Songfacts®:

• The rumor mill went into overdrive when Billie Eilish's "Lost Cause" video dropped in 2021. Here she was, at a slumber party full of girlfriends, and fans and journalists alike saw it dripping with homoerotic subtext.
  
  Then in late 2023, Eilish cut to the chase in a Variety cover story, admitting she was "attracted to [women] for real."
  
  A month later, a red carpet reporter asked Eilish if her comments during her interview were intended as a coming-out statement. In response, she stated that she believed her sexual orientation was already obvious.
  
  Any lingering doubts are obliterated with "Lunch," the second track on Hit Me Hard and Soft. This is full-on, unabashed lust for another woman. Eilish throws out food metaphors like confetti – "I could eat that girl for lunch" – sung over a heavy bassline that ends up a full-blown club banger.
• Writing "Lunch" was a journey of self-discovery for Eilish and helped her explore and solidify her feelings of attraction to other women.
  
  "I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after," she told Rolling Stone. "I've been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn't understand - until, last year, I realized I wanted my face in a vagina. I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years. It's really frustrating to me that it came up."
• "Lunch" is track two on Eilish's third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. The outro of the first track, "Skinny," segues into "Lunch," a signature Eilish move. She's done this before with "Bury A Friend" segueing into "Ilomilo," and "Not My Responsibility" melting into "Overheated."
• Unlike Eilish's previous albums, Hit Me Hard and Soft didn't have any pre-release singles. "Lunch" became its lead single once the album was made available. "I don't like singles from albums," she told Rolling Stone. "Every single time an artist I love puts out a single without the context of the album, I'm just already prone to hating on it. I really don't like when things are out of context."
  
  "This album is like a family," Eilish continued. "I don't want one little kid to be in the middle of the room alone."
• In the music video for "Lunch," self-directed by Billie Eilish, she embraces a return to her earlier style. Clad in baggy streetwear, Eilish dances with clones of herself against a backdrop of vibrant, saturated colors.
  
  Eilish said the clip was "an ode to 90's music videos and all the videos I grew up loving. I've always loved the simplicity of performance takes and I didn't want a lot going on in this video."
  
  She added the biggest challenge she faced was eating the food. "I had a giant table of food that I would take bites of and spit out throughout the day," Eilish recalled. "I should have done that from the beginning though, because at first I was actually eating everything and I was full immediately. It was kind of a lot, but worth it."