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Latest Release
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- 1 AUG 2024
- 1 Song
- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT · 2024
- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT · 2024
- dont smile at me · 2016
- lovely - Single · 2018
- Happier Than Ever · 2021
- WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? · 2018
- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT · 2024
- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT · 2024
- Happier Than Ever · 2021
- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT · 2024
Essential Albums
- 100 Best Albums Beginning with the haunting alt-pop smash “Ocean Eyes” in 2016, Billie Eilish made it clear she was a new kind of pop star—an overtly awkward introvert who favours chilling melodies, moody beats, creepy videos and a teasing crudeness à la Tyler, The Creator. Now 17, the Los Angeles native—who was homeschooled along with her brother and co-writer, Finneas O’Connell—presents her much-anticipated debut album, a melancholy investigation of all the dark and mysterious spaces that linger in the back of our minds. Sinister dance beats unfold into chattering dialogue from The Office on “my strange addiction”, and whispering vocals are laid over deliberately blown-out bass on “xanny”. “There are a lot of firsts,” says FINNEAS. “Not firsts like ‘Here’s the first song we made with this kind of beat’, but firsts like Billie saying, ‘I feel in love for the first time.’ You have a million chances to make an album you're proud of, but to write the song about falling in love for the first time? You only get one shot at that.” Billie, who is both beleaguered and fascinated by night terrors and sleep paralysis, has a complicated relationship with her subconscious. “I’m the monster under the bed, I’m my own worst enemy,” she told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe during an interview in Paris. “It’s not that the whole album is a bad dream, it’s just… surreal.” With an endearingly off-kilter mix of teen angst and experimentalism, Billie Eilish is really the perfect star for 2019—and here is where her and FINNEAS' heads are at as they prepare for the next phase of her plan for pop domination. “This is my child,” she says, “and you get to hold it while it throws up on you.” Figuring out her dreams: Billie: “Every song on the album is something that happens when you’re asleep—sleep paralysis, night terrors, nightmares, lucid dreams. All things that don't have an explanation. Absolutely nobody knows. I've always had really bad night terrors and sleep paralysis, and all my dreams are lucid, so I can control them—I know that I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming. Sometimes the thing from my dream happens the next day and it's so weird. The album isn’t me saying, 'I dreamed that'—it’s the feeling.” Getting out of her own head: Billie: “There's a lot of lying on purpose. And it's not like how rappers lie in their music because they think it sounds dope. It's more like making a character out of yourself. I wrote the song '8' from the perspective of somebody who I hurt. When people hear that song, they're like, 'Oh, poor baby Billie, she's so hurt.' But really I was just a dickhead for a minute and the only way I could deal with it was to stop and put myself in that person's place.” Being a teen nihilist role model: Billie: “I love meeting these kids, they just don't give a fuck. And they say they don't give a fuck because of me, which is a feeling I can't even describe. But it's not like they don't give a fuck about people or love or taking care of yourself. It's that you don't have to fit into anything, because we all die, eventually. No one's going to remember you one day—it could be hundreds of years or it could be one year, it doesn't matter—but anything you do, and anything anyone does to you, won't matter one day. So it's like, why the fuck try to be something you're not?” Embracing sadness: Billie: “Depression has sort of controlled everything in my life. My whole life I’ve always been a melancholy person. That’s my default.” FINNEAS: “There are moments of profound joy, and Billie and I share a lot of them, but when our motor’s off, it’s like we’re rolling downhill. But I’m so proud that we haven’t shied away from songs about self-loathing, insecurity and frustration. Because we feel that way, for sure. When you’ve supplied empathy for people, I think you’ve achieved something in music.” Staying present: Billie: “I have to just sit back and actually look at what's going on. Our show in Stockholm was one of the most peak life experiences we've had. I stood onstage and just looked at the crowd—they were just screaming and they didn’t stop—and told them, 'I used to sit in my living room and cry because I wanted to do this.' I never thought in a thousand years this shit would happen. We’ve really been choking up at every show.” FINNEAS: “Every show feels like the final show. They feel like a farewell tour. And in a weird way it kind of is, because, although it's the birth of the album, it’s the end of the episode.”
Artist Playlists
- It took the ultimate anti-pop star to redefine pop for the 2020s.
- Listen as Billie Eilish and FINNEAS talk us through HIT ME HARD AND SOFT track by track.
- Immerse yourself in her uncanny, utterly captivating vision.
- The singer-songwriter shares her favourite tracks that feel like summer.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- The brooding rock and R&B that shaped her raw electro-pop.
Live Albums
Radio Shows
- Billie Eilish and her dad share songs they’ve introduced to each other.
- What the singer's groupies would hear if they were with her 24/7.
- This song took her vocals to new heights—literally.
- She followed her gut—and ended up with a masterpiece.
- The duo take Zane through HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.
- The album that redefined teen-pop superstardom.
- 2019 was the year the “bad guy” took over pop music.
- How Barbie helped Billie find her inspiration.
- The artist talks to Zane about “What Was I Made For?”
About Billie Eilish
When singer-songwriter Billie Eilish feels something new, the first thing she does is take out her phone and write it down. “You can write anything,” she told Apple Music in an interview for the Up Next series. “You can say the truth, and you can not tell anyone that it’s the truth—you can just write it, and it’ll be yours.” Raised and homeschooled in Los Angeles by actor-musician parents, Eilish (born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell in 2001) started writing songs when she was around 11, exploring a strain of melancholy, minimal and slightly surrealistic pop influenced as much by Lana Del Rey as the radical honesty of rappers like Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt. Writing and recording with her brother-producer, FINNEAS, at their parents’ house, Eilish released dont smile at me in 2017, followed by an ever-evolving series of singles. Hardly two years later, she’d released the award-winning WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (2019), an experimental-pop opus that explored mental health and all manner of sleep phenomena, totally upending the notions of what constitutes pop music. (She also won the inaugural Apple Music Award for Global Artist of the Year in 2019.) Despite the attention, Eilish did her best to stake out a space of freedom and fluidity, expanding her range of collaborators and dodging easy definition. “If people think I have a sound, if people are like, ‘Oh yeah, her sound is this,’ if someone asks you what my sound is and you have an answer for them—you’re wrong,” she said. “Instead of trying to find a sound, when I want to make something and when I have an idea of what I want to make, I’m just going to make that.” Eilish stayed true to that philosophy on 2021’s Happier Than Ever, a lighter, airier collection of jazz-inflected torch songs that chart a path of maturity and self-discovery. She’s also made her mark on the big screen, with the haunting Bond theme “No Time To Die” and the poignant Barbie ballad “What Was I Made For?”—proving that no matter which direction her whims take her, Eilish remains a trailblazer.
- HOMETOWN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- BORN
- 18 December 2001
- GENRE
- Alternative