Billie Eilish’s ‘Happier Than Ever’ Follow-Up Album Has Entered ‘Final Stages’
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Throughout her career, Billie Eilish has found ways to dominate the pop sphere, even between album cycles. Between her 2019 debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go, and its 2021 follow-up, Happier Than Ever, the singer and songwriter won a Grammy Award for “Everything I Wanted,” a one-off single she created with her brother and collaborator Finneas. And “What Was I Made For” — their chilling contribution to the Barbie soundtrack — is the in-between song that will bridge Happier Than Ever and Eilish’s forthcoming third studio album, which she recently revealed is nearly finished.
“There is lots of music coming,” Eilish shared in an interview with The Cookout. “There is a whole album of music coming. We’re in the final stages of making it, so that doesn’t mean it’s about to come out, but it is getting there and it’s very exciting.”
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Happier Than Ever captured Eilish’s post-pop explosion coming of age. On songs like “Getting Older,” she lamented about the things she once enjoyed morphing into something that just keeps the lights on. On “Happier Than Ever,” she screamed through a torrential downpour about the time she wasted on a dead-end relationship and its lingering impact. And “OverHeated” detailed her response to comments about her body.
Going into album number three, the singer intends to continue capturing her personal and creative development in the most candid way possible. In a recent interview with Allure, she shared: “I have to give credit to the person I’ve always been — I did not give a fuck at all. Between being a 14-year-old girl, and Finneas being a 17-year-old boy, and us making these little songs — we had to be very clear we weren’t going to just do what anybody said. People could have done crazy shit, and I didn’t let them. It was many, many years of having to convince a room full of people that I was going to do what I knew was right for me. I had ideas; I had plans.”
Those plans earned her seven Grammy Award wins, an Academy Award, hundreds of sold-out arena shows, and the pressure to represent the millions of young people, predominately young women, who make up her fanbase. “But the thing is, people should know — women should know — you don’t have to be exceptional,” she continued. “You can just be a person, and you should get awards for just being. Sometimes artists don’t have plans, and that’s fine, but I did, and I wasn’t going to waste them.”
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