Using that as a launching pad, Eilish goes on to explore fame and it’s dark sides. The 16-track album that clocks in at just under an hour kicks off with “Getting Older” and a 19-year-old prodigy’s cutting, clear-eyed observation that “Things I once enjoyed/Just keep me employed now.” It’s a superb album, ambitious and mature - a young woman pulling the fire alarm while we all stare at the flames. And before the collection is done, she returns to the phrase “I’m happier than ever” but qualifies it with “When I’m away from you.” So it’s complicated.įew people do complicated like Eilish and “Happier Than Ever” is a fascinating look at a messy, famous pop star’s life, as diaristic as Taylor Swift but more self-critical and emotionally candid. But there’s a tear running down her cheek on the cover. “I’m happier than ever,” she sings on the first song. In another track off Happier Than Ever, called “Not My Responsibility” that is spoken word, Billie Eilish got honest about the way in which she is constantly judged no matter what she wears.“Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish (Darkroom/Interscope Records)īillie Eilish seems to be in a good place on her sophomore album. It is so bad for young women – and boys, too – to see that.ĭuring “Overheated,” Billie Eilish sings “All these other inanimate bitches, it’s none of my business/Don’t you get sick of posing for pictures with that plastic body?” The song also speaks head on to the issue with the lyrics “Is it news? News to who? That I really just look like the rest of you.” Eilish’s media narrative goes to show how much attention our society places on female bodies, even when a celebrity like her is not even trying to bring focus to it. It’s just when you deny it and say, ‘Oh, I got this all on my own, and if you just tried harder, you could get it.’ That makes me literally furious. It’s completely fine to get work done – do this, do that, do what makes you feel happy. ‘OverHeated’ applies to all the people who promote unattainable body standards. Eilish continued to speak about an issue that is relatable to a lot of young women: She didn’t want to be sexualized as a young artist and has her own negative feelings about her figure she’s had to start coming to terms with while millions of people around the world follow her career. The singer typically layers up for this exact reason, unfortunately. Because I have such a terrible relationship with my body, like you would not believe, so I just have to disassociate… Then you get a paparazzi picture taken when you were running to the door and had just put anything on, and didn’t know the picture’s being taken, and you just look how you look, and everyone’s like, ‘Fat!’īillie Eilish is referring to a round of paparazzi pictures Page Six published in October of her walking in a tank top and shorts that went viral. In pictures, they look like I don’t even know what. Especially because I wear clothes that are bigger and easier to move in without showing everything – they can be really unflattering. When I’m on stage, I have to disassociate from the ideas I have of my body.
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