Billie Eilish held nothing back in her latest Rolling rock cover — and amid her many personal revelations, she also delved deeply into the making of her new album, Hit with hard and soft. As Phineas, her brother, producer and co-writer said Rolling rockAngie Martoccio's Angie Martoccio — in a quote that became instantly popular everywhere — the couple intended to make an “album-selling,” the most coherent statement ever made. The songs twist and turn as they go, sometimes switching from ballad to trance-out dance beats along the way, and more than one track is a multi-part suite.
In his new episode Rolling Stone Music nowMartoccio shares what she learned from Eilish and Finneas about the process behind the album, from how “Skinny” led to Barbie The 'What Was I Made For' soundtrack, with the origin of the dance part of 'L'Amour De Ma Vie': 'It was just because one day Billie asked Finneas as a joke, 'Can you do something for me that I can do cardio?”
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