The song appears on the singer’s third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, out today
Billie Eilish‘s self-directed “Lunch” music video taps into the same boundless, energetic freedom of the early iPod ad campaigns Apple ran in the early 2000s. In place of black silhouettes and headphone wires, the singer and songwriter dances against white, red, and blue backdrops throughout the technicolor video. The second song on Eilish’s newly-released third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, “Lunch” is an insatiable ode to the singer’s craving-inducing crush.
“Tell her, ‘Bring that over here’/You need a seat? I’ll volunteer/Now she’s smilin’ ear to ear/She’s the headlights, I’m the deer,” she sings on the second verse. “I’ve said it all before, but I’ll say it again/I’m interested in more than just bein’ your friend/I don’t wanna break it, just want it to bend/Do you know how to bend?” In the video, she nods to this gamble while shuffling stacks of playing cards and tossing dice towards the camera.
“That song was actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real,” Eilish told Rolling Stone in her recent cover story. “I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after. I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn’t understand — until, last year, I realized I wanted my face in a vagina. I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years.”
She added: “Nobody should be pressured into being one thing or the other, and I think that there’s a lot of wanting labels all over the place. Dude, I’ve known people that don’t know their sexuality, or feel comfortable with it, until they’re in their forties, fifties, sixties. It takes a while to find yourself, and I think it’s really unfair the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are.”
