Billie Eilish is one of our Greatest Pop Stars of 2024 for how she came into her own as a fully adult pop star.
will be counting down our editorial staff picks for the 10 Greatest Pop Stars of 2024 all this week — having already revealed our earlier today. Now, at No. 9, we remember the year in Billie Eilish — who continued one of the great pop star runs of the past decade with a year that felt like her really coming into her own in particularly new and rewarding ways.By January 2024, Billie Eilish had already accomplished more in roughly five years than most pop stars do in a lifetime.
It was clear from that first listen that Eilish’s subversive strategy was paying off. While critics praised both of the singer’s previous LPs for their emotional frankness,landed haymakers of honesty across each of its 10 tracks, as Eilish dissected body dysmorphia , disconnection , unreciprocated affection and the obsessive attention of fans — all topics she’d touched on before, but never with this level of in-depth self-awareness.
“Birds,” by almost every measure, is unlike other Billie Eilish songs. Over plinking synths and low-key acoustic guitar strums, a smitten Eilish sings about an uncomplicated, eternal kind of love — the kind of love that, in so many of her other songs, had notably eluded her. Gone are the sneaky, off-kilter production tricks from breakout, now replaced by a simple melody.
It’s fitting that Eilish earned her latest breakout track without meaning to – that seemed to be her standard mode of operations over the last year.
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