Songfacts®:

• Over a melancholy acoustic guitar, Billie Eilish ruminates about a past abusive relationship where there was an unbalanced power dynamic.
• Eilish starts off the song by addressing someone who took advantage of their authority to manipulate the young singer.
  
  Try not to abuse your power
  I know we didn't choose to change
  You might not wanna lose your power
  But havin' it's so strange
  
  At first she looked up at this person, as he was older and more experienced than her. But it proved to be a dangerous dynamic and he used Eilish's adoration to control and ultimately destroy her.
  
  She said you were a hero
  You played the part
  But you ruined her in a year
  Don't act like it was hard
  
  Eilish questions whether the abuser has realized the repercussions of their actions.
  
  How dare you?
  And how could you?
  Will you only feel bad if it turns out
  That they kill your contract?
• Some fans suspect the target of Eilish's quietly seething anger is her former boyfriend, Brandon Adams, an LA rapper who goes by the name of 7: AMP. The pair dated for a year before breaking up in June 2019. Eilish even appeared on the cover of his 2019 debut album, Bleaupro.
  
  Adams is five years older than Eilish, which ties in with her references to a relationship where one person is underage.
  
  And you swear you didn't know
  No wonder why you didn't ask
  She was sleepin' in your clothes
  But now she's got to get to class
• Eilish said the lacerating track is about power dynamics in general rather than her personal experiences. She told BBC 1's Annie Mac:
  
  "It's everywhere you look and I hate it and I wanted to say something and I'm not gonna get too deep into the specific lyrics and what they mean and what they're really about but it's a problem that's occurring everywhere you look. And everyone is someone or knows someone who's been taken advantage of."
• Darkroom and Interscope Records released "Your Power" as the third single off Happier Than Ever on April 29, 2021. Eilish wrote all the songs on the album with her producer brother Finneas.
• Eilish directed the video herself, shooting it in Simi Valley, California. The depiction of an 80-pound (36 kg) anaconda slowly wrapping itself around the singer parallels the song's portrayal of a predator attaching himself to her.
• Eilish told British Vogue "Your Power" is "an open letter to people who take advantage – mostly men." The singer-songwriter added that she wished people would listen to the song instead of trying to figure out who she is talking about.
  
  "I would like people to listen to me," she said. "And not just try to figure out who I'm talking about, because it's not about that. It's really not at all about one person. You might think, 'It's because she's in the music industry' - no, dude. It's everywhere."
  
  "I don't know one girl or woman who hasn't had a weird experience, or a really bad experience," Eilish added. "And men, too - young boys are taken advantage of constantly."
• Eilish was surprised at the reaction to this song. "It was pretty sad to me when it came out and so many people came to me saying 'thank you for this song,'" she said in Spotify commentary. "It's crazy, I don't know one woman that hasn't been taken advantage of. I just think it should be talked about more because it's way too normalized how many young women are taken advantage of."