Billie Eilish’s new track Lunch is a sapphic celebration. (Getty/Mike Coppola)
Billie Eilish has teased new track “Lunch” and despatched queer followers right into a tailspin on account of its sapphic and sexually specific lyrics.
Over the weekend, Billie Eillish hosted a Do Lab celebration on the grounds of Coachella music pageant in California, hours after acting on stage with Friday’s headliner Lana Del Rey.
On the celebration, the nine-time Grammy winner, 22, shared just a few unique clips from her upcoming third studio album, Hit Me Laborious and Comfortable, which is due for launch on 17 Might.
Observe two on the album is “Lunch”, and if the quick clip Eilish performed over the weekend is something to go by, it’s set be an erotic ode to getting with a woman.
“I may eat that lady for lunch, yeah she dances on my tongue,” the snippet begins over a cool baseline.
“Tastes like she could be the one, and I can by no means get sufficient, I may purchase her a lot stuff, it’s a craving, not a crush.”
The track continues: “So now she’s developing the steps, so I’m pulling up a chair, and I’m placing up my hair.”
“Lunch” was certainly one of three tracks the celebrity previewed on the occasion, with unreleased songs “Chihiro” and “L’Amour de ma vie” additionally being performed.
Final November, Billie Eilish got here out publicly as queer after telling Selection that she is “bodily attracted” to ladies but in addition “so intimidated by them and their magnificence and their presence”.
Probed additional about her popping out in December, the “Your Energy” hitmaker mentioned that she “didn’t realise folks didn’t know” about her sexuality, however hadn’t formally got here out beforehand as she didn’t “consider” in doing so.
After talking about her sexuality for the primary time, the singer misplaced round 100,000 followers on Instagram. She’s doubtless not bothered, although: following her announcement of Hit Me Laborious and Comfortable on Instagram final week, she gained a staggering seven million followers on the platform in simply two days.
Queer followers of Eilish are elated on the considered having an enormous sapphic track on her subsequent album, with some already declaring it the following huge “homosexual anthem”.
“Omg omg omg omg ‘Lunch’ by Billie is actually SOOOO homosexual, that is what the world wants,” one fan exclaimed.
“GAY BILLIE IS HERE,” one other declared.
Different followers are dubbing Coachella 2024 as “Gaychella” as, alongside Billie’s sapphic debut, attendees have been handled to some very overtly queer performances from Reneé Rapp, Ice Spice, Kesha, Chappell Roan, and Victoria Monét.
Coachella 2024 continues subsequent weekend.