Billie Eilishhas made her fans happier than ever with the surprise release of two new songs.
The “My Future” singer, 20, dropped the two-trackGuitar Songson Thursday, her first new music since the release ofHappier Than Everin July 2021.
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“The 30th” tells the story of an apparent car accident and subsequent hospitalization, as well as the fear Eilish felt in the aftermath.
The seven-time Grammy Award winner toldZane Lowe on Apple Music 1that the song was written on Dec. 30, and it was the first song she’d written since “Happier Than Ever.”
“That’s why it’s called ‘The 30th’ because something happened on November 30th and it had just been the most indescribable thing to have to witness and experience. I had been writing down all these thoughts that I was having,” she explained. “I was with Finneas, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know what you were planning on doing, but we need to write this song about this right now,’ and we did.”
“When you’re on the road, and especially the schedule that we had, it was really tough. But we tried,” she said.
The singer said that the line about Roe vs. Wade was actually written several weeks before it was officially overturned, as “a placeholder of doom.”
“I mean, it was the day of Glastonbury that it happened, and… we were at this house, and I was sitting with the dogs in the grass,” she said. “My mom came out, and she just stood there, and she went, ‘They overturned it.’ We all were just like… God, it was like a curtain of doom. I mean, there was almost no even reaction. I had this, I guess, now that I think about it, unrealistic hope that that wouldn’t happen. We wrote that line when the news got out about the fact that they’re considering overturning it, and we wrote that line then. It’s a really scary world right now.”
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“It’s been so long since I’ve had music that we make and then it’s out,” she said. “That was what I wanted. I was consciously like, ‘I want to go back to the way it was in the beginning.'”
She also noted that while these two are the only new songs she has under her belt at the moment, she and her brother do want to make another album in the next year.
“We’re going to hopefully make another album in the next year,” she said. “I mean, it’s crazy. I hate to say this because I know it’s a disappointment to people that think, “Oh my God, they’re making an album. It’s going to come out soon.”… [But] I don’t want to wait until the next album cycle to put these songs on an album and then it’s like, ‘Wow, we have these two guitar songs that are two years old.'”
Eilish, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at this year’s ceremony, has spent much of the year on her Happier Than Ever tour. She is set to continue the tour in Asia in August.
source: people.com
