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Male Fantasyby Billie Eilish

Album: Happier Than Ever (2021)Charted: 102 License This Song  lyricsartistfacts

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• Billie Eilish closes Happier Than Ever with this melancholic acoustic ballad where she tries to move on from a recent heartbreak by distracting herself with pornography. This leads her to ponder how porn objectifies women and propagates a male fantasy that has nothing to do with true love. Eilish then reflects on whether genuine love lasts forever. She explained to Spotify: "'Male Fantasy' is really a hopeless realization and a horrible thing. It's terrible to feel something that you don't want to feel."
• Eilish co-wrote all the Happier Than Ever tracks with her brother/producer Finneas. Speaking to Rolling Stone about writing such sexual songs with her sibling, she said it wasn't a problem because they're both very open about their lives. "It's just fun. It's songwriting and it's storytelling," Eilish added. "We just have to think about the art of it and not think too hard about [the lyrics]."
• Eilish originally planned on closing Happier Than Ever with the furious title track where she rages at her boyfriend's faults. Once she and Finneas wrote "Male Fantasy" they felt it better to close it with that song rather than finishing the album on an angry note.
• Self-directed and edited by Eilish, the somber video focuses on the singer in various rooms of a house as she tries to get over a breakup.
• Finneas joined Billie Eilish for an acoustic rendition of this song on the December 11, 2021 episode of Saturday Night Live. It marked the second time she'd been the musical performer on the sketch show.

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• I Am Not A Banana from Las VegasThis song is what happened to me but with a friend instead of a lover. They called me weak and emotional but i listened to this amazing person named billie eilish and she made feel much better
• Piper from San FranciscoMy friend monica converted to a man last week and during the operation the doctor played this song in the operating room for him, now he is on recovery and as soon as he is healthy he will get pregnant so he can me the first man to have a baby, this is the truth as we see it and it is beautiful, so much love and evolution going on around us, this song from BE is all we need to spin the earth, we should cut out all electricity and make a clean world, we can just use the sun to power our phones and we will all get along because we have this awesome music in our ears. peace and humptyness to all,

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