Billie Eilish Drops Dreamlike Video for New Single “Chihiro”

Billie Eilish with her Grammys for Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Record of the Year at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
Billie Eilish with her Grammys for Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Record of the Year at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Photo by David Fisher/Shutterstock (10532340cd)

“Chihiro” emerged as one of the standout songs from Billie Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard and Soft, and she decided to make it her next single. She dropped a self-directed music video for this dreamlike song, which is meant to capture our deepest feelings of fear, love, and desire.

Eilish and Nat Wolff star in this dreamlike visual, which chronicles the constant push and pull between their characters. Over the course of five minutes, we see their dynamic shift time and time again, and they’re either inseparable or trying to run away from each other as far as possible.

According to Eilish, the music video for “Chihiro” was envisioned as a dreamlike narrative in which the long, dark hallways and shutting of doors symbolize the different corners of the mind.

“She tumbles into an inescapable connection. The external expression of an internal push and pull, as our deepest feelings of fear, love, or desire inevitably catch up to us, no matter how hard we try to run away,” she said in a statement.

“Chihiro” was released as the second single from Eilish’s third studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which recently debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart with the highest first-week sales of the singer’s career.