Billie Eilish. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Billie Eilish introduced her new album, Hit Me Onerous and Delicate, will probably be dropping on Might 17.
“HIT ME HARD AND SOFT MY THIRD ALBUMMMMMMMMMMMMM COMES OUT MAY 17THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH🥹🥹🥹 so loopy to be scripting this proper now i’m nervyyyyy & exciteddd 🫣,” Eilish, 22, wrote by way of Instagram on Monday, April 8. “Not doing singles i wanna give it to you all of sudden :PPP Finneas and i really couldn’t be extra pleased with this album and we completely can’t wait so that you can hear it. love you like you like you. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃.”
Alongside the message, Eilish shared the album’s art work, which featured a pic of her underwater absolutely clothed and barefoot as she sank beneath a door.
After declaring that her album was mastered in February, Eilish had begun to tease followers about her new music. She shared a clip of her falling into water by way of Instagram on Sunday, April 7, with the caption, “READY?”
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Eilish, who’s been outspoken about sustainability points, will solely be releasing two vinyl variations of her album. In March, she slammed musicians who launched a number of vinyl variations of their albums in several packaging.
“A few of the greatest artists on the planet [are] making f–king 40 completely different vinyl packages which have a distinct distinctive factor simply to get you to maintain shopping for extra,” Eilish advised Billboard on the time. “It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re nonetheless at a degree the place you care that a lot about your numbers and also you care that a lot about making a living — and it’s all of your favourite artists doing that s–t.”
After her feedback made headlines, followers of Taylor Swift started to invest that the comment was in regards to the Eras Tour performer. (Swift, 34, has been identified to rerelease rerecorded variations of her albums in addition to drop tweaked bodily and digital variations of her studio recordings.)
Eilish subsequently took to her Instagram Story to clear up the rumors she was referencing Swift. “OK so it could be so superior if individuals would cease placing phrases into my mouth and truly learn what I mentioned in that billboard article,” she wrote. “I wasn’t singling anybody out, these are industry-wide systemic points.”
Each precocious baby prodigies turned international, Grammy-winning pop superstars, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish have had an extended overlapping historical past. Swift and Eilish, who launched their debut albums on the ages of 16 and 17, respectively, have steadily celebrated one another’s successes inside the {industry}. Swift even handed the baton to Eilish at Billboard’s 2019 […]
Eilish admitted she was responsible of releasing a number of variations so as to have followers buy the identical album a number of instances. (Eilish launched eight in another way coloured vinyl variations of her 2021 album, Happier Than Ever, however she used environmentally pleasant supplies.)
“Relating to variants, so many artists launch them, together with me, which ! clearly state within the article,” she continued in her Instagram Story. “The local weather disaster is now and it’s about all of us being a part of the issue and making an attempt to do higher sheesh.”
