“Things that I enjoy can sometimes just turn into things that feel like a burden, and it’s really weird. “That line isn’t really, like, ‘Oh, boohoo, I’m sad’ - it’s really just a f-ing fact,” Eilish says. “Things I once enjoyed / Just keep me employed now,” she voices at the outset of the album’s opening track, “Getting Older.” She sings about the unflattering paparazzi photos of her published by tabloids, about making boys who come to her house sign NDAs and about her fantasies of disappearing on a Hawaiian island. Lyrically, it’s lighter than a lot of the material on “Happier Than Ever,” a body of work that offers a picture of an artist grappling with her place in the spotlight. That song - the first single from the album, released nearly a year ago - has Eilish dreamily fantasizing about the days ahead, wondering who she’ll become as she transitions away from girlhood. When TikTok gave surprising new life to Surf Curse’s 2013 song “Freaks,” the band had just denied sexual misconduct allegations that nearly ended its career. Music These indie-rock lifers went from obscurity to scandal to a major-label deal in 10 months Her mother, Maggie Baird, hands her an immunity shot. Her brother, Finneas O’Connell - who has served as her sole musical collaborator since she began writing music - has a cold, and everyone on Eilish’s team is worried about her catching it.
Literally, physically growing up - like the actual chemicals in my brain shifting,” she says, sitting opposite a couch filled with vitamins and wellness supplements. “Honestly, it took growing up a little bit. So how did she end up at this industrial compound in the San Fernando Valley, readying for the July 30 release of her sophomore effort? The only people her age were in the audience, which had become both physically and emotionally untouchable. I just wanted to be doing teenager s-,” says Eilish, who was 16 when she toured her four-times platinum debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” She grew depressed, and her body didn’t react well to the stress she was constantly coming down with laryngitis or developing fevers. I hated the internet having a bunch of eyes on me. Which isn’t surprising, because the music industry didn’t see her coming either - a teenager with such a distinctive look and sound that mass appeal was in no way inevitable. But she felt ill-equipped to deal with the sudden onslaught of attention. After her debut single, “ Ocean Eyes,” became a viral hit on SoundCloud in 2015, she signed with Darkroom Records and landed a deal with Interscope. There was a moment not too long ago, admits the 19-year-old, when she was truly miserable. Is this what fame has done to Eilish? Taken the air out of the lungs of the wunderkind from Highland Park? Stripped her of her Rainbow Brite hair colors and oversize tees and turned her into a blond pin-up? “Happier Than Ever,” read the words above her face. Her eyes are blue and empty, staring vacantly into the distance.
The lone teardrop isn’t obvious at first, shiny enough that it could just be part of her glittery makeup. Billie Eilish is crying on the cover of her new album.
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