Billie Eilish Goes Full Taylor Swift! These Powerful Songs Are Totally About Her Ex!

Is Billie Eilish going extra Taylor Swift? Or are followers simply faster to select up on this sort of factor because of Tay? Both means, we’re form of into it!

Billie dropped her new album Hit Me Laborious and Smooth on Friday, and it looks like multiple observe is a couple of very public relationship. Ooh, juicy stuff!

As followers know, the Dangerous Man singer began courting singer Jesse Rutherford in 2022, making their crimson carpet debut that November. The connection wasn’t with out its controversy, what with the 10-year age distinction. It’s not all the time an enormous hole, however whenever you’re speaking somebody as younger as Billie, who was simply 20 once they began courting? Particularly since they first met when she was even youthful, like 15 years previous? You’ll be able to see how some followers have been involved.

Billie Eilish and boyfriend Jesse Rutherford on red carpet — (c) MEGA/WENN

The connection ran its personal course although, and ended a while the next spring. They introduced the breakup in Could 2023. When requested on social media, Billie mentioned the pair have been now “very superb associates solely.” The entire thing was fairly non-public, contemplating how followers have been. Now Billie is outwardly giving a glimpse into their points in one of the best ways attainable — by her songs.

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Followers are fairly positive two songs on the brand new album are in regards to the Rutherford romance. First, there’s Skinny, the opening observe through which she sings:

Fell in love for the primary time / With a buddy it’s a great signal / Feelin’ off once I really feel wonderful / 21 took a lifetime

Because it’s about falling in love AND mentions turning 21, followers naturally are placing two and two collectively right here, and so they add as much as Jesse. Innerestingly although, the track is usually about not feeling as happy-go-lucky on the within as you look on the surface. We imply, it’s about Billie, however is it additionally about Billie/Jesse??

The opposite observe is extra sophisticated. It’s referred to as Wildflower. This one listeners have decided is about Jesse’s ex-girlfriend Devon Lee Carlson. Jesse dated her for six years earlier than they ultimately broke up in 2021. Billie and Devon have been associates. So yeah… she broke woman code up to now The Neighbourhood singer. The track is in regards to the guilt she felt, a relationship being haunted by an ex, all these emotions getting jumbled up and poisoning what must be a pure, stunning feeling. Billie emotionally delivers the traces:

She was cryin’ on my shoulder / All I might do was maintain her / Solely made us nearer till July / Now I do know that you just love me / You don’t have to remind me / I ought to put all of it behind me, shouldn’t I?

And…

However I see her at the back of my thoughts on a regular basis / Like a fever, like I’m burning alive, like an indication / Did I cross the road?

And…

Properly, good issues don’t final / And life strikes so quick / I’d by no means ask who was higher / ‘Trigger she couldn’t be / Extra completely different from me / Glad and free in leather-based

With traces like “Do you see her at the back of your thoughts in my eyes?” and “However each time you contact me, I simply surprise how she felt”? Yeah… Way more intense and intimate than something Billie communicates on social media and interviews. And you recognize what? That’s precisely the way in which it must be. Songs are larger, extra highly effective than dialog. Talking of which, the music imbues even these wonderful traces with a lot extra that means.