![]() ![]() ![]() She'd done three dates of a huge world tour when lockdown arrived, so she and Finneas used the time to write another album. Her first album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, released in 2019, went multiplatinum and landed her five Grammys she picked up another two, this year, for her theme for the still-awaited Bond film No Time to Die and her single Everything I Wanted. ("Duh," she sang.) She was 17.īillie Eilish. Eilish's intimate, breathy vocals over the driving beat, her eye-rolling, nose-bleeding, blue-haired look in the video, and the flip of the lyrics ("I'm that bad type… might-seduce-your-dad type") took her stratospheric. But within a few months, something happened: in 2017, her EP Don't Smile at Me made a splash with young fans, and a year or so later Wish You Were Gay and Bad Guy smashed her into the mainstream. At her early gigs she had to sit outside on the pavement before shows, not allowed in because she was underage. She uploaded it on to SoundCloud, where it gained a couple of thousand listens and almost instantaneously landed her a management deal. She's 19 now, a music veteran of six years, ever since she made a track, Ocean Eyes, with her songwriter elder brother, Finneas O'Connell, known professionally as Finneas, for her dance class. ![]() Such bombastic attitude is forgivable, because Eilish is a teenager, albeit one of the most famous in the world. This is great,” she says, almost to herself, her sarcasm instantly familiar to any parent of a teenager. “The beeping is really perfect for this call, isn’t it? And now the car wants to Bluetooth my phone. I have mine on, look,” she says, showing me. Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox.“It’s my dog – he’s sleeping on the other seat and he’s 70 pounds, so he’s making the car beep because he doesn’t have a seatbelt on. ❤️Ĭosmopolitan UK's current issue is out now and you can SUBSCRIBE HERE. If you want to wear a dress that somebody thinks that you look too big wearing, f*ck it – if you feel like you look good, you look good." If you want to get surgery, go get surgery. She continued on to say, "It’s all about what makes you feel good. My thing is that I can do whatever I want." To that note, Billie added: " 'If you’re about body positivity, why would you wear a corset? Why wouldn’t you show your actual body?'. However, it's likely a statement many can relate to and a thought many of us wrestle with, having grown up in a society loaded with confusing messages about body-type 'ideals'. "If I’m honest with you, I hate my stomach, and that’s why," Billie explained, adding that she feels "shallow" for saying so. She said despite being drawn to the artistry of wearing a corset, she also still feels insecure about how her stomach looks. A post shared by BILLIE EILISH she played a big part in orchestrating how her Vogue shoot would look, Billie also had some interesting words to say on how she thought the public might respond to her wearing a corset, especially in light of the debate stirred up by those paparazzi images. ![]()
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