New Music FridayBillie Eilish Drops Highly Anticipated Sophomore Album ‘Happier Than Ever’: ‘I Feel Like Crying’

‘Getting Older’

During an interview with Spotify, Billie explained that this song “was tough to write ‘cause it’s a very revealing song talking about things that I, only at the time, had just felt I realized about myself and felt insecure about and wanted to talk about.”

‘I Didn’t Change My Number’

The song appears to be about Billie realizing that certain people are only texting her because of who she is. The singer alludes to ignoring someone who thought she changed her number but she only changed “who I reply to.”

‘Billie Bossa Nova’

“We have to do a lot of goofy bulls–t when we go on tour, where we enter through freight elevators in hotels and stuff, so that paparazzi doesn’t follow us to our room,” Finneas explained of this track while talking with Rolling Stone in June. “And so we acted as if there was also a secret love affair going on in there of Billie being like, ‘Nobody saw me in the lobby/Nobody saw me in your arms,’ as if there was a mystery person in her life during all of that.”

‘My Future’

This was the first song Billie released from this era of music.

“We wrote this at the very beginning of quarantine,” she told fans in a statement at the time. “It’s a song that’s really, really personal and special to me. When we wrote this song, it was exactly where my head was at — hopeful, excited and a crazy amount of self-reflection and self-growth.”

‘Oxytocin’

Referring to the “love hormone,” Rolling Stone explained that the song “looks at romance and hookups through the lens of a very famous person attempting to have both under the radar.”

‘GOLDWING’

“This song is really a metaphor for trying to protect someone in a position of vulnerability,” Billie told Spotify.

‘Lost Cause’

Fans have speculated that this song is about her past relationship with Brandon Quention Adams, with whom she broke up with in 2019. Their relationship was briefly showcased in Billie’s  The World’s a Little Blurry documentary. She has not spoken about the track’s meaning.

‘Halley’s Comet’

In the lyrics, Billie sings about having fallen in love. She compares the feeling to that of Halley’s Comet which is very rarely seen.

‘Not My Responsibility’

This was first showcased as an interlude at Billie’s concert prior to the coronavirus pandemic. The song is about her body image and how she’s portrayed in the public eye.

“I have never felt desired. My past boyfriends never made me feel desired. None of them. And it’s a big thing in my life that I feel I have never been physically desired by somebody,” Billie told GQ in June 2020. “So I dress the way I dress as I don’t like to think of you guys — I mean anyone, everyone — judging [my body], or the size of it. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t wake up one day and decide to wear a tank top, which I have done before.”

‘OverHeated’

Some have speculated that this song is about her being constantly photographed and the public making assumptions about her based on what they see on the internet.

‘Everybody Dies’

“It kinda varies in my head,” she told Spotify of this song. “Sometimes I’ll hear it and I’ll see a different colored blue and then I’ll hear it in a different way and I’ll see another type of color blue. That one smells like rain, for sure.”

‘Your Power’

“This is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” Billie captioned an Instagram post following the song’s release. “I feel very vulnerable putting this one out because I hold it so close to my heart. This is about many different situations that we’ve all either witnessed or experienced. I hope this can inspire change. Try not to abuse your power.”

‘NDA’

“I love it,” she said while chatting with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “I’m so happy that it’s seeing the light of day. … We were just messing around, and he just made that [sound], and we were like, ‘Oh!’ And it just was that … and it was way slower and pitched down. It was really slow, this crazy …  And we would just listen to it, and we would just walk around the room feeling it. And it was such a feeler. Oh my God, I kept picturing visuals for it. And I kept picturing legs, and girls and shapes, and darkness, and this cool.”

‘Therefore I Am’

“This song is very, very up for interpretation,” she shared on Apple Music’s New Music Daily in November 2020. “I’m curious to see what people get from it and also what they feel when they hear it. Yeah, it’s a little mean, a little bit. It [the song] was very fun to complete. It was fun to record, especially, because, I feel like you can hear it. I feel that I sound very, like, I’m just f–king around. I’m just joking and s–t.”

‘Happier Than Ever’

“The whole song is just more like nothing even specific that they did, you’re just not happy being with them. Can’t even explain it,” she teased in The World’s a Little Blurry documentary, appearing to speak about a past relationship.

‘Male Fantasy’

Wrapping up her album, Billie appears to sing about something that she’s been spoken about multiple times publicly. Fans know the singer has taken about her body image and how she’s chosen to dress as to not be sexualized by the public.