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Post by Admin on Jun 7, 2020 20:14:05 GMT
Billie Eilish condemned the double standards that exist in the music industry in a new interview with British GQ.
When asked about Tyler, the Creator's response to a question about categorization at the 2020 Grammy awards, Eilish didn't hold back.
"I have always hated categories," Eilish said. "I hate when people say, 'Oh, you look like "blank." You sound like "blank."' It was such a cool thing Tyler said. I agree with him about that term."
"Don't judge an artist off the way someone looks or the way someone dresses," the "Bad Guy" singer continued. "Wasn't Lizzo in the Best R&B category that night? I mean, she's more pop than I am."
Eilish echoed Tyler's response from that night, in which he referred to the term "urban" as just "a politically correct way to say the n-word," and wondered why more black musicians couldn't be included in the pop category.
"Look, if I wasn't white I would probably be in 'rap'. Why? They just judge from what you look like and what they know. I think that is weird," she said.
"The world wants to put you into a box; I've had it my whole career," Eilish continued. "Just because I am a white teenage female I am pop. Where am I pop? What part of my music sounds like pop?"
The singer even partially agreed with people who said she only won her five Grammys because she was white — but emphasized that she still worked hard to get to where she was now.
"Then there's the other side of this whole thing: people shitting on me because I am white. 'Oh, she's white, that's why she won,'" Eilish said. "You know what? I agree with the sentiment; I get why people say that."
"Truth is, they can say whatever they like, but don't undermine all the hard work it took for me to get here," she added.
This isn't the first time Eilish has called out racism in the music industry and beyond.
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 18:28:14 GMT
Billie Eilish is getting long-term court-ordered protection against an obsessed fan she says kept showing up at her home.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge just made Billie's temporary restraining order a permanent one for the next 3 years. The order, granted Thursday, prevents the man from attempting to contact or coming within 100 yards of the singer or her parents.
We broke the story ... Billie got a temporary restraining order last month after claiming Prenell Rousseau began showing up over and over again at her residence, ditching a face mask and touching the doorknob and doorbell without gloves, making Billie and her fam fear for their lives.
The permanent restraining order also bars Rousseau from assaulting or harassing Billie and her family, or from getting close to her workplaces.
Billie and her legal team at the law firm McPherson LLP were gunning for 5 years of court-ordered protection, but the judge granted it for 3 years. The order can still be extended or amended, if the judge thinks its necessary.
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Post by Admin on Sept 29, 2020 4:22:04 GMT
The documentary film about Billie Eilish, titled “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry” and directed by RJ Cutler, will be released in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021.
Raina Douris: It's getting close to the end of September and we're still, for the most part, stuck at home. I'm making World Cafe from my house right now. Where am I speaking to each of you? Where are you right now?
Billie Eilish: We are where we've been making music lately, which is my brother's basement that he has turned into a very pleasant studio. So we've been spending most of our time down here. After this, we'll probably be making some music as well.
And that's in the kind-of-new house, right Finneas?
Finneas O'Connell: Yeah, I've been here for a little under a year now, but the studio has only been done since the end of February.
Now I know that part of how you've been keeping busy is by making music – but outside of music, how have you been keeping busy over the last few months?
Eilish: I don't really know yet; I haven't really nailed it. I mean, it's pretty hard; I don't have an answer for you.
O'Connell: Billie rescued a dog right at the beginning of COVID-19 so she's been being a dog parent for the duration of all of this.
Eilish: I have. I definitely feel like I would've gone insane if I didn't have two foster puppies for the first entire half of quarantine and then a full-grown dog for the second half. It's really helped my brain to not wander off.
Billie, you were supposed to be on tour right now, and you only a got a few shows in to your Where Do We Go tour before the pandemic closed everything down. After such a busy couple of years – obviously you wanted to be on tour, but has it been kind of relaxing to suddenly be at home?
