The sun rises as the beat changes in the middle of the song, transforming a somber lyric about seeking peace and reflection in solitude into a hint of excitement about what can come after the dark night. The video, directed by Australian animator Andrew Onorato (who worked on Childish Gambino’s “Feels Like Summer” clip as well as cartoon segments in the Bethesda Softworks video games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Fallout 4), reinforces the theme of growth, as Billie Eilish walks through a dreary Miyazakian forest at night, watching plants sprout as the light of dawn cuts through the trees overhead, touching the brush underfoot. “I have to keep reminding myself that the future is ours,” Eilish told fans in an email explaining the inspiration for “My Future,” “and I know we want to do everything we can to make it better for everyone in the world, and for the world itself.”
Like “Sunny,” a tune about silver linings written in 1963 in the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination, “My Future” is a reminder that even though the present looks scary, there are better times on the other side. The new song, which Finneas notes on Instagram is the first piece of music the pair worked on during quarantine, gently nudges Billie Eilish in a different direction from the claustrophobic electronic sound of When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, revealing new possibilities for her voice (the way the hint of a full-throated shout at the climax of “ No Time to Die” did earlier this year) as she blends nostalgic Disney-soundtrack melodicism with soulful blue notes. This week’s release of her latest single, “ My Future,” suggests that the O’Connell siblings have made good use of the quiet time. Otherwise, she’s been signal-boosting Black Lives Matter content and avoiding trouble, occasionally dropping a quarantine serve on Instagram, but mostly taking the break from the public she seemed to be very much in need of earlier this year. Most memorably, Eilish appeared during Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home virtual benefit concert, performing a spectral cover of Nashville soul singer Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” a deceptively dark but ultimately positive tune, alongside her brother, Finneas. It was so exactly what I was feeling and thinking and wanted to convey and wanted to say and wanted to be heard.Are there more tricks like this in store for the second Billie Eilish album?īillie Eilish has been keeping a relatively low profile this year after making history as the youngest singer to record the James Bond theme song and the first woman in 61 years of Grammy ceremonies to sweep the big four categories: Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year. I sent to my friend and she was like, ‘True, that is sad, but at the same time, I love this video of you because it almost looks like you’re talking about your future self, like, ‘I just haven’t met you yet, and I’m excited to meet you.” And I was like, ‘That’s so cuuute.’ I didn’t even think about that until after I had written the chorus, but I knew that it was subconscious. I was also really depressed at the time and sad all the time, and that song made me excited for the future. And that song, when I was that age, I used to listen to it night and day just because it made me hopeful. My Snapchat was like, ‘Four years ago today…,’ and it was this video of me, I think at 14, and I was listening to ‘Just Haven’t Met You Yet’ by Michael Bublé.
“The idea came subconsciously from a video that I found of myself from when I was, I think, 13 or 14. In an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac, Eilish told the story of how Bublé’s 2009 song “ Haven’t Met You Yet” was a primary inspiration behind “My Future,” saying: It wouldn’t seem that Billie Eilish and Michael Bublé have a ton in common musically, aside from the fact that they’re both categorized under the broad umbrella term that is “pop.” However, Eilish has revealed that one of Bublé’s biggest hits was actually a driving force behind one of her recent singles.
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