I Love You (Billie Eilish song)

"I Love You" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American singer Billie Eilish from her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

[1] Eilish shared in an Instagram story on March 25, 2020, a playlist of her inspirations for the track, which included songs from Phoebe Bridgers, Post Malone, Ry X, XXXTentacion, Bon Iver, and Sufjan Stevens.

[4] Craig Jenkins of Vulture called it a "dark" song, reminiscent of Lana Del Rey's Born to Die and Halsey's Badlands.

"[8][10] The faint voice of an airline attendant and the sound of a plane taking off can be heard during the second verse, which includes the lyrics: "Up all night on another red eye/I wish we never learned to fly/Maybe we should just try/To tell ourselves a good lie/I didn't mean to make you cry.

The song was praised by Insider's Libby Torres, who called the track "heart-wrenching" and "serene", and opined that its lyrics feel "like you're in the hazy eye of a storm".

[7] Sam Prance of AllMusic viewed the song as a "heartbreaking acoustic beauty that pegs Eilish as something more than a spooky, scare-the-parents gimmick".

[15] Vulture's Jenkins said "I Love You" was one of "the album’s best songs", while Chris Willman of Variety viewed the track as "gorgeous" and "hopeful".

[18] In a negative review, The Guardian's Laura Snapes mentions that the song sounds "suspiciously" like Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and is "better off left to YouTube ingenues than an artist of Eilish’s otherwise clear vision".

[35] This performance was filmed in Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre and it shows Eilish sitting on a bed with Finneas, while he plays the track on an acoustic guitar.

The stadium is lit up by the lights from thousands of fans' mobile phones as the siblings rise slowly above the stage, backed by cloudy night sky visuals.

[36][37][38] On September 29, 2019, Eilish appeared on the 45th-season premiere of Saturday Night Live, performing an acoustic version of the track with Finneas.