“I really love when something feels like one piece and is cohesive”: Why Billie Eilish prefers album to singlesBillie Eilish has spoken about her love for the album format and the “cohesive” storytelling they can provide.
In an era of dwindling attention spans, where music is often reduced to bite-sized TikTok snippets, many artists are opting to release singles in hopes of landing the next chart-topping hit.
But for Billie Eilish, the album is where the magic happens.

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Speaking to Jimmy Kimmell about her latest record Hit Me Hard and Soft — which earlier this week went Platinum, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter says: I’ve always been such an album lover, and I really love when something feels like one piece and is cohesive and is thought through.”
“Specifically with this album… the set list and all the songs and the order of them where they all sit… we really worked hard on it.”
Asked how she settled on the album’s eventual track order, Eilish explains, “It’s a long process.”
“I’ll write down all the names and then I’ll tear them up and then I’ll move them and then change them around and then take some out and put them back in to make sure that it feels right. And then I’ll listen to them back to back and then sometimes they’ll sound wrong and I’ll move them.”
“It’s all about dynamics and the flow of it,” she continues. “And also, once we choose it, it’s making all of the songs kind of go into themselves so they all flow.”
Eilish then names The Beatles’ White Album as an example of a record that has that ‘flow’, saying: “Something I love so much about it is it’s cohesive. Every song goes into the next song, and there’s just not much of that anymore.”
The musician also adds that it’s difficult for her to pick a favourite track from Hit Me Hard and Soft, describing the songs as being like horses in a horse race “but all the horses were really happy to be running and also none of them cared about being first”.

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