the lyrical cruelty of WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by billie eilish *Album Review* 

2:30 bad guy 6:12 xanny 10:11 you should see me in a crown 12:28 all the good girls go to hell 15:22 wish you were gay 18:19 when the party's over 23:55 my strange addiction 27:13 bury a friend 28:46 ilomilo 31:13 listen before i go 33:32 i love you and finally, 35:28 is goodbye! sorry if i messed up a bit, but this album is literally AMAZING. enjoy

It’s 2023 and I still haven’t gotten over how good this album is Edit: it’s 2024 and I’m still not over it

The way that the last three songs make the sentence "Listen before I go. I love you. Goodbye." Genius.

When Billie's mom asked her about the "Listen before I go" when she was making it, Billie said that it's better to make a song about it than actually do this...

fun fact: billie recorded the outro of xanny right after one of her friends died of an overdose :( you can hear how hard she's trying not to cry and how shaky her breathing is

I will ALWAYS stan late reactions to albums I love, I love seeing people experience their greatness for the first time!

No joke this album was life changing

Also love how “goodbye” wraps everything up by taking one line from each song (and IN ORDER of the songs)

Still her best album because every track is unskippable. And moves me deeply.

imomilo is THE grower on this album. Its super myserious and its own little detour. My first listen was more of a "hrmmm" too but its definitely one of my faves now.

Billie said that the chorus of "xanny" sounds like that because it supposed to make you feel kind of uncomfortable just like standing in the secondhand smoke.

the way i listened to this album on repeat at 11 years old was so bad for my health

Bury a friend is so underrated, the creativity behind it and the way it sounds is insanely different. easily one of my favorite songs of all time.

This album is so well produced 😭

I wrote an entire 5 page essay for an English class on "xanny" and its sister song "when the parties over" which borh follow the story line of her first boyfriend (rapper/actor 7:AMP) who dated her in 2018 when he was 21 and she was only 16. (This story was also continued in other songs like TV, Lost Cause, Your Power, Happier Than Ever) Xanny is the semi-fictional story of someone pressured into taking drugs witnessing an overdose. In the background of Xanny you can hear 2 girls frantically checking if someone is still breathing right after the first chorus. Billie hasn't stated about this being based on a real thing she saw but it dose foreshadow "not dying by mistake" later in the song. In Xanny she criticizes his friends and worries about her bf who lives in Silver Lake (the real area where 7:AMP lived) the chorus/vocal affect along with her sluring her words are both ment to be a audible cue to her/the narrator being high. The melancholy and stripped ending accurs after she sobers up right *when the party is over*. When the partys over is a straightforward song about both a literal and metaphorical party that she ended up accepting that she was emotionally taken advantage of by him, that she's gonna lose him (either emotionally or from OD like in xanny) and she's crying when she's coming home all alone (either she emotionally left him or he was too wasted to drive her home) There's alot more to say about both songs but that's the basic overview and context to some of billie's more personal songs.

The fact that all of this album was recorded in Finneas’ childhood bedroom is astounding.

After many years that this has been released you can tell that this album is so good and deserves ALL the grammys that won

Let me just say that Billie produced the outro of "bad guy" by herself in her bedroom and that was the first part of the song that they had, so they started making this song after Billie made the last part of it.

you better not be disappointed. this is her peak album imo

Billie and Finneas are genius man! The fact that they put a sound of dentist's drill that Billie recorded, in "bury a friend" or that the sound in "Bad Guy," is actually a sound of traffic-light in Australia. Love them.

8 will always have a special place in my heart!! Everything about the song is amazing. I love how Finneas plays with her voice in such aesthetic ways!!

Very jealous of someone who listen to this masterpiece for the first time

im so glad i can never listen to this album for the first time again. set my mental health back 7 years fr

In goodbye she’s saying all of her tracks from last to first because she’s waking up and when you wake up you remember your most current dream and so on!

I love how they made "when the party's over" almost without any actual instruments, except some little piano and this song still hits everytime you listen to it.

WE'RE GETTING ANOTHER BILLIE x TROY CRUMBS

As a Billie fan since ocean eyes, when this album came out it was so cathartic to me. I always thought Billie was going to be a superstar and to have a debut album like this was world-changing. “Listen Before I Go” and “Goodbye” feel like a moment in time that I can look back and see how different things are.

