The song is structurally and lyrically simple and feels oh so raw starting from its very first lines tell me you’re not already intrigued by that and I know you’d be lying.Īnd thirdly, I love her social media presence. Here, Billie taps into very personal issues that a lot of people face as well, but tend to feel uncomfortable talking about. Through these opening lines, Billie constructs an interesting narrative where she herself is both ‘I’ and ‘you’, as if she is looking into the mirror and sees a revolting, disappointing version of herself that might actually be who she really is. The second highlights the extent of her mental turmoil and anxiety while the third is a plea a plea to be freed from her psychological entrapment and ultimately a plea to herself. I just wish you could feel what you say.” In just the first line, Billie confronts her superficial, fake-happy persona this discloses to listeners her hypercritical side which she inflicts, painfully so, on herself. Let’s quickly examine the opening lines from her song ‘idontwannabeyouanymore’: “Don’t be that way, fall apart twice a day. She is straight to the point but hits the point with a perfect bull’s-eye. Second, her lyrics are simple yet complex by this, I mean that she is able to convey a lot through very little words, that less is more when it comes to Billie Eilish. I’ve always liked her for multiple reasons: First, her voice is brilliantly angelic (just listen to that now legendary ‘Genius’ interview), which perfectly juxtaposes with her dark or pained lyrical content. Billie was a huge part of my A-Levels years I strongly connected with ‘Don’t Smile At Me’ and it helped me through some really, really rough times. I found out about Billie Eilish in 2016, when ‘Ocean Eyes’ first came out. "-" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.I was here first.
Her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released on March 29, 2019, and peaked at number one in 15 countries around the world including the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. Eilish then released the internationally charting singles such as " Lovely" (with Khalid), " You Should See Me in a Crown", " When the Party's Over", " Come Out and Play", " Bury a Friend", " Wish You Were Gay", " Bad Guy", " Everything I Wanted", " My Future", and " Therefore I Am". In August 2017, Eilish released her first EP, Don't Smile at Me, which reached number 14 on the US Billboard 200, number 12 on the UK Albums Chart, and the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden. According to IFPI, Eilish was the 4th best-selling artist of 2019 and 5th best-selling artist of 2020. As of October 2021, Eilish has accumulated 76.7 billion career streams worldwide.
At age 17, she became the youngest female artist in UK chart history to score a number-one album. Eilish is regarded by various media outlets as the "Queen of Gen-Z Pop". IFPI crowned " Bad Guy" as 2019's biggest selling single globally, selling 19.5 million units in a year span. According to RIAA, she has sold 41.5 million digital singles and 5 million albums. American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish has released two studio albums, one live album, one video album, four extended plays (EPs), 31 singles, and 25 music videos.