Chihiro (song)
2025 single by Billie Eilish
"Chihiro" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. The third track on her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024), it was released to Italian contemporary hit radio stations on January 17, 2025, via EMI. The song was written by Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also produced the track for Darkroom and Interscope Records.
Background and release
On April 12, 2024, in an interview with Apple Music's presenter Zane Lowe, Eilish teased a 15-second snippet of "Chihiro", which was released on her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024). The song's title is a reference to Chihiro Ogino, the main character of the 2001 Studio Ghibli animated film Spirited Away. In an interview with Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone, Eilish said:
The song is loosely based off of that movie, which is one of my favorites. It’s kind of from her point of view, mixed with mine. The visuals in that movie are some of the best ever—all that Studio Ghibli shit is unbelievable ... There’s all those visuals of the train in the water after the flood, and it literally looks like an ocean with a train track. I had just watched Spirited Away and [brother-and-frequent-collaborator] Finneas had made that beat. I love that movie.
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