music”(he doesn’t). I actually think that it could very well be the other way around. I want to stress I don’t admit this lightly. His last album, Optimist (2021), is relatively ...