I’m not sure where I heard about Billie Eilish but I’m glad I did.  This cut is one of the slower ones, but there are some much more energetic ones on this album.  She’s talented and I love her voice!  She’s only 17!

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer, songwriter, and model. Her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) debuted atop the Billboard 200 and reached number one in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It was released on March 29, 2019. Eilish co-wrote most of the record alongside her brother Finneas O’Connell, who handled its production. Musically, the album has been characterized as a pop, avant-pop, art pop, and electropop record, though features several other genre influences including hip hop and industrial music. Upon its release, the album was praised by music critics for its subject matter, songwriting and cohesion. It was also a commercial success, topping charts in numerous countries including in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Eilish was inspired to write “Xanny” after attending a party at which her friends “kept throwing up, kept drinking more,” consequently becoming “completely not who they were”. While recording the song, Eilish and her brother created a sound inspired by a girl blowing cigarette smoke in the former’s face alongside a drum kit and a jazz-inspired loop in order to replicate the feeling of being “in secondhand smoke”.

What is it about them?
I must be missing something
They just keep doing nothing
Too intoxicated to be scared
Better off without them
They’re nothing but unstable
Bring ashtrays to the table
And that’s about the only thing they share

I’m in their second hand smoke
Still just drinking canned coke
I don’t need a xanny to feel better
On designated drives home
Only one who’s not stoned
Don’t give me a xanny now or ever

Waking up at sundown
They’re late to every party
Nobody’s ever sorry
Too inebriated now to dance
Morning as they come down (come down)
Their pretty heads are hurting (hurting)
They’re awfully bad at learning (learning)
Make the same mistakes, blame circumstance

I’m in their second hand smoke
Still just drinking canned coke
I don’t need a xanny to feel better
On designated drives home
Only one who’s not stoned
Don’t give me a xanny now or ever

Please don’t try to kiss me on the sidewalk
On your cigarette break
I can’t afford to love someone
Who isn’t dying by mistake in Silver Lake

What is it about them?
I must be missing something
They just keep doing nothing
Too intoxicated to be scared
Hmm, hmm
Hmm, hmm
Hmm, mmm
Come down, hurting
Learning
Songwriters: Billie Eilish O’Connell / Finneas Baird O’Connell