#WHO IS BILLIE EILISH MOVIE#
The album also has several songs in which a romance hasn’t yet turned toxic, such as “Billie Bossa Nova,” about a lover who “makes me wanna … make a movie with you that we’d have to hide.Billie Eilish and Finneas won a Grammy in 2021 for their James Bond theme, which is also in the running for Best Original Song at the forthcoming 2022 Academy Awards.
On “Oxytocin,” Eilish rides a jackhammering club groove with giddy menace “Therefore I Am” lurches playfully like early Eminem. “Happier Than Ever” peppers a handful of bigger, louder numbers amid all the hushed introspection. So it’s gratifying to hear Eilish still standing out in pretty yet eccentrically phrased tunes like “Halley’s Comet,” where she keeps stretching her vowels a few beats longer than you expect her to, and “Male Fantasy,” a folky acoustic ballad with a choir of barely-there Billies. But music has gotten crowded since then with other radically intimate confessors, including Clairo, Phoebe Bridgers and Olivia Rodrigo even Taylor Swift downsized her approach for last year’s “Folklore” and “Evermore,” and Lorde appears set to do the same with the upcoming “Solar Power.” When she emerged, Eilish’s vocal style - a breathy mumble miked so closely that you could hear her tongue clicking against her teeth - felt like a reimagining of the once-declamatory female pop voice. “Last week, I realized I crave pity,” she continues, as though preempting her trolls, “When I retell a story, I make everything sound worse.” “30 under 30 for another year,” she sings in “NDA,” “I can barely go outside, I think I hate it here.” In “Getting Older” she admits that “things I once enjoyed just keep me employed now” - a line made all the more sad by the fact that, as a child of the internet, Eilish understands just how her complaints will read to some online. 1, “Happier Than Ever” looks back at Eilish’s ascent and surveys the considerable damage: the paranoia and the loneliness and the distrust wrought by a couple of years spent struggling to acclimate to the most intense of spotlights. ‘I don’t want to tell anyone.’Īll but certain to enter the album chart next week at No. She won’t name names, but Billie Eilish says she suffered real trauma on her way to stardom. Music Billie Eilish on surviving teen fame and trauma, and how she finally stopped reading the comments (In March, the Recording Academy gave Eilish two more Grammys, including one for record of the year for “Everything I Wanted,” a between-albums single about how she could already tell that success was going to be a nightmare.) native the youngest person ever to win all four of the Grammy Awards’ biggest prizes in a single night. Even the people she allows into her rarefied air now pose a threat: “Had a pretty boy over, but he couldn’t stay,” she sings, “On his way out, made him sign an NDA.”Ī vivid embodiment of the time-honored pop tradition we might call Fame Sucks, “Happier Than Ever” is 19-year-old Eilish’s followup to her smash 2019 debut, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,” which went quadruple-platinum and made the green-haired L.A. In one song she laments the relentless scrutiny of her physical appearance in another she describes the strangers - “They’re usually deranged” - who show up uninvited at her door. When you fall into superstardom, where do you go?īillie Eilish has some answers to the question on her disquieting new album, “Happier Than Ever,” and despite that title they’re hardly advertisements for the journey.
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