Billie Eilish took over The last show last night with a performance of her recent single “Lunch” and a long interview with host Stephen Colbert. The singer took to the stage of the evening show to perform the pulsating track, which is taken from her new LP, Hit with hard and softalongside her brother/producer Finneas and her band.
During her interview, Eilish discussed growing up in Los Angeles in a musical family, being inspired by her fellow musicians, and how she shot her new album cover. He also thought about trying to figure out who she was in the audience.
“I kind of had to play this whole 'I'm not who you think I am,'” he recalls. “At the time I thought I was very me and I realize in hindsight that I was just trying to be seen and express myself and show that people can be multi-faceted and I am one of those people. I think with Hit with hard and soft, it's the first time since I came of age and maybe ever in my creative life — it's really the most genuine thing I've ever made. I feel very, very me.”
Hit with hard and soft is Eilish's third studio album. She told Rolling Stone in her recent cover story that “Lunch” was “actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real.”
“I wrote some of it before I'd even done anything with a girl and then I wrote the rest,” Eilish explained. “I've been in love with girls all my life, but I just didn't understand – until, last year, I realized that I wanted my face in the bay. I never in a million years planned to talk about my sexuality.”
He added, “No one should be pressured to be one thing or another, and I think there are a lot of labels that want to be everywhere. Man, I've met people who 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 the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you're about.”
The singer also recently revealed that she almost named the album after a clip from her favorite TV series, The office: Patheticville. “I just thought it was great and we laughed and wrote it,” he said Rolling rock. “Then there are two more that we thought about and nothing really stuck, but I knew it was coming. It always comes.”
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