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The singer told the host that she and her brother, Finneas, wrote the new track on December 30th, and it was the first song they penned since Happier Than Ever.Like most of her other tracks, TV and The 30th have become trendsetters already as social media is flooded with reviews and comments for the two new songs.

Billie Eilish dropped two new tracks – The 30th and TV – and they are both available to stream now. While TV was previously performed at her concert, The 30th is a brand new track, and fans want to know what its lyrics are about. Well, the singer herself has explained the meaning of her new song.Talking about making it into a new single, she said: “Performing ‘TV’ on tour was such a highlight for us too, so we took the audio from the first night we played it in Manchester and put it in the song.

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August Brown, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, thought that the instrumentation for “The 30th” was reminiscent of the works of George Harrison, guitarist for the Beatles. Consequence’s Mary Siroky opted to compare the song, specifically its build-up to the bridge, to the “unforgettable explosion” of Happier Than Ever’s title track. To contrast the two, she argued that listeners expect “The 30th” to provide catharsis in a similar way as the title track, but it instead “pulls back, leaving us gasping for air”. She also highlighted the bridge for its vivid narrative details. Guitar Songs consists of “TV” and “The 30th”, two sentimental ballads with minimal production that combines Eilish’s soft vocals with an acoustic guitar. Music journalists wrote that the simple composition puts emphasis on the lyrics and the vocal performance, making these the driving qualities of the EP. The production is reminiscent of her and Finneas’s oldest works, created when they wanted to make music at their parents’ house with nothing but a guitar. Eilish explained their approach: “That’s our roots… I wanted to go back and do it how we used to.” Meanwhile, Billboard critic Jason Lipshutz described the EP with regards to its sound as follows: it could “either be a gesture toward a new sonic and lyrical direction, or a stopgap between best-selling full-lengths”. “TV” and “The 30th” were co-written by Finneas, who produced both tracks. Laura Snapes for The Guardian, describing the Guitar Songs writing style as realist, notes that the EP marks a departure from the lyrical themes of Eilish’s breakout studio album; whereas the album focused more on horror imagery, the EP’s stories are more grounded in real-life experiences. In her words, “TV” and “The 30th” showcase Eilish as she observes the destruction of several things in her life that she values dearly. Its lyrics are heavily personal, inspired primarily by events that happened to Eilish when she made the two songs.Music critics praised Guitar Songs for its vocals and songwriting. Many believed that Eilish was able to prove her talent as a songwriter through the EP’s lyricism, with occasional praise towards how the production highlighted its vulnerable sentiments. Its tracks entered several national record charts worldwide, including the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The two reached the top 50 of the Billboard Global 200, as well as the top 40 in four countries. Eilish and Finneas played “TV” again and “The 30th” for the first time during the world tour’s Asian leg, and the two performed them in Singapore in collaboration with its tourism board to promote the country.

