“Last week, I realized I crave pity,” she continues, as though preempting her trolls, “When I retell a story, I make everything sound worse.” “30 under 30 for another year,” she sings in “NDA,” “I can barely go outside, I think I hate it here.” In “Getting Older” she admits that “things I once enjoyed just keep me employed now” - a line made all the more sad by the fact that, as a child of the internet, Eilish understands just how her complaints will read to some online.
1, “Happier Than Ever” looks back at Eilish’s ascent and surveys the considerable damage: the paranoia and the loneliness and the distrust wrought by a couple of years spent struggling to acclimate to the most intense of spotlights. ‘I don’t want to tell anyone.’Īll but certain to enter the album chart next week at No. She won’t name names, but Billie Eilish says she suffered real trauma on her way to stardom. (In March, the Recording Academy gave Eilish two more Grammys, including one for record of the year for “Everything I Wanted,” a between-albums single about how she could already tell that success was going to be a nightmare.)īillie Eilish on surviving teen fame and trauma, and how she finally stopped reading the comments native the youngest person ever to win all four of the Grammy Awards’ biggest prizes in a single night. Even the people she allows into her rarefied air now pose a threat: “Had a pretty boy over, but he couldn’t stay,” she sings, “On his way out, made him sign an NDA.”Ī vivid embodiment of the time-honored pop tradition we might call Fame Sucks, “Happier Than Ever” is 19-year-old Eilish’s followup to her smash 2019 debut, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,” which went quadruple-platinum and made the green-haired L.A. In one song she laments the relentless scrutiny of her physical appearance in another she describes the strangers - “They’re usually deranged” - who show up uninvited at her door. When you fall into superstardom, where do you go?īillie Eilish has some answers to the question on her disquieting new album, “Happier Than Ever,” and despite that title they’re hardly advertisements for the journey.
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