Billie Eilish has served up "Lunch," the first official video to support her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which was released on Friday (May 17).
The song made headlines even before its release with the suggestive lyrics about oral sex. "I can eat that girl for lunch/Yeah she dances on my tongue/Tastes like she might be the one," Eilish sings in the opening verse.
Although the song's lyrics are racy, the self-directed clip is relatively tame. It features Eilish singing and dancing to the song in a variety of loose outfits, wearing a backwards baseball cap and glasses, in front of a stark white background. As the clip progresses, the background briefly changes to blue, red and yellow. In one part of the video, Eilish mimes playing the piano heard on the track. In some scenes, Eilish appears to sport a grill on her teeth.
"Tell her, 'Bring that over here'/You need a seat? I'll volunteer/Now she's smilin' ear to ear/She's the headlights, I'm the deer," Eilish croons in the second verse. "I've said it all before, but I'll say it again/I'm interested in more than just bein' your friend/I don't wanna break it, just want it to bend/Do you know how to bend?"
"That song was actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real," Eilish said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. "I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after. I've been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn't understand - until, last year, I realized I wanted my face in a vagina. I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years."
In the interview, she offered some more general thoughts on labels and sexual identity. "Nobody should be pressured into being one thing or the other, and I think that there's a lot of wanting labels all over the place," she said. "Dude, I've known people that don't know their sexuality, or feel comfortable with it, until they're in their 40s, 50s, 60s. It takes a while to find yourself, and I think it's really unfair the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are."
"Lunch" is the second song on the 11-track Hit Me Hard and Soft, which Eilish previewed for fans in special arena listening parties earlier in the week in New York and Los Angeles.
