Billie Eilish Thought ‘Birds Of A Feather’ Was ‘Kind Of Stupid’ And Wanted To Cut It From The Album

Getty Image Billie Eilish’s “Birds Of A Feather” was a massive hit. It somehow never hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it has racked up over 3.1 billion streams and was one of 2024’s defining songs. In a new Wall Street Journal feature, though, Eilish says she frequently wanted to cut the song from Hit Me Hard And Soft. The piece notes that Eilish and Finneas struggled to finish the song for 11 months, “retooling the chorus and struggling to find a way to deploy the line ‘I’ll love you till the day that I die’ in a way that didn’t feel trite.” When they did finish the track, E