17-Year-Old with a Top-Selling Album

What if I ask you about the top listened songs or albums in the last months? Every single music platform where you search for this answer will have something in common: Billie Eilish. However, this is not the point, but how this 17-year-old girl has become so popular, has got a best-selling album, has performed in the biggest music festivals or has even sold out all the tickets for her world tour in less than 24 hours! Let’s start from the beginning, where does this girl come from?

Well, 2 years ago, when she was only 15 years old, her dance teacher proposed her to take some original music to class. She and her brother Finneas O’Connell composed “Ocean Eyes”, which they uploaded on Soundcloud reaching millions of visits in a few days.

Since that moment she continued producing music, specially composing new singles which would eventually end up in her first album “Don’t Smile at Me” and in the soundtracks of some very famous series. In such little time, Billie signed very important agreements with very important record companies.

We could think this would only last for a short time, but it hasn’t been like that. One year later, after advertising some new songs like “You Should See me in a Crown” “when the Party’s Over” or “Bury a Friend”, she released her second album: “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”. As we could expect, it has been one of the best-selling world albums this year.

The question is: Why her? What does her music have that others don’t?  I think we could answer this question with several points.

For starting with, nowadays, most of the singers are given their songs and they only have to put their voice and their image; however, this entire album has been written and produced by Billie and his brother on their room, and this gives the album, especially the lyrics, something personal and different.

The second point also has to do with that. As we can see, and as she has said on some interviews, all her songs talk about her feelings, mental problems and anxiety… In summary, teen problems.  And knowing that teens are one of the groups of people which listen to new music more frequently, the success is obvious.

The last point is about the production of the album. Billie and her brother included new sounds no one had ever heard in a song, like the sound of a dentist drill, a fan or even themselves lighting a match. The entire album has a new kind of music, which has attracted people.

With this, I want to say that you don’t have to own the best equipment, the best voice or the best image, just be yourself and try new things, and maybe one day you will succeed. To finish with this, I totally recommend you to listen to the entire new album, because it’s amazing.

Becoming a Vegetarian

Today we are going to talk about a present-day topic that has created a lot of controversy among the population: being vegetarian or not. To have a better point of view, we made an interview to a real vegetarian person. She has been vegetarian since 2017 and although she says that it is very difficult to eat things without meat, she also tries to use products that haven’t been tested in animals like for example cosmetics.

To begin with, we asked her the cons of being vegetarian. She told us that the main disadvantage is that you have to be very careful with the diet that you follow, as it has to be balanced avoiding a possible lack of proteins and nutrients that might cause health problems. Another important disadvantage according to what she said is that if you live in such a small city as Soria, there aren’t as many resources as in other cities like Madrid. The last disadvantage is that nowadays there aren´t too many restaurants with vegetarian options and, as a result, if you want to eat in a restaurant, you have to be very careful with the things you eat.

 

After talking about the cons, we asked her about the pros of being vegetarian. First, she told us that as you have to maintain a balanced diet, then you will have less cholesterol and health problems. In addition to this, you will maintain a healthy diet, obtaining the same amount of proteins like the rest of the people, without injuring other living things. Besides, she told us that, if everybody ate a vegetarian diet, almost all the world population could be fed up. To finish with the pros of being vegetarian, she cleared up that the vegetarian products aren’t as expensive as people think. For example, vegetables and fruits are cheaper than meat and fish.

 

We have talked about the main pros and cons, but many people might be wondering why people decide to become vegetarian. Our interviewee told us that she started to think about the overproduction of meat in the industries, the bad living conditions that animals have in those industries and the cruelty forms that are used to kill them, and finally she decided to help those living beings by stopping eating meat. She also told us that during all the time that she has been vegetarian, she has seen that it is possible to eat well without making animals suffer.

The final conclusion that we have obtained is that, for some people, you cannot consider yourself an animal lover if you eat meat, because although you can have a pet and take care of it, you are causing the death of many animals as you eat their meat. She told us that she would advise other people to start a vegetarian life-style because, even though it is very difficult, then you will feel better by knowing that you have saved lives.

Sleeping is Good

Everybody likes sleeping. It has a lot of benefits we aren’t aware off, although oversleeping can cause some health problems. Several researchers show us that the average time we should sleep is between 7-9 hours a day. Sleeping well has a positive effect in our physical appearance because our limbs are more relaxed, our skin looks better, and we don’t have under-eye bags. However, on today’s post we are going to get focused on other advantages that are less known and that we shouldn’t forget.

• The main advantage is that a good snooze extends your lifespan. A scientific study has discovered that women between the ages of 50 to 80 who slept less than five hours passed away sooner.

• Another really important leverage for students and elders is that it helps improving your memory. For example, if you are studying English, you would do it much better and quicker after a good night sleep because your mind is wide awake. 

• Last but not least it helps reduce stress which is something that most people suffer from nowadays in our society. When you sleep well you have a better control of you blood pressure which plays an important role in your heart and hence you feel less distressed. 

All in all, sleeping enough helps you mentally (mood) and physically. These are some of the benefits, but it also helps to avoid having accidents, to improve your grades or to spur your creativity.

What I want you to see with this post is that, for some hours a day, we should forget everything that surrounds us, like technological devices which can lead to sleep disorders. We shouldn’t take sleeping for granted and as Raymond Jean says: “If you sleep better, you can certainly live better.”