Billie Eilish

2024-06-04

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dont smile at me 2017

COPYCAT - Billie Eilish

作词 : FINNEAS/Billie Eilish

[by:符卡]

作曲 : FINNEAS/Billie Eilish

制作人 : FINNEAS

Don't be cautious, don't be kind

不要小心翼翼 不要心抱善念

You're committed, I'm your crime

我要你承诺 我是你唯一罪行

Push my button anytime

无时无刻 你都在触碰我最后底线

You got your finger on the trigger, but your trigger finger's mine

你的手指抚上扳机 但就算你扣动扳机的那根手指 也是属于我的

Silver dollar, golden flame

银票 金火

Dirty water, poison rain

脏水 毒雨

Perfect murder, take your aim

完美谋杀 瞄准你的目标

I don't belong to anyone, but everybody knows my name

我不属于任何人 但世人都知晓我的名讳

By the way, you've been uninvited

顺便说一下 你其实也没有被邀请过呢

'Cause all you say are all the same things I did

你做的一切不过是蹈我后辙

Copycat trying to cop my manner

山寨烂咖 总是想模仿我的风格

Watch your back when you can't watch mine

当你无法直视我的光芒时 最好当心你背后

Copycat trying to cop my glamor

山寨烂咖 总是想搞得像我一样光彩照人

Why so sad bunny you can't have mine?

得不到我的这一切 小妞你又为何心伤

Call me calloused, call me cold

叫我老手 夸我冷血

You're italic, I'm in bold

你歪七扭八的斜体 可比不上我这加粗的带劲

Call me c**ky, watch your tone

最好拿狂妄来形容我 看好你自己是否走调

You better love me, 'cause you're just a clone

你最好快快爱上我 因为你不过是我的克隆

By the way, you've been uninvited

顺便说一下 你其实也没有被邀请过呢

'Cause all you say are all the same things I did

你做的一切不过是蹈我后辙

Copycat trying to cop my manner

山寨烂咖 总是想模仿我的风格

Watch your back when you can't watch mine

当你无法直视我的光芒时 最好当心你背后

Copycat trying to cop my glamor

山寨烂咖 总是想搞得像我一样光彩照人

Why so sad bunny you can't have mine?

得不到我的这一切 小妞你又为何心伤

Mine

独属于我

I would hate to see you go

看你走掉的感觉真的是讨厌呢

Hate to be the one who told you so

真讨厌 我是那个告诉你最后真相的人

You just crossed the line

你只是有点越过了界线

You've run out of time

你的时间已经耗尽

I'm so sorry, now you know

真抱歉 现在你应该明晓

Sorry I'm the one that told you so

真抱歉 我是那个告诉你最后真相的人

Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry, sorry

对不起啦 对不起

psych!

假的啦

By the way, you've been uninvited

顺便说一下 你其实也没有被邀请过呢

'Cause all you say are all the same things I did

你做的一切不过是蹈我后辙

Copycat trying to cop my manner

山寨烂咖 总是想模仿我的风格

Watch your back when you can't watch mine

当你无法直视我的光芒时 最好当心你背后

Copycat trying to cop my glamor

山寨烂咖 总是想搞得像我一样光彩照人

Why so sad bunny you can't have mine?

得不到我的这一切 小妞你又为何心伤

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  1. 1 COPYCAT Billie Eilish
  2. 2 idontwannabeyouanymore Billie Eilish
  3. 3 my boy Billie Eilish
  4. 4 watch Billie Eilish
  5. 5 party favor Billie Eilish
  6. 6 bellyache Billie Eilish
  7. 7 ocean eyes Billie Eilish
  8. 8 hostage Billie Eilish
  9. 9 &burn (feat. Vincle Staples) Billie Eilish
  10. 10 lovely Billie Eilish
  11. 11 bitches broken hearts Billie Eilish
  12. 12 bellyache (Marian Hill Remix) Billie Eilish
  13. 13 COPYCAT (Sofi Tukker Remix) Billie Eilish
  14. 14 MyBoi (TroiBoi Remix) Billie Eilish
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The irresistible hooks and haunting vocals of bedroom production “Ocean Eyes” made Los Angeles teen Billie Eilish an internet sensation. This debut EP nudges things along nicely with its minimalist beats and lifting-yet-sinister lyricism. A rerecorded “Ocean Eyes” remains unnervingly assured, while the infectious pop of “Bellyache” holds a surrealist, macabre edge. Her voice—melancholy, theatrical, and soaring—impresses throughout and bears comparison to Lorde and Lana Del Rey. It’s hard to believe this all comes from a 15-year-old.

