“Lunch” by Billie Eilish

"Lunch" dropped on May 17, 2024, the same day as its parent album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, and served as the lead single from Billie Eilish's third record. It's brazen and hungry: a strutting come-on built over a heavy, rubbery bassline, about wanting a girl and treating desire as plain appetite, written after Eilish had said publicly that she was drawn to both men and women.

FINNEAS produced and recorded it and co-wrote it with Eilish, and he plays most of what you hear: bass, guitar, synths, percussion, even glockenspiel, with Eilish adding keyboards and the two of them stacking the vocals. Chaz Sexton recorded the drums, and Jon Castelli and Aron Forbes mixed the lot into something that leans as much toward electro and post-punk as toward synth-pop.

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