whispery

Yet “Chromatica’s” disco excursions were largely lost to the pandemic, and anyway “Mayhem” is more fortunately timed, with Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan having brought color and pageantry back to the Top 40 after a long stretch of whispery gloom and Charli XCX having revived the so-called indie-sleaze aesthetic that once ruled Gaga’s beloved Lower East Side.

Sales were disappointing and audiences were slow to catch on because her in-your-face queer anthems were out of step with the trend for whispery, confessional pop.

But the album also explores new emotional territory — most significantly as pertains to her feelings on queer desire — and showcases new elements of Eilish’s singing, which tended earlier toward the light and whispery and has grown throatier and more muscular with age.

"I started to be able to make some sound, it was very sort of whispery, and I thought it might never come back," he added.

Rejecting the trend for whispery bedroom pop, her songs are full of cheerleader chants and exuberant hooks that document her coming of age and the discovery of her sexuality.