Billie Eilish’s new music Lunch is a sapphic celebration. (Getty/Mike Coppola)
Billie Eilish has launched her third studio album, Hit Me Arduous and Gentle – and followers are gagged by steamy new queer anthem, “Lunch”.
Eilish’s ten-track-long album, which wasn’t preceded by an singles from the “What Was I Made For” songstress was launched at present (Could 17) to rave vital critiques and loads of pleasure from followers.
One music specifically has caught the eye of queer followers all over the place – and also you’ll by no means guess, nevertheless it’s the one Eilish teased at this yr’s Coachella, which accommodates the lyrics:
“I might eat that lady for lunch, yeah she dances on my tongue/ Tastes like she is perhaps the one, and I can by no means get sufficient, I might purchase her a lot stuff, it’s a craving, not a crush.”
The previewed lyrics continued: “So now she’s arising the steps, so I’m pulling up a chair, and I’m placing up my hair.”
Properly, now that the monitor (and album) has landed in full, sapphics all over the place have misplaced their minds – and though it’s fairly apparent, right here’s what the lyrics imply.
What’s ‘Lunch’ by Billie Eilish about?
Briefly, “Lunch” is about Billie performing oral intercourse on a feminine accomplice; consuming her for, nicely, lunch.
The lyrics don’t get any much less saucy than those above. “Child, I believe you have been made for me/ Any individual write down the recipe/ Been tryin’ exhausting to not overeat/ You’re simply so candy,” Billie sings over a fragile bassline.
“You want a seat? I’ll volunteer/ Now she’s smilin’ ear to ear/ She’s the headlights, I’m the deer,” she continues.
Is it scorching in right here?
Who’s ‘Lunch’ by Billie Eilish about?
“Happier Than Ever” songstress Ms. William Eyelash solely not too long ago ‘ got here out’ – by way of an impromptu crimson carpet interview and subsequent headlines in December 2023, after a reporter requested the Grammy-winning artist about her sexuality at a Selection Hitmakers occasion.
Eilish then slammed the headlines, singling out the reporter and asking them – and anybody else with questions on the subject – to “depart me alone”.
Chatting with Rolling Stone not too long ago, Eilish opened up about coming to phrases together with her sexuality by way of the writing of “Lunch”, saying: “That music was truly a part of what helped me turn into who I’m, to be actual.
“I wrote a few of it earlier than even doing something with a lady, after which wrote the remainder after. I’ve been in love with women for my complete life, however I simply didn’t perceive — till, final yr, I realised I needed my face in a vagina.”
However, regardless of smooching TikTok star Quenlin Blackwell onstage at Coachella, there’s no definitive reply for who “Lunch” is about. It’s a thriller, women.
Followers have singled the monitor out as an album spotlight, with many noting the already-iconic transition from album opener “Skinny” into “Lunch”.
And, after all, there’s loads of love for the steamy nature of the lyrics, too.
“Oh Billie created a lesbian anthem,” one fan wrote on X.
One other known as the monitor a “masterpiece” and a 3rd opined: “Billie Eilish actually got here out … KNOWING she had an excellent ass music about consuming p*ssy in her album known as Lunch. Now that’s mom behaviour.”
Hit Me Arduous and Gentle by Billie Eilish is obtainable to stream now.