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 2019

!!!!!!! - Billie Eilish

作词 : Billie Eilish/FINNEAS

[by:符卡]

作曲 : Billie Eilish/FINNEAS

制作人 : FINNEAS

My Invisalign has finally...

我的牙套已经(Invisalign 即隐适美 一款隐形矫正牙套)

I have taken out my Invisalign, and this is the album

我终于把牙套取了 然后这里就是我的新专辑

Hahahahahahahahahahaha, ahh

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  1. 1 !!!!!!! Billie Eilish
  2. 2 bad guy Billie Eilish
  3. 3 xanny Billie Eilish
  4. 4 you should see me in a crown Billie Eilish
  5. 5 all the good girls go to hell Billie Eilish
  6. 6 wish you were gay Billie Eilish
  7. 7 when the party's over Billie Eilish
  8. 8 8 Billie Eilish
  9. 9 my strange addiction Billie Eilish
  10. 10 bury a friend Billie Eilish
  11. 11 ilomilo Billie Eilish
  12. 12 listen before i go Billie Eilish
  13. 13 i love you Billie Eilish
  14. 14 goodbye Billie Eilish
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Billie Eilish 于 2016 年推出另类流行歌曲《ocean eyes》,展现了她作为 Z 世代流行歌手的独特姿态:一位个性内向的叛逆女孩,喜欢弛放旋律、阴郁节奏、诡异影像以及幽默直率的情感表达。她在 17 岁时,推出了与哥哥 FINNEAS 共同创作的首张专辑,以暗黑忧郁的旋律为我们揭开了意识深层那些神秘晦暗的角落。

Billie 饱受夜惊症和睡眠麻痹困扰,又对此着迷不已。她与自己的潜意识有着复杂的关系。“我是床下的怪兽,我是我自己的敌人。”她告诉 Apple Music,“倒不是说整张专辑是一场噩梦,只是它很……超现实。”青春期焦虑和实验风格在专辑中产生了讨喜的奇异反应,很快就让 Billie Eilish 成了这个无常新时代的绝佳代言人。

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 favors 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.”

Happier Than Ever 2021

Getting Older - Billie Eilish

作词 : Billie Eilish O'Connell/FINNEAS

[by:伤感咩吖]

作曲 : Billie Eilish O'Connell/FINNEAS

I'm gettin' older, I think I'm agin' well

我的年龄日渐增长 我觉得我已全然长成

I wish someone had told me I'd be doin' this by myself

我多希望 某人能早早告诉我 我将独身前行

There's reasons that I'm thankful, there's a lot I'm grateful for

有许多事情值得我感谢 也许有许多事情我无比感激

But it's different when a stranger's always waitin' at your door

可当陌生人总在你门前等候时 一切会变得不同

Which is ironic 'cause the strangers seem to want me more

真的讽刺啊 因为那些陌生人 相比于曾经的任何人

Than anyone before (Anyone before)

似乎他们更渴求我 (相比于之前的任何人)

Too bad they're usually deranged

可惜他们许多都精神失常 真的太糟糕

Last week, I realized I crave pity

上周 我才意识到 我渴求怜悯

When I retell a story, I make everything sound worse

当我复述一则故事时 我会使一切听着很糟

Can't shake the feeling that I'm just bad at healing

无法摆脱 我难以被治愈的感觉

And maybe that's the reason every sentence sounds rehearsed

或许这便为 每句话都好似经过反复琢磨的原因吧

Which is ironic because when I wasn't honest

这真的讽刺啊 因为曾经在我不诚实时

I was still bein' ignored (Lyin' for attention just to get neglection)

