What do Billie Eilish’s and Billy Joel’s brains have in common?
Which Billy makes better music: Billie Eilish or Billy Joel?
On paper, comparing the Billies looks silly. One is a 24-year-old Gen-Z phenom crafting whispery, genre-bending pop from her bedroom. The other is a 77-year-old piano man whose storytelling anthems defined the soundtrack of life in the 1970s and ’80s. Their ages, styles, voices, and cultural moments couldn’t be more different. They share one extraordinary trait, though, that binds them across generations: a rare neurological superpower that turns sound into Technicolor fireworks inside their minds.
