Released without the usual pageantry, two new surprise singles show Glastonbury’s youngest solo headliner agonising over the things she holds dear
Billie Eilish headlining at Glastonbury.First published on Thu 21 Jul 2022 19.54 BST’s recent European tour – including her history-making set as Glastonbury’s youngest solo headliner – she has said she was struck by the dissonance between the euphoric crowds and the desolate news coming from her native US.
“I would mention some stuff about the state of home and it was just so weird to be in a place where they weren’t having to deal with that,” she told Apple Music. “Then I was thinking back to everyone at home and just being like, ‘Wow, what the fuck? What’s going on?’” That kind of queasy perspective shift underpins her two new surprise singles, released as the Guitar Songs EP. For a songwriter who made her name on lyrics wreathed with horror-movie imagery, Eilish has become a realist songwriter of great subtlety, one who makes light work of crushing material and without ever lessening its impact.
“The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they’re overturning Roe v Wade,” she sings, her voice softened by felty harmonies, as her brother Finneas’s acoustic guitar takes on a softly Pink Floyd-worthy sense of scope. In the wrong hands, that could sound a bit chiding: accusing people of fiddling while Rome burns. But Eilish, never one to flinch from her own crosshairs, indicts herself as well. Seemingly in the middle of an argument with a lover, if not a full-blown breakup, she opts to shut the world out and switch on TV: “I put on Survivor just to watch somebody suffer,” she sings.
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