我会被他人忽视 (为了获得关注而说谎 却总是会被忽视)

Now we're estranged

如今我们皆被疏远

Things I once enjoyed

我曾享受的一切

Just keep me employed now

如今使我无比忙碌

Things I'm longing for

我正渴求的一切

Someday, I'll be bored of

某日我也终将厌烦

It's so weird

真的怪异无比

That we care so much until we don't

我们付出太多关心 未曾停止

I'm gettin' older, I've got more on my shoulders

我的年龄日渐增长 我肩上的重任愈发增加

But I'm gettin' better at admitting when I'm wrong

可在我不得不承认错误之时 我会变得更好

I'm happier than ever, at least, that's my endeavor

我获得了前所未有的快乐 至少我已竭力

To keep myself together and prioritize my pleasure

使我自身振奋 并划分出我的愉悦

'Cause, to be honest, I just wish that what I promise

因为 实话实说 我只希望 允诺的一切

Would depend on what I'm given, mmm (Not on his permission)

能够取决于我给予的一切 (未经他的允许)

(Wasn't my decision) To be abused, mmm

(并非我的抉择) 受恶语相向 嗯 嗯 嗯

Things I once enjoyed

我曾享受的一切

Just keep me employed now, mmm

如今使我无比忙碌

Things I'm longing for, mmm

我正渴求的一切

Someday, I'll be bored of

某日我也终将厌烦

It's so weird

真的怪异无比

That we care so much until we don't

我们付出太多关心 未曾停止

But next week, I hope I'm somewhere laughing

可是到了下周 我希望我能于某处欢笑

For anybody asking, I promise I'll be fine

如果有任何人询问我的状况 我保证我会安然无恙

I've had some trauma, did things I didn't wanna

我已历经些许创伤 做过我不想做的事

Was too afraid to tell ya, but now, I think it's time

我过于恐惧 无法与你讲述 可如今 我觉得是时候了

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  1. 1 Getting Older Billie Eilish
  2. 2 I Didn't Change My Number Billie Eilish
  3. 3 Billie Bossa Nova Billie Eilish
  4. 4 my future Billie Eilish
  5. 5 Oxytocin Billie Eilish
  6. 6 GOLDWING Billie Eilish
  7. 7 Lost Cause Billie Eilish
  8. 8 Halley's Comet Billie Eilish
  9. 9 Not My Responsibility Billie Eilish
  10. 10 OverHeated Billie Eilish
  11. 11 Everybody Dies Billie Eilish
  12. 12 Your Power Billie Eilish
  13. 13 NDA Billie Eilish
  14. 14 Therefore I Am Billie Eilish
  15. 15 Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish
  16. 16 Male Fantasy Billie Eilish
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Z 世代艺术家们向来对标签嗤之以鼻,在他们的世界里,性别是流动的,风格可以被抛弃,他们正在翻越壁垒,朝着后流派音乐世界前行。

2021 年夏天,Billie Eilish 以一头金发、一袭成熟性感装束亮相时尚杂志引发了轩然大波,加上单曲《Lost Cause》的 MV 中改走轻盈居家风,让大众不禁发问:这位“怪奇”少女不再想玩儿另类了吗?再听这张新专辑,独立女声的歌唱性更多包裹了另类电子音效,致敬经典、传统的爵士与 Bossa Nova 陪伴民谣、唱咏,平衡着昔日叛逆的黑色与幻想梦呓。就像封面上的金色造型一样,这位年轻的偶像巨星在自己的新专辑中宣布了改变,给了成长一个新答案。

