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The first ever heavy metal record ever made. Nicely played, Sir. A droning and heavy sound, this record first struck me as dragging its knuckles on the floor like a Neanderthal, quite boring. But as you grow up you appreciate the psychological depth of the lyrics, also honest and raw, about loss. This one is a contender. However, it has a simple ABBA format, the instrumentalisation is heavy rather than complex. It certainly lacks the airy lightness and beauty of Bird of a Feather. But it is original too, for sure. It's a contender. I will accept it.

Not at all, I share the nostalgic memory or Rick myself. Going to the club, wearing a custard cream jacket, shiny gold brown checked trousers, fox brown shoes. What a time it was. Then the rabble with their wife beater t-shirts came along and their god awful techno crap and ruined everything.

Clearly you would have to switch to another woman, though your initial investment in the cheater would have been a waste of your resources. That's why men prized loyalty so, in order that their resource investment was not wasted. And that is how monogamy was born, and subsequently marriage. You raise a very interesting question about polygamy. We can safely assume that polygamy was the original state of early human society, obviously social polygamy not marital polygamy. According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, of 1,231 societies noted between from 1960 to 1980, 588 had frequent polygyny, 453 had occasional polygyny, 186 were monogamous, and 4 had polyandry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy So clearly a majority of primitive societies are still polygamous in modern times. "Anthropologists characterize human beings as “mildly polygynous” or “monogamous with polygynous tendencies.”" The average pre-historic man with modern descendants appears to have had children with between 1.5 women (70,000 years ago) to 3.3 women (45,000 years ago), except in East Asia. The genetic record indicates that monogamy increased within the last 5,000-10,000 years,[24] a period associated with the development of human agriculture, non-communal land ownership, and inheritance. Recent anthropological data suggest that the modern concept of life-long monogamy has been in place for only the last 1,000 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy Clearly as man had to spend time in the field doing agriculture, a loyal partner in whose exclusive sexual access you could trust and who would cooperate with you was useful, and as land inheritance became an issue, monogamy, family and property started to become issues. Indeed some say inheritance was crucial in the emergency of monogamy and marriage. Intrestingly researchers found that the Southern Han Chinese had a male bias (45% female, indicating that women were likely to reproduce with multiple men). This region is known for its lack of a concept of paternity and for a sense of female equality or superiority. This seems to be the way our own socities are going, allowing women to reproduce with multiple men, serial monogamy as was standard in China, leading to a sense of female equality or superiority. As for prostitution the earliest records of it are in Sumerian records dating to about 2400 BC. This was a temple brothel, so it raises the possibility that priests invented prostitution. "This kakum, or temple, was dedicated to the goddess Ishtar and was home to three classes of women. The first class of women was only permitted to perform sexual rituals in the temple: the second class had access to the grounds and catered to visitors; and the third and lowest class lived on the temple grounds. The third class was also free to find customers on the streets." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution Clearly a more believer friendly religious marketing than hellfire. Prostitution was also common in ancient Israel and is mentioned in the bible. By no means did it require money, women in Israel would accept a kid goat as standard payment. Striking however is the near total prevalence of prostitution in all societies, from China to the Aztecs, India, Japan, Africa, etc, only Muslims are a notable exception since Mohammed prohibited prositution. I

This is not "a" song. This is "the" song of 2024. This Billy Eilish may be wrong in so many ways, but as a songwriter and singer, this is by far the best you can get at this point. So original, playful, yet serious and substantive. And she can sing live. The harmonies. My God. Like getting high without Ecstasy. Rickrolled is so playeeeed, btw, that's like 4 years ago.

Ok, abort, abort!!! That's the worst <deleted> video I've ever seen. Okay. maybe play the video...but don't look at it. Just listen to the song.

Google Birds of a Feather by Billy Eilish, and get ready to have liquid MDMA course through your ears. The synapses of your brain will flash red with pleasure overloard. Just give it a try. Trust me.

You seem to have an attitude that you don't want to be elevated by the sublime genius that is Billy Eilish. That's so sad.

Maybe you just don't understand it. This could help you

Have you even heard "Birds of a Feather"?

You are dead to me.

When was the last time you saw Kamala Harris with her husband? When was the last time you saw Keir Starmer with his wife? What a ludicrous implication.

Yes, I also thought she was just "ok", and of course politically she's as reprehensible as they come. However, with this song, she will go down in history as a song writing genius. Even if Finneas is really the brains, one has to admit in terms of music she is lightyears ahead of what's out there at the moment. Except for Kacey Musgraves possibly.

It has nothing, but nothing, to do with suicide. She is describing the overriding love she feels to the death, literally, which is a clichee brought to life. Very audacious.

No offence, but that sounds like grandpa at the piano at the social club.

It's right here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_Address_to_the_Reichstag_(19_July_1940)

No, I don't think so. The Wannsee Conference was in 1942. The Peace Offer speech in 1940. By the time of the speech the Wannsee Conference was still over 2 years away, it seems like the death and horror of the war contributed to the genocidal climate that emerged, by 1940 there is little evidence for him wanting to kill all the jews. In fact in 1933 Hitler and the Jewish League agreed to the Haavara Agreement in which, over time, German Jews and their finances could and would settle in Mandatory Palestine. For a time Hitler was pushing Jewish emigration, which is not consistent with a wish to "kill all jews". The final solution came much later, as the war and killing progressed. The Soviet Nazi Pact was different, even at the time everyone knew this was just a treaty to buy time for both sides. The ideological differences were so stark that war was inevitable, but the opposite was the case with the British Empire, both Hitler and Churchill were white race supremacists.

Probably because in one of his speeches in 1940 Hitler made a peace offer to Britain to end the war in Western Europe. If that comes out it could hurt the established narrative.

This is what's so astounding, they use electronic drum machine, but it actually sounds like music. And Billy Eilish is actually belting. Can you not hear her belt? Higher than anyone has ever done before. The harmonies are super complex btw, no way is this pre-school level. Tell me one Beatles song that compares to this. I can only think of Yesterday. That's it, at a stretch.

Be ready, there will be huge interest in this. People are dying to move to Ukraine.

You're comparing Across the Universe with this? You fall asleep listening to Across the Universe! It's more like sleep medicine than a song! No, no, no, Birds of a Feather is way better.

That's how I felt when I heard this masterpiece by Billy Eilish. There's a lot of talk about how today's music is awful, but this song, the harmonies, the crafted lyrics, the meaning...this is on a par with anything by the Beatles surely?

I want you to stay 'Til I'm in the grave 'Til I rot away, dead and buried 'Til I'm in the casket you carry If you go, I'm going too, uh 'Cause it was always you, alright And if I'm turning blue, please don't save me Nothing left to lose without my baby The audacity of this woman...she takes the "love you till I die" clichee and brings it to actual life. The sang froid.

Ordinary? She takes the "love you till I die" and takes it literally...did you get the meaning of the words? I'm honestly struggling to find a Beatles song that compares to this, maybe "Yesterday"?

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Birds of a Feather is undoubtedly the best song that came out this year. The song manages to sound upbeat and sad at the same time, every word is crafted to perfection and the harmonies, what can one say, genius. Have the Beatles written anything that can compare with this masterpiece by Billy Eilish?