The 22-year-old American singer is releasing her third album this Friday, May 17, Hit me hard and soft, including a song titled “The Love of My Life”.
Billie Eilish, the indolent teen idol, is back with a new album. Just like his two previous albums, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2019 and Happier Than Ever in 2021, Hit Me Hard And Soft is produced entirely with his brother Finneas O’Connell.
Before it was posted online, nothing had leaked about this album, which was not preceded by any single. A way to fight against the fragmented listening of an album, and the cutting up of songs for Tiktok, as she confided to Rolling Stone. “I don’t like singles from albums.” I like being immersed in the world of an album,” says his brother Finneas, in the same interview.
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“This album is me”
As in her two previous albums, the singer gives herself in Hit me hard and soft. “I feel like this album is me,” she told Rolling Stone. “He’s not a character.”
On the musical side, “it is not a concept album, but a set of coherent songs, inspired by works of authors from the last 15 years, such as Viva La Vida by Coldplay, Born to Die by Lana Del Rey, Goblin by Tyler the Creator, Electra Heart by Marina and the Diamonds and Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples.
In barely five years, the young singer has managed to insinuate herself into the ears of young audiences – and into Barack Obama‘s playlist -, with heady melodies and themes like suicide, depression, body dysmorphia. Her feminist and environmental commitment aligns with the concerns of her young audience.
Less qualified than Taylor Swift
The singer discovered thanks to the song Ocean Eyes in 2015, when she was 13 years old, never minces her words to say the difficulty of being a young woman in the public eye.
“Being a woman is such a battle, forever. Especially if you’re a young, prominent woman. It’s really unfair,” she told Variety last November.
Less qualified and less “good friend” than the essential Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish has made her doubts and her imperfections a strength and a link with her audience. Youngest artist to sing the theme song of a James Bond film with his title No
Time To Die, which won her an Oscar and a Golden, Billie Eilish also marked the soundtrack of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie with her song What Was I Made For, also an Oscar winner.
Less qualified and less “good friend” than the essential Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish has made her doubts and her imperfections a strength and a link with her audience. Youngest artist to sing the theme song of a James Bond film with his title No
Time To Die, which won her an Oscar and a Golden, Billie Eilish also marked the soundtrack of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie with her song What Was I Made For, also an Oscar winner.
