Billie Eilish made a promise in 2020 that not a single one of her fans forgot: The moment she hopped into a salon to change her iconic green and black dye job was the moment we could expect new Billie music. And thus, the metamorphosis began—Billie finally removed her former hair color in favor a sunshine-infused platinum blonde, and now we’re being gifted with new Billie music. Yay!
Billie’s newest offering “Happier Than Ever” is honestly a breath of fresh air. As the title suggests, the lyrics describe Billie being thrilled a certain ~someone~ is out of her life. The singer briefly discussed the song in her documentary The World’s a Little Blurry and said “the whole song is just more like nothing even specific that they did, you’re just not happy being with them. Can’t even explain it.” So glad she got that toxic energy out of her life, TBH.
Some fans are theorizing the song could potentially be about Billie’s ex Q Adams. Billie and Q broke up April 2019, and she explained, “I just wasn’t happy, and I didn’t want the same things he wanted, and I don’t think that’s fair for him. I don’t think you should be in a relationship super excited about certain things that the other person couldn’t care less about. I don’t think that’s fair to you. I didn’t think that was fair to him. And there was just a lack of effort, I think. I literally was just like, ‘Dude, you don’t even have enough love to love yourself. You can’t love me, dude. And you don’t. You think you do.’”
Now that you’ve got supplemental info, check out “Happier Than Ever”—and learn the lyrics, of course—below: