@caleb282

11 months ago

I wrote an entire 5 page essay for an English class on "xanny" and its sister song "when the parties over" which borh follow the story line of her first boyfriend (rapper/actor 7:AMP) who dated her in 2018 when he was 21 and she was only 16. (This story was also continued in other songs like TV, Lost Cause, Your Power, Happier Than Ever) Xanny is the semi-fictional story of someone pressured into taking drugs witnessing an overdose. In the background of Xanny you can hear 2 girls frantically checking if someone is still breathing right after the first chorus. Billie hasn't stated about this being based on a real thing she saw but it dose foreshadow "not dying by mistake" later in the song. In Xanny she criticizes his friends and worries about her bf who lives in Silver Lake (the real area where 7:AMP lived) the chorus/vocal affect along with her sluring her words are both ment to be a audible cue to her/the narrator being high. The melancholy and stripped ending accurs after she sobers up right *when the party is over*. When the partys over is a straightforward song about both a literal and metaphorical party that she ended up accepting that she was emotionally taken advantage of by him, that she's gonna lose him (either emotionally or from OD like in xanny) and she's crying when she's coming home all alone (either she emotionally left him or he was too wasted to drive her home) There's alot more to say about both songs but that's the basic overview and context to some of billie's more personal songs.

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