Beginning February 3, 2022, Eilish and Finneas embarked on a 2022–2023 world tour in support of Happier Than Ever. While on tour, Eilish allocated a certain period of time in her schedule for writing music, during which she was busy writing another song, “TV”. The process was concurrent with the US Supreme Court’s discussion around the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. This took months; while Eilish was quick to finish the first verse and chorus, she wrote the remaining lyrics only after a draft of the court decision was leaked online, in May 2022. The leaked draft revealed plans to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark case which had made abortion a constitutional right in the country. Eilish, who has a track record with political activism, was saddened by the leak, and she felt like her rights as a woman were being stripped away. Weeks after she finished writing “TV”, the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade. Eilish bemoaned the decision, speaking in hindsight about the remaining lyrics: “It was a placeholder of doom.” Women are losing rights for their bodies, so why are we talking about celebrities’ divorce trials [sic]? Who gives a shit? Let them figure it out on their own. The internet bothers the shit out of me sometimes. During the Manchester concert of the Happier Than Ever world tour, on June 7, 2022, Eilish performed “TV” live for the first time. Finneas provided acoustic guitar instrumentation. This marked the first time since around 2017 that she gave a preview of an unreleased song. She was inspired to do it after seeing Harry Styles play “Boyfriends”, another unreleased song, at the music festival Coachella. Explaining the decision, Eilish said in an NME cover story that she had “missed doing a song that no-one had heard yet” during concert tours from those years. The debut performance, she recalled, made her feel vulnerable, mainly because the song’s subject matter was sensitive to her, but also because she considered the act of performing an unreleased song emotionally striking. The two tracks are realist sentimental ballads, a departure from the fantastical themes of Eilish’s debut studio album. Each contains personal lyrics that derive from contemporary life events, backed by simple acoustic guitars that emphasize Eilish’s soft vocals. Eilish debuted the first track, “TV”, during the Manchester concert of a 2022–2023 world tour in support of Happier Than Ever. It references the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, a court decision that devastated her. “The 30th”, the other track, was the first song she made since Happier Than Ever. Written in December 2021, the song is titled after the day of a friend’s near-death car crash—on November 30, 2021. The tracks’ personal, pensive nature led some to brand them with distinctive accolades. With “TV”, The Guardian music journalist Alexis Petridis wrote that its melancholic tone made it a noteworthy addition to the Manchester concert’s set list; he considered it the best one she performed there. On the other hand, “The 30th” was selected by Consequence as the best new song for the week coinciding with the release of Guitar Songs, with praised focused on its “balance of vulnerability, specificity, and utter relatability” that they believed was the reason for Eilish’s trans-generational appeal. The publication wrote, “It’s […] the kind of unexpected quirk that keeps Eilish separated from so many of her other dark-pop cohorts.” Benitez-Evans listed the song among ten of Eilish’s best in an American Songwriter article published in February 2023.After the tour’s Asian leg, she and Finneas collaborated with Singapore’s tourism board to film live performances of “The 30th” and “TV”. She shared the videos to her YouTube account on September 21, 2022. Set at the Cloud Forest of the Gardens by the Bay, the performances were part of a campaign to introduce international travel back to Singapore after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.”The 30th”, in the views of Snapes and Tina Benitez-Evans of American Songwriter, is a more personal song compared to “TV”. Centered around the November 30 car accident, “The 30th” is dedicated to the friend in question, whom Eilish considered one of her closest, and it details several minutiae that occurred around the event. Death and pain are the song’s primary themes.The chorus reappears after the second verse, and to close the song, Eilish uses a refrain. She repeats the phrase “maybe I’m the problem”, blaming herself for the life issues she has faced while writing “TV”. As the song approaches its final lyrics, it plays a sample of a cheering crowd, taken from Eilish’s debut performance at Manchester.

During the tour’s Manila stop, Eilish and Finneas did a live rendition of “The 30th” for the first time. Eilish struggled with performing the song due to the personal lyrics, saying: “It’s out but we’ve never done it live before. Please bear with me, it’s a very hard song to sing, so I’m gonna try my best. This song is dedicated to my dear, dear friend, that’s all I’m gonna be saying.”In the bridge, Eilish lists alternate scenarios that question if the friend would still be alive had the accident occurred at another day and in other locations—a street with young children, a bridge without a railroad to block any oncoming traffic, or the Angeles Crest Highway during snowfall. She conjures the idea of the friend on a trip to someplace secluded with children in the passenger seats, unable to contact others for help. To close the bridge, she sings “if you changed anything, would you not have survived?” before she repeats the words “you’re alive”. On the last “you’re alive”, the vocal layering ends, leaving only Eilish’s soft voice. The chorus appears again after the bridge, but this time, Eilish changes the final line “so was I” to “so am I”.

By July, “TV” and “The 30th” were the only songs the two had made; they tried to entertain the idea of including them on her third album. Eilish had shelved her voice memos for the songs for several weeks, and upon stumbling across the recordings again, she wanted to share to her fans what their lyrics had to offer as soon as possible. Noting the immediacy of “TV” and “The 30th”, she said: “These songs are really current for me, and they’re songs that I want to have said right now.” After talking to Finneas, she excluded them from the track list, despite announcing plans to start the corresponding recording sessions beforehand. She refused to wait until the release to make the songs officially available to the public.In the chorus, Eilish discusses the effects of her romantic relationships on the amount of time she can spend with her friends, and by the second verse, Eilish ponders how her friendships have also been affected by her celebrity status. With this, she feels the urge to skip meals but tries to restrain herself. Next, she laments how “the internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they’re overturning Roe v. Wade.” Eilish expressed anger about the situation in the NME cover story, questioning why the public prioritized fixating on the feud between Depp and Heard, which she found trivial, instead of showing concern about the future of abortion rights.

Eilish narrates how the friend went unconscious after the crash and remembered what happened to them once they woke up inside a travelling ambulance. One line comments on the scene: “when you’re staring into space / It’s hard to believe you don’t remember it”. Then, she sings she was on the same road as the car accident, switching the story towards her point of view. Even though there was a traffic jam and she saw ambulances driving past her, she says she “didn’t even think of pulling over”; she fully learnt of her friend’s condition the night after. In the chorus, Eilish reminds them that they had a phone conversation during confinement and they expressed their deepest fears about their health—Eilish replied “so was I” and decided to lighten the mood by complimenting their looks. When the song crescendos towards its bridge, the guitar chords slowly build up and the vocals begin to overlap, evoking a racing mind and a growing sense of panic.

On July 21, Darkroom and Interscope Records released an extended play titled Guitar Songs through digital download and streaming formats. It happened without prior announcement. Guitar Songs is Eilish’s second EP, consisting of “TV” and “The 30th”. Eilish went on Apple Music 1 briefly afterwards; apart from the song’s immediacy, she told Lowe another reason she decided on the surprise release was she had grown tired of doing heavy, traditional promotion for upcoming music. She wanted to release songs like she had been doing early in her career—without much marketing, sometimes by previewing it for fans in live concerts. Prior to this, she said: “I just want to be able to go back to my roots and be the songwriter that I am.””TV” and “The 30th” appeared on the record charts of multiple territories worldwide. Respectively, they debuted at numbers 52 and 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. With this, Finneas became the first musician to spend 100 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 Producers, re-entering at number 16 after the release of Guitar Songs. Elsewhere, its tracks entered the top 40 of charts in Ireland, the UK, Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand; “TV” reached the top 40 in five more territories, and it had higher peaks than “The 30th”. On the Billboard Global 200, “TV” debuted at number 25 and “The 30th” at number 50. Many critics praised the tracks in Guitar Songs for their self-reflection and social commentary, some of whom considered it a testament to her writing abilities. Snapes said by using specific narrative details with “great subtlety” and discussing poignant themes without downplaying their seriousness, Eilish succeeded with creating effectively tragic stories for the EP. Entertainment columnists for the Manila Bulletin argued that these, alongside the song’s confessional nature, made Eilish on par with “all the greatest songwriters” before her and served as a reminder she is one of her generation’s “most treasured” ones. Guitar Songs is the second extended play (EP) by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. It was released through download and streaming services on July 21, 2022, by Darkroom and Interscope Records. The EP marks Eilish’s first body of work since Happier Than Ever (2021), her second studio album. Its release came as a surprise, a decision she made because she wanted to share new music to her fans as soon as she could. The track list contains two songs Eilish considered including for her third album but decided not to due to the lyrics’ immediacy. She wrote the EP with her brother Finneas O’Connell, who produced both songs.

“TV”, the first on the tracklist, explores the topics of abandonment and a desire for numbness as a distraction from the problems that plague the world. Its poignant subject matters include eating disorders, mental health, the defamation trial between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, and the outcome of the Dobbs case.The song opens by describing a depressive episode. Unable to sleep, she distracts herself from a falling-out with an ex-partner by watching the reality TV show Survivor, then she expresses disapproval towards the apathy and cynicism of others around her. Eilish sings about “sinking in the sofa while we all betray each other”, posing the question “what’s the point of anything?” Jon Pareles of The New York Times interpreted the scene as a demonstration of “the ways entertainment nurtures distraction, alienation and apathy”.

