https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
To hear Eilish say it, the goal for HIT ME HARD AND SOFT was making an "album-ass album," citing Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Vince Staples' Big Fish Theory as influences. Those records are

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-album-review-1235688324/
Billie Eilish's Audacious 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' Completes Sublime Coming-of-Age Trilogy: Critic's Take. The superstar's third studio album is sharp, sensual and revelatory.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review-1235022854/
Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' Review. "You don't wanna know how alone I've been," Billie Eilish sings halfway through her excellent new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. That sums up

https://variety.com/2024/music/album-reviews/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-album-review-1236007130/#!
Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' Opens at No. 2 as Taylor Swift Continues to Top Albums Chart Virtual Production Market Grows as Average Stage Size Contracts

https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review-tracklist-lyrics-3756826
What makes 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' so enjoyable is its ruthlessness - the 10 tracks are the fewest she's had on an album, but they're just as experimental and playful as her previous work.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/billie-eilish/billie-eilish-tightens-the-grip-of-her-command-on-pop-music-on-hit-me-hard-and-soft
Billie Eilish Tightens Her Commanding Grip on Pop Music on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Working again with the instrumental talents of her brother Finneas, Eilish's third album yanks her out of her

https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-album-review/
Vocally, Eilish sounds looser than ever on Hit Me Hard and Soft, venturing beyond the enigmatic whisper-singing she's become known for."The Greatest" reaches a heady rock climax similar to 2021's "Happier Than Ever," and "Birds of a Feather" goes one further, reaching for a glorious sense of release to what might just be the most optimistic song in Eilish's discography.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/05/17/billie-eilish-review-hit-me-hard-soft/
Review by Chris Richards. May 17, 2024 at 1:18 p.m. EDT. Billie Eilish's third album is "Hit Me Hard and Soft." (Petros Studio) It feels too early to draw a bright pink line through Billie

https://www.pluggedin.com/album-reviews/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
Album Review. The cover for 22-year-old Billie Eilish's third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, shows her descending (it would seem) into deep water after falling through a door above her. It's a strikingly apt image. Hit Me Hard and Soft feels immersive and saturated. At times, Eilish's unique strong-but-delicate voice almost sounds like it's underwater—and that we, her listeners—have

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review-b2546074.html
Billie Eilish whispers her way to big emotions on Hit Me Hard and Soft At 22 years old, nine-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish releases her third album on 17 May Petros Studio

https://apnews.com/article/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-soft-review-cf56aba05b52018159319114ba0ab659
"Am I acting my age now?" Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft." "Am I already on the way out?" The 10-track release sees a once-in-a-generation pop performer once again rewriting the rules: If Eilish's first record introduced the world to her brilliant horror-pop, with its macabre humor, off-kilter beats and

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/arts/music/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review.html
NYT Critic's Pick. "Twenty-one took a lifetime," Billie Eilish, 22, sings in "Skinny," the song that opens her third album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft.". Any woman her age could say that

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-album-review-b1158196.html
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft album review: Forget Taylor and Beyoncé, this is the pop album of the year. In a year marked by underwhelming big pop releases, the 22-year-old star stands

https://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft
Eilish, who composes and records with her brother Finneas O'Connell, has said of this third album that she hopes all of us listeners would have the focus and linger time to be able to sit down and listen to its songs chronologically and all the way through so that it "hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically, while bending genres and defying trends along the way".

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-album-review/
THE SKINNY: Billie Eilish is back with her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, and it seems she's got a lot to get off her chest that she's inadvertently left caps lock on.In an emotive collision of gentle crooning, heavy grooves, tender piano and adventurous alt-pop, Billie Eilish, the person - not the musician or the celeb sensation - breaks through the crowded soundscape to reveal

https://palette.substack.com/p/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review
Released on May 17, Hit Me Hard and Soft (HMHAS), Billie Eilish's third album, is easily digestible amid the noise and chaos of online and reality, with ten songs at 44 gracious minutes. Full name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell, the 22-year-old from Los Angeles, California, found success at the young age of 13 with her single "Ocean Eyes," produced by 26-year-old brother Finneas

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/billie-eilish-lyrics-album-hit-me-hard-and-soft-lunch-review.html
Music Billie Eilish's New Album Is a Landmark, Whether She Wants It to Be or Not On Hit Me Hard and Soft, the singer seems to deliberately avoid making hits.That doesn't make it any less

https://medium.com/modern-music-analysis/hit-me-hard-and-soft-by-billie-eilish-album-review-97eb39149cc1
The soft, golden aura of the subtly goth Happier Than Ever is juxtaposed immediately by the dark depths of water on the cover of Hit Me Hard And Soft, a thematic that was hinted with the music

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/corts/album/924853-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
Billie Eilish's awaited third LP, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, is exactly the kind of album that pop music needed right now—if only because it's not a bloated misfire. It doesn't hurt that Eilish's latest is also pretty good.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/making-of-billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-podcast-1235044740/
Billie Eilish held nothing back in her most recent Rolling Stone cover story — and amidst her many personal revelations, she also went deep on the making of her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Me_Hard_and_Soft
Hit Me Hard and Soft is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, released on May 17, 2024, through Darkroom and Interscope Records.It is her first full-length studio album release since 2021's Happier Than Ever.Eilish co-wrote Hit Me Hard and Soft with her brother and frequent collaborator Finneas O'Connell, who also produced the album.

https://readrange.com/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
by Ben Boddez. With how long it feels like she's been a kingpin figure in the cultural consciousness, it's easy to forget that Billie Eilish is still only 22 years old. Releasing her third full-length, Hit Me Hard and Soft does at times thematically address the pressures of constantly being the youngest to do … just about everything, but

https://genius.com/albums/Billie-eilish/Hit-me-hard-and-soft
874.7K. About "HIT ME HARD AND SOFT". HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is Billie Eilish's third album, released May 17, 2024 through Interscope Records, almost three years after her sophomore album

https://www.metacritic.com/music/hit-me-hard-and-soft/billie-eilish
User Reviews. Details & Credits. Metascore. 89. Universal acclaim based on 22 Critic Reviews What's this? User Score. tbd. No user score yet Be the first to review! Summary: The third full-length studio release from pop singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was written, recorded and produced with her brother Finneas O'Connell.

https://peanutbutterpope.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/hit-me-hard-and-soft-billie-eilish-album-review/
Hit Me Hard and SoftAlbum by Billie EilishReleased 17 May 2024Alt-PopProduced by FinneasRating - 7/10 A witty, lurking sad-pop album that breaks hearts as well as ground. - Trauma, heartbreak and disorder network within the borders of a '70s-approved "album's album" on Hit Me Hard and Soft. Billie Eilish's meta themes clink wineglasses from one

https://exepose.com/2024/06/09/album-review-hit-me-hard-and-soft-by-billie-eilish/
Billie Eilish's third album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, does just the opposite. The refreshing 44-minute release, complete with medley-esque transitions, makes for an easy, enjoyable listening experience throughout, exploring different themes and sounds. It plays like a mature blend of her first album and her second, with distinct influences from

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-experts-talk-billie-eilish-s-hit-me-hard-and-soft-she-unleashed-all-of-her-feelings/ar-BB1p0YPK
Hit Me Hard And Soft is a series of 10 candid songs, each connecting to some of Eilish's most difficult experiences. Martoccio recalled Eilish saying that,"the music has to speak for itself

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/knightmania/album/924853-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
First time hearing a Billie Eilish project. I always underestimated here. Yeah, I also knew her only because of Bad Guy (a mediocre song imo). But THIS ALBUM surprised me, I didn't expect to love it so much. FINNEAS production perfectly accompanies Billie melancholy melodies.

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/ritsz/album/924853-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. ritsz. 1h ago. NR. ... Rate and review albums along with the AOTY community. Create an account today. Become a Donor Donor badge, no ads + more benefits. June Playlist. Go Ad-Free . ALBUMS. Highest Rated. Lowest Rated. Recently Rated. Year End Lists. New Releases. Random. ARTISTS. Highest Rated.

https://mitchellshottakes.wixsite.com/musicreview/post/hit-me-hard-and-soft-an-album-review
I think Billie Eilish is one of the most creative artists right now in the pop landscape, but this album is definitely not as good as When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? This record is still pretty solid, and definitely an album that is instrumentally rich, and has an honest vibe.First of all the album cover. Wow. Its strong, its distinct. Its almost metaphoric as sometimes I feel like im