This was supposed to be the year of Billie Eilish; She had multiple Grammy Awards to her credit and a major sand tour in the books. But pandemics do not discriminate, just as the world closed and millions retired to their homes, so did she. “My Future” is the first song Eilish wrote under quarantine, and finds the young pop star once again in a contemplative headspace. She has already proven herself to be a master of the delicate ballad, but her latest is far more optimistic than her latest single. Can’t you hear me? I’m not going back home, “he murmurs.” Do you understand? I have changed my plans / Because I am in love with my future. “
She is not singing to any former lover, she is addressing herself. Loneliness was a cause for despair in “when the party ended”: “Silence when I come home and I am alone / I could lie, say that I like it that way.” But now, almost two years later, she is trying to find happiness and take it for herself. FINNEAS ‘production reflects this emotional advance; the soft electric piano gives way to the drums and the little guitar blossoms as Billie stretches her wings, lifted by lush background coos. She doesn’t know where she is going, but neither of us do: “I’m in love, but not with anyone here / I’ll see you in a couple of years.”
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