 The singer-songwriter Billie Eilish just did an interview opening up about what was going on when she wrote the song Zanny with her brother Phineas and in this video I want to talk about why someone like Billie Eilish deserves a lot more credit. What is up everybody? This is Chris from The Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel sometimes what I like to do is pull different topics from pop culture to try to see what kind of lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So I guess I'll start out with this. Yes I've done a lot of Billie Eilish videos. I talked about this a little bit on a live stream yesterday but anyways like yeah I'm going to like the more I learn about her and everything like that the more I'm like seeing that she is a pretty positive role model but I do think there should be some more information and resources like the conversation that Dr. Mark Goldston and I just had yesterday about teenagers who are struggling and just to help you get into my mind a little bit like everything I struggled with that resulted in my depression my suicidal ideation my drug addiction my anxiety all that stemmed from my teenage years and I wasted the years 18 through 27 in this dark dark terrible place and one of my missions one of my goals is to reach a younger audience and try to help them avoid some of the pitfalls that I went through because like I said I wasted like almost a decade of my entire life so when I see somebody like Billie Eilish out there doing what she's doing and talking about some of these serious things and the demographic she has I want to expand on that and if any of you are watching this in your older and your parent or maybe you have nieces and nephews or I don't know you you're around people who are a little bit younger like I think it's important to have these conversations and discuss what Billie Eilish is putting out there into the world but I was motivated to do this video based on the video I just saw that was released on her channel where it was talking about inside Billie's mind for the song Zanny alright so anyways I broke down this song just from my perspective from the perspective of recovering prescription drug addict the other day but like hearing what she was talking about with this I am like dang this is so cool like it's so awesome that this young woman has millions and millions of millions of people watching her and like and she's opening up about this because whether you want to acknowledge it or not like young people are looking to model behavior after people they look up to so like something I've done on my channel forever now is what are good examples what are bad examples so the first thing that Billy kind of talks about in this video is just this idea of like being cool and partying the night before I had been with a group of my friends and they all got drunk and we're throwing up and I wasn't and Jooling and they were all you know they were Jooling throwing up drinking kept throwing up kept drinking more kept throwing up more and then keep keep kept drinking something that we definitely need to talk about because so many kids like high school is difficult being a teenager is difficult I know us adults looking back at it like you don't got anything to worry about you don't got any bills to pay you're not even filing taxes yet not not at all right but during that time that is their entire reality and for a lot of teenagers like not only is there a stress of like getting good grades maybe playing sports extracurricular activities you know but a lot of it has to do with friendships and relationships during that time people are trying to develop their own identity and see where they fit into this big crazy world and part of this like is is people falling victim to peer pressure and we still see this with adults too like people trying to be cool right like what's the cool thing to do I did a video about Kevin Hart the other day about you know how he was talking about how being negative is the cool thing to do and this is a trap that many teenagers fall into where they they go they hang out they party they get messed up and all that because it's cool and then other people are lured into that lifestyle thinking that's cool as well but it's amazing that this young woman Billy Eilish who at this time is 17 years old is saying like this is ridiculous like she talks about seeing her friends like legit getting messed up drunk and high and like drooling right and then there's like girls with two cigarettes in her mouth and like blows them in Billy's face and like this is what these people are thinking is cool so it's so awesome that somebody like Billy Eilish who is like this teenage icon if you will say like what what is cool about that and like I know coming from me a 33 year old man like if I went up to like some teenagers like you think that's cool that's not cool right but it's so awesome seeing Billy Eilish who is one of them talking about this and like like I had an interesting conversation with Dr. Mark Goldstein but you know let's say for example my son he's only 10 years old right now he was getting into Billy Eilish you know whatever like I would be looking more towards these things and stuff so if he was like into her music and can connect with her music I'd be saying looking look at her as a person look at what she's doing as a person something I haven't died into yet is the way that she connects with her fans and how she loves her fans which is awesome as well but like I think it's great that she sends out these messages about it's not cool to just go out and do these things and you know something I would say is like what are other things to do so me personally like I was a triathlete I avoid parties until the end of my senior year that's when my addiction took off but I had so many other things that I was doing throughout high school I had legitimate fun without getting messed up and the thing that we need to realize too for a lot of young people who get sucked into you know substance abuse and partying and