Billie Eilish has shared two brand new songs called "TV" and "The 30th," her first pieces of new music since dropping her sophomore record Happier Than Ever last year.
The two songs make up a release titled Guitar Songs, and they find Eilish singing, fittingly, over some gentle acoustic guitar. Eilish debuted "TV" last month in Manchester — the recorded version features crowd chants from that show — but "The 30th" hasn't been heard before.
"FINNEAS and I really wanted these to be yours as soon as possible. So here they are!!" Eilish said in a statement. "Performing 'TV' on tour was such a highlight for us too, so we took the audio from the first night we played it in Manchester and put it in the song. I get shivers every time I hear it. Hope you love the songs and thank you for letting us share our music with you."
On "TV," Eilish sings, "And I'll be in denial for at least a little while / What about the plans we made? / The internet's gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they're overturning Roe v. Wade," and in an interview with Zane Lowe about the song, she said:
We wrote that line a few weeks before it was officially overturned. It was a placeholder of doom. I mean, it was the day of Glastonbury that it happened, and I was sitting in the.… We were at this house, and I was sitting with the dogs in the grass. My mom came out, and she just stood there, and she went, "They overturned it." We all were just like... God, it was like a curtain of doom. I mean, there was almost no even reaction. I had this, I guess, now that I think about it, unrealistic hope that that wouldn't happen. We wrote that line when the news got out about the fact that they're considering overturning it, and we wrote that line then. It's a really scary world right now.
Check out "TV" and "The 30th" below.
The two songs make up a release titled Guitar Songs, and they find Eilish singing, fittingly, over some gentle acoustic guitar. Eilish debuted "TV" last month in Manchester — the recorded version features crowd chants from that show — but "The 30th" hasn't been heard before.
"FINNEAS and I really wanted these to be yours as soon as possible. So here they are!!" Eilish said in a statement. "Performing 'TV' on tour was such a highlight for us too, so we took the audio from the first night we played it in Manchester and put it in the song. I get shivers every time I hear it. Hope you love the songs and thank you for letting us share our music with you."
On "TV," Eilish sings, "And I'll be in denial for at least a little while / What about the plans we made? / The internet's gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they're overturning Roe v. Wade," and in an interview with Zane Lowe about the song, she said:
We wrote that line a few weeks before it was officially overturned. It was a placeholder of doom. I mean, it was the day of Glastonbury that it happened, and I was sitting in the.… We were at this house, and I was sitting with the dogs in the grass. My mom came out, and she just stood there, and she went, "They overturned it." We all were just like... God, it was like a curtain of doom. I mean, there was almost no even reaction. I had this, I guess, now that I think about it, unrealistic hope that that wouldn't happen. We wrote that line when the news got out about the fact that they're considering overturning it, and we wrote that line then. It's a really scary world right now.
Check out "TV" and "The 30th" below.