“Blue” by Billie Eilish

"Blue" arrived on May 17, 2024, with Hit Me Hard and Soft, Billie Eilish's third album, and it is stitched together from two songs she and her brother Finneas never quite let go of. "True Blue" was among the very first things they wrote, right after "Ocean Eyes", and she played it at some of her earliest shows; when it leaked in February 2022 and went viral on TikTok, she decided to finish it. "Born Blue" began life during the Happier Than Ever sessions and stalled after a few lines. Fused, the two caught how the pair felt while making the new record.

Finneas produced and recorded it and plays bass, guitar, synthesizer, glockenspiel and percussion, with Andrew Marshall on drums, strings from Domenic Salerni, Amy Schroeder, Nathan Schram and Andrew Yee, and Jon Castelli and Aron Forbes mixing.

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