2019 年的“封神”专辑《WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?》中,Billie 肆意涂抹着关于死亡、暴力、黑暗与恐惧的另类异色,梦呓般的歌声在极简电子节拍中掠过,在年轻世代看似光鲜亮丽的青春里,翻起了一道道灰色海浪。当浪潮退去,瞬息万变的网络将她的艺术灵魂一口吞下后,那些挑战世俗的一举一动,去流派、去标签的创造,也都无可避免地“被标签化”,成为置于消费殿堂内的景观。一夕成名之后,各种窥探、误解和压力也接踵而至。所以《Happier Than Ever》势必是再次上演的“反叛”——过去有多么虚无离奇,如今就把多么真实的心境和盘托出。仿佛在经过大量的媒体与社交网络曝光之后,仍然有一个世人未曾见过的 Billie Eilish,在这张专辑里等着被彻底了解。

“我觉得我之前创作的一切都有点像在和自己交战,尽管我很喜欢它们。”在谈到《Happier Than Ever》的制作过程时,Billie 告诉 Apple Music,“这次感觉真的很棒。一切都很自然,没有压力,也不觉得可怕。”这位 19 岁的唱作歌手依然与哥哥 FINNEAS 共同完成了制作,很大程度上,这张专辑的灵感来自传奇歌手 Julie London 和她在上世纪中叶迷离而感性的流行、爵士作品。和前作相比,《Happier Than Ever》更显柔和轻盈,Billie 对演唱的掌控是其中的一大亮点:在多首电子或民谣作品中,她的歌声就像在演奏不同的乐器,恰切释放着情绪中的壮阔与幽微。而她的“歌手自我修养”——变得更不 Billie,也可以从单曲《Male Fantasy》清晰地听出。

这张专辑在编曲上的新感觉也能被耳朵抓到:《Billie Bossa Nova》是一首打上“Billie+FINNEAS”印记的 Bossa Nova——FINNEAS 用他的 beat 重新诠释了这一经典风格,让这首歌听起来既复古又现代。专辑同名曲《Happier Than Ever》又在金色的柔光中暗藏着一枚摇滚炸弹:怀旧人声爵士般的迷醉与民谣琴弦轻扫下的沉静,在不动声色间突然递进至独立摇滚的噪音墙,底鼓与吉他一起轰出 Fuzz 的锐利,割裂空气中的安静和诉说的平静,低吟爆发成合唱与歇斯底里,仿佛要把“你毁了一切美好”(you ruined everything good)带来的难过如数奉还。这首用到乐队化编曲的作品让人感到意外,和这位卧室音乐人之前的歌,以及新专辑中的其他单曲对比都算是一个异类,也因此让专辑的主题曲爆发出不一样的能量。

《Happier Than Ever》让人捕捉到了一种真正的平和与自由感,即使其中仍然写满这位在黑暗中嬉戏的少女的敏感:在流动、乖张的音符下,她让瞩目生活暗面的种种斗争、猜疑与冷暴力成为了主角。听来充满倾诉感的《Getting Older》被放在开场,让“Happier Than Ever”这一主题从一开始就露出了真正的“不快乐”意味,《Not My Responsibility》为大众眼中的自我辩护,谈论性向的《Oxytocin》中响起了 Fuzz 噪音与扭曲电子重拍的激进。而之前陆续发布过的单曲也首首贴题:《NDA》写下 Billie 被卷入名誉、隐私及人际关系的一场斗争,以 Alt-pop 为基础,在极简的 Trance 旋律、合成器浪涌与密集低音下,推动着少许 Auto-tune 后的低吟与呼喊。动人的《Your Power》像是《i love you》的延伸,一样伤感却没有深沉的痛。这首 lo-fi 民谣拨动的是 Billie 感情经历后的心弦,为相处关系中的人们带来启发,同样是一封致权力滥用者的公开信。由爵士乐启发的 Trip Hop 曲目《Lost Cause》唱到“我知道你将自己视作一个十足的亡命徒”(I know you think you’re such an outlaw),向她曾经的热单《bad guy》发起回应。同样,专辑的主打曲《my future》也是一首爵士与灵魂乐浮想中的当代 R&B,丢弃了所有的焦虑与压力,在面向希望的自省中,Billie 唱出了爱自己的颂歌。

ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, much of the production and arrangements here feel open and airy by comparison, inspired in large part by the placid mid-century pop and jazz of torch singer Julie London. And whether she’s sharing new perspective on age (“Getting Older”), sensuality (“Oxytocin”), or the absurdity of fame (“NDA”), there’s a sense of genuine freedom—if not peace—in Eilish’s singing, her voice able to change shape and size as she sees fit, an instrument under her control and no one else’s. “I started to feel like a parody of myself, which is super weird,” she says. “I just tried to listen to myself and figure out what I actually liked versus what I thought I would have liked in the past. I had to really evaluate myself and be like, ‘What the hell do I want with myself right now?’”

It’s a sign of growth, most striking in the clear skies of “my future” and the emotional clarity of the album’s towering title cut, which starts as a gentle ballad and blossoms, quite naturally and unexpectedly, into a growing wave of distorted guitars and distant screams. Both sound like breakthroughs. “There was no thought of, ‘What’s this going to be? What track is this?’” she says of the writing process. “We just started writing and we kept writing. Over time, it just literally created itself. It just happened. It was easy.”

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 2024

SKINNY - Billie Eilish

作词 : Finneas O'Connell/Billie Eilish O'Connell

[by:melancholydeathofpeachyangel]

作曲 : Finneas O'Connell/Billie Eilish O'Connell

Fell in love for the first time

有生以来第一次坠入爱河

With a friend, it's a good sign

与一位挚友 这是个好的征兆

Feelin' off when I feel fine

本该感觉不错时 却心绪低落

Twenty-one took a lifetime

才活到二十一岁 仿佛已经历了一生

People say I look happy

旁人说 我看起来很开心

Just because I got skinny

仅仅是因为我瘦了一些

But the old me is still me and maybe the real me

但昔日的我仍然是我 也许那才是真正的我

And I think she's pretty

而且 我觉得她很漂亮

And I still cry

可我仍然会哭泣

Cry

哭泣

And you know why

而你知晓缘由

Am I acting my age now?

我现在的举止是否与年纪相称?

Am I already on the way out?

我是否已经踏上了被时间淘汰的道路?

When I step off the stage, I'm a bird in a cage

当我离开舞台 我便是一只笼中鸟

I'm a dog in a dog pound

我正如收容所里的流浪狗

And you said I was your secret

你曾说过 我是你的秘密

And you didn't get to keep it

但你却没能够保守

And the internet is hungry for the meanest kind of funny

互联网对那些最刻薄的笑话如饥似渴

And somebody's gotta feed it

而总得有人去填平它的欲望

Do you still cry?

你仍然会哭泣吗?

Still cry

仍然会哭泣

Cry

哭泣

I

Never did you wrong

从未辜负过你任何

And my

而我

My patience is gone

我的耐心已消失殆尽

And I

而我

I never did you wrong

我从未辜负过你任何

I

I loved you for so long

我深爱着你如此之久

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  1. 1 SKINNY Billie Eilish
  2. 2 LUNCH Billie Eilish
  3. 3 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish
  4. 4 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish
  5. 5 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish
  6. 6 THE GREATEST Billie Eilish
  7. 7 L’AMOUR DE MA VIE Billie Eilish
  8. 8 THE DINER Billie Eilish
  9. 9 BITTERSUITE Billie Eilish
  10. 10 BLUE Billie Eilish
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我们对 Billie Eilish 擅长颠覆期待的创作方式心中有数,但《HIT ME HARD AND SOFT》依然提供了新鲜的惊讶。即使对 Billie 来说这也是一张格外丰富的专辑,从头至尾充满戏剧性,抛出了一位站在世界之巅并对此心知肚明的艺人的勇气。在紧凑的 45 分钟里,Billie 为歌迷送上了热情、迷幻的遐想和对酷儿文化的态度,而一些更为柔软的情绪蔓延在伤感的分手情歌和对爵士乐的情有独钟。专辑丰富却没有让人觉得凌乱无章,这要归功于 Billie 的特质:冷冽歌声、会心的歌词和让柔情涌现得排山倒海的独特。

