‘I was a kid, and I wanted to do kid shit. I didn’t want to be not capable of fucking visit a shop or the mall’. Ahead of her new studio album, Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish has opened up about becoming famous at a younger age and the problems it brought about as she changed into growing up.
The singer displays on her When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Generation in a new cover interview with Rolling Stone, saying that her slime green hair and oversized appearance made it challenging for her to move anywhere public at the time without getting acknowledged right away.
“I was a kid, and I wanted to do kid shit,” she says. “I didn’t need to be now not able to fucking visit a shop or the mall. I was very dissatisfied and now not grateful about it.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Eilish also calls out people who pigeonholed her or imitated her musical fashion within the wake of When We All Fall Asleep. “What do they assume when they suppose that?” she provides, regarding a declaration that something is “very Billie Eilish.”
“Do they think what the net thinks, that’s whispering or whatever the fuck human beings say?” Anytime I see an effect on the internet, it simply reminds me how little the internet is aware of me. Like, I certainly don’t proportion shit. I have any such loud character that makes humans feel like they recognize everything approximately me and that they don’t at all.”
Eilish also addresses claims that her songs all sound equal, saying: “That surely receives me.” However, she suggests that anybody that asserts that hasn’t been paying sufficient interest. “That’s one issue I sincerely strive hard to do now not,” she adds. “I think the people that say that have only heard ‘Bad Guy’ and ‘Therefore I Am.”
This month, Billie Eilish released her ultra-modern single from Happier Than Ever, “Lost Cause.” The music additionally arrived along with a self-directed video, which eventually sparked accusations of queerbaiting, mainly after she shared at the back of the scenes photographs from the shoot with the caption, “I love women.”