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Billie Eilish Keeps Up Her Winning Streak With the Surprising and Intimate ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’: Album Review
Billie Eilish's latest is filled with gorgeous subtlety—plus one saucy, not-so-subtle banger, 'Lunch'—and firms up her insta-place in the pantheon.
The finale, “Blue,” starts off nice-and-easy but turns into something much more melancholy partway through, like she suddenly decided she needed to take the title deadly seriously and opted to write an entirely different song two minutes in, ending the album on a seriously haunting note you didn’t quite see coming. With a Finneas bass line that won’t quit (now is probably not the time to describe that or his closing guitar solo as “tasty”), “Lunch” is the album’s obvious and unabashed banger, and something that will be stirring up lots of fights as it comes up for request on family driving trips all summer long. The opening track, “Skinny,” is the closest connector here to a ballad like the masterful Oscar winner “What Was I Made For”,” but it’s really reprising several themes left over from the previous album: body image, the trappings of fame, and how significant others might be either attracted or repelled by proximity to the spotlight.
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