Yearlong Song Challenge, Day 12: Jeanine

Prompt: "The title track to an album"

Selected by Jeanine

"Happier Than Ever"

Billie Eilish

Happier Than Ever, 2021

I truly do not know where to begin with this song, this album, this artist. I WISH I was as self-aware as she when I was nineteen and 20 years old, trying to navigate life. Anyway, this is one of my favorite songs by Billie, it is one of those songs that feels like it was written for you, about you. Like she was able to see into my life, and gave me the song I needed.

This song is a letter to more than one person in my life. There are so many lines in that song that I just want to scream at people. I settle, and instead I listen to it on full blast in my car and sing my lungs out.

It is also two songs in one—I love when a song completely changes in the middle. New chords, new count, new melody, new attitude. She continues to amaze me with her music.  

I also despise when the album title is ALSO a track on the album. Come on. Pick a different title.