How many new songs did Billie Eilish make?

Billie Eilish has released her first new music of 2022. Two new tracks feature on the artist’s surprise-released EP, Guitar Songs, which arrived overnight.

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The Guitar Songs EP is Eilish’s first collection of music since her second album, Happier Than Ever, came out in July 2021. The EP features the song ‘TV’, which had been performed live on the singer’s recent tour of the UK.

Billie Eilish – ‘TV’

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 ahead of its release, Eilish said that the EP’s second song, ‘The 30th’, was penned in December 2021 and was the first song she’d written since Happier Than Ever. The track itself focuses on an unspecified incident that had occurred just days earlier.

“That’s why it’s called ‘The 30th’ because something happened on November 30th, and it had just been the most indescribable thing to have to witness and experience. I had been writing down all these thoughts that I was having,” Eilish said. “I was with Finneas, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know what you were planning on doing, but we need to write this song about this right now.'”

‘TV’ features a prescient line that made headlines for pointing out the disconnect between the focus on Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. “The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial,” Eilish sings in the song, “while they’re overturning Roe v. Wade.”

“We wrote that line a few weeks before it was officially overturned. It was a placeholder of doom. I mean, it was the day of Glastonbury that it happened,” Eilish said during her discussion with Lowe. “We were at this house, and I was sitting with the dogs in the grass. My mom came out, and she just stood there, and she went, ‘They overturned it.’ We all were just like… God, it was like a curtain of doom.”

Billie Eilish – ‘The 30th’

Eilish and her producer/brother Finneas have played versions of “TV” on her current tour (the recorded version samples some crowd noise from a U.K. show). The song gently alludes to Elliott Smith’s “The Biggest Lie” in its chord progressions, but the lyrics about numbing malaise with bad TV (“I put on ‘Survivor’ just to watch somebody suffer”) and the demise of abortion rights in America (“The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they’re overturning Roe v. Wade”) place it in the last few weeks of history.

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A brand new track, “The 30th,” glows with a George Harrison-esque fingerpicking pattern. But its imagery of a close-call car crash imbues her hometown’s freeways with foreboding: “What if it happened to you on a different day / Or the Angeles Crest in the snow or the rain?”

Eilish has been even more cutting at recent performances. During her June headline set at England’s Glastonbury Festival, she lambasted the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion in America, calling it “a really, really dark day for women in the U.S.” Fellow artists Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers spoke out about the same fears during their own Glastonbury sets.

Eilish’s tour supporting her second album “Happier Than Ever” heads to Asia starting next month, with shows in the Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.

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How many songs does Billie Eilish have in total 2022?

American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish has released 2 studio albums, 1 live album, 1 video album, 2 extended plays (EPs), 33 singles, and 25 music videos.

How many songs have Billie Eilish written?

American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish has released one studio album, two EPs, 18 singles, and 14 music videos.

Did Billie Eilish drop a new song?

Billie Eilish surprised fans on Thursday when she released a two-song EP titled Guitar Songs, featuring new tracks “TV” and “The 30th,” which are available to stream.

Is Billie Eilish still making songs?

Speaking to Vanity Fair about her brother and collaborator Finneas, she said: “We see each other all the time, and also now, we're starting to make music again. We just started the process of making an album, which is really exciting.”