Other music journalists focused on the EP’s production. Two critics praised her vocals. Steffanee Wang, from Nylon, said it was “powerful”, and the other, Lipshutz, said it was “increasingly confident”. Lipshutz found the guitar subtle and relaxing in nature, and a similar sentiment was shared by an NME author, who wrote: “She sings over lulling acoustic guitars meant to soothe the most disillusioned of us.” Snapes liked that the melody and Eilish’s vocals were, to her, appropriate for the song’s tone: “Fittingly, the melody of each line seems to tumble, each one a crumbling empire delivered in her tremulous, feather-light voice.” Meanwhile, when two critics for the British edition of GQ called “TV” one of the best songs of 2022, they cited its use of the “spine-chilling” audience sample, which allowed it to form a “devastating stunner”.Eilish and Rutherford spent Easter 2023 together with her family. Eilish let the world know by sharing a photo of Rutherford’s hand on her leg on April 11, a couple days after festivities. His “love” tattoo on his fingers was the giveaway, even though he wasn’t tagged in the photo.

During a star-studded, Christmas-themed bash on Dec. 18, Rutherford and Eilish stole a kiss before an enormous crowd as they celebrated Eilish turning 21. Musical artist Phem caught the moment on camera and shared it to Instagram, which guest Avril Lavigne and Eilish later re-posted to their Instagram Stories.Eilish spoke at length about their relationship for the first time in her Vanity Fair Same Interview, the Sixth Year video, which was filmed in October and released at the end of November.

Days after sparking rumors they were dating because they were photographed at dinner together, Eilish and Rutherford gave their most visible confirmation they’re together when paparazzi captured them making out in Studio City. Per TMZ, the two were “embracing, kissing, holding hands and smiling from ear to ear” in photos. The outlet noted that the two had been seen out together three times in the same week: first at Halloween Horror Nights, then out on a dinner date, and finally making out.

“It was hard, because I’m on it again, I’m high on it again. I got hooked. I went to rehab and then I relapsed and now I’m getting high off of it again, and it’s actually working so I think as an addict I’d be able to be like, ‘No, no, it’s cool. I can just have one drink, and then I’m fine,’” he continued. “But I know that that’s not the truth. I know that my brain is fucked and I started it back up again, but that’s part of the Chip thing and why Chip exists at all, because I feel like I need to be there and I want to be seen so bad that I’m going to make myself into this thing so you’ll have to fucking look.”Eilish shared a photo of the two together at the end of her Halloween post carousel. Eilish is dressed as a baby, while Rutherford appears as an old man. The costumes are seemingly their way of trolling those critical of their decade age gap. “life is craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy🤡 happy halloween🎃🥰,” she captioned the post.

“I think Chip was Jesse’s biggest fan,” Rutherford said of Chrome’s personality. “Chip is very inspired by Jesse, he reminded me of being a kid at my mom’s house again. You have creative vulnerability when you’re at home, you could look in the mirror and say, ‘This was pretty cool.’ Before you walk out the door, you might be like, ‘Oh, well, not today. I’m going to put on my jeans.’ And Chip was a way of being like, ‘Nope, not another day. You’re doing this shit right the fuck now.’”Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.Your Tango pointed out that Carlson sparked breakup speculation in November 2021 when she removed “Jesse’s girlfriend” from her TikTok bio after the couple spent six years together.

In January 2021, Rutherford was posting again more sparingly on his Chrome account. “I still struggle with it,” he said of social media generally. “When you’re on the internet at all and you’re part of that flow and you’re actively participating, it’s hard to not think about it in the back of your head. I think I got to a point when I was off of it for so long that it wasn’t even in the back of my head, which was really nice.”

The couple proved their relationship was going strong when they posed on the red carpet together for the heavily-attended post-Oscars bash. They held hands on the red carpet in a subtle show of PDA:Wrapped together in a blanket and decked out in Gucci pajamas, Eilish and Rutherford made their event debut on November 5, 2022 at the 11th Annual LACMA Art + Film Gala.

