Article 5H7VX Billie Eilish: Your Power review – chilling ballad seeps under your skin

Billie Eilish: Your Power review – chilling ballad seeps under your skin

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Alexis Petridis
from World news | The Guardian on (#5H7VX)

For the first single from her hugely anticipated second album, Eilish uses a disarmingly dreamy sound to confront a man preying on a young woman

To say that Billie Eilish's forthcoming third album is eagerly-awaited is an understatement. It wasn't just that 2019's triple-Grammy winning When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was incredibly popular, although it was. Eilish was already a phenomenon among tweenage girls, but its commercial success - it went platinum or multi-platinum in 17 countries - catapulted her into a different sphere of fame, where everyone from Tyler, the Creator to Pete Townshend expressed their approval, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it among the greatest albums of all time and the producers of the James Bond franchise commissioned Eilish to sing the theme to No Time To Die.

What invites quite so much anticipation, though, is that its success clearly impacted on the music industry: you don't have to look too far in 2021 to find Eilish acolytes, hastily signed in an attempt to mimic her success. The question of what the 19-year-old and her brother and co-collaborator Finneas do next - on an album that was apparently hastened by the Covid pandemic and the cancellation of Eilish's world tour - is an intriguing one.

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