Billie Eilish is opening up about her attraction to women on “Lunch,” the second one track from her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which dropped Friday, May 17.
“I may just eat that girl for lunch / Yeah, she dances on my tongue / Tastes like she could be The One / And I could never get sufficient / I could buy her so much stuff / It’s a craving, not a overwhelm,” the nine-time Grammy Award winner, 22, sings within the first verse of the song, which leads to a sultry refrain and even sexier 2nd verse.
“Baby, I think you have been made for me / Somebody write down the recipe / Been trying onerous no longer to overeat / You’re simply so candy,” she continues. “I’ll run a bath for you favor you need / Clothes on the counter for you, take a look at ’em on / If I’m allowed, I’ll have you are taking ’em off.”
Eilish in the past teased “Lunch” and other tracks from her extremely expected new album at a Do Labs Coachella party in April.
While speaking to Rolling Stone that very same month, the “What Was I Made For?” hitmaker got candid about how “Lunch” helped her uncover and embrace her sexuality.
“That song was once in reality a part of what helped me develop into who I'm, to be real,” Eilish advised the outlet. “I wrote some of it sooner than even doing the rest with a woman, and then wrote the remainder after. I’ve been in love with women for my entire lifestyles, but I simply didn’t understand — until, closing year, I spotted I wanted my face in a vagina. I used to be by no means making plans on speaking about my sexuality ever, in one million years. It’s in point of fact frustrating to me that it came up.”
The latter part of her remark refers to her November 2023 Variety profile, during which she said she was once “bodily attracted” to women.
“I love them such a lot. I really like them as people. I’m attracted to them as people. I’m attracted to them for actual,” she stated at the time.
After walking the purple carpet at Variety‘s Hitmakers event the next month, Eilish accused the outlet of day trip her after she was requested whether she intended to make her coming-out a grand gesture.
“No, I didn’t. But I roughly thought, ‘Wasn’t it glaring?’ I didn’t understand folks didn’t know,” Eilish mentioned at the time. “I just don’t actually consider in it. I’m similar to, ‘Why can’t we just exist?’ I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I simply didn’t communicate about it. Whoops.”
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She added of when the unique article was revealed, “I used to be like, ‘Oh, I suppose I came out these days.’ OK, cool. It’s exciting to me because I assume folks didn’t know, however it’s cool that they know. I'm for the ladies.”
She later wrote by the use of Instagram, “Thanks Variety for my award and for additionally day out me on a pink carpet at 11 AM as a substitute of speaking about anything that matters. I love girls and boys, depart me by myself about it, please. Literally who cares.”
Hit Me Hard and Soft is out now.
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