"Eilish is the first hitmaker born in this century. She’s the same age as the iPod, which must be why she’s so unironically gung-ho about jumping between musical styles — she pillages gangsta rap, Hot Topic emo, mall grunge, goth balladry, fusing all the noise that keeps her awake. She wrote her first song at 11, as Walking Dead fan fiction, but the pulp horror in her music feels like her authentic way to vent the rage of a young girl battling to grow up on her own terms."