things like that a lot of them are trying to escape the reality that they're currently in a lot of young people have a bad family life you know and they're one of their escapes or to numb that pain is through abusing substances okay but anyways when it comes to the title of the song Zanny Billy Irish opens up about how she actually had just like a couple days prior lost a friend to Xanax right after that I did the last full was of the song which was the last verse and a friend of mine had like passed like two days before and so I was like really it was really like hard and especially was really hard to record that song because I was really cut up about him yeah I was really emotional about it and that right there like it's it's a terrible situation but I've lost so so so many people to drug addiction to suicide and things like that like I think the best way to honor their memories is to put out some kind of good message out there and that's why I'm super super you know proud or inspired by Billy Eilish for taking this situation and like turning it into something to like put a message out there and her and her brother Phineas talk about how much emotional she was getting while talking about this subject because like man I hate it I hate it so so so much like something that just drives me absolutely bonkers is I have some videos about Xanax and Xanax addiction and things like that I talk about overdoses and overdose rates and there are so many comments so many comments that are like you can't overdose on Xanax right but like still thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people are dying every single year in the United States from Xanax and here's why because it's often being mixed with other substances like I'm not here to knock Xanax if you're taking Xanax for anxiety do your thing boo the only precaution I would give is make sure that you're following up with a doctor to make sure that you're not becoming dependent because Xanax can create both a physical as well as a psychological dependent so I'm not knocking you for using that you have extreme anxiety and you're using an S prescribed do your thing but in this context we're talking about a people who are abusing Xanax and putting themselves at risk of death okay because Xanax is a tranquilizer okay a tranquilizer it depresses your nervous system when you combine that with alcohol or other substances it can be lethal there are so so so many people who are dying from this thing like one of my best friends I remember you know having to talk to her right after one of her very close friends young woman I think she was like 24 years old who passed away from a combination of Xanax and alcohol she started taking Xanax didn't realize how much she was taking was high started drinking and she overdosed and died all right and the thing was she was at a party I think there was some other illegal activity going on there so while this young woman was overdosing nobody even called the cops because they were afraid that they were going to get in trouble like you guys like this is a big deal and whether or not you like me talking about Billie Eilish I don't really care because it gives me the opportunity to talk about very serious subjects that are actually going on in our society okay like this is some real real stuff so by the way just to go back to that that topic of people not like getting the police involved if somebody's like overdosing in many states there are actually laws that will ensure that you don't get in trouble if you call in an overdose like one of the things is a lot of people are dying from like even heroin or fentanyl overdoses and a lot of people just don't call the police or first responders to get help and fear that they're going to get in trouble so states have actually set up laws that give you the ability to not get in trouble for calling that in you get a free pass and this is one of the reasons why we need to talk about this stuff because if more people knew that maybe we could save more lives like when it comes to overdoses whether it's xanax fentanyl heroin um other prescription opioids whatever it is like there can be a huge difference like the matter of seconds right like if you wait too long that person can die okay like if the person is unconscious and they're not breathing they're not getting oxygen to their brain they can also throw up choke on their own vomit all sorts of stuff like I went through an entire Narcan training to learn about how to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and this is some really serious stuff you guys so anyways I am super glad that Billy adish is putting some type of information out there and the goal of my channel is to take topics that people are already looking into and expand on it a little bit more and try to increase a little bit more awareness about these very serious things all right so if you are a teenager out there like like do you like listen to music play sports get involved with your friends get involved with family get a hobby and stuff like that like I'm not saying that I would never say in a million years that no teenager should ever drink or use drugs because that is a ridiculous expectation but I really do wish more teenagers would start to learn that if they're trying to use it to be cool or if they're trying to use it to cope with a difficult life like that is not the way to go about it and you can turn out like me where I waste an entire decade of my life where I should have been going to college and doing all sorts of cool stuff but it developed into an addiction so super glad once again that Billy I was just putting out this type of message um if you have any comments if you want to chime in on this topic let me know down in the comments below and if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon you're all amazing and if you would like to sign up become a patron support the channel get involved in our monthly Q&A some other benefits clicker top right there all right thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time