“Chihiro” by Billie Eilish

"Chihiro" is the third track on Hit Me Hard and Soft, Billie Eilish's third album, released in 2024 on Darkroom and Interscope, and she wrote it with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who produced it. She teased a snippet in an April 2024 interview with Zane Lowe before the album dropped.

The title points to Chihiro Ogino, the heroine of Studio Ghibli's 2001 film Spirited Away, one of Eilish's favorite movies; she has said the song is loosely drawn from it, told partly from the girl's point of view and partly from her own, and haunted by images like the train skimming across flooded tracks. Finneas plays nearly everything, bass, guitar, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion and keyboards, with Eilish also on keys, and Jon Castelli and Aron Forbes mixed it.

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