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It’s one of the most anticipated music releases this year but Billie Eilish‘s Hit Me Hard & Soft tracklist leaked ahead of time and she is not happy about it. Her third album was announced on April 8, 2024, to be released on May 17, 2024.
“HIT ME HARD AND SOFT” MY THIRD ALBUMMMMMMMMMMMMM COMES OUT MAY 17THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH🥹🥹🥹 so crazy to be writing this right now i’m nervyyyyy & exciteddd 🫣 not doing singles i wanna give it to you all at once :PPP finneas and i truly could not be more proud of this album and we absolutely can’t wait for you to hear it. love you love you love you,” Billie wrote on Instagram.
But shortly after, Rolling Stone was accused of leaking the tracklist, prompting the artist to write in a since-deleted Instagram story: “F—k rolling stone.” X user Pop Crave also published the tracklist, which you can see below.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard & Soft tracklist
- Skinny
- Lunch
- Chihiro
- Birds of a Feather
- Wildflower
- The Greatest
- L’Amour De Ma Vie
- The Diner
- Bittersuite
- Blue
Some fans were disappointed in the amount of songs, considering it’s Billie’s first album since 2021’s Happier Than Ever. “Normalise including atleast 13 tracks in your album.. Because this is an EP,” [sic] one wrote. “Album? Baby, that’s an EP…” another said.
It comes after her interview with Billboard, wherein she said how committed she is to making her contribution to art as sustainable as possible. “I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable — and then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more. It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that sh-t.”
Some fans interpreted this as throwing shade at Taylor Swift, who tends to release various colors of vinyl albums so that fans can collect them. In an Instagram story, the “bad guy” singer responded, “Okay so it would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth and actually read what I said in that billboard article,” she wrote. “I wasn’t singling anyone out, these are industry-wide systemic issues,” she said.
She continued, “& when it comes to variants, so many artists release them – including ME! which I clearly state in the article. the climate crisis is not and its about all of us being part of the problem and trying to do better sheesh”
