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"Lunch"
Single by Billie Eilish
from the album Hit Me Hard and Soft
WrittenOctober 2022 – 2023[a]
ReleasedMay 17, 2024 (2024-05-17)
Genre
Length3:00
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Finneas
Billie Eilish singles chronology
"What Was I Made For?"
(2023) 		"Lunch"
(2024) 		"Birds of a Feather"
(2024)
Music video
"Lunch" on YouTube

"Lunch" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and the lead single from her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024). It was released on May 17, 2024. The song features a heavy bassline and lyrics that detail Eilish's same-gender sexual attraction, following her public confirmation that she liked both men and women. In the lyrics, which she wrote after realizing that she wanted to try cunnilingus, she describes that desire (and her general sexual appetite), saying she "could eat that girl for lunch".

Background

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Speculation around Eilish's sexual orientation began when she released the music video for the single "Lost Cause" in 2021.[2] The video features Eilish in a slumber party with several women, doing various activities such as twerking,[3] playing Twister,[4] and spraying silly string.[5] Many fans and media outlets saw the video as homoerotic,[6] while others accused her of queerbaiting.[7] In response, Eilish posted behind-the-scenes pictures from the video on Instagram with the caption "I love girls".[8]

In November 2023, Eilish appeared for a Variety cover story, in which she discussed her relationship to sexuality and womanhood, as well as her frustration with people speculating on her sexual orientation. She said that she had always felt an emotional attraction to women alongside physical attraction, admitting that she can be overawed with women she found beautiful.[9] A month later, during a red carpet for the magazine's "Hitmakers" event, a reporter asked Eilish if her comments during her interview were meant as a coming out statement, to which she said that it was not the intention and that she thought her sexual orientation was already obvious.[10] When the event concluded, she took to Instagram to criticize the reporter for their question, accusing them of outing her and confirming she liked both men and women.[11]

Music and lyrics

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During a 2024 Rolling Stone interview, Eilish spoke more about her sexual orientation while discussing her upcoming third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024), and her creative process behind one of its songs. She said that writing "Lunch" helped her explore and confirm her same-gender attraction.[12] She created "Lunch" before her first sexual encounter with a woman and completed the song thereafter, fueled by the realization that she "wanted [her] face in a vagina".[13]

The song has been described as electro,[14] synth-rock,[15] synth-pop,[16] and post-punk.[17] Set over a heavy bassline, the song discusses Eilish's strong sexual desire for a woman and compares sex with her to eating lunch.[18] In the chorus, she describes how the woman tastes as she "dances on [Eilish's] tongue" and calls the experience irresistible.[19] Allison Hope of CNN called the songwriting bold, comparing the provocative nature to activist Marsha P. Johnson's involvement at the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York City.[20]

Release and reception

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Eilish debuted "Lunch" alongside two other songs from Hit Me Hard and Soft during a secret DJ set and party at Coachella 2024, called "Do Labs".[21][22][23] It is the second track on the album, released on May 17, 2024.[24] "Lunch" is the lead single from the album, released concurrently with the album's release.[25] The song was released to contemporary hit radio in the United States,[26] while Universal Music Group promoted it on radio airplay in Italy.[27] The music video for "Lunch", directed by Eilish, premiered via her Vevo channel on YouTube twelve hours after the song's and album's release.[28]

Some music critics opined that "Lunch" is one of the best songs from the album. Kitty Empire from The Observer wrote the song as "a Sapphic synth-pop banger in which Eilish smacks her lips, wanting to devour someone tasty. Even better, towards the end of the song, the Eilish siblings pull out some of their most dancefloor-facing music to date. It ends too soon, on some panting".[16]

Music video

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The video self-directed by Eilish has her dancing around dressed in stereotypical hip-hop clothes of young male rappers, mostly in new era/green/red and yellow plaid hats, a Supreme basketball jerseys, a blue and red striped shirt with striped/jean shorts fashions of the 1990s to add to the irony of the song.

Accolades

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Awards and nominations for "Lunch"
Year Award Category Result Ref.
2024 Las Culturistas Culture Awards Best Lunch Nominated [29]
MTV Video Music Awards Video of the Year Nominated [30]

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications for "Lunch"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA)[107] Gold 20,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[108] 2× Platinum 160,000‡
France (SNEP)[109] Gold 100,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[110] Gold 50,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[111] Platinum 30,000‡
Poland (ZPAV)[112] Platinum 50,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[113] Platinum 10,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[114] Gold 30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[115] Gold 400,000‡
Streaming
Greece (IFPI Greece)[116] Platinum 2,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Release dates and formats for "Lunch"
Region Date Format Label(s) Ref.
Italy May 17, 2024 Radio airplay Universal [27]
United States Contemporary hit radio
[26]

Notes

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  1. ^ For Alt 98.7 FM, Eilish revealed that the chorus of "Lunch" was written in October 2022, and the song was finished in Fall of 2023.[1]

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