See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Fortunately, at just 19, there are likely to be many more. "It was the most enriching and deepest experience I have ever had with my music ," she says. That ambition is easy to understand when she mentions Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Julie London as influences.
Accompanied by her brother, Finneas O'Connell, an enjoying a slick production job, Billie Eilish has created a masterful record which she hoped would prove timeless. Thus, among Grimes-like syncopated choruses ( GOLDWING), autotuned R'N'B (NDA) in the style of 070 Shake, folk ballads ( Halley's Comet) and spartan soundscapes ( Not My Responsibility), she manages to slip in the guitar-vocals number " Your Power", an emotional peak on which she speaks about suffering abuse. Eilish oscillates between slow tempos ( Getting Older, Billie bossa nova) and haunting EDM beats on Oxytocin – the hormone of love – or minimalist sounds (as on OverHeated), making for an amazing mix of genres. Very eclectic musically, sometimes vintage, sometimes futuristic, its sixteen tracks rack up one surprise after another : Billie is never where you expect her to be. Where the last album was all about nightmarish fiction, this more intimate work takes a realist turn. Take the cover, where she poses as Our Lady of Sorrows, this gifted but tearful icon chooses to clothe yesterday's sorrows in soft and voluptuous pop sounds. "Almost none of the songs on this album are joyful ", she points out. Her tortured dark pop has evolved with the ironically-titled Happier Than Ever. Having shot to international superstardom with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and having already taken five Grammy Awards , Billie Eilish has flipped the script without changing the fundamentals. It goes without saying that this second album was hotly anticipated.
More exciting news to come from Billie Eilish very soon.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Reaffirming Billie Eilish’s place, always ahead of the curve, never compromising her sound or vision. The first to be revealed since the album announcement is “ bury a friend,” a driving tour-de-force of a song, trailblazing its way into the world and sounding quite unlike anything else that’s out right now. Recorded in Finneas’ bedroom opposite Billie’s, the pair spent most of 2018 writing songs on the road, then spending many days and nights when off the road, at home, recording the album.
‘ WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?’ was written, produced and recorded entirely by 17-year-old Billie Eilish and brother Finneas in their childhood home of Highland Park, Los Angeles. I might be the monster under your bed too.” “I also confess that I’m this monster, because I’m my own worst enemy. If you put yourself in that mindset, what is this creature doing or feeling?” She continues. ‘bury a friend’ is literally from the perspective of the monster under my bed. “I immediately knew what it was going to be about, what the visuals were going to be, and everything in terms of how I wanted it to be perceived. “When we made ‘bury a friend,’ the whole album clicked in my head,” Billie explains.