Rutherford would talk about Carlson in interviews prior to their split a little, along with the attention their relationship got. He struggled with it getting more buzz than his music sometimes. “When you work on a piece of music for a long time, you post it, and it gets X amount of likes, then you post a picture with your girlfriend and it gets X amount… It’s just a weird, challenging, confusing feeling,” he told Interview in January 2020. “I feel like there’s an opportunity to get off the platform, or at least try it this way.”“Yeah, I do [have a boyfriend now],” she started. “And it’s really cool, and I’m really excited, and I’m really happy about it. I managed to get my way to a point in my life where I not only was known by a person that I thought was the hottest f*cking f*cker alive, but pulled his ass. Are you kidding me? Can we just—round of applause for me? Thank you. Jesse Rutherford, everyone! I pulled his ass—all me! I did that shit. I locked that motherf*cker down.” Rutherford acted as a kid, appearing in Life or Something Like It (2002), an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, and more, according to his IMDB page. He addressed his acting past in his Complex interview, saying he started TV acting at age 5 “until I was 13, so that’s the world that I come from. I’ve been programmed to be an actor. So when I figured out I wanted to be a rock star or a musician, I was learning that role.” Rutherford’s music persona Chip Chrome has a verified Instagram, although he hasn’t posted since December 2021. Bella Hadid and Dua Lipa follow the account. Eilish does not, but Chrome follows her.

For the end of 2022 and first half of 2023, Billie Eilish had a new love in her life: The 21-year-old singer was first photographed making out with 31-year-old musician Jesse Rutherford in Los Angeles in fall 2022. On Halloween, Eilish made it Instagram official with Rutherford—and poked fun at those critical of their age gap with her baby and his old man Halloween costumes.

Rutherford has also done podcasting before, debuting Patients podcast in 2020. As he told Complex of the experience doing it, “When I started doing Patients, I was just like, ‘All right, I’m going to jump and just try,’” he said. “And I don’t really promote [the podcast] very much. It’s pretty low key, but with the attention that I already get on the internet, the people that really want to hear it, they find it and then they’ll check it out. It’s just a little project that I’m starting, so it seems you get the idea about it. I feel like I’m probably saying it on the podcast a lot, too.”

Eilish shed a little light on their relationship when talking about her love language and what she needs when dating someone. “My whatever they say love language is just physical touch,” she began. “I just need to be touching skin all the time. Touching and cuddling and hugging and anything skin-related is really a big thing for me. And other than that, just like freedom. You know, I don’t wanna be controlled. I wanna be trusted, and I wanna be able to have space, and I want love and attention, and equal admiration is really important. I just am really inspired by this person [Rutherford], and you know he’s inspired by me. It’s really cool.”Rutherford spoke about his chromatic alter music persona in an interview with V in December 2020, calling it an “art project.” Rutherford and The Neighbourhood released an album under the persona, Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones, in September 2020.

“We can confirm Billie and Jesse did split amicably and remain good friends,” the rep said. The couple had been last seen at Coachella in April but did not attend the Met Gala together. (Eilish went on her own.)Eilish went on to talk herself about dating Rutherford in her Vanity Fair Same Interview, the Sixth Year video. “Yeah, I do [have a boyfriend now]. And it’s really cool, and I’m really excited, and I’m really happy about it,” she said in an interview conducted in October 2022.The singer deactivated all his social media accounts on his 27th birthday, committing “social suicide,” as he later explained to Complex. “It’s satirical. It’s supposed to be. And if it’s emo in its own ways that’s good, but it’s also supposed to be ridiculous and funny and a commentary on how ridiculous the whole thing is.”Eilish once again got fans talking on Jan. 9, 2023, when she slid a photo of a wedding cake into one of her usual photo dump posts on Instagram. “Are you looking at WEDDING CAKES?!” one fan wrote in the comments, while another added “wait … WEDDING CAKES BILLIE???”

From celebrating her 21st birthday together to making their red carpet debut in pajamas, here’s everything to know about Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford’s relationship timeline.”We can confirm Billie and Jesse did split amicably and remain good friends,” the rep said in a statement. “All cheating rumors are false. Both are currently single.” While it isn’t clear exactly when they met, a fan account posted a photo of Eilish with Rutherford on Twitter in 2017. The photo is likely from 2016 or 2017 based on her silvery-gray hair color — a look she wore when she first stepped onto the scene with “Ocean Eyes.” The pop star was first linked to the frontman of the band The Neighborhood in October 2022, and the musical duo were seen together more and more frequently until she confirmed their relationship a month later in November.Eilish and Rutherford engaged in a bit of PDA at her family’s Easter celebration. On Instagram, the “Ocean Eyes” singer shared a photo of Rutherford’s hand on her thigh. She could be seen wearing a floral dress and white fishnet tights.

