‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ by Billie Eilish will be one of the albums of the year on any self-respecting 2024 list. She has not disappointed any follower and has added new followers judging by the resistance of absolutely all of her songs – up to 10 – in Spotify’s Global top 200. The success of ‘LUNCH’ has been followed by ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’, and we even have to talk about how much they are enjoying such unexpected compositions as ‘WILDFLOWER’ or ‘BLUE’, which closes the album. In fact, she just performed something as improbable as ‘THE GREATEST’ on TV.
That is why we dedicate the new chapter of the REVELACIÓN O TIMO podcast to analyzing both this work by Billie Eilish, which some believe is part of a double project that would be resolved next year, as well as her entire previous career.
Of course, ‘WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?’ It was already one of the Key Records of the 21st century, and it must be claimed that the second, ‘Happier than Ever’, is not as bad as Billie Eilish remembers it. As much as the Grammy for Album of the Year eluded him, we must remember the strength of songs like ‘Your Power’, the virality of the title track or the video for ‘Therefore I Am’.
We also remember her first EP ‘dont smile at me’ and that day in 2018 when we interviewed her and she told us about Rosalía, long before recording a duet with her.
Therefore, there has been no “difficult third album” for Billie Eilish, who also opens with ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ a universe of possibilities for her future: more strings? more synth-pop? more reggae? More variety of styles?
In the last part of the podcast we talk about Dua Lipa’s third album. Without wanting to pit some artists against each other, much less women, the truth is that we decided to postpone the podcast about Dua’s third album in case it improved over time, and every day perhaps it makes less sense, especially now that the The singer has turned his new tour into a “greatest hits” with more songs from ‘Future Nostalgia’ than from ‘Radical Optimism’. We praise a part of this album and discuss what has been done wrong or failed in this campaign. Or has it simply been a matter of expectations?
We also remind you that we have a new podcast available on YouTube called ALGO CAMBIÓ… in collaboration with Fundación SGAE, and dedicated to changes in the music industry.
