They are not pop stars of your father. But in a way, they are irresistible?

The strangest meeting of generations may have taken place in September when Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti teamed up with Billie Eilish for a video encouraging students to vote. Eilish, at 17, was too young to vote, and Garcetti, a middle-aged politician, probably did not know who the young Internet phenomenon was before filming. The artificial nature of the op is palpable. With his blue hair in a black cap covered in a casual red hoodie, Eilish, like Pump in Cole's video, looks like he's waking up. She tilts her head back when she speaks, then she looks down, disinterested when Garcetti reads her lines. She makes a serious appeal (Vote!), but his tone is dissatisfied, almost cheeky. Garcetti has a beautiful face, but next to Eilish, he looks rigid and moved, the stepfather who really try. Suffice to say that all this is weird.

As evidenced by the great popularity of these young artists, their age does not prevent fans. These are not just kids listening to Pump, Eilish and their contemporaries. Eilish even contributed to Alfonso Cuaron's very adult and Oscar-nominated soundtrack. Roma. But we have the feeling that if these artists want to be taken seriously, they finally make music – and more generally, perform– for their peers. Pump's irreverent cartoons pummel our absurd reality, while emo's inspires music from Eilish, Juice WRLD and dead peers such as Lil Peep and XXXTentacion. "Kids use my songs as a hug," said Eilish Rolling stone in a recent profile. "Songs about depression, suicidal or just self. Some adults think it's bad, but I feel it's comforting to see another person feel as bad as you. It's a good feeling. "

One of his recurring criticisms of Juice WRLD was his bad writing. He would have been freestyle Death Race, recording the essential in just four days – and it shows. Most lyrics are hokey, if not childish. "I'm going through so much, I'm 19 years old / It's been months that I have not felt at home / But it's okay because I'm rich / Psych, I'm always sad of a bitch, c & # Is true, "he chants" Fast ". And Eilish is also not immune to childish writing. Her latest single, "Wish you're gay," finds her … wishing that a non-shared lover be gay – everything would be better than rejection – which, at best, is a commonplace premise.

And though the influences of Juice and Eilish are somewhat counter-intuitive, the white singer was influenced by rap (Tyler, The Creator, Kanye West) as much as the black rapper was influenced by emo rock (Panic! At the Disco, My Chemical Romance) – every society is still going beyond them. It can be hard to hear Eilish, for example, and actually hear Eilish – and not the perverse voice of Lana Del Rey Yeezus production, from a Hypebeast Evanescence. It is natural, of course, to have limited influences and to carry them strong when you are not even old enough to legally drink. In addition, originality and depth are not what matters to artists like Eilish and Juice.

For fans of these young artists, it is the vulnerable feelings and raw feelings that resonate. Juice and Eilish, like them, feel sad and alienated, that attracts the most. "Even when I find my true happiness, which I find more and more every day, I can not stop the mission I have been entrusted to," Juice told Vulture recently. "I will always guide people through what they're going through." Juice, like Billie, makes music for a specific group of fans – the young and the lost.

Youth never loses its appeal. But it is ironic that teenagers pushed the style to the extreme and refused to reject the convention, adults seemed more eager to adopt them. (Who can forget about Kanye West's show –Kanye West, 41, father of three, music stylist and music icon-Dressed like a bottle of Perrier in a SNL performance with a Fiji-costed Lil Pump last year?) For the moment, much of the power of Generation Z children comes from the fact that they are impossible to ignore, well beyond their years mechanisms of culture and unknown products. "People are more impressed if you are young and good at something," said Eilish The fader. "Half of me does not really want to grow old, because I really do not want to have that." But unless the tragedy strikes, Eilish and his comrades will grow old. And as they do, things will really become interesting. What will Pop's odd kids do if they have real power and have little to hide? When will the novelty disappear?