Billie Eilish has some dark thoughts about the climate of celebrity on her second album, HappierThanEver, but the album is still a joy
If you’re an aficionado of the confessional school of pop songwriting, then waking up to the release of’s “Happier Than Ever” should feel like Christmas morning. Not that anything about it feels too neatly tied up with a bow.
So much of the album has already been out there that it seemed possible the full release might seem anticlimactic. Seeing as how six of the 16 tracks previously entered the sphere and have been picked to death , you might have wondered how many think-therefore-I-am-pieces about Eilish the world had left in it by the time release day rolled around. The answer should be: plenty more.
It’s an old truism that artists have an entire lifetime to write their first album, then sometimes spend the remainder of their lifetime writing about how unhappy the first album’s success made them. That’s a trap often best left avoided — but Eilish makes it work for her, in the considerable parts of the album that do go there, with a lot of trenchant observation and self-aware humor to go with the heightened levels of post-celebrity self-consciousness.
It’s not just music that Eilish has a saving love for, anyway. She allows herself some moments of real love, and/or just true lust, on the album, with some fellows whose evenings with her maybe didn’t end with the NDA. Or maybe the objects of her affection in “Billie Bossa Nova” or “Halley’s Comet” are fantasies, for now, but it’s good to have them, as antidotes to the toxic men of “I Didn’t Change My Number,” “Lost Cause” and “Your Power.
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