.billieeilish's HappierThanEver scored a GRAMMYs nod for Album of the Year, and her sprawling sophomore LP has a bop for every mood
Instead, the 19-year-old singer reflects heavily on her own trauma as a young woman whose career suddenly exploded, bringing her — and all of her youthful growing pains — into the spotlight. “I went through some crazy shit, and it really affected me and made me not want to go near anyone ever,” shein June.
Eilish opens the album with synthetic elements, reflecting how much she has grown throughout her life and becoming famous as a teenager. She has a lot of reasons to be thankful and grateful, but it can be bittersweet when it comes to facing online troll and constant scrutiny: “But it's different when a stranger's always waitin' at your door / Which is ironic 'cause the strangers seem to want me more / Than anyone before.
The techno track’s title refers to the hormone that plays a role in causing love, lust, orgasms, and attachment. Eilish is really feeling naughty tonight: “I wanna do bad things to you / I wanna make you yell / I wanna do bad things to you / Don't wanna treat you well.” If you’re at the club with your partner and feeling overwhelmed with desire, this is the perfect song to get your grind on.
If you followed Eilish’s Where Do We Go? World Tour, this may seem familiar. The audio is from a short film that was distributed in March 2020 during her show in Orlando as an interlude. It is Eilish’s response to the backlash and body-shaming she has received throughout her career. “We make assumptions about people based on their size / We decide who they are / We decide what they're worth,” she sings.
In an acoustic guitar ballad, Eilish brings awareness to the trauma of abuse and power imbalances in a relationship: “Try not to abuse your power / I know we didn't choose to change / You might not wanna lose your power / But havin' it's so strange.” She also wonders from time to time if abusers know what they do is wrong. “How dare you? / And how could you?” she asks.
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