《HIT ME》是 Billie 的第三张专辑。和前两张一样,也是和哥哥兼长期创作搭档 FINNEAS 共同录制的。在构思专辑概念时,这个屡获大奖的创作二人组想创作的新专辑,是让歌迷感觉如同掉进了一个平行宇宙。事实证明,这个宇宙和她创造历史的首张专辑——2019 年的《WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?》——有着颇多共通之处。相对于 2021 年用爵士渲染过的《Happier Than Ever》(Billie 说这张专辑是她在“困惑、抑郁的疫情迷雾”中录制的),她的第一和第三张专辑倒更像是姊妹篇。在《Happier Than Ever》之后的三年里,她一直努力回归自我:外出和朋友一起玩,更加开放地谈论性与身份,做各种让她感觉真实的事,或者说,感觉“正常”的事。今天的 Billie 还守护着内心的坦诚与脆弱,但 22 岁的她已揽获多座大奖,这些心事也不如从前那般沉重。如今让她难以入眠的不再是内心的不安全感,而更多聚集在悲伤与心痛,她的歌也因此呈现得丰满和生动。

低频强劲的《LUNCH》不可避免地成了专辑的焦点,这首歌描述对某位女性的深深迷恋,并把两人的交往比作午餐;在《THE DINER》和《CHIHIRO》中,Billie 回到了创意共振点,找回了她赖以成名的幽寂、黑暗、哥特质感,并让它们继续新鲜和强烈。与此同时,她以这种核心音景为跳板,走出了让人惊喜的方向——《L’AMOUR DE MA VIE》从爵士抒情走向 Trance 狂欢,《BITTERSUITE》在 Bossa Nova 的前调外包裹合成器的澎湃浪涌。这一切,都是她这次回归到聚光灯下的宣言。

Billie Eilish has always delighted in subverting expectations, but HIT ME HARD AND SOFT still, somehow, lands like a meteor. “This is the most ‘me’ thing I’ve ever made,” she tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “And purely me—not a character.” An especially wide-ranging and transportive project, even for her, it’s brimming with the guts and theatricality of an artist who has the world at her feet—and knows it. In a tight 45 minutes, Eilish does as she promises and hits listeners with a mix of scorching send-ups, trance excursions, and a stomping tribute to queer pleasure, alongside more soft-edged cuts like teary breakup ballads and jaunts into lounge-y jazz. But the project never feels zigzaggy thanks to, well, the Billie Eilish of it all: her glassy vocals, her knowing lyrics, her unique ability to make softness sound so huge.

HIT ME is Eilish’s third album and, like the two previous ones, was recorded with her brother and longtime creative partner FINNEAS. In conceptualizing it, the award-winning songwriting duo were intent on creating the sort of album that makes listeners feel like they’ve been dropped into an alternate universe. As it happens, this universe has several of the same hallmarks as the one she famously drew up on her history-making debut, 2019’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?. In many ways, this project feels more like that album’s sequel than 2021’s jazzy Happier Than Ever, which Eilish has said was recorded during a confusing, depressive pandemic haze. In the three years since, she has tried to return to herself—to go outside, hang out with friends, and talk more openly about sex and identity, all things that make her feel authentic and, for lack of a better word, normal.

“As much as Happier Than Ever was coming from this place of, like, ‘We’re so good. This sounds so good,’ it was also not knowing at all who I was,’” she tells Apple Music. FINNEAS agrees, calling it their “identity crisis album.” But HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is, she says, the reverse. “The whole time we were making it, we were like, ‘I don’t know if I’m making anything good, this might be terrible…’ But now I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I’m comfortable in who I am now.’ I feel like I know who I am now.”

