May 17, 2024

Can’t believe I said this and then Clairo posted it on her story lmao wtf

 

May 17, 2024

Done with the album. What a fantastic experience. Happier Than Ever was amazing but I think I like this even better as a whole. Definitely gonna be one of my top albums of the year. Billie really doesn’t get any sleep just like me.

 

May 16, 2024

f---ing S80 search function man. Well, at least this is payback for him stealing my JID thread smh

 

May 16, 2024

Ummmm ackshully @jankland already made this thread https://forum.sectioneighty.com/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-out-may-17th.t358971

 

May 17, 2024

Only got to kinda skim through most cuz I dunno if just me but on Apple Music s--- is quiet as f--- and my buds just weren't cutting it, but listened to a few in full and Lunch, Diner and Bittersuite are all fire. Bout to get high as angel sex and play through on my new monitors right now.

 

May 17, 2024

 

May 17, 2024

It's because you're the straight kind of gay

 

May 17, 2024

This is one banner that Eminem fans won’t get mad at. Ever since they saw Billie dress like 2005 Eminem she earned their respect

 

May 16, 2024

Apple Music description:

Billie Ellish has always delighted in subverting expectations, but HIT ME HARD AND SOFT still, somehow, lands like a meteor. An especially wide-ranging and transportive project, even for her, it's brimming with the guts and theatricality of an artist who has the world at her feet-and knows it. In a tight 45 minutes, Ellish does as she promises and hits listeners with a mix of scorching send-ups, trance excursions and a stomping tribute to queer pleasure, alongside more soft-edged cuts like teary breakup ballads and jaunts into lounge-y jazz. But the project never feels zigzaggy thanks to, well, the Billie Eilish of it all: her glassy vocals, her knowing lyrics, her unique ability to make softness sound so huge.

HIT ME is Eilish's third album and, like the two previous ones, was recorded with her brother and long-time creative partner FINNEAS. In conceptualising it, the award-winning songwriting duo were intent on creating the sort of album that makes listeners feel like they've been dropped into an alternate universe. As it happens, this universe has several of the same hallmarks as the one she famously drew up on her history-making debut, 2019's WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?. In many ways, this project feels more like that album's sequel than 2021's jazzy Happier Than Ever, which Eilish has said was recorded during a confusing, depressive pandemic haze. In the three years since, she has tried to return to herself-to go outside, hang out with friends, and talk more openly about sex and identity, all things that make her feel authentic and, for lack of a better word, normal.

It seems to be working. On songs like "THE DINER" and "CHIHIRO", Eilish seeps back into her creative happy place, dusting off those haunting, gothic, dark sensibilities that became her trademark and making them feel bigger and new. Elsewhere, she uses those core soundscapes as a launching pad to veer off into surprising new directions:

"L'AMOUR DE MA VIE" morphs from a staccato jazz ballad into a joyride of trance and Auto-Tune, and "BITTERSUITE" begins as a low-key bossa nova song before cascading into a wall of giant cinematic synths. As a songwriter, Eilish is still in touch with her vulnerabilities, but at 22, with a garage full of Grammys and Oscars, they aren't as heavy. These days it's heartache, not her own insecurities, that keeps her up at night, and the songs are juicier for it. "LUNCH", a racy, bass-heavy b-----r that can't help but hog the spotlight, finds Eilish crushing so hard on a woman that she compares the hook-up to a meal. "I've said it all before, but I'll say it again/l'm interested in more than just being your friend," she sings. The lyrics are so much more than lewd flirtations. They're also a way of stepping back into the spotlight-older, wiser, more fully herself.

 

May 29, 2024

I think the album brought the inner gay out in you and you are overreacting

 

May 22, 2024

Just drove during a thunderstorm with crazy a--- rain and lightning in the sky listening to this album. That hit different

 

May 17, 2024

I like the retro style. It reminds me of something, like those old iTunes commercials

 

May 17, 2024

Ok yeah I'm gonna have to delete and redownload this on my phone because this sounds WAAAAAAY better with my FLAC copy even outside of it just being on way better speakers lol jesus christ Lunch is too good.

That and Diner for sure my favourites, the beats, the vox, and shout out @jankland for already mentioning but the mixing on this is incredible. Literally gonna be studying some of these for reference while mixing tracks all weekend

Don't know if anyone had this moment yet, but.......Diner got maaajor The Way You Move by Outkast vibe on the 808s and shaker patterns and it's breaking my brain lmfao

 

May 17, 2024

 

May 17, 2024

BITTERSUITE outro is crack

 

May 17, 2024

I could eat that girl for lunnnch

 

May 17, 2024

And Espresso plays right after, I’m in such a good mood

 

May 17, 2024

Holy s---, yep. Billie you have it for the year so far. What a great album. Production, singing, top tier. She just keeps getting better

 

May 17, 2024

I’m just tuning in . Glad you’re f---ing enjoying it!!!! That’s awesome

 

May 17, 2024

Oh this is incredible. Every song is hitting and the environment I’m in makes it hit even harder. BITTERSUITE is f---ing crazy bro. Listening to BLUE in the blue strobe lights is something else.