Guitar Songs - Single

For a star of Billie Eilish’s stature, it’s not uncommon to wait years between projects to put out new music. But for an artist of Billie Eilish’s nature, that simply won’t do. “These songs are really current for me, and they’re songs that I want to have said right now,” she tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the surprise two-track release called, accurately, Guitar Songs—her first new music since 2021’s Happier Than Ever. “I was talking to FINNEAS and I was like, ’You know what, man? I don’t want to wait until the next album cycle to put these songs on an album and then it’s like, ”Wow, we have these two guitar songs that are two years old.”’” Both tracks feature Eilish’s hushed voice accompanied by her brother on acoustic guitar—a deliberate throwback to the first music they made together at home. “I consciously was like, ‘I want to go back to the way it was at the beginning,’” she says. “We were just making music, writing songs on FINNEAS’s guitar in our parents’ house and then playing them for people. We didn’t have anything recorded, and so all the meetings that we did, we would just bring a guitar, and FINNEAS and I would sing them acoustically. We did that for two years, and that’s how we met everyone.” She definitely prefers this kind of home-recording style to slick professional studios. “I don’t like that there’s a runner and he asks you what kind of food you want at so-and-so and if you want a LaCroix,” she says. “I really have never liked the vibe of studios. There’s no windows. It smells like weed. There’s other artists there. You bump into them, you look stupid, and then you’re embarrassed that they saw you when you looked stupid. It freaks me out.” Eilish and FINNEAS made a point to carve out time while touring behind Happier Than Ever, setting schedules when possible to try out these simpler ideas. The first to be written was “The 30th”. “It’s called ‘The 30th’ because something happened on November 30 and it had just been the most indescribable th