The hit track has been nominated for three Grammy awards
Billie Eilish shared a video of the singer and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, workshopping an early version of their hit, “Birds of a Feather,” which features on her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
The song, released in July, quickly became one of the summer’s top tracks, and has received 2025 Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance.
In an Instagram video posted on Wednesday, Eilish wrote in the caption: “February 16th 2023 lil video of the beginnings of birds of a feather.” The clip sees the pair playing with the lyrics to the song — notably with a sleepy doggo sprawled on a couch in the background — while Finneas, who co-wrote and produced the track, has his legs propped on a desk. At one point, Eilish says, “I love that idea,” as they start to form what would eventually become: “Birds of a feather, we should stick together/I know I said I’d never think I wasn’t better alone/Can’t change the weather, might not be forever/But if it’s forever, it’s even better.”
Hit Me Hard and Soft and its tracks have brought in a total of seven Grammy nods, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. In a Rolling Stone review of the LP, writer Rob Sheffield noted that “even in a great pop year that’s already been a super-chunk cluster-bunch of bold statements for mega-pop queens, Hit Me Hard and Soft stands out as something uniquely strange,” and called “Birds of a Feather” a “poignant Eighties-flavored love song that could pass for vintage Sade or George Michael.”