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his persistence feels like he's picking at a scab: "Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms/You've been hiding them in hollowed-out pianos left in the dark." Any connection to the joys of burgeoning romance is swiftly stripped of its dreamy navet by "Each Time You Fall in Love." It quite brutally dispels the myth of true love, describing it as "clearly not enough" and further arguing that "It isn't safe." In some respects, the twist from optimism to cynicism about matters of the heart is honest and bracing, but Gonzales' blame-and-shame tactic also wears thin: "And each time you kiss a girl you never know what it's worth/You say all of the words they wanna hear/It isn't real." Women are often painted as untrustworthy and duplicitous ("She took you for a ride in summer baby/Lost all your money to her"), making the record's loyalty to noir styles and conventions a little tiresome

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The idea behind it stemmed from being at a party (much like Alessia Caras Here) where, as Billie tells it, this girlhad two cigarettes in her hands and she put both of them in her mouth and went like this: Hey Billie and she looked at me, and she blew the smoke into my face. From there, all of her friends got drunk to the point of throwing up, inspiring Billie to craft a song wherein the verses are like what smoke looks like and the choruses are like what it feels like. As her first time directing one of her now expected to be offbeat music videos, Eilish takes the cigarette smoke concept to the next level by appearing on a white park bench that looks like its been placed in a sterilized room that seems as though it could be straight out of a medical testing facility (or a mental institution)