Billie Eilish says she took a familiar approach to her new music. The artist released her surprise two-song EP Guitar Songs today which includes the tracks “The 30th” and “TV”.
Sharing the process behind her music with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Eilish revealed she had actually written “The 30th” a while ago. READ MORE: Billie Eilish Gags And Throws Up While Playing ‘Spill The Tea’ With James Corden “We wrote that on December 30th, and that was actually the first song that we had written since ‘Happier Than Ever,” she recalled. “That’s why it’s called ‘The 30th’ because something happened on November 30th and it had just been the most indescribable thing to have to witness and experience.
I was with FINNEAS, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know what you were planning on doing, but we need to write this song about this right now,’ and we did, and that was the first song we wrote since ‘Happier Than Ever’.” The melancholy track contains lyrics referencing a traffic accident and a victim waking up in the hospital.
As for the second track on the EP, “TV”, it contains a lot of political commentary and directly references the Supreme Court overturning Roe v.
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