Days later, Eilish and Rutherford made their public debut by appearing on the red carpet at the LACMA Art + Film Gala 2022 together wearing coordinating bedtime-themed outfits. After about a year of dating, Eilish called it quits with her ex-boyfriend Matthew Tyler Vorce. The split got ugly when fans began speculating Vorce cheated on Eilish. “Nobody cheated on anyone. Relationships end. Simple as that,” Vorce wrote on his Instagram Story on May 30, both confirming the breakup and hitting back at the accusations. “Creating rumors and LYING on the internet is dangerous.” When Eilish visited New York City for a pre-holiday trip in early December, it appears she brought her boyfriend along with her. She posted a photo featuring his tattooed hands alongside their luggage and several snaps of the Big Apple.

One of the photos featured Eilish and Rutherford donning a couples Halloween costume that poked fun at the criticism of their age gap. Eilish dressed as a baby with big eyelashes and a pink bonnet, while Rutherford showed off a balding head of gray hair and an old man outfit.Eilish and Rutherford were first seen out together on Oct. 13, 2022. TMZ captured photos of the pair cozied up inside vegan restaurant Crossroads Kitchen in West Hollywood. Though they looked comfortable together, there wasn’t any PDA, so the status of the relationship wasn’t clear at the time.Eilish, who stunned in a sweeping black gown, walked the Vanity Fair red carpet alongside Rutherford. The “Sweater Weather” singer wore a black suit with a flower pinned to his lapel, and his makeup — a painted red nose and blue tear streaks — was reminiscent of a clown’s.

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Though they often faced backlash from fans for their 10-year age gap, Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell both defended the romance. “Listen, as long as she’s happy, I’m happy,” O’Connell told E! News at the GQ Men of the Year party on Nov. 18, 2022.Rutherford proved he had a good relationship with Eilish’s family on Dec. 16, 2022, when they all appeared on stage together at her last KIA Forum hometown show to give her a cake and celebrate her 21st birthday together.

The Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? and Little Monsters star later spoke out against the hateful comments he was getting on Instagram, calling them “heinous” and “cowardly.”Both singers stunned in tan Gucci pajamas with furry slippers, and Eilish wore a sleeping mask on her forehead and floor-length robe off her shoulders. They also carried around a thick comforter and cozied up together under it.Things turned romantic between the pair a week later, when they were seen kissing outside of Lal Mirch Indian restaurant in Studio City on Oct. 18, 2022. A casually-dressed Eilish locked lips with the frontman while caressing his arms during a sweet embrace.

A few days after Eilish’s 21st birthday, she was joined by all of her closest friends and family for a Christmas-themed party. Rutherford was in attendance rocking a matching outfit with his girlfriend. Eilish wore a Mrs. Claus-inspired red velvet dress with white fringe, while Rutherford wore a red sweater over a whole button-down with green slacks.The couple took cute photos in front of her birthday balloons and snapped a romantic photo smooching in the photo booth with Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber. They appeared to be having an incredible time dancing together in a second set of photos, which also featured stars like Doja Cat and Stassie Karanikolaou. Eilish made the relationship Instagram official shortly after their PDA went viral. “Life is craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy,” she captioned a series of photos with a clown emoji. Superstar Billie Eilish’s reveal of two new songs on her new mini-EP Guitar Songs was a surprise. She said in an interview with Zane Lowe that “The 30” was the first song she and Finneas (her brother and fellow musician) have written since her last album, Happier Than Ever (which debuted at No. 1 in 2021). Though it’s only been about a year since her last new music, Eilish said she was in a hurry to get the songs out for the world to hear.

“The 30” is slow and somber, far removed from the style of music—both sonically and lyrically—that Eilish has become famous for. This is a serious song, and it could spur some listeners to consider the value of each day and of each life.Musically, this track has a stripped-down feel, especially compared to most of the 20-year-old California singer’s earlier work. “The 30” and Eilish’s other new single, “TV,” contemplate the fragility of life in the wake of a tragic, though largely unspecified, event in the singer’s life.