As a songwriter, Eilish is still in touch with her vulnerabilities, but at 22, with a garage full of Grammys and Oscars, they aren’t as heavy. These days it’s heartache, not her own insecurities, that keeps her up at night, and the songs are juicier for it. “LUNCH,” a racy, bass-heavy banger that can’t help but hog the spotlight, finds Eilish crushing so hard on a woman that she compares the hook-up to a meal. “I’ve said it all before, but I’ll say it again/I’m interested in more than just being your friend,” she sings. The lyrics are so much more than lewd flirtations. They’re also a way of stepping back into the spotlight—older, wiser, more fully herself. Read below as Eilish and FINNEAS share the inside story behind a few standout songs.

“LUNCH”
BILLIE: “One of the verses was written after a conversation I had with a friend and they were telling me about this complete animal magnetism they were feeling. And I was like, ‘Ooh, I’m going to pretend to be them for a second and just write…and I’m gonna throw some jokes in there.’ We took ourselves a little too seriously on Happier Than Ever. When you start to embrace cringe, you’re so much happier. You have so much more fun.”

“BIRDS OF A FEATHER”
BILLIE: “This song has that ending where I just keep going—it’s the highest I’ve ever belted in my life. I was alone in the dark, thinking, ‘You know what? I’m going to try something.’ And I literally just kept going higher and higher. This is a girl who could not belt until I was literally 18. I couldn’t physically do it. So I’m so proud of that. I remember coming home and being like, ‘Mom! Listen!’”

“WILDFLOWER”
BILLIE: “To me, [the message here is] I’m not asking for reassurance. I am 100% confident that you love me. That’s not the problem. The problem is this thing that I can’t shake. It’s a girl code song. It’s about breaking girl code, which is one of the most challenging places. And it isn’t about cheating. It isn’t about anything even bad. It was just something I couldn’t get out of my head. And in some ways, this song helped me understand what I was feeling, like, ‘Oh, maybe this is actually affecting me more than I thought.’ I love this song for so many reasons. It’s so tortured and overthinky.”

“THE GREATEST”
BILLIE: “To us, this is the heart of the album. It completes the whole thing. Making it was sort of a turning point. Everything went pretty well after that. It kind of woke us back up.”
FINNEAS: “When you realize you’re willing to go somewhere that someone else isn’t, it’s so devastating. And everybody has been in some dynamic in their life or their relationship like that. When you realize that you’d sacrifice and wear yourself out and compromise all these things, but the person you’re in love with won’t make those sacrifices, or isn’t in that area? To me, that’s what that song is about. It’s like, you don’t even want to know how lonely this is.”

“L’AMOUR DE MA VIE”
FINNEAS: “The album is all about Billie. It’s not a narrative album about a fictional character. But we have always loved songs within songs within songs. Here, you’ve just listened to Billie sound so heartbroken in ‘THE GREATEST,’ and then she sings this song that’s like the antibody to that. It’s like, ‘You know what? Fuck you anyway.’ And then she goes to the club.”

“BLUE”
“The first quarter of ‘BLUE’ is a song Finneas and I made when I was 14 called ‘True Blue.’ We played it at little clubs before I had anything out, and never [released it] because we aged out of it. Years went by. Then, for a time, the second album was going to include one additional song called ‘Born Blue.’ It was totally different, and it didn’t make the cut. We never thought about it again. Then, in 2022, I was doing my laundry and found out ‘True Blue’ had been leaked. At first I was like ‘Oh god, they fucking stole my shit again,’ but then I couldn’t stop listening. I went on YouTube and typed ‘Billie Eilish True Blue’ to find all the rips of it, because I didn’t even have the original. Then it hit us, like, ‘Ooh, you know what’d be cool? What if we took both of these old songs, resurrected them, and made them into one?’ The string motif is the melody from the bridge of ‘THE GREATEST,’ which is also in ‘SKINNY,’ which starts the album. So it also ends the album.”


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