Posted in podcast

Podcast Episode 16 – Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever

EP.66 | Jill Scott | To Whom This May Concern This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 66 of This Is Not Happening. An Album of the Month podcast. In Part 1, we do a deep drive review of our Album of the Month. This month David brings Neo-Soul back into focus with Jill Scott and her comeback album 'To Whom This May Concern.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month the theme is 'Neo-Soul, and it's a belter.  —— Part 1 | Album of the Month | Jill Scott | To Who This May Concern ——Jill Scott's debut was released in 2000, it played a big part in some of our lives. But most of us lost touch after this release. It's 26 years later and Jill has been through some shit.This album is big, it's a lot. There is a lot to take in digest and consider. It works big time for some of us … not so much for others. Have a listen, let's get into this!Listen to the original album here.Tiny Desk concerts are getting better and better, here is Jill's.Watch some videos, interviews and performances here.                  —————- Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | New Music —————- The theme is Neo-Soul, the task is pick a track that fits the theme, the objective, get more 'spins' than your friends. We each pick for tracks for a 16 track play list  (that is fire).We then each pick select 1 track and ask the simple question 'Spin It Or Bin It'?Guy chose 'Heard it all Before' by Sunshine Anderson.Nolan chose 'Serve this Royalty' by Cody Chesnutt.David chose 'Don't Mess with My Man' by Lucy Pearl.Joey chose 'Untitled (How Does It Feel) by D'Angelo.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
  1. EP.66 | Jill Scott | To Whom This May Concern
  2. EP. 65 | Zach Bryan | With Heaven On Top
  3. EP. 64 | Rosalia | LUX
  4. EP. 63 | Our Top 10 Albums of 2025
  5. EP. 62 | Juniper | Joy Crookes

Episode 16 of This Is Not Happening goes as big as it gets with Billie Eilish’s new album, Happier Than Ever.  Following angular synth and guitars of Lonelady in episode 15,  we take an album that’s already one of the most talked-about of the year, and delve into what it means for us, and the music world. David is bringing us this album.

In the second half of the episode, we go for intros, and pick out some of our favourite opening tracks of the albums we love. It’s a mighty list, and we’ve also had some cracking shortlists from Guy here. The tracks we chose were:

Joey – Bjork – Human Behaviour from Debut (1993)
Guy – Etienne De Crecy – Le Patron Est Devenou Fou! – from Super Discount (1996)
David – Bill Withers – Harlem – from Just As I am (1971)
Nolan – A Tribe Called Quest – Excursions – from The Low End Theory by Tribe (1991)

October’s album of the month and all our new tracks, playlists, and chat from the past decade or more can be found on our blog at www.thisisnothappening.net, which runs alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. Head down there and hopefully you’ll like what we’re talking about and if you do, we’d love to hear from you on the socials (links below).

Episode #17 arrives with a nod to the dancefloor from Nolan, who picks Dublin artist Mano Le Tough’s At The Moment. This next episode will be landing before the end of November ahead of our review of the year in December.

This Is Not Happening:
Created by JoeyNolanGuy and David.
Produced and Edited by Guy and Nolan.
Twitter: @thisisnothapng
Instagram: @thisisnothappeningpod
Email: thisisnothappeningpodcast@gmail.com
Reviews: www.ratethispodcast.com/thisisnothappening

Unknown's avatar

Author:

Music, writing, and living.

Leave a comment