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“People say I look happy/ Just because I got skinny,” sings in “Skinny,” the lead track off her new album, . “But the old me is still me/ And maybe the real me/ And I think she’s pretty.” Are we entering a new era of Eilish? The singer-songwriter may only be 22 years old, but her 22 is not just anybody’s 22.

She is, after all, a performer whose breakthrough work came out before she even graduated from high school. At the age when most people are finishing college, she has (with her brother and collaborator Finneas O’Connell) claimed nine Grammys and two Academy Awards. In her macabre debut, 2019’s Eilish’s most sincere moments were overshadowed by her villainous alt-pop persona.



In her sophomore LP, 2021’s , the edgy teen phenom had been poked, prodded, and surveilled into a more subdued songstress. Although she confronted music industry predators in “Your Power,” (from the second album), it was with painstakingly hushed condemnations: “Will you only feel bad when they find out?” Perhaps no genre of her evolution has attracted more attention than her shifting attitude toward her body. Known initially for her baggy, tomboy apparel, in 2020 she appeared of British in an Alexander McQueen corset and other high femme finery, in part to prove to body-shamers that she could pull it off.

"If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I'm a slut,” she recited coldly in the spoken word video “Not My Responsibility” from th.

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