So in a way, the shitty beat is actually doing you a favor by overpowering what she's saying.ĭ'Amelio's trying to achieve some kind of sound that mixes the angst of Avril Lavigne with the color-and-pop wit of Katy Perry. "One Day," for example, is a single D'Amelio recorded with Wiz Khalifa in a paint-by-numbers production that pretends the numbers were never there in the first place.Įven if the song had a better track, it would just make it easier to hear the awful lyrics. In short: They know to hire the right people, and whether one of those people is themselves. Usually, celebrities who try to make their way to music at least have a sense of showmanship and talent in their respective field that they use to create something with just a dash of heart, originality and artistry. T in our scale.Īll you've got to do is listen to "One Whole Day" for one whole minute and it'll feel like one whole day wasted, an excessively large chunk of the short time you have allotted on Earth. She is, however, one of the worst celebrities to make a transition to music and yes, we're including Mr. She's just the latest in a long line of them including Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and even Mr.
The irony is that our calloused attitude toward true pain - as we ignore the world's suffering to focus on influencer lives - also elevates mediocrity to alarming levels of success to aspiring artists and their trite takes on the idea of pain.ĭ'Amelio's not the first person to take a crack at a music career simply because they're famous. The only reason she's been given the chance to do it is because she's popular on the Internet, and more specifically, on TikTok. D'Amelio uses grating electronic beats and tired, kindergarten grade rhymes to sing about the same kind of angry heartbreak that's been sung about since the days of the Dust Bowl.
Burnham's song uses a beautiful guitar melody and witty lyrics to describe the impending doom amid a widespread nonchalant attitude toward global tragedies. Let's break down that bit of irony for those of you who are confused or have been graced with the good luck to have never heard D'Amelio's name or music. This could be based on our own viewing, or it could be that even the same artificial intelligence that will one day swallow humanity's hope whole is trying to warn you about D'Amelio and musicians of her ilk. The very next video it recommends for you is Bo Burnham's "That Funny Feeling" from his latest Netflix special, Inside. When you watch the video for Dixie D'Amelio's "One Whole Day," the YouTube algorithm does something really funny.