Billie Eilish
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
参考
68--100点相当
5メディア以上が満点
1stにあったような、斬新さ、新しさみたいなものは、
経年で消化されてしまい、
どちらかというと、Billie Eilish節、らしさみたいなものが
全開の中、どちらかというと、
やや抑えられた落ち着きのある楽曲が続く。
そのためか、8曲目くらいで、
んんん、もうあきたわという感じになってしっまったがｗ
100点の数が多いが、
1st、2nd からよりも
内容が上回っているといわれると、そこまではという感じだが。
まぁでも、trac5、6くらいまでは
そこそこいい流れだったが、同じ範囲の流れで
さらにこられると..
今日、夕方のNHK-FMでも特集をやっており、
CHIHIRO という曲は、昔のインタビューから察するに
ジブリのあれからの曲なんじゃないかと言っていた。
‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ is a portrait of who she is now, and who she could go on to become. The album’s no-single rollout and occasional snippets – either at Coachella DJ sets or in Heartstopper soundtracks – have offered few clues, and a Rolling Stone profile offered, well, perhaps a little too much for some people’s tastes. But still, it was clear that she wanted to get personal: “This whole process has felt like I’m coming back to the girl I was [in 2019]. I’ve been grieving her. This isn’t an album about happiness, but there are at least glimmers of the full human experience for once.
‘Skinny’ follows Eilish’s trend of using the opening track to set the table for the rest of the album. First there was the 13-second goofy skit ‘!!!!!!!’ on her debut, encapsulating how it feels to make an album at home with your best pal, older brother Finneas. Then ‘Happier Than Ever’’s curtain-raiser ‘Getting Older’, was a wistful, sighing opener about how it feels to grow up as the most talked-about teenager on the planet
This time, it’s about confidence and self-reflection: “People say I look happy, just because I got skinny / But the old me is still me, maybe the real me, and I think she’s pretty”. She soon engages with her own narrative much like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande did on their recent albums: “Am I acting my real age now? Am I already on the way down? When I step off stage I’m a bird in a cage and a dog in a dog pound”. It finishes with a gorgeous orchestral flourish akin to her work on Bond song ‘No Time To Die’ with Hans Zimmer. It’s a superb song, one of her best ever.