Fans Are Angry Taylor Swift Dropped New Digital TTPD Albums On Billie Eilish Album Release Day

Taylor Swift is getting a bad rep online, as Billie Eilish fans are angry Taylor dropped new digital albums of The Tortured Poets Department on Eilish's album release day. As we reported, Eilish dropped her highly-anticipated third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, on Friday (May 17th).

Swift, whose 11th studio album dropped last month, was seen as being a hater for trying to take away Eilish's shine. As many fans noted, Eilish purposely didn't promote HMHAS when Ariana Grande was promoting her March album, Eternal Sunshine.

In a previous interview with CBS Mornings during the Grammys in February, Eilish was asked about when her fans can expect her new music. Laughing it off, Eilish replied, "Soon. Okay? Let Ariana put her s--- out. Enjoy that." She added, "Eventually, our stuff will happen."

Fans of Billie trashed Taylor on X (formerly Twitter) and said things like, "love how billie said she’d wait till ariana released eternal sunshine to release her album & here’s taylor mass releasing to block billie…mind u she just released an album with 31 tracks…just greedy [skull emoji]." Another fan said: "the same day as billie’s release……. and yall swear that taylor is a girl’s girl." A third person noted: "meanwhile Billie purposefully waited for Ariana to release her album so she can have her moment but Tayfraud does this and has been doing this to her peers."

One user added, "billie’s statement about artists releasing 40 vinyl packages to get people to buy more really got into her… doing this on her album release day is so nasty."

One fan wrote on X: "arianators and livies supporting billie stans and billie because we’re all collectively tired of swifties LMFAOOO."

As we previously reported, fans thought Billie shaded Taylor over her comments about multiple vinyls of the same record being "wasteful." She expressed her frustration about the “40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.” You can practically hear the artist seething as she added, “It’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that s–.”

Eilish’s sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, had eight different vinyls available for sale. However, they were made from 100% recycled black vinyl, with colored scraps for the different versions, and shrink-wrap made from sugar cane. Most vinyl releases use “virgin” vinyl containing plastic resin and come wrapped in single-use plastic. Eilish is known for her attempts to run her career sustainably, including powering her festival sets from temporary solar farms installed nearby and releasing fewer merch that are of durable quality.

Though Eilish later clarified she wasn't singling out the "Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" singer, folks believe Taylor's new digital album release of TTPD was a calculated move to take away from Billie's shine.

Adding fuel to the fire, one fan stated on X that Billie "invited a man that said Taylor doesn't write her songs ON STAGE, and her brothers mic was on (he wasn't aware) and he said 'Taylor Swift is gonna sue us.' She releases 15 variants, gets to green wash her way through it but criticizes Taylor (who only had 4 variants) LMAO."

Eilish did, in fact, release five different vinyls of HMHAS, but as stated on her official site, "All vinyl is made using recyclable or recycled compounds and all packaging is made from recycled paper/boards. The ink used is raw plant-based and water-based dispersion varnish. The sleeves are 100% recycled and re-usable."

Billie Eilish's third studio album was released on Friday, May 17. The highly-anticipated album didn't have any tracks released as singles prior to the drop of Hit Me Hard And Soft. Despite that, the award-winning, record-breaking musician kept her fans on their toes and teased details leading up to this day.

Eilish opened up about her sexuality and how she came to terms with being in love with girls for years. She showcases this in her second song, the raunchy, playful track, "LUNCH," whose music video dropped as the first visuals accompanying the album release day.

As a longtime fan of Billie Eilish since her 2017 EP don't smile at me, this third studio album does have some gems, but it is not her best work. Her lyrics are mature at times, but some songs are too joyful that we are completely uninterested in that side of Billie and find it lacks the depth we are usually spoiled with.

Sorry to those who praise "LUNCH" and "BIRDS OF A FEATHER," but it's just not for me. I mean, I personally listen to Billie Eilish because she makes me feel deeply as her angelic voice lulls you into the despair she sings about. There are countless times that we cried as we sang along with "No Time To Die" "Happier Than Ever," and "What Was I Made For?"

Now, we're all about artistic growth, and the sound certainly sounds more layered and thought-out. She's also using synths heavily throughout the album. Six of the 10-track album's songs are over four minutes long. These songs either change tempo and mood, or both, and we just adore it when artists do this and give a twist and completely change the feeling of a song.

However, there are some songs that clearly seem to check off boxes that we think were made for the Gen Zers rather than us older fans (I'm a Millenial). I can't possibly relate to superficial lines like: "I could buy her so much stuff. It's a craving, not a crush."

To support the release of her new album, Eilish will embark on her world tour. Starting in September, she will head over to Canada before starting her US dates. In October, Eilish will start out in Maryland, ending the US leg of the tour in California in December.

The intro of this song immediately captivated us. We couldn't help but feel like that start sounded like "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." Her songwriting is super clever. Billie sings "THE DINER" from the perspective of a stalker. Having a stalker is a problem she's been [inlink id="billie-eilish-stalker-social-distancing" text="open about in the past"], with having at least three. In track 8, Eilish reassures her crush, who she is clearly obsessed with, "Don't be afraid of me, I'm what you need." Being so young, Eilish includes lyrics talking about how she "waited on the corner till I saw the sitter leave," noting the age gap between herself and how much older her stalkers were.

For a pop star to be singing about their weight so openly and raw, we applaud Eilish. She calls out the public perception that equates being skinny as being happy, which, as she points out in her lyrics, doesn't mean that at all. Despite that silly perception, Eilish finds "the old me is still me and maybe the real me. And I think she's pretty." Now that she's a 20-something, Eilish questions if maybe she's [inlink id="billie-eilish-thought-her-career-was-over" text="losing her touch as an artist"]. This is something that she's expressed before she wrote the Barbie [inlink id="billie-eilish-wins-second-oscar" text="award-winning, record-breaking"] song, "What Was I Made For?" In "SKINNY," Eilish asks, "Am I already on the way out?"

In this acoustic track, Eilish slows things down after the more uplifting "BIRDS OF A FEATHER." What we enjoy most about the young, talented musician is the way she can sing about the saddest, most heartbreaking things. For a 22-year-old, Eilish sings in track 5, "WILDFLOWER," about her female lover that she is haunted by "like a fever, like I'm burning alive like a sign." She sings the melancholy line: "Well, good things don't last, and life moves so fast."

Combining the previous nine songs in this beautifully put together mashup, "BLUE" layers Eilish's voice as she sings lines from songs overlapping. As fans theorized, "BLUE" features lines from "True Blue," a song that she has performed on tour but never released. She sings, "And I'm still so blue. True blue, true blue. I'm true blue." As the song slows down and simplifies the instrumentation, Eilish's voice stands out as the next lines come out: "You were born bluer than a butterfly, beautiful and so deprived of oxygen. Colder than your father's eyes, he never learned to sympathize with anyone. I don't blame you, but I can't change you."

Track three on HMHAS is this feel-good song, in instrumentation only. The song both feels chill and soothing, and by the time she sings, "Open up the door, can you open up the door," we are on our feet grooving along to the 5-minute track. After someone tells her it's war, she coolly says, "I hope it's not for sure, can you open up the door?" Her confidence and nonchalance is something we applaud her for and hope she never loses that.