The song repeats the prechorus and chorus, then ends with her repeating two questions: “If I knew it all then, would I do it again,” and “If they knew what they said would go straight to my head, what would they say instead?” Feel like they are trying to encompass everything the song is about. She thought she wanted it, but in fact did not. Only, in context with the fact she is a Grammy winning artist, those wants from other people are larger and more demanding. People want her and she doesn’t feel ready for that. The final two lines “Cause everybody wants something from me now, and I don’t want to let them down,” by itself feels very simple. In the second verse she describes how she felt like she was drowning, was called weak, that she was surrounded, and most importantly she felt like she had people who all wanted something, and she could not let them down. That idea is built on in the second verse. It is not just that she feels bad, but that she feels like she did something wrong. Instead of focusing just on negative self esteem it also focuses on that sense of feeling like you have not don’t enough. But the ending line “You wouldn’t wonder why you hear ‘They don’t deserve you.’” The chorus is straightforward about self esteem. From there the chorus is her partner saying that if she can find the positive in herself she would lose the self doubt. The prechorus sets up that she awakes to find her partner next to her. This first verse is hauntingly sung, but sets up the main idea immediately: getting everything you want is not always good, and the fear of being alone and unwanted. This causes her to imagine killing herself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, but no body cares. She starts the first verse by saying she got everything she ever wanted, only it could be a nightmare. Since this song is so lyrics heavy it makes sense to jump in. Just used to accent the lyrics in really clever ways. “everything i wanted” meanwhile hinges on its lyrics. They were minimal (to be charitable), and left too little of an impression. The main issue with “No Time to Die” were the lyrics. “My Happy Ending” is more about a relationship that fails, meanwhile “everything i wanted” focuses on the harm of fame, and low self-esteem. Now, if you had my frame of reference, part of you would want this to be some cover or twist on Avril Lavigne “My Happy Ending” mostly for the chorus of “You wanted everything that I wanted…” Now, obviously it is not that, but it hits that same emotional nerve of love and loss through what is popular music now. Her new song “everything i wanted” is an interesting shift. Either way, though that song was not great her biggest hit “Bad Guy” showed her power of her star and musical talent. I reviewed her James Bond song a couple weeks… or is months ago at this point. Billie Eilish is one of the new, biggest stars in music.
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