![]() ![]() Eilish’s creepy eccentricity feels so removed from the pop formula it helps distance her from the music industry’s historically lewd maceration of teen idols. She filled her videos with flowing black tears, plunging needles, and arachnid hors d’oeuvres instead of twirling around sleek cityscapes. She cast her bored, listless eyes upward instead of batting them at the camera. ![]() ![]() She snared a young fanbase with her hooks and raised her middle finger to pop’s status quo here was this music that shifted between genres-from pop to trap and EDM-made by a lawless young female singer sporting baggy, androgynous clothes. Her rise has been striking: At 14, she put the song “ Ocean Eyes” on SoundCloud, a glassy, straightforward ballad with tearful synths and woozy, Lana Del Rey-indebted crooning. There are several more oddball moments like this-absent-minded humming to a track, giggling asides-that remind us she’s still a precocious, creative teen girl on this rocket, and all her gothic proclivities don’t cancel out how much she’s enjoying the ride. This fact trumpets the arrival of her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?: For its intro, Eilish removes her much-loathed transparent braces in a series of lightly gross, ASMR-worthy slurps, and proclaims, “I have taken out my Invisalign and this is the album.” She then dissolves into heaving cackles, the kind that alienates any onlookers too prissy to partake. This was later confirmed as the album title, along with the release date's announcement.Of course, the 17-year-old Eilish is still waiting for her teeth to straighten out. She began hinting the upcoming release of new music in April 2021, and cryptically revealed the title "Happier Than Ever" in an Instagram post on the 26th, which included a 15-second long snippet of the song of the same name, which Eilish had previously teased in the documentary film. Also in February, Eilish announced the album was likely to contain 16 tracks. Her documentary film, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, was released the following month. In January 2021, Eilish stated that the album "feels exactly how I want it to", with her not wanting to change a single thing about it. In March, Eilish's brother Finneas O'Connell further confirmed this, stating that it would be "pretty pure in its intention" like Eilish's debut, with the two continuing to make the type of music they like to "play live". In a January 2020 interview, Eilish stated she would begin working on her upcoming second studio album during the year. Following its release, Eilish continued releasing standalone singles, including "Everything I Wanted" (2019), "My Future" (2020), and "Therefore I Am" (2020), all of which debuted within the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100. ![]() It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and along with its single, "Bad Guy" (2019), earned Eilish five Grammy Awards. ![]()
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