Male Fantasy by Billie Eilish

Artist: Billie Eilish

Album: Happier Than Ever

Genre: Pop

Length: 3:14

Happier Than Ever closes with this melancholy ballad with Billie reflecting on a recent heartbreak. She opens the song with a reference to the ‘male fantasy’ to highlight the difference between real and fake love. The “Male Fantasy” is a common trope in which the entertainment industry is said to be dominated by straight, white men, and thus most of the media we consume is produced through that lens. There is a growing critique of how much media is engineered to “appeal to the male fantasy”,...

Male Fantasy lyrics

Home alone, trying 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 going back to therapy
'Cause I loved you then, and I love you now
And I don't know how
Guess it's hard to know when nobody else comes around
If I'm getting over you
Or just pretending to
Be alright, convince myself I hate you
(Want me to put it here?)
(Okay)
I got a call from a girl I used to know
We were inseparable years ago
Thought we'd get along, but it wasn't so
And it's all I think about when I'm behind the wheel
I worry this is how I'm always gonna feel
But nothing lasts, I know the deal
But I loved you then, and I love you now
And I don't know how
Guess it's hard to know when nobody else comes around
If I'm getting over you
Or just pretending to
Be alright, convince myself I hate you
Can't get over you
No matter what I do
I know I should, but I could never hate you

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