

It is the third single from the album, after the 2020 songs " My Future" and " Therefore I Am". A single from Happier Than Ever, " Your Power", was released two days after the announcement. Set for release 3 months later, on July 30, it contains "Lost Cause" as the seventh song on the tracklist. She announced the album's track list and title- Happier Than Ever (2021)-on April 27, 2021. Eilish revealed she would work on her second studio album starting 2020. It was a commercial success that brought her to mainstream fame, debuting at number one on many national record charts. The song was the highest new entry on the Irish Singles Chart (number 9) for the week of June 11, 2021, and the UK Singles Chart (number 14) during the week of June 14, 2021.īillie Eilish won five awards at the 62nd annual ceremony of the Grammy Awards for her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). "Lost Cause" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at its peak of number 27. Some thought she was coming out as being attracted to women, while others thought she was queerbaiting. Many viewers perceived the music video as homoerotic, causing fan speculation around Eilish's sexual orientation. They perform various activities in a large house, such as twerking, dancing around a king-sized bed, and playing the game Twister. It depicts her with a group of female friends in a slumber party. A music video for "Lost Cause", directed by Eilish, premiered the same day. The song was released on June 2, 2021, through Darkroom and Interscope Records. She wrote the song with its producer, her brother Finneas O'Connell. In the lyrics, she celebrates a break-up with an arrogant and apathetic ex-partner, calling them a "lost cause" in the refrain. Eilish makes use of a crooning vocal style.

Its production, which is minimalist, consists of drums, a bassline, synthesizers, and acoustic guitars. A soft rock, downtempo, R&B, and jazz song, it incorporates elements from trip-hop and funk music. " Lost Cause" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and the fourth single from her second studio album, Happier Than Ever (2021).
