Image Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The tensely humming track, with its water-torture string plucks and meat-cleaver snare thwumps, amps up the sense of claustrophobic desperation, as Eilish’s bleary voice tries to break through, hungering for the freedom she’s earned and deserves. “Maybe I should think about a new career,” she muses. At a time when most people her age are enjoying the first fruits of early-twenties freedom, pop superstar Billie Eilish is stuck with a new mansion that feels like a tomb when she gets a boy back, she has to make him sign an NDA. The bleary distortion that opens “NDA” sets the tone: This is a song about life as a disconnected blur of new-fame isolation. Like many of Eilish and Finneas’ best work, the song feels off-the-cuff, like a voice memo they got right on the first try.
The verses jockey between hypno-pop and ASMR-rap. That’s what happens in the video Eilish self-directed for “Therefore I Am,” a song that doubles as her raison d’être now that the whole world was paying attention to her. Not long after this slime-haired prodigy swept the 2020 Grammys, she resurfaced in an empty shopping mall, where a camera follows her all the way to Chipotle.
Khalid moans dolefully over Finneas’ forlorn piano and distressed string arrangements, and Eilish’s liberated high notes that flutter arrestingly above the gorgeously grim musical landscape. So this duet from the soundtrack for the second season of 13 Reasons Why, a hymn to the happy-sad feeling of owning your own depression, made plenty of sense. K.G.īillie Eilish and Khalid both rose to success as mumbly voiced high-school-age kids who made their little corners of teenage wasteland feel like bold new undiscovered countries. She drew inspiration from songs by Phoebe Bridgers, Sufjan Stevens, and, improbably, XXXtentacion and Post Malone for the tune, but it sounds wholly Eilish as the melody rises and falls like alternating hope and disappointment. The song is especially moving thanks to Finneas’ sparse arrangement - just some Nick Drake-style acoustic guitar and keyboards - and Eilish’s breathy, sorrowful vocals. R.S.Ī beautiful meditation on confusion, Billie Eilish attempts to make sense of someone telling her that they love her when she doesn’t want to hear it - and, complicating things further, she loves that person back when she doesn’t want to. It’s a song that sneaks up and destroys you emotionally - just her specialty.
But then she starts remembering friends and lovers from her past, the ones she can’t get out of her head, wondering how much of her own life is just fantasy. Eilish starts by critiquing porn (“I can’t stand the dialogue”) over country-style acoustic guitar. That I have a personality.” She makes all these points loud and clear in “Male Fantasy,” the final song. "This is the first thing I've done in this realm at all.Billie Eilish had a few things to prove on her second album, Happier Than Ever : “That I can sing,” she told Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos. She told E! she was "shivering and shaking" because this is all so new to her. It was time for this and I feel like I've grown so much in the last few years and my confidence," the "Bad Guy" singer shared.Ĭhanneling vintage glamour, Eilish walked the carpet alongside an entourage of four people that carried and arranged her long train. I would ask for them for Christmas every single year." The designers added they were inspired by Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe as well. 13.Įilish, 19, told Vogue she was inspired by the Holiday Barbie gowns when choosing her Met look, saying, "It was my favorite thing in the world.
The seven-time Grammy winner looks more like Marilyn Monroe than ever before, wearing a peachy cotton candy gown with a flowing train by Oscar de la Renta. Naturally, her blonde curls played into her bombshell style homage on Monday, Sept. We're happier than ever, because we're finally getting to see what Billie Eilish is wearing to her first-ever Met Gala.
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