Billie Eilish says ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ is “the most genuine thing” she’s ever made

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Billie Eilish has said that her latest album ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ feels like “the most genuine thing” she’s ever made.The 22-year-old singer opened up about her attitude towards her third studio album during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week (May 21), and described the project as her most authentic music to date.“I think that with ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’, it’s the first time since I’ve been an adult and maybe ever in my kind of creative life,” she told the host of the late-night chatshow. “It truly is the most genuine thing I’ve ever made”.She continued: “It feels very, very me and it feels like all of the music is exactly who I am.

All the visuals are exactly who I am, and that’s honestly terrifying. That’s why I’m literally shaking right now!”Elaborating on why she feels so liberated by the LP, Eilish went on to explain that she felt somewhat pigeonholed after the immense success of her 2019 breakthrough debut ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’.She also added that, because of this, she overcompensated on the follow-up, ‘Happier Than Ever’, which she released back in 2021.While noting that the sophomore album did feel “very me” at the time, it was only in hindsight she realised that she was more focused on trying to prove something to her listeners than being fully authentic.“[With ‘Happier Than Ever’] it was almost like a reaction of, ‘You can’t tell me what to do!