![]() ![]() Just two weeks before this interview in July, she decided to stop reading the comments on her Instagram account, where she has 87.8 million followers. (“Make me sound good!” she’ll kid at the end of the interview.)Įilish acknowledges that she has trouble ignoring the public’s opinion of her. She’s not overly self-conscious - she lets herself form opinions as she’s speaking - but also wants to be liked. She keeps flipping her iPhone in her hand but ignores it when it lights up, revealing a screensaver with an image of herself sleeping. She has her pink sneakers up on the couch and is wearing a T-shirt from her own merchandise line. Probably because in person, it’s impossible to forget how young she is. But you have to be respectful of people that have so much less than you and be mindful of your privilege and be polite, I guess.”Įilish somehow manages to talk about her disdain for fame without sounding totally obnoxious. ![]() People that don’t have our lives have no idea how hard it is. “And I think that’s where a lot of people in my position can get confused, saying, ‘Oh, it’s hard, blah, blah, blah,” she continues. She understands exactly how that sounds - that people look at her and think she shouldn’t be complaining about anything when she’s successful and rich. Like, ‘Oh, this is something I used to love and now it feels like a job.’ It’s not, like, ‘Oh, I hate this now.’ It’s different. “Things that I enjoy can sometimes just turn into things that feel like a burden, and it’s really weird. “That line isn’t really, like, ‘Oh, boohoo, I’m sad’ - it’s really just a f-ing fact,” Eilish says. “Things I once enjoyed / Just keep me employed now,” she voices at the outset of the album’s opening track, “Getting Older.” She sings about the unflattering paparazzi photos of her published by tabloids, about making boys who come to her house sign NDAs and about her fantasies of disappearing on a Hawaiian island. Lyrically, it’s lighter than a lot of the material on “Happier Than Ever,” a body of work that offers a picture of an artist grappling with her place in the spotlight. That song - the first single from the album, released nearly a year ago - has Eilish dreamily fantasizing about the days ahead, wondering who she’ll become as she transitions away from girlhood. When TikTok gave surprising new life to Surf Curse’s 2013 song “Freaks,” the band had just denied sexual misconduct allegations that nearly ended its career. Music These indie-rock lifers went from obscurity to scandal to a major-label deal in 10 months The only people her age were in the audience, which had become both physically and emotionally untouchable. I just wanted to be doing teenager s-,” says Eilish, who was 16 when she toured her four-times platinum debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” She grew depressed, and her body didn’t react well to the stress she was constantly coming down with laryngitis or developing fevers. I hated the internet having a bunch of eyes on me. Which isn’t surprising, because the music industry didn’t see her coming either - a teenager with such a distinctive look and sound that mass appeal was in no way inevitable. But she felt ill-equipped to deal with the sudden onslaught of attention. After her debut single, “ Ocean Eyes,” became a viral hit on SoundCloud in 2015, she signed with Darkroom Records and landed a deal with Interscope. ![]() There was a moment not too long ago, admits the 19-year-old, when she was truly miserable. Is this what fame has done to Eilish? Taken the air out of the lungs of the wunderkind from Highland Park? Stripped her of her Rainbow Brite hair colors and oversize tees and turned her into a blond pin-up? “Happier Than Ever,” read the words above her face. ![]() Her eyes are blue and empty, staring vacantly into the distance. The lone teardrop isn’t obvious at first, shiny enough that it could just be part of her glittery makeup. Billie Eilish is crying on the cover of her new album. ![]()
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