Back in 2019, Billie Eilish bought a ranch in Glendale, California. The property had a sale price of $2.3 million dollars and some reports indicate that it used to belong to Leona Lewis, another music industry star.2020 was a great year for her as she won four Grammy Awards for Best Album, Best Record, Best Song and Best New Artist after her first hit “Bad Guy” took over the world and earned the top spot at the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Apple paid her $25 million dollars for a single documentary about her life, and despite her earning over $50 million in 2020 she continued to live with her parents up to just recently.

Americans “dominate the billionaires ranks” with 17 out of the top 25 spots, says Forbes. Other household names that have made it onto the Forbes rich list include Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett, but where do they rank and who is the richest person in the world?

It all started when Bezos was working on Wall Street and saw a gap in the market for selling products online and its potential. After selling books, he branched out to other products, such as household goods and electronics, and the success came from his business model, focusing on great customer service and low prices.

Putting aside Arnault’s business acumen and wealth, he enjoys art and has one of the biggest private art collections in the world. He has donated millions of dollars to charities in his time.Vaishali graduated in journalism from Leeds University, UK. She has worked for her local news outlet, the Leicester Mercury as well as writing personal finance stories for digital publications, The Money Edit, MoneyWeek and GoodToKnow. When she is not writing about money-saving, deals, finance hacks and other personal finance topics, Vaishali likes to travel and she’s a foodie. The billionaire founded the computer technology company Oracle in 1977 and has expanded it to specialize in hardware, enterprise software and cloud computing. Ellison’s inspiration to start the business came from working on a project with the CIA where he had to create a database. Arnault is known for taking struggling brands under his wing and making them profitable. As a result, Arnault’s net worth rose by $53 billion since last year and LVMH shares surged 18% due to high demand, according to Forbes.When it comes to who gets the top spot as the richest person in the world, there’s a constant battle of the billionaires. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, spring to mind when talking about the rich and wealthy but surprisingly, although these famous A-listers have personal fortunes worth billions and are the faces behind big name companies such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) neither of them takes the top spot on the Forbes “Real-Time Billionaires List” tracking the richest people in the world.

The billionaire was born on March 5, 1949, in Roubaix, a city in northern France, and comes from a wealthy family who owned a construction company. Arnault had a good education and holds a degree in engineering from the École des Mines de Paris.Jeff Bezos has a net worth of around $148.8 billion, Forbes reports. His spot on the rich list is fairly dynamic and yet he’s one of the best-known billionaires of them all. Bezos is famous for founding Amazon (AMZN) in 1994. From just selling books in the 90s, Amazon has now grown to be the biggest online retailer in the world with a market capitalization of over $1 trillion.

Buffett’s investing method is centered around finding undervalued companies with a strong foundation and investing in them for the long term. The companies he opts for all have a competitive advantage to deter competitors from entering the market, and this style of investing has proved to be a success as he has historically generated impressive returns for his investors.Dividend growth outperforms the market over time and helps portfolios beat inflation. These dividend growth ETFs give investors the chance to buy the strategy in bundles.

Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle (ORCL), has a fortune of $157.1 billion, a jump in his net wealth that makes him the third richest person on the rich list, surpassing Jeff Bezos.

Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.One result that may come as a surprise is Elon Musk who is back in the top spot — despite his Twitter woes — with an estimated wealth of around $238.5 billion, according to Forbes. The entrepreneur has accumulated his wealth from his involvement in companies such as Tesla and SpaceX. More recently, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion in April 2022.

Textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is one of Buffett’s successful investments. After investing in the company in 1962, he took it over and expanded the holding into other industries such as retail, insurance and utilities.Musk’s other venture, SpaceX, was founded in 2002 and aims to make space travel accessible and affordable for all. The company is valued at approximately $137 billion and its value is four times more than it was three years ago, says Forbes.

“TV” is Billie’s most politically charged song to date. She refers to what attracts society’s attention: movie stars fighting rather than an indictment affecting half of the nation’s population. “The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial/While they’re overturning Roe v. Wade,” she sings. “Maybe I’m the problem.”

