5 years ago today, Billie Eilish released ‘Happier Than Ever.’ Billie Eilish released her sophomore studio album, 'Happier Than Ever', through Darkroom and Interscope Records — her first full-length since her 2019 debut, 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?'. She co-wrote every track with her brother, Finneas O'Connell, who also produced the entire record and played every instrument, recording largely at his home studio in Los Angeles between late 2019 and February 2021. Eilish has cited the isolation and self-reflection of the pandemic as the record's biggest creative influence, and the title track itself, also released as the album's sixth single that same day, began as just a simple voice memo — early footage even appeared in her 2021 documentary, 'Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry,' showing the song's very first unfinished lines. The album marked a deliberate pivot toward downtempo, jazz-influenced electropop, trading the trap-leaning bounce of her debut for sparse,...