Emei

One Liner:  Olivia Rodrigo rip-off and other bad pop experiences

Wikipedia Genre:  indie pop

Home: L.A.

Poster Position: 21
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 3:10.

BMI Stage.

Thoughts:  I cannot review this fast enough - I just need to turn it off before I go insane.  Imagine the most generic TikTok pop you can, like the kind of thing an AI machine in a Disney movie would slap together to help an eight year old win a popularity contest at their elementary school.  Please stop making those sounds.

2022 EP End of an Era.  2023 album Scatterbrain, which boasts her top track, also named "Scatterbrain."  35.9 million streams.

The worst parts of Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish shoved into a pocket together and pulled out by a record label executive to impress his investors.  Deeply dislike it.  

Mount Emei is a 10,167 foot tall mountain in China and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.  According to Wikipedia, Emei means "moth-browed," which is sort of hilarious.  Makes me wish this girl had just outrageously huge eyebrows.  Her real name is Emily Li, so she chose that name.  But her parents are Chinese immigrants and she appears to have been bred to become a star, competing on the Chinese Dancing With the Stars as a teenager and also taking a year off from high school at 15 to compete on Chinese Idol.  But she has more going on than just bad music - she got a degree from Yale in cognitive science in 2022.

Oh, "Love Me Not" is just a straight Olivia Rodrigo ripoff.  That is her newest single.

Guitar riff?  check.  Sing/talk intro to the chorus?  check.  Yell/Singing as the song goes on?  Yep.  I do not want to see this young lady play at the Festival, despite the fact that she may have some interesting views on how the mind manipulates and processes knowledge.  Get me offa this thing.