The melancholic ballad begins with a guitar strumming a soft, eerie tune until Billie joins in with her soft vocals. “I don’t want to talk right now, I just want to watch TV. I’ll stay in the pool and drown, so I don’t have to watch you leave.”“I had been writing down all these thoughts that I was having. 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.” In a July 2022 interview with Zane Lowe, Billie stated that “The 30th” was the first song she and FINNEAS wrote since her last album Happier Than Ever. The song is in Billie’s point of view as she watches someone she loves experience a horrific accident which they may never be the same because of it. “Sometimes, you look the same / Just like you did before the accident / When you’re starin’ into space,” Billie sings. “It’s hard to believe you don’t remember it / Woke up in the ambulance / You pieced it all together on the drive.”Billie’s second song “The 30th,” was written due to something that happened to the singer on November 30. “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,” she explained in her interview with Zane Lowe.Billie Eilish just released music for the first time since her Happier Than Ever album! The singer released “TV” and “The 30th” on July 21, 2022, under an LP called Guitar Songs. Scroll to see our lyric breakdown for both equally very sad songs.Billie originally sang her new track “TV” with her brother and collaborator FINNEAS, to a crowd a the OA Arena on June 7, 2022. “TV” includes references to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and more. “TV” also describes the reality of losing friends, fighting with your significant other and feeling utterly hopeless as the television plays depressing news in the background. A real uplifter.

On the first verse, we get a good sense of what type of event inspired the song. Someone close to Eilish was in a terrible accident that landed them in the emergency room.

“The 30th,” which currently sits at No. 1 on our chart, was actually the first song Eilish wrote with her brother and main collaborator FINNEAS after finishing up her last album, Happier Than Ever. The song gets its title from the date it was written (December 30) and the date of the event that inspired it. “That’s why it’s called ‘The 30th,’ because something happened on November 30th,” Eilish explained to Zane Lowe. “It had just been the most indescribable thing to have to witness and experience. I had been writing down all these thoughts that I was having. 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.’” Eilish visits this person in the hospital on the chorus, where she does her best to keep a brave face in front of her loved one, despite being equally terrified. “We wrote that on December [sic] 30th, and that was actually the first song that we had written since Happier Than Ever. That’s why it’s called “The 30th”: something happened on November 30th and it had just been the most, I mean, indescribable thing to have to witness and like experience.”The slow guitar led ballad sees Eilish reminisce a car accident that her loved ones were involved in and ultimately taken to hospital for. The day before the song’s release, Eilish spoke to Zane Lowe from Apple Music about the song’s meaning for her:

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.“The 30th” is the second song from Billie Eilish’s second EP “Guitar Songs”, which was released on the 21st July 2022 through Darkroom & Interscope Records.The audio video for “The 30th” was uploaded to Eilish’s official YouTube channel on the 21st July 2022. Exactly one month later, the video had almost 5 million views.

Billie Eilish’s “The 30th” features a narrative in which none of the main points are directly stated. But Eilish has given a terse background of the real-incident upon which it is based. Also, the lyrics themselves are very understandable, though putting it all together requires some conn
ecting of the dots on the part of the listener.And perhaps the simplest way of relaying all that’s going down is by listing the main points in a linear fashion, even though they aren’t presented as such in the lyrics. But of course what Eilish is best known for is her debut full-length, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do we Go?”, which was one of the biggest hits of 2019. Fresh after the accident, when Billie was in the hospital with this person, the latter remembered the incident. But now, presumably a month later, he or she has forgotten. And the implication is that said individual, who is also the addressee of the lyrics, has suffered brain damage. This buttresses the notion that the accident he or she was in was a life-threatening one.And further along those lines, Billie notices that now the addressee ‘stares into space’ just similar to how they used to do before all of this happened. But this reads like an observation she is making in an attempt to cleave to the past, in a manner of speaking.

Love Billie and Finneas and their mom Maggie. Love their music but really love the families work to make this a better world..When I was in Seal and Huntington Beach visiting family saw them 3 times at the Forum in the town I went to College. Inglewood and Loyola U when I went there but now Loyola Marymount. The girls can go there now lol