Eilish: It was for the first two weeks. And then it was not anymore. I mean, the first two weeks, it was great because I was really like, "This will only last a couple of weeks and we'll be right back on tour, but we will just have a tiny little moment to breathe."
O'Connell: I joked that if quarantine had been five weeks long and no one had died, it would've been, like, the best thing that ever happened. Everyone in the world would've been like, "Wow, that five-week break was so cool and we all just sat around with our families." Instead, it's been the worst.
Eilish: It's been pretty horrible lately. I've been trying to make the best of it and be like, "Well, this is the most time off I've had in five years" – more than that! Since everything started, I haven't even had a breath to take, so it's nice to a certain degree and then it's like, "OK, let's get back to my life please."
Another thing that was thrown off by COVID-19 is the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die. It was supposed to come out in April; now they're planning to put it out in November. You did the theme song for it. When the James Bond people first came to you and asked you to write the theme, what was your initial reaction?
Eilish: Oh, dude, it was – I mean, this is something that we had talked about without it even being a realistic goal. For years, we've always talked about how cool would it be to make a Bond theme. And so, when they came to us with, you know —
O'Connell: "We'd love to hear what you would make."
Eilish: — yeah, it was pretty surreal and very exciting. I mean, it was pretty boring and difficult at first, because we didn't really know where to start, but once we figured out where we were going with it, it was so much fun and so satisfying.
O'Connell: It's a very big deal to have your song be in a Bond movie. They don't just offer it to a person; they're in discussion with you, and they tell you a little bit of information they think would be helpful for you to know and then they say, "We'd love to hear what you would come up with." I don't think we were the only ones coming up with something, but we were very passionate and it was a life-long dream of ours, so we didn't take the opportunity to put our hat in the ring lightly.
James Bond themes always kind of have a common theme or common thread. When you hear a James Bond theme, you're like, "This is a James Bond theme." Do they come to you and say, "Here are the rules," or are they like, "Just go for it?"
O'Connell: They didn't have any rules. They allowed us to know a little bit about the plot of the film.
Eilish: Which was very helpful; we wouldn't have written the song we wrote if we hadn't read the first scene of the movie.
O'Connell: And the other thing that was just important to us — and this was not, they didn't decree this — but I just felt that we needed to have the song title be the film title. That was more because my favorite Bond songs are the film title, right, "Live And Let Die," "Goldfinger" and "Skyfall." Listen, no offense to Jack White, especially because I could not have written a song called Quantum of Solace. No matter how hard I try, I couldn't have written a song called Quantum of Solace. So, I get it. But we lucked out because they already had No Time To Die as the title and I was like, "We can write a song called 'No Time To Die.'"
Billie, you've directed a bunch of your own music videos, and I know directing has been something you've been interested for a long time. Did your interest in directing influence how you approached writing a song for a soundtrack?
Eilish: I don't think it did. It's really different for me; making music versus videos is such a different part of my brain and part of the way I work. Which is kind of interesting to think about, because you assume it's all in the same realm, but it's really not. For making the Bond song — if you're talking about a character or a plot of a movie: There it is; there's what you're writing about. So it's kind of easier in a way, but also more of a challenge at the same time.
The two of you were home-schooled – so, I guess, kind of like classmates. We know that you work together very well now, but was there ever a feeling of competition when you were growing up?
O'Connell: I didn't feel any competition, I would just say that we worked together very poorly when we first started making music. I feel like we've gotten much better at collaborating. When we first were making Billie's first EP, back in 2017, we were just, like, tearing out our hair and crying every day; it was so dramatic. It was all because I didn't know what I was doing —
Eilish: — and I wasn't confident.
O'Connell: Yeah, we had no confidence and we didn't know what we were doing, so it was stressful and scary and we felt so much pressure. I feel like now, we just know what we want to make and we make that. And if something's not coming on a specific day, we don't force it. The experience has gotten so much more enjoyable and our relationship is healthier than it's ever been and that's just a virtue of repetition and age.
