Over syncopated beats and the repeated “goldwing” echoing in the background, Billie rightly observes how fleeting fame can be: “They’re gonna’ tell you what you wanna hear, then they’re gonna disappear / Gonna’ claim you like a souvenir / Just to sell you in a year.” 33. The hymnal sixth cut from Happier Than Ever might open with a church choir sound, but it quickly evolves into something more complex. In honor of Billie reaching new stratospheric levels of pop stardom on Happier Than Ever, we present a ranked list of her songs, worst to best. Initially, fans strongly connected with Billie’s soul-bearing, ethereal songs about anxiety and mental health, subjects she explored on the 2017 EP Don’t Smile At Me, and then on her debut LP, 2019’s Grammy-winning When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Later, on her recently released sophomore effort, Happier Than Ever, she unapologetically played with her look, morphing from a neon-green teen to buxom blonde bombshell, and attempted to process the myriad changes in her life, post-fame. Since 2016, Billie’s immense popularity has helped lay the groundwork for the success of today’s alt-pop acolytes: Olivia Rodrigo, Girl In Red, Willow, and Clairo, just to name a few. With a curious knack for blending genres and, to borrow another quote from Warwick, “singing like it is Halloween,” Billie was arguably the first to mainstream the now-ubiquitous “genreless” Gen Z pop a few years before everyone became obsessed with talking about Gen Z. Billie Eilish’s journey to pop music fame might have seemed sudden to some (“I thought her name was William Eyelash,” went the Dionne Warwick tweet), but in truth the Los Angeles genre-defying wunderkind has been on the come-up since she first began writing songs at age 11 alongside her older brother and producer Finneas O’Connell.