Billie Eilish is almost a month away from dropping her third studio album, Hit Me Laborious and Delicate, with out releasing any singles beforehand. Nevertheless, in a brand new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, she determined to interrupt the foundations somewhat bit and tease a 15-second snippet of one of many venture’s tracks.
The tune, reportedly titled “Chihiro” in reference to the principle character within the beloved Studio Ghibli movie, Spirited Away, contains a thumping melody with Eilish singing in her characteristically comfortable tone: “At this time, perhaps tomorrow/ Open the door for me/ I do know you mentioned earlier than/ You’ll be able to’t deal with it no extra.” Eilish has been a longtime fan of Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, and has even jokingly admitted to having a crush on the dragon in Spirited Away.
“Each time you place something out, it appears like your nudes leaked somewhat bit,” the nine-time Grammy winner mentioned of the upcoming album. “I feel this one particularly is like that. One thing that Finneas and I mentioned to a few individuals after we began to play it for individuals is we form of made the album that if someone had mentioned, ‘I need you to make an album and nobody goes to listen to it. You don’t have to fret about anybody’s ears or opinions or something in any respect. It’s in your contract to make an album however nobody can hear it.’ We just about made that album. We made that album with out a lot considered different individuals.”
Hit Me Laborious and Delicate, out Might 17, will observe the musician’s 2019 debut When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? and her 2021 sophomore effort Happier Than Ever, each of which topped the Billboard 200 for 3 weeks.
Watch Eilish’s interview with Zane Lowe beneath.