Billie Eilish review, Happier Than Ever: Despite the perky title, the darkness still remains

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Every single person is going through something good or bad, or horrible or amazing,” Billie Eilish told the camera crew following her around for this year’s documentary The World’s a Little Blurry. “The strangers seem to want me more than anyone before,” she sings on opener “Getting Older”, a song whose disorienting beat sounds like the pulsing of blood you hear when you’re about to faint. “Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it/ And judge me for it.” Minimally produced guitar ballad “Your Power”, about the myriad ways in which powerful men abuse that power, is Eilish at her most quietly rageful. “Billie Bossa Nova” is exactly what it sounds like – a slinky, sexual bossa nova track, the made-up story of a secret love affair, inspired by all the “goofy bulls***” Eilish and her brother must do to evade detection when they go on tour, like entering hotels through the freight elevators.