Once you sort of know where you're going with something, you've a better idea of what you want to make.
O'Connell: Yeah, and there's something about making an EP and then making your first album – there's a kind of Sisyphean feeling to it. You're like, "I can't do this, I can't possibly make this EP. We've never made one, how could we ever make one?" And then when you make one, you're like, "Oh my god, we did it!" And then you're like, "Oh my god, we only made this six-song EP with two songs that are already out, we can't make an album, this is ridiculous, this is crazy, we can't do it, we can't make an album." Then you make an album and you're like, "Oh, we can do that again." And then when you're making it again, you're like, "Wow, we're really liking this, how many of these are we supposed to make before we run out of good ideas?" [Laughs.]
Now that you're working on new albums, how has it changed? When you go sit down and write, how does it feel?
O'Connell: What do you think, Bill?
Eilish: It's been feeling really good. It's feels very natural, I think. I mean, quarantine and COVID-19 has been so terrible, but I think if we're thinking about the good aspects, we would never had made the music that we've made in quarantine if we weren't in quarantine. And not that they're all about quarantine at all.
O'Connell: They're really not.
Eilish: It's felt really good and real and so satisfying. As much as I've loved everything we've ever made, with this project, there isn't one song that I'm like, "Eh, you know, this is not my favorite, I still like it but I'd rather listen to these." Every song we've made is just, I love it.
Finneas, you said you wanted to make Billie a superstar really, really early on. And I know, Billie, you said that it was a joke. But Finneas, what was it about her even back then that you felt like people needed to see and hear?
O'Connell: She always just had such a great voice. And if I'm putting myself back in the brain and body of me at 18, it was just that I was aware that Billie had this angelic, beautiful voice. And she had a great sense of style and put herself together well. I just thought, "Man, if this is something she wants, who wouldn't love this artist," you know what I mean?
Eilish: Lots of people.
O'Connell: But I think that was kind of in my hyperbolic sense; that was kind of my life: "Yeah, let's make some music and see how this goes." I just knew that I would want to hear her album, and so that's been our rule of thumb for every song we've ever made — especially as time as gone on. At the beginning, you kind of second-guess yourself and you're like, "What do people want?" And now all we ever do is like, "What do we want? What do we want to make? What are we trying to do?"
In 2015, you had the big viral hit breakthrough song, "Ocean Eyes." Finneas, you wrote that for your own band, but you asked Billie to sing on it. Billie, what was your reaction when he asked you to do that?
Eilish: It felt so normal; I don't remember being like, "Really?" I don't know why; I just had a feeling about this song. I remember growing up in that same little house, we were like three feet away from each other in our rooms, so any song either of us were writing, the other one could hear it. So Finneas came into my room and was like, "Dude, I wrote this song and I want to sing it for you." And I was like, "Yeah, I know. I could hear it. I've been hearing it the entire time you've been writing it." And I was 13 and I remember reading off the lyrics and reading a bunch of the words wrong; I didn't know what napalm was so I was singling like "nahpalm skies." [Laughs.] Right away we just fell in love with that version and I remember we went into the living room and our parents were like having an argument about, like, taxes and we were like, "Guys, shut up! Listen to this song!" [Laughs.] And we sang them the song and then we recorded and put it out right away.
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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2020 20:26:09 GMT
Billie Eilish and FINNEAS talk about winning 11 Grammys total for their album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? And Billie shares what Alicia Keys said to her after they won. Billie Eilish ditches her baggy clothes for a tank top and shorts in Los Angeles. She took the music world by storm last year with the release of her debut studio album When We all Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? And Billie Eilish traded in her signature oversized threads for an uncharacteristically casual fashion statement on Sunday in Los Angeles. The 18-year-old musician rocked a tan monochrome ensemble while running errands with friends in Southern California. Eilish — who's full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell — rocked a pair of brown Adidas YEEZY Slides which retail for $55, but can sell upwards of $400 from second-hand retailers.
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2021 6:10:31 GMT
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