The chat having a discussion over troy's butt during wish you were gay is SENDING me lmaooo

This album came out a little before my friend passed away. When I tell you to last three songs made me finally allow myself to absolutely break down and face reality. For that reason alone, Billie will have a special place in my heart

ok but when you think about it, 8 is perfect for the themes of the album. you get so used to the dark sounds from the beginning that hearing more light and carefree instrumentation is jarring. when you're in a dark place, it's so hard to get out of it that anything that feels positive throws you off. it makes you wonder when the shoe is going to drop. darkness becomes comfortable if you've spent enough time in it, like how light hurts your eyes after enough time without it. 8 is a great representation of that feeling in my opinion

!!!!!!! - 01:36 Bad Guy - 02:30 Xanny - 06:07 You Should See Me in a Crown - 10:10 All the Good Girls Go to Hell - 12:20 Wish You Were Gay - 15:06 When the Party's Over - 17:59 8 - 21:31 My Strange Addiction - 23:27 Bury a Friend - 27:06 Ilomilo - 28:40 Listen Before I Go - 31:03 I Love You - 33:28 Goodbye - 35:25

Her music is multidimensional. I can listen to it while I beg the sky to take me home, and I can listen to it on a random Tuesday while I’m in a great mood. The way she comprises everything is incredible

their lyrics are so interesting too because a lot of the rhymes are her asking questions, which is different than traditional rhymes in like pop music ig. finneas is the definition of a musical genius/master of production.

I love how 'you should see me in a crown' is inspired by BBC Sherlocks' Moriarty, it really has that unhinged energy

This album came out when I was studying away from home and I missed home so much. I remember listening to this album from the rooftop of my dorm, looking at city lights and just... sobbing. It was ✨an experience✨

This will forever be my favorite Billie album. Every song is a bop.

Don't get me wrong : I looove Happier than ever but When we all fall asleep, where do we go ? just hit different Also in Wish you were gay, she doesn't says the number eight ("I ate alone at 7, you were six minutes away") and I feel like 8 is how she felt when she ate alone. Like a song in a song....

I really love your reaction to Listen Before I go....it's....I don't even know man. I am glad she wrote that song instead of really doing it. I remember my "so many years" of being suicidal and hoping that one day I would be brave enough to end my life but god, I'm here. Billie's music helped a lot when it comes to surviving.

The ambulance siren at the end of 'listen before i go' gets me every damn time

The album that United Boomers, millennials and Gen Z for the first time and we all cried together.

This album will always have a soft spot in my heart, I actually listened to this song when I was on my way to my Brother’s funeral. “Listen before I go” especially hit me really hard during that time. It’s been 4 years and I’m still not fully healed.

37:20 tecnically her debut album was "dont smile at me", that is also really good btw, but when we all fall asleep was the one that put her in the spotlight, and is just amazing

ANOTHER reaction? We are being fed again. GRACED. No but seriously, your reactions are the best. I’m psyched to enjoy.

one of my favourite albums and probably always will be. being a teenager when this released was perfect. the album encapsulates adolescence too well.

This album came out when I was high school during the absolute worst year of my life and my only hobby was to listen to it and cry all the time. It was fun to re-experience the album through you and to hear it again years later from a place of safety.

bury a friend was the absolute craziest at the concert, i was screaming my lungs out and jumped like my life depended on it

This album is incredibly well done, especially for how young she was at the time. The way it flows from one track to the next. I feel like you don’t see that too much anymore. I love the singles, but this is truly an album that is best fit to listen to from start to finish. It’s a heart wrenching story. Relatable content.

This album came out when I was 17 and I love every single song. I was in a dark place and when the party's over, i love you and listen before i go came out, and i was just so dead and crying and sad. it helped me til this day. seeing billie last year and hearing everything live is just the peak of my life.

Maann I'm soo happy your finally doing a reaction on when we all fall asleep where do we go 🎉

NOW Y'LL CAN SEE WHY THIS ALBUM WINNED A LOT OF GRAMMYS, INCLUDING AOTY, IT'S JUST DESERVES IT

That isn't actually a scream! It's a tooth drill that Billie recorded for Finneas while AT THE DENTIST.

I cannot explain how badly I want another Billie album just like this!!! Her best era.

I’m so excited to watch this! I’ve loved this album ever since it came out 😫

This album was released in such a critical year of my life. That time was and still is the most nostalgic era for me, especially the music I listened to. Listening to this album makes me want to cry in the best way. This genuinely shaped my life.

8 is actually so devastating and it always kills me that people don’t realize that

troy talking about „my strange addiction“ asking where the office song is at is the most hilarious thing😭

Oh my god troy this album has DEVOURED MY SOUL i kid you not

The Oxford comma line in Strange Addiction is still my favorite lyric of all time

Bad Guy - 02:30 Xanny - 06:07 You Should See Me in a Crown - 10:10 All the Good Girls Go to Hell - 12:20 Wish You Were Gay - 15:06 When the Party's Over - 17:59 8 - 21:31 My Strange Addiction - 23:27 Bury a Friend - 27:06 Ilomilo - 28:40 Listen Before I Go - 31:03 I Love You - 33:28 Goodbye - 35:25

bruh i listened to this album on the airplane when i was moving to another country like several times and i just cried because all of the memories came rushing back...and i just reminisced about my amazing life in my old country...i still listen to this album because it reminds me of the melancholic ride on the airplane

I DONT THINK IVE EVER BEEN SO EXCITED FOR A BILLIE REACTION FROM TROY BEFORE

Literally nothing could be better than this album! But I'm so excited to keep following her career! Love Billie and Finneas so much!

This album changed my life,it helped me through so much. So amazing to dive back into it with you

it´s 2023 and this album still gets me goosebumps EVERY time that i listen to it

jeez there are so many little notes inside her songs that are worth it of knowing...its amazing

I did not expect this. We are being fed today! 🙌🏻

This has made me re listen to the whole album again

I swear, at first I came for the chaotic edits, but its the 85 ft. long cord on the headphones that keeps me coming back. 😂

Highest praise HTHAZE can give to an artist is when he cries during one of their songs ❤

"wish you were gay" is hands down best song in the album AND best song of all time. Nothing can change my mind.

Rewatching all your Billie Eilish reactions in honor of be3, soon to be announced, and praying we get an album reaction soon as it’s out😎

Reac to the music videos of xanny,you should see me in a crown,when the party’s over and bury a friend they’re amazing!

*TIMESTAMPS* ---------------------------------------------- 1) !!!!!!! - 01:36 2) Bad Guy - 02:30 3) Xanny - 06:07 4) You Should See Me in a Crown - 10:10 5) All the Good Girls Go to Hell - 12:20 6) Wish You Were Gay - 15:06 7) When the Party's Over - 17:59 8) 8 - 21:31 9) My Strange Addiction - 23:27 10) Bury a Friend - 27:06 11) Ilomilo - 28:40 12) Listen Before I Go - 31:03 13) I Love You - 33:28 14) Goodbye - 35:25 __________________________

All these songs go even harder live, i have not recovered from the tour last year

My best friend did her senior final essay as an English major on Billie’s album. We were massive fans before but after all the little details she found after researching her more was so impressive!

You have to listen to her debut EP it's incredible

8 is such a sad song though😭 I love how that one is the “break” from the other sad songs lol

this album was intended to be listened to before you fall asleep in the dark, with both headphones in, and at 25% volume,, with your eyes closed and mind empty.

Im soooo excited to see this guys react to her new album

Ilomilo deserves more attention. It will forever be one of my favorite songs.

I just wanted to say since you uploaded this video I've been rewatching lots of your stuff and I'm kind of in a shitty place mentally.l right now. But listening to albums I love together with you and crying with you has been like healing. Music is something that's embedded in my soul and I just wanna thank you for helping me remind myself of that.

You caught me off guard with this one Troy! One of the greatest albums ever! Hands down!

Love that you reacted to this album. I love how you feel the songs.

“listen before i go, i love you, goodbye” UGHHHHHH OMGGG

watching him react to this makes me wish i could experience this album for the first time all over again, it’s so fucking good

Troy! I’m so glad you’re finally listening to this album! It’s incredible and Ik It’s a freaking sad album but it SLAPS and it still holds up in 2023.

I love his genuine reactions so much ahaha and those lil dances!? Can resonate a hundred percent 🥹

One day I'll manifest you doing a manic or if I can't have love, I want power, or any crumbs of you reacting to halsey's lyricism lmao

been waiting for this one. this is one of my favorite billie albums. it got me through some really tough shit, and continues to do so.

this is her best album. i wish i could listen to this album for the first time again

OMG! I was literally thinking last night that you should do an album review of this!!!!!

gotta appreciate the edit Troy! the humor is always ON POINT

I totally got the Eminem vibes from All The Good Girls GTH too!! Like his relapse era & also his Slim Shady songs too

BILLIE IS SO AMAZING I LOVE HER SO MUCH

i think the thing i love most about your videos is it is the closest i can get to hearing a song i love again for the first time. I LOOOOVE YOU MAN

so hyped for this!!! you should also do ashe's second album, rae!!

TROYYYYY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE🎉😵‍💫🫶🏻

omg watching you listen to this and to xanny in particular, was such a thrilling experience to watch. thank you for your passion and excitement👏

Honestly if he ever listened to Rina Sawayama’s albums I would die. His energy is chefs kiss

Wonder if the strange addiction line "Bite my glass" refers to her actually biting a glass during a tic which she mentions in her bio pic