Billie Eilish's "Male Fantasy"

[onceaking]

I know it's been out for a few years now but these last few weeks I've listening to Billie Eilish's album Happier Than Ever album. It's a pretty good album and the song "Male Fantasy" is a good reminder of how fake porn is.

Here are the opening lyrics:

Home alone, tryin' not to eat
Distract myself with pornography
I hate the way she looks at me
I can't stand the dialogue, she would never be
That satisfied, it's a male fantasy
I'm goin' back to therapy

 

[onceaking]

Here's what she said about the song:

The other day I was talking about how stupid and unrealistic porn is so much of the time. How unrealistic, misogynistic and totally ridiculous the world of porn is. I decided that it was actually a really good idea for a song to talk honestly about pornography because it’s an uncomfortable thing to talk about. Pornography can make you feel violated and good at the same time and this conversation turned into the song. It was hard to write because we wanted it to be as revealing as possible. It’s difficult to be vulnerable and honest and open about my life right now. I find it much easier to write about my past and how I used to feel and to find a new perspective on something that happened to me, to take myself out of a situation. I don’t usually write about what I’m going through in the moment because it’s hard to process it. So this was also about saying how I felt. It was hard and satisfying and revealing and exposing and also incredibly cathartic too.

 

[GrittyRunning